An Employee Died Today

[Mark Celibate]

I received a phone call today from one of my line managers. I'm a VP at a Fortune 50 company. They told me one of her direct employees had a heart attack on the job this morning. Like you could imagine, I was in shock and felt betrayed by the lack of company loyalty. I pay you a living wage and you just die on me?

I told my line manager she has until end of month to find a replacement, and that she is expected to work 80 hour weeks until the role is filled. In my eyes, this is business as usual. Things happen. People get sick, I fire them for doing so, and the team picks up the slack. I have waived the right to any PTO for bereavement. I also warned that anybody caught attending the funeral during these trying times on my bottom line will not only be fired, but blackballed from the industry altogether. I have already alerted my colleagues, executives at other major corporations in the industry that anybody I fire is to not be hired, even at below market wages. The best news out of all of this is that I can now hire the replacement from India at $60 hr less per hour, and am already contemplating firing the whole team and doing the same with the rest of them if the new hire works out. This small little bump in the road could end up saving me > $1 Million in profit in the long run.

I didn't really make this thread for advice, but just wanted to show any of you youngsters looking to get to my level or higher, this is what real leadership looks like. You have to be willing to make the tough decisions in the middle of the storm and choppy waters.

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How old was the person?

[Mark Celibate]

27 or so, so they lived a good long life. We decided to not let the family know, figured they’ll put two and two together and figure it out themselves.

honestly still trying to process and grieve the effect this has on my Q1 bottom line tbh

[chubbs]

bump

[GAustex]

Luigi gonna cap ur ass

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