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Attrition
I’m meeting with Robert Todd, our best employee. He arrives early, stays late, seldom takes sick days, and works well with staff.
“Bob, come in,” I say when I spot him waiting by my office door.
“As you know the powers that be cut our budget and we have to let some employees go. Since you do the work of at least four of our other employees, I have no choice: get rid of four employees or you.”
“You don’t want to see four families lose their major primary breadwinners, do you?”
Bob didn’t respond.
“Robert, you’re fired,” I say.From Guest Contributor Dave Harper
Dave, a recovering software developer, now finds himself addicted to writing fiction.
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