I have to admit I have a bit of schadenfreude from hearing my previous manager was fired after 23 years of devotion to my previous employer.
She was very clear about her intent to keep moving up the corporate ladder. To her credit, she said she didn't care if it was necessary within the same company.
But she bragged about becoming close with the new Senior Vice President, who is the one ultimately responsible for letting her go.
I think I was the first domino in her downfall because my job was making sure all of the company's needs and demands that she was in charge of were adequately met.
I was fired after 22 years because after I sprained my foot, HR requested a drug test that I failed for marijuana. I was so burned out mentally and physically from this job I didn't bother to get a pee kit to pass the test even though I had the opportunity. I live in a state where it is still illegal.
To be clear, I love pot and only smoked/did edibles after work for pleasure, but also for body aches, stress relief and sleeping because of the long hours and demands of my job.
Part of me thought the company might work with me to help/keep me based on my performance and the importance of my job, but I went from asset to liability immediately in their eyes.
Anyways, after I was let go they couldn't find anyone that could do my job, which was the work of 3 people.
I got paid decent, but the job needed computer knowledge (spreadsheets, inventory management of thousands of parts and millions of dollars of inventory moving between several buildings daily also while unloading and receiving new inventory daily, while staging hundreds of parts daily to be delivered wherever and whenever needed).
This includes needing a CDL to drive pick up and deliver loads, forklift license to unload and put away loads, and management skills to open/close buildings and direct employees.
Once I was gone, no one was getting their needs and high expectations done.
The guy I trained reluctantly took the job and quit a few months later from the stress.
She was let go because of this, since she couldn't do the job or find someone capable of doing it.
The company started out familyowned, but is becoming much more corporatized after being sold to a group of billionaires. It has become a lousy place to work and people have been jumping ship as the company wonders why it can't find adequate replacements for “competitive” (read crap) wages in our area.
She's an okay person, but I can't help but have a little smirk after hearing she was let go.
She'll be fine and probably find some other useless middle manager job, but it just goes to show there is no company loyalty anymore and it's all about money and politics.
I've found a shit job since for comparable money, but I consider myself a mercenary working for the highest bidder with the least amount of baggage.