management tip

If you want your employees to have a productive afternoon, do not announce to them at a noontime meeting that someone in the organization has been laid off, but you are not allowed to disclose who it is. My supervisor did that at a meeting with half the staff today. Rumors and speculation are comprising the majority of our afternoon.

In other news, my coworkers are taking me out for dinner on Friday, after my last day of work. Chevy's and Olive Garden were both discussed. Thankfully, I was able to convince people to do Thai instead.