[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“”Why me?”
“My stomach turned as I stared at Marissa, the third developer
our company let go that very unpleasant day. Our firm was laying
off 13 developers out of a total of 30 – almost half the
team.“The first two had taken the news in stride, but there were more
difficult questions to come.“My queasiness was driven by the fact that I didn’t have a
really good answer for these tough questions. How an employee like
Marissa, who did nothing obvious to land her in this unfortunate
position, was now being shown the door was a fair question.“She was well liked, a pretty good coder and had received
positive remarks from her clients. The journey to making the final
list was not easy and not perfect.”