Impromptu Meeting

I leave for 3 days and the whole building is tossed into turmoil! Carol & CEO lady decide to fire two employees without giving them warning—then the employees at ICE are so upset that Carol & CEO lady decide to have an impromptu ‘reassuring you that you’re all appreciated meeting’.

This impromptu meeting only 2 days before the Quarterly Update meeting, which I attended today, spurned one rather quiet individual to speak out on one of the fired employee’s behalf. The quiet employee asked if there was some sort of system to send up warning flags to employees to let them know if they’re doing something wrong. Apparently this statement wasn’t received very well and the sales office was later discussing how the quiet employee would be the next one to be ‘squeezed’ out of ICE.

Is it wrong to live in fear of your employer? Is it wrong to think everyday you might do or say something wrong (which nobody in their proper mind would think to be wrong) that would piss off Carol or CEO-lady enough to decide that you’re neck is the next on the chopping block? Is it wrong to get blamed for something you didn’t do and had no control over, only to be fired for something that wasn’t your fault?

Is this how corporate American functions, ‘cause if it is I want no part of it.