Up in the Air: George Clooney’s Consoling Words

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“Try not to take this personally.”
“Anybody that built an empire or changed the word sat where you are right now. And it’s because they sat there they were able to do it. And that’s the truth.”
(I’m pretty sure that if George Clooney had been in my office with me at That Moment, I would have recovered more quickly. )

Ms Bitter is not this Fashionable

I am not the first bitter woman who lost her job. I am not the first woman to write about it. This woman is awesomely funny and inspiring and real!

Up in the Air: That Moment of Being Fired

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This film captures multiple examples of The Moment of being fired: F**k is used a lot. “This is what I get after years of service! you have a lot of gall!” Anger, sadness, disbelief, pure dumbfounded-ness. Then, the odd one, eerily calm, “I am going to jump off of a bridge.”

This is the line that got me: “I have heard that losing your job is like a death in the family, but I feel like the people I work with are my family and I died.”

Up in the Air: A Film about Firing People

   
Although the take-a-way of this George Clooney film is that it’s worth it to “carry a heavy back pack” of relationship commitments, this film was really about work and That Moment of getting fired. His theory is to stay aloof for successful living, but he clearly was not designed for that isolation. The one time that he decides to have stuff in his backpack, he gets hurt, and with an empty backpack, must find comfort in the skies. We are all supposed to feel better – we may not be that cool, dapper, free guy, but we can recover with the use the contents of our backpack. Do we agree?

Exit Interview By Mail

Really? I was in management for years and at no time did we get feedback from former employees about what it was like to work there. So the HR department gathers this stuff by mail, quarterly?  What a farce - and how fitting, with how you handle other things. Do you really thin that I am going to answer, "What would you do to improve the leadership at Do-Good-Company-Does-Not-Good, if anything?" Because 1) they'd know it was me,  2) they don't deserve to know how they can improve and C) They won't get it anyway. But don't pretend you care to know. And get out of my mailbox!  I still have the envelope, and perhaps, after some vodka...