CEO asks employees in the elevator why the company should retain them!
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The CEO at my employer is an odd man who scares everyone to death. Being in the elevator with him can be the end of their career if they don’t say the right thing.
Lay offs are coming and he is trying to determine in a very unprofessional way who should be laid off. He will approach staff members and demand that they justify their existence in the company.
He basically says this: “The company is cutting staff soon and I am fact finding who is actually valuable to the organization. Tell me how you provide value to the organization and why we should retain you in the company.”
Would you, could you convince your CEO you should be retained during company wide layoffs?
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Netizens’ comments
- “Great question! I’m so underpaid that by being here I have already added value.”
- Ask why if he is an effective CEO are they laying people off and then go let the air out of his tires.
- “Pop the hood of your car, dig down in there, and remove a random gear or wire that you find. You may not know what it’s purpose was, the car may even run normally, for a while. But sooner or later you’ll discover that that random, seemingly unimportant component did something. Your car is broken, and it was foolish to think that shedding weight by just picking some part at random would ever work. Everything was added for a reason, if you want to shed weight you do it by targeting functions to be removed, not parts.”
- Yeah, I would already be looking elsewhere so would be tempted to say, “If you don’t know what roles add value to the company it sounds like you don’t add any value and are not doing your job correctly. Maybe that is why we now need layoffs.”