What I’m really thinking: the firing manager

I hired and trained you. I nurtured and developed you. But now I have to tell you your position is being eliminatedYou’ve worked for us since you graduated. You believed all the rhetoric about how highly we value you. But now you’re part of a process that you have no control over, that does not recognise you as an individual. You are a number on a spreadsheet, a cost to be managed. And I have to manage that cost and manage you, to ensure you make a minimum of fuss.I hired and trained