re: There is absolutely no such thing as employer loyalty anymore

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Sounds like at the end of the day....they had to let someone go and her position wasn't one they deemed necessary.

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Been there and had it done to me. Only time I was ever let go in my professional career. They re-hired me seven months later with a promotion. Meanwhile the asshats who let me go all got fired about five months after letting me go. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks. I was with that hospital for 20 years. Had gone through four administrations. That last one didn't care about anyone but themselves. Finally caught up with them. The only regret I had was that I could not have found a way to knock up the medical director's wife. Then again, I am not sure I would want any of my kids calling that fruity bastard, "dad."

On the flipside, I was in the same position as an executive at another facility many years earlier. Letting folks go who have done a good job is painful as you know how it will impact them as individuals as well as their households. Difference between the above paragraph and this paragraph was that I had the decency to get on the phone and help my layoffs find jobs. Wished that courtesy would have been returned later on, but things still turned out well and I made a living from other endeavors in the interim.