to be or not to be redundant

Here we go again

In my observation redundancy is inbuilt in the organisation.
It is not because the employee is incompetent, it is because the Management all along
has been incompetent.
All the big fuss about job cuts have happene initially at a stage on positions that were
probabaly not required and were not adding any value to start with.
With the thin margins that the travel industry (or any industry) works on it never was and never will be able to carry any excess baggage.
As far as being redundant is concerned -Remember -it is always a position that becomes redundant and not the employee.
It would be unfair to call people who lost there jobs as incompetent or bad performers.
The near to 100 people who lost there job in our BNE centre, all could not have been
bad performers or incompetent.
It was the Management which was not able to match the P&L.

If the employee was a non performer why the hell was the company paying for him in even in
the better times. Had they paid attention earlier maybe they would have been better equipped to deal with the slowdown turning into recession.

Like big CEO's are saying we need to innovate and take up this oppurtunity to come out
of our comfort zone and look at things we never looked at and probably overhaul the entire
situation.
Much has been said on the 20000 feet and you can find it on google.
At our individual level it is time to prepare to be flexible and add onto our
skillsets and look for husbands :)))))))))))