What to Do if or When You are Fired, Dismissed or Retrenched! The Biggest Mistake Many People When They Have a Job and How to Avoid it.
Eng. Simon Bere (Resultsologist, Metastrategist, Geosciences)
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We people make a big mistake when we are employed. And this is not our fault but it is a big mistake all the same. When we are engaged and have a job, we forget that we are on a contract and not a permanent arrangement. Forget the term "permanent employment"; it is only permanent when our employers want us and not a really permanent but only an open ended long term contract. open-ended long-term permanent agreement. This is what it is! Sometimes we must forget the nice terms and talk straight.
Old-fashioned organisations are not designed to get people in so that the people sell their labour (mental and physical) in return for money.
Whether or not any company, organisation or institution trully care for its people is a matter of the discretion and personality of its leaders.
Listen, your position in the company, organisation, business or institution does not matter. Only the owners of the company, organisation, business or institution are immune to dismissal or retrenchment. Look at your employment;
OK ok!
I am not saying you must not put 100 percent focus and 100 percent effort in your current job.
I am not saying adopt an "I don't give a damn what happens here because after all I can be fired any time."
I do not believe in mediocrity and a half-hearted approach to work. We must always have the best attitude to our work and put all the effort to our current work because our future is as bright as the foundations we set for that future! You cannot have a better job or better opportunities if you have a mediocre attitude and if you are half hearted in your current job. Let be frank with you:
Even if you are not happy with your current salary, work as if you are getting ten times the salary that you are getting now. This it the secret formula to a brighter career and also a part of the secret path to the top in your career. And by the way;
To how many of the 8 questions have you said a yes?
Ok Ok let me cut the story short; Take this million-dollar advice for free from yours truly Simon Bere;
You must have a game plan for a possible retrenchment. You must prepare for retrenchment even if you are not retrenched and even if you are not going to be retrenched or fired.
If you do not know what to do in terms of having a game plan for dealing with being fired or being retrenched get in touch.
Now let us say you are retrenched or fired suddenly. They have written you the worst letter of your life carry the most horrible words coated with some sugar. What do you do? Listen,
I know how it feels and the emotional tall it takes on many people and this is a very serious issue. You go through all sorts of very painful emotional states and I fully empathise with you because the change is often very drastic, nasty and sudden. It can hit your self-esteem and self-confidence hard. Societal expectations and the family panic adds to the raging emotional fire and turn it into an inferno. It may seem like the end of the world! You look into this black hole that has no hope in the horizon. But listen;
You can overcome all this and your post-dismissal future can the best possible that you can ever have even financially if you handle the situation strategically and positively. Say after me;
"My post-dismissal future can the best possible that I can ever have even financially if I handle my situation strategically and positively." Say it ten more times!
The first thing that you must do is celebrate your retrenchment or dismissal. You may be saying?
"Celebrating my being fired or retrenched? What are you smoking Simon? I have lost my source of income and am I going to survive?" Yes I am telling you must celebrate it, fully. Go do to lunch or even to a honey-moon with your new found, unpaid free period! Yes! Listen, if you handle it strategically;
Don't tell me you do not like free periods! In school free periods were my favourite time. I loved writing exams because after each examination I was then free to do whatever I wanted with my time. I disliked it or even hated it when any teach took advantage of the free time after an examination to do lessons.
So yes, celebrate. But hey hey! Do it strategically!
Do not rush home to your wife and kids ask them to join in the celebration! Maybe if you are a woman and you husband understands his role and your role he might actually join you in the celebration. But children mmmm! Do not even show that you have a celebration instead tell them you have lost your job and what to expect. Do not tell them you are rejoicing. But why celeberate your retrenchment or dismissal. Many reasons!
First it has already happened and what benefit do you get from mourning and allow your brain to generate gallons of neurotoxics that will impair your wellbeing, health and thinking through stress, anxiety and even descending into a deep clinical depression?
You need the best of your brain to deal with your bad situation and get a financial breakthrough and no great thinking ever takes place to a human being experiencing unmanaged negative emotional states and experiences.
Second, remember this;
No even has any meaning; other than the meaning that you attach to it. Now, shout out loud after me:
"Being retrenched or being dismissed has no meaning, other than the meaning that I attach to it. And the meaning that I attach to it creates the emotions that I experience about it."
There is great power in this statement. So celebrating the event keeps your unproductive and even negative emotions and thoughts about being retrenched in check, freeing space and opportunity for productive management of the situation. It prevents the emotional descent into depths of doubts, fears and despair and even right into depression, hypertension, stroke, death or even suicide. This is serious!
But you can just celebrate and do nothing else because it will be foolish to do so! Never forget that you are out of work and you need a source of income and also you just cant retire and do nothing. You must immediately also do the following;
You know what? Losing a job can be painful but it is never the end of life. It can be a very big blessing in disguise if you handle it well. Better still, have a standby protocol and plan even if you are not yet retrenched or dismissed. Have a fallback position ok? Take action! Do something! Do it now! Winners Act!
To Your Greatness!
Simon Bere Signing Off.
Bye for know!
?Simon Bere, 2024
Certified Procurement and Supply Chain professional
5 个月This is true very true a lot of people are going through depression & BP. They don't live longer after dismissal because they don't have a plan