How to handle layoffs

[Little-Acorn]

(Sent to me by my sister in an email):

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Fellow Business Executives:

As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned
myself to the fact that Barrack Obama will be our next President, and
that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have
to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8% but since we cannot
increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we
will have to lay off eight percent of our employees instead. This has really
been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I
didn't know how to choose who will have to go.

So, this is what I did. I strolled thru our parking lot and found 8
Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these
folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way
to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I gave it to them.

If you have a better idea, let me know.

Tammy L. Cerra
Advance Services Inc./Union Pacific
914 North 18th
402-501-4xxx

[Binky]

Layoffs have been hitting companies for awhile now and really has nothing to do with him getting elected. The economy has devastated the country. But.....maybe it would behoove people to stop the needless spending just because they are addicted to the "gotta have this" attitude. Maybe they should have cut up those credit cards. But since they didn't, look where it took them.