Gardening leave without a garden
Today is my official first day of gardening leave, a funny expression as I have no garden and I am sure many people who are on gardening leave also lack a garden or even a few plants to care for as the days pass by. So, all firms, and departments within them need to restructure, it would make no sense to not adapt but to do so behind the mask of #Covid19 seems excessively underhand. When loyal workers are helping a firm stay afloat during the crisis, when employees are isolated from their colleagues and often isolated from their friends and family it is a hammer blow to find yourself, in the space of 3 weeks, on gardening leave and looking for a new role in the worst recession in centuries. Some people are well equipped for his new normal, some are not. But never underestimate what betraying loyalty can do to a reputation. #redundancy #pensions #unemployed #openforwork I found out about my redundancy on July 16th, today is August 5th, it happened so fast my feet barely touched the ...