People reactions to this are amazing... One person said -"It won't affect South Africa" and 100 000 to 300 000 people lost jobs in SOUTH AFRICA...
At my company we are not getting increases this year in order to save costs so we can all preserve our jobs - if we don't do this, it is predicted that before the year is out, 6 000 of us will have lost our jobs - accounting for one fifth of our workforce.
So, the Group CEO flew down from Joburg to address the management in the Durban area today and explain everything to us. He gave a brilliant, simple presentation, backed up with evidence, explained the plan in the pipelines, the strategy, the problems, the solutions, the focus - everything necessary for management to understand what is going on.
I was proud to know that the person at the helm was thinking strategically, that the plan made sense, that jobs were being preserved, that the interests of the country were being taken into account. At the end, the forum was opened up to questions from the floor.
The thing that was most interesting for me at this time was how clear it was that some people just can't understand the economic crisis. To them, it is not happening. Even after being presented with hard facts. So for them, the decisions being taken are incomprehensible and totally negative. For all of our good, I hope they do start to understand or at least follow the strategy presented otherwise jobs will be lost. No matter how good the leader is at the helm, if the rest of the team don't work towards the same goal, the ship will be lost...
I thank God that at the moment I have my job, income, a place to stay and food on the table. The more I watch and read the more I don't take them for granted.
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