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Article: Corporate executioners sharing the pain of job cuts
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- Article from:
- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2009
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One personnel manager wakes in despair at 4am, worried about the employees in her company. Another boss has to remind himself to eat right and exercise so that he can handle the stress. A third says he has had tears in his eyes for months.
They are the bearers of bad news, the Grim Reapers, the corporate executioners, the office hatchet men. They're the ones whose job is to tell employees they have been laid off. And these days, they're miserable, too.
``It takes a huge amount of energy to ensure I don't get emotional,'' said Wendy Mahle, the human resources manager at Sunrise-based Perfumania, which just laid off 95 employees because it is moving its ...