Interesting to see two very cruel thoughts on this both from the same source. The first is a comment on "the most inappropriate thing you ever said out loud" post on Scott Adams' blog:
We recently had a company meeting where it was announced that an employee had been let go. He had a really nice, new dual core machine, so I when the leader of the meeting asked, "Are there any questions?" I said, "Can I have his computer?" Apparently, this was in poor taste.
And then management's perspective on this, from the inimitable Mr Adams himself:
2 comments:
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I'm going to guess the commenter wasn't the only one thinking about the computer. And as much as the story makes me laugh, yeah, just for the sake of appearances, I'd show some sadness/concern about the laid off employee for a bit. (At least an hour or so before you ask for the computer!)
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