School of Business
Companies when they do layoffs: Employees are replaceable and interchangeable widgets. None of you mean anything. The information in your head has no value, you can be discarded and replaced without concern.
Companies on hiring: Each employee is a unique and delicately crafted puzzle piece, and we must carefully consider every angle to the micron level before we even think about putting them in place. This is a process which takes weeks, nay, months of meditation and observation. We may have to retreat to a monastery in the mountains for this process. We'll let you know if we want you to advance to the next round of screening.














