Subject: The "Snoopy" severance package: How to do three jobs for the price of one

hi · 2026-05-22T11:03:05.228Z

They call it “streamlining,” but it feels more like watching a ship sink and being told to mop the deck while the water hits your chin. Since the latest round of cuts, my inbox has turned into a digital graveyard. I’m currently covering the workload of two people who were unceremoniously "transitioned" last Tuesday, yet the performance metrics remain perfectly, delusionally static. Management is still doing their little song-and-dance about "operational excellence" and "synergy" while I’m sitting here trying to navigate legacy systems that haven't been updated since the Bush administration. It’s a special kind of hell to explain to a client that their policy update is delayed because I’m currently busy doing the job of three people who are no longer here. The blue tower feels a lot emptier, and the silence from leadership is deafening. We aren’t "doing more with less"—we’re just waiting for the next round of invites to drop. Enjoy the dividends, I guess. I’m just trying to keep the lights on.

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