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...What if someone tells you that you're being let go? What do you do and say at that awful moment? Keep your mouth shut. Keep your hand away from the pen. Sign nothing. Keep your thoughts to yourself. Ask questions. At the risk of sounding adversarial - and I don't like to do that because I'm a huge booster of the HR profession - these people have a script. HR and the layoff managers are war-gamed against a script because they need to protect themselves legally. If you only ask questions, in a really calm...
...files belong to? Are you allowed to take them? No. Your files are company property. If you have extra time, if they give you a couple of weeks to tidy up business, you can probably use your contact list, because those are relationships that you carry with you, to let people know that you're leaving. You can set the tone for why you're leaving without making you sound vindictive. But in terms of company property and documents and company secrets, those belong to the company, and you should leave them alone...
...workers, nonprofit groups and civil servants who are trying to change it, and those who tell its stories. That includes a handful of young Indian filmmakers who are making movies that are as sharp, challenging and entertaining as the best of Hollywood, although few have been distributed outside India. Let's hope the rest of the world will soon have a chance to see them. It's now their show...
...into characters (a soldier in "White as Snow," a journalist in "Cedars of Lebanon"), scats like a young Beat poet and, in a moment he will probably regret, impersonates your office IT guy ("Restart and reboot yourself") on a ham-fisted attempt at life-coaching. Multiple times he asks, "Let me in the sound," as if looking for a place to hide...
...quite a force to be reckoned with this week. Whether it’s in a group project or a political debate with your roommates, you’ll be sure to get your point across and earn some respect along the way. Don’t let this all go to your head though, or you may be worn out by the end of the week...