I vividly recall the day an employee walked into my office, a man 25 years more senior than myself, with tears in his eyes, begging me to take his name off the layoff list. That was 11 years ago, and something that still haunts me. The beginning of my career as an HR Manger started with the Great Recession where I gained amazing amounts of experience in terminating seemingly excellent performers and praying that they would be able to feed their children in a time when no one was hiring.
