Technical Writer - (City withheld for privacy), Ontario, Canada
Downsizing can be a devastating experience for most people. Typically employee performance reports, previously good, deteriorate to marginal or unacceptable; the office culture begins to accept bullying and shouting; and you are kicked off projects where you previously performed well.
It is important to be well-grounded and to understand that the new mood is not personal: it's a corporate technique to make people quit. The management aim is to get the numbers down. So you have to ask yourself i...