Someone must be buying those motivational posters, CDs, DVDs and coffee mugs otherwise companies wouldn’t keep making them.
The funniest t-shirt I have ever seen said “Until employee morale improves, the beatings will continue.”
It didn’t motivate me but it did make me laugh. I’m pretty sure that was the goal.
Motivational posters, DVDs, CDs and phrases often [...]

Layoffs, downsizings and rightsizings all mean the same thing: The company will continue long after you are gone.
Companies have come up with creative names to describe when they eliminate jobs and people that they don’t need.
They used to call it a layoff ie. “We are laying people off. You are being laid off.”
Then they started [...]