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Lesley Stahl Reveals the Moment CBS Broke ‘60 Minutes’
Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl has revealed the jarring way CBS leadership fired half a dozen journalists and producers from the legendary news program. “This was by far the worst exper...
My private sector career (1980-2016) included stints with about a dozen different companies of different sizes and types, most of which were headquartered overseas. My title was usually "Contract Manager" or "Commercial Manager," and my job was to manage the process of submitting bids for major capital projects, writing and negotiating the contracts, and managing their execution through project completion (changes, claims, disputes). In 1982 I graduated from Law School and became a member of the Pennsylvania Bar, although I never held a position as a corporate attorney.
During that time, I lived through at least 20 different staff lay-offs, sometimes including me and sometimes not. In all of these layoffs - they went by different names..."downsizing," "reorganization," and so on - there were people let go for no apparent reason. There were people let go for philosophical reasons. There were people let go because Management wanted to "go in a different direction," and the person simply didn't fit. They were let go because a new manager just didn't like them.
Reading through the comments in the linked article, it seems like the people at "60 Minutes" have (had) no idea what it's like to work in the Real World. This stuff happens. It doesn't necessarily mean you are a bad person, or were not doing your job. You don't "own" that position and you don't own the company. I was fired a couple of times when Management didn't realize my value, and they ended up in a much worse position when I was gone. One company hired me because they were getting into "too many" contract disputes and it was wasting a lot of time. 5 years later they figured there weren't any more disputes so they didn't need me. What they failed to see was WHY the disputes had gone away: the way I negotiated and wrote the contracts to prevent them.
The days of getting a job out of college and working it until retirement are basically gone. I think these "60 Minutes" people are out of touch. They got new management and should have expected some staff shake-ups.
