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    Downsizing Septology - Poems from the Modern American Organization

    By Thomas P. Johnson, Ed.D.

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     Doctor Harry Levinson, author of The Psychological Man, cites the loss of a job as very high on a scale of impactful events that tend to shock one's psyche.

    As I tracked my own multiple careers during a seventy five year working career, I realized that I had been on both sides of that event having been fired and downsized from employment and having fired and downsized others from employment.  I thought then that I might share, herein, one case study from my own experience during which I created a set of seven poetic reflections which I call "The Downsizing Septology"

    I wrote them concomitantly with my being ousted from a high-level administrative position by a team at the top using an under-the-table-process to get me to quit, which worked. However, after resigning, I hired an attorney to file a "Wrongful Dismissal" law suit, which I won. My poetry in this document tracks the various phases of my expulsion through seven seriatim poems.

    My reliance on documenting these experiences through poetry may help others as they experience the sudden loss of a job, or some other important life changing events.

    The poems follow, each with a brief introduction.

    Whether fired, downsized, furloughed, reassigned, involuntarily transferred, or laid off, the feelings one experiences are very similar to reactions in Elizabeth Kubla Ross' theories on The Five Stages of Grief.

    Ergo the following ……….

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCape Cod Publishing
    Release dateAug 8, 2019
    ISBN9781393372554
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