{"id":4057,"date":"2011-10-13T14:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2022-04-29T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:43:21","slug":"downsized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/downsized","title":{"rendered":"Downsized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/downsized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-40261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/downsized-manager-620x414.jpg\" alt=\"downsized\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/downsized-manager-620x414.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/downsized-manager-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/downsized-manager-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/downsized-manager-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/downsized-manager.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Downsized<\/strong>. What an ugly word. A common one too.<\/p>\n<p>Not as ugly as &#8220;<em>fired<\/em>,&#8221; but still, it&#8217;s just not a pleasant word. Especially if you&#8217;re the one using it.<\/p>\n<h2>Downsized<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>So, Linda, how&#8217;s it going<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not so good, actually. I&#8217;ve been<strong> downsized<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>That&#8217;s too bad. What happened<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My position was eliminated. They closed my division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Wow. What are you going to do<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Find another job, I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Best of luck<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re &#8220;<em>Linda<\/em>,&#8221; and you&#8217;ve lost your job, I would imagine that you&#8217;re engaged in conversations like that at least once or twice a week. Is it getting old? Are you sick of telling your friends and family members you&#8217;ve been downsized?<\/p>\n<h2>On Getting Eliminated<\/h2>\n<p>Losing a job-getting downsized, sucks. So does having to explain <em>why<\/em> you lost your job. I guarantee it&#8217;s probably not one of the the most joyful\u00a0exercises\u00a0you&#8217;ve been through. And if you&#8217;re a 50 year old baby boomer, it&#8217;s probably even worse.<\/p>\n<p>Although<strong> it&#8217;s against the law<\/strong> to turn down a job application because of the applicant&#8217;s age, <em>it happens hundreds of times every day<\/em>. How do I know this? I&#8217;ve worked with <del>hundreds<\/del> thousands of 50+ downsized workers who&#8217;ve told me as much.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, they always followed up their accusations with the, &#8220;<em>I know I would never be able to prove it<\/em>,&#8221; type of statement, but for the most part, I\u00a0believed\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it; you&#8217;re the hiring manager for a $500 million corporation, and you&#8217;ve been told to hire a great manager who&#8217;s looking for a long-term gig. But you have a little problem, and it has nothing to do with a lack of highly-qualified executives that are sending in their resumes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s when they come in for the in-person interviews, that your problem starts to happen.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because 8 out of 10 job candidates that appear at your door are&#8230;older. They&#8217;re not what your boss wants.<\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s All B.S.<\/h2>\n<p>You know the drill. You need to act interested, but not too interested. You tell them that you&#8217;ll follow-up with them, if a second interview is warranted. Blah blah blah. And, unless you&#8217;re a cold-hearted soul, you kind of feel bad for Linda, because you know that she&#8217;ll never get called (<em>by you<\/em>) for a second interview.<em> And you know why<\/em>. It&#8217;s really too bad, because Linda would add a ton of value and experience to the company. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>So what should Linda, a 50-year old <b>downsized<\/b> executive, do?<\/p>\n<p>In an article that I wrote for <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The Huffington Post<\/strong><\/span>, I stated that, &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s becoming painfully clear that good high-level jobs can&#8217;t be created out of thin air, so lots of very frustrated downsized executives are looking at alternatives to traditional employment<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, one of the alternatives, (<em>and a pretty popular one as of late<\/em>) is franchise business ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, lots of things need to line up right for you to become a franchise owner.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe&#8230;just maybe, it&#8217;s worth some of your time to at least explore the idea. After all, no one, (<em>including me<\/em>) is saying that you should do it. \u00a0But, you may want to at least &#8220;<em>look<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read <strong><em><a title=\"the huffington post joel libava franchise articles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/joel-libava\/franchise-ownership-shoul_b_996810.html\">Franchise Ownership: Should Unemployed Boomers Start Looking Into It?<\/a><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; my article over at The Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Then decide. Because getting downsized is really, really, ugly.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/search-for-executive-positions\">finding a new, high-paying job<\/a> can be a great, big hassle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downsized. What an ugly word. A common one too. Not as ugly as &ldquo;fired,&rdquo; but still, it&rsquo;s just not a pleasant word. Especially if you&rsquo;re the one using it. 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