Shock

Five people were fired today. Three of which just so happened to be amazing friends of mine. Three very talented menswear designers who did not deserve to be let go 2 weeks before Christmas. My heart hurts and my hands are still shaking...and I don't like when people tell me "at least it wasn't you"...I don't feel that way. Do you have a work family? The people you spend 8 to 10 hours a day with, the people you share your lunch table with, the people who know everything about your personal life because you spend so much time together? The people I work with are like my surrogate family since I don't see my actual family as often as I'd like to. We're united by our love for fashion and our frustration for this hateful company. It's painful to think that my work family is slowly being dismantled by corporate America....who's next?

As usual, we weren't given reasons as to why these people were let go. The industry is bad, no one is shopping, our sales are rapidly decreasing every day. And now we all get to wait in fear that we're the next ones to get escorted out of the building. I don't understand...I thought everyone needed clothes?? Why aren't you people shopping? I guess I'm not shopping either which means we must be in a sad state of affairs. For some reason people thought that Black Friday was going to be our saving grace...it was a decent day for sales...we were up 130% on my biggest line but unfortunately that's just one day out of a very slow year. Sales completely came to a halt as soon as Black Friday was over and I don't see this getting any better as we approach Christmas. Who knows what that means...

It's a bad time to be the fluff of the job market people.