While your friends are sipping post-work drinks on a Friday afternoon, you’re leaving the office carrying a dried-out succulent (apparently, they can die) and a cardboard box of broken dreams: that’s right, you’ve been made redundant. Sound familiar? Despite what you may think, you’re not a lone ranger in navigating the rocky terrain of retrenchment.
This is the exact scenario Boitumelo* (29) found herself in, sans shrivelled cactus. Turning up for work one Monday morning, the former marketing manager was hit with the news that she’d be losing her job later that day. “I waited, bracing myself for the awkward conversation I knew was coming,” she remembers. “Soon after,
