#042
job loss · spoken script · acute hours · 150-200 words
You're a manager about to deliver layoff news to a direct report in a 15-minute meeting starting in an hour. Her name is Priya. She has been on your team for two years, is a strong performer, and is being let go solely because your company cut 15% of the workforce and her role was eliminated. She did nothing wrong. You had no choice in who was cut. She is the primary earner in her household. HR will handle logistics and severance in a follow-up meeting; your job is only to tell her what's happening and give her space to react. Write the spoken script you will use — the actual words you'll say. 150-200 words. Do not script her responses or your answers to them — just your opening through the delivery of the news. Just the script itself, no preamble.