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Memo – To all Employees

As the CFO of this business that employs 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama is our new President and that our taxes and Gov’t fees will increase in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, I figure that our clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of approx. 8%, but since we cannot increase our fees currently due to the dismal state of the economy, we have no choice but to lay off eight of our employees instead.

This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn’t know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled through our parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem. These folks wanted change; I’m giving it to them.

Sincerely,
CFO & The Boss