When disaster strikes..
Today without warning and to everyone's surprise, 30 people at work were laid off at 3pm.
The emotional response from the victims ranged from immense sadness to rage. The thing that makes me sad for them is that a lot of them have families, and having to enter into the holidays with this type of uncertainty can definitely be unnerving. The victims ranged in age from 22 to 53. It's hard enough for the 20-30 somethings in this job market, i can't imagine the struggle that faces the older guys.
The rest of us were just scared for our lives watching the live "leaving notice" board update dynamically, hoping that none of our names were on the list. Everyone would jump every time the phone rang thinking it might be HR calling them upstairs to fire them.
In the end out of my entire group, my protege and my boss (managing director) were terminated, leaving my manager, myself, and 3 other employees in my group. The layoffs made little to no sense and it seemed like they randomly picked who to lay off out of a hat. Although I wish there weren't any there were definitely several better choices to make than the ones they made.
With that said, I think I'm relatively safe, but I'm going to freshen up the resume just the same.
The emotional response from the victims ranged from immense sadness to rage. The thing that makes me sad for them is that a lot of them have families, and having to enter into the holidays with this type of uncertainty can definitely be unnerving. The victims ranged in age from 22 to 53. It's hard enough for the 20-30 somethings in this job market, i can't imagine the struggle that faces the older guys.
The rest of us were just scared for our lives watching the live "leaving notice" board update dynamically, hoping that none of our names were on the list. Everyone would jump every time the phone rang thinking it might be HR calling them upstairs to fire them.
In the end out of my entire group, my protege and my boss (managing director) were terminated, leaving my manager, myself, and 3 other employees in my group. The layoffs made little to no sense and it seemed like they randomly picked who to lay off out of a hat. Although I wish there weren't any there were definitely several better choices to make than the ones they made.
With that said, I think I'm relatively safe, but I'm going to freshen up the resume just the same.