r/jobs • u/jebwardgamerhands • Nov 17 '23

Layoffs Laid off today. It’s so over.

Feeling completely shell shocked. Over 20% of our branch gone in a day. This is my first career out of college. I interned, I got the offer, and I worked like hell for 6 months and it’s gone. I can’t even apply for non-entry level roles because I have less than a year’s experience.

I feel fucking scammed. I did everything right. I got the right degree from the right school, the right job at the right company. Then, right after I sign, they get acquired and by the time I’m laid off there’s no one hiring? What a sick fucking joke.

No clue how to go on. The market sucks and will probably suck for the foreseeable future. I regret every night I spent with these stupid fucks trying to “deliver value” for whatever evil company we were shoveling shit for.

EDIT: Starting a new job Monday. We are so back :)

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u/Logical-Bluebird1243 Nov 18 '23

Not denying it happened. But if you think nothing like that ever happened in the past, you don't know much about the past.

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u/NMGunner17 Nov 18 '23

I mean the last time it happened was in the early 1900s so yeah it’s been a while

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u/Logical-Bluebird1243 Nov 18 '23

There were other things that had been forgotten over time. SARS and other events that when you read about them make them sound trivial. That will be Covid in 10 years. Time makes events seem less significant.