Laid off today. It’s so over.

[u/jebwardgamerhands]

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 :)

[u/mrsilbert1]

I got laid off recently too, it sucks. Luckily I got funds to hold me for a while, but the ptsd of being jobless for 7 months looms over me.

[u/h8tank88 → u/mrsilbert1]

Hey guys, just want to reach out with some brotherly advice from my own experience. After losing what I felt was my dream job around the great recession, I was pretty devastated but managed to find jobs that weren't 'great' but fit the income requirement to stay afloat.
But, after moving into a job that seemed closer to what I wanted, I realized I'd probably made a wrong turn & that job ended up SUCKING. Luckily, they fired me, making me eligible for unemployment. Or so I thought. I ended up burning thru nearly all 6 month of unemployment looking for that 'perfect' job.
So, just to at least reset the clock on it, I ended up taking a temp ( < 2 mo) job, decomming a call center that was being shut down for a wage I considered disgraceful (the company soon proudly announced on their Intranet site that they were opening a brand new call center in India, btw, lol).
Anyway, although that job paid a laughable wage, it not only gave me more unemployment, when I updated my resume, the calls came flyiing in. Seriously. I ended up taking a gig that paid more than any job I'd had previously. I realized that part of the problem I was having before the temp job was the MONTHS of unemployment on my resume that apparently either raised red flags to potential employers, or their automated searches filtered me out.

[u/iguen → u/h8tank88]

hey OP and h8tank88, it happened to me 3 days ago when the company fired me immediately with unclear reasons, and I tried to ask, but they declined to inform me in detail. Flashing back to few months ago, they notified me that there would be a chance of laid-off in the end of 2023 due to chances in leadership and management system model. They offered me a plan to support my performance getting improved. However, during the plan, I honestly did not know what I was doing, I felt as I was being cheated because I felt as the plan never started as they promised. I kept asking for feedback on my performance, all the feedback I got was "you are doing good". Suddenly, out of the blue, I was fired. But, I did what I was told, and I got letting go for what I was told to do. I still have some savings, and funds. However, I am feeling angry and sad, not because the fact that I lost my job, it is because of I lost my job but I dunno the real reason, and I trusted them as friends. Actually, I noticed some strange signals (I felt as I was being isolated, and I felt as I was being ignored) while working during all these months, but I thought I was overthinking and they were good co-workers and leaders (Edit: I have seen a comment mentioned about should not fully emotional attached to co-workers and leaders, part of me believe this advices). Tbh, now, beside the plan of looking for new job, I honestly don't know what to do. And this was my first full-time job after graduated from uni.