i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.
the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.
so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:
it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.
@jbminn *nodds in agreement*
I've literally seen someone's employer [a German branch of a big international Corporation] etting bulldozed despite their profitability because someone wanted to ax 'liabilites' aka. to-be-paid employees.
OFC that meant they killed the entire R&D dept and thus the company went belly-up within 5-10 years due to lack of new products and patents to license [no it's not pharma!]...
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