r/jobs • u/Whole_Relief8299 • 3d ago

Layoffs Just got laid off via text

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I’ve been crying so much over this. I genuinely can’t believe how heartless some people can be…

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u/Shadow_Integration 3d ago

Time for a follow-up text to request your record of employment and to file for unemployment insurance due to layoff. If they contest it, you'll have this screenshot as evidence.

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u/TIC321 3d ago

When its a legitimate layoff, I don't panic anymore. I learned from covid. Unemployment isn't bad. I see it as a vacation from work. During that time, I enjoyed not working after many years of working very hard.

I work 2 jobs now and I miss it sometimes. I have a full-time job thats very stable and a part of a union. I cant stand working for private sectors anymore because they can fire you for any reason very easily

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u/fcghp666 3d ago

It’s cool for like, 2 weeks. After that it starts to drag on you mentally

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u/OCDGeeGee 3d ago

I had 6months off during covid n could have easily gone another 6more..

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u/FaroutIGE 3d ago

i did too, but just to be fair, its definitely easier to cope with being at home all the time when everyone else has to too

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u/Suavecore_ 3d ago

I wish everyone was at home during covid. That was the busiest time of my life working at a gas station making $1/hr more (for one month) for being an Essential Worker. No idea what people are talking about when it comes to the supposed lockdowns

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u/ImNotAGameStopASL 2d ago

I worked at GameStop and our company tried telling everybody we were "essential retail" because we happened to sell PC peripherals that people working from home could use. It was the biggest load of bs they sold, and most of the time, they got away with it. The PS4 Controller shortage was real tho. My store ran out in April and didn't have them back in stock until November.

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u/Suavecore_ 2d ago

I remember sharing an article about that, with an image of an employee handing a bag through the doorway to a customer, thinking how cartoonishly evil it was to call GameStop employees essential and force them to work during a pandemic. Meanwhile, I sold shit loads of cigarettes and lottery tickets

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u/KifferFadybugs 3d ago

Ugh, yeah. I work retail pharmacy. It was the busiest we ever were and all the customers were even more hostile.

They've only become worse since then.

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u/Zealousideal-Ear1991 2d ago

Same with working at the hospital

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u/LuxerOneCode 3d ago

I worked through the lockdowns as well, doing Uber Eats, so I don’t super relate to the lockdown trauma that people have, lol. Closest I have to that is not having in-person church for a few weeks early on, and realizing very quickly how isolated and lonely that made me feel.

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u/Consistent-Option827 2d ago

I was locked down and I realized I am traumatized by the outside world so now I just wanna be locked down forever but I can’t

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u/LuxerOneCode 1d ago

Aw man, that sucks :( I bet a lot of young people in particular feel that way. Lockdowns did so much harm.

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u/Consistent-Option827 1d ago

Is it bad I don’t see it as a bad thing lol I enjoy my time and peace alone at home now

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u/LuxerOneCode 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean sure, that’s valid from the perspective of just considering your own benefit, but such incredible harm was done to so many people that when you look at it as a whole, I don’t think it’s possible to call it anything but a disaster. And you even said that you’re now afraid of the outside world - I would say that that means it hurt you as well, quite a lot. Idk, you haven’t said what exactly you’re afraid of, so I guess it depends, but it used to be recognized as a bad thing when people were afraid to leave the house - that’s agoraphobia.

And btw, I am 30, so I’m probably less than 10 years older than you (guessing from the context), but that’s enough to have given me time to get a foothold as an adult in “the outside world,” as it were. I realize that people who are even just a few years younger than me (let alone young children) missed some crucial parts of learning to make their way in this world. The way many people were forced to live is incredibly unhealthy, and it was called “the new normal,” but it is absolutely NOT normal. On the other hand, being a homebody is perfectly fine. I’m just saying that in the context of lockdowns and you saying that you were traumatized, it doesn’t seem like the overall takeaway is positive.

My version of that might be that I really liked getting to work in the downtown area and have it all to myself, because virtually no one was on the roads for quite a while, and normally I can’t stand being over there because it’s so cramped and crowded. However, even at the time, I recognized it as a really, really bad thing, because the entire economy had shut down, and that hurts everybody. So it was fun to enjoy an aspect of that, but it was still a terrible thing that should never have happened.

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u/This_Candle_4836 2d ago

WOW! One whole dollar! I hope they didn’t take away that crazy raise!

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u/FaroutIGE 3d ago

its almost like your lived experience is only yours

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u/Honestone79 2d ago

Was honestly one of the worst years of my life. If I had a choice to do it over again I might choose differently. I had a choice to be furloughed along with 500+ employees or stay and help working graveyard shifts maintaining a large commercial property. After only turning overnighters on a rare occasion over the years and making the flip to graveyard at almost 40 years of age it was beyond difficult. I worked that entire year and two months 40 plus hours weekly with only having 2 vacation days. Then we reopened and I had to flip back to working a salary based manager role during regular hours but turned 50-70 hours weekly. It was great to be back amongst the living and I was grateful. I never truly adjusted to sleeping during the day. It was also extremely lonely and depressing rarely seeing my family and working with only 2-3 people at a large property and never being around each other. I never felt rested regardless of sleeping 6-8 hours. Everyone that was furloughed returned with a completely destroyed work ethic. They always complained about how tired they were and how they missed being at home and getting more money for not working. I literally wanted to slap them. Tell me about tired. I would laugh when they mentioned being tired or how hard work was. Things never returned to normal. Everyone’s perspective has since changed besides those of us who continued to work during that entire lockdown period. Work-ethic and dedication never returned. Was everyone so stupid and naive to think that the government shelling out all of that money would not have huge implications to our economy. Look at where we are now. Inflation, shrink-flation, corporate greed at an all time high and taking advantage of the situation in buying out more properties and rentals. I don’t think we stand a chance against them. It was a big power play from the inception. We are all cooked.

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u/Stone0777 3d ago

How are you shocked that people had different race experiences than you? Guess the gas fumes got to you.

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u/Suavecore_ 3d ago

You gathered that I was shocked from that? Race experiences? Did the gas fumes get you too?

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u/trexgiraffehybrid 2d ago

I easily could have gone my entire life. I landscaped my yard and renovated my entire house, then started a lawn care business. Going back to work and being around those people and the politics again was comparable to death in some ways. I can't wait to retire.

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u/swampwiz 2d ago

I could have done that until age 65.

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u/Influence_X 3d ago

It didn't drag on me for at least 4 months

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u/thekidlegacy6 3d ago

Ong idk what they talking bout it didn’t drag for loooooooong time actually caught me by surprise

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u/Influence_X 3d ago

I had months skip by that felt like a week lol

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u/thekidlegacy6 3d ago

Fr was like woah its August

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u/DayThen5445 3d ago

My friend, feel you. It’s been a year that feels like both 10 years and 10 days. I can admit time has never been a friend, I’m time blind as fuck, but the more I dwell the harder it feels that’s for fuckin sure.

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u/thekidlegacy6 3d ago

Yoooooo so true such a weird time after like 3-4 months shii felt like a desert east coast streets being empty will always be a core memory for me and then the day i went outside and everyone was drunk😭😭

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u/lbcatlady 3d ago

How can you live off of it?

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u/Influence_X 3d ago

I didn't, my life slowly collapsed until I had to move back in with my mother, I was unemployed for 9 months.

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u/lbcatlady 3d ago

I'm sorry to hear that. I had to sell a lot of mybelongings on eBay and find temp work. It can take 2 months of hard-core applications to get something here in So Cal.

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u/--sheogorath-- 3d ago

Man i wish I had the kinda job where not working is the thing that'd be mentally stressful

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u/EncounteredError 3d ago

It didn't drag on me ever. First time was 3 months while looking for a job, loved my time watching movies and playing games not being burned out from a crap job. Second time was another 3 months when I made a crap load of money on Doge, with the same results. I have enough interests and hobbies that I want to learn/do where I'd never want to go back to a job.

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u/brownsfan250 3d ago

I mean, sure, if you have money to watch movies and play games all day, you wouldn't be stressed. I'd say like 95% of people wouldn't have this luxury.

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u/SpazmicDonkey 3d ago

Can confirm. I finally landed a job after about 4-5 months of unemployment and there af the end I was going insane.

It was fun for the first month, then it got real.

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u/Yesitshismom 3d ago

That's how i felt

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u/revthough 2d ago

I agree I was off for about a year after I had my son my wife made more than me at the time I never had anxiety in my life until I was off for that long I started having panic attacks I never had once I went back to work I’ve been fine ever since

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u/Ok-Personality5224 2d ago

Yeah, it’s not even about the money.

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u/woowooman 2d ago

Eh, working 80+ hours per week through the entire pandemic was definitely more mentally draining imo. I’d have been extremely happy to get paid more than I made working to just stay home and chill.