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/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?