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/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/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.