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I wish I had been let go. It’d sure have been easier to get a job judging by how everyone is falling over themselves to provide a wonderful glowing references and leads to people they don’t even know!

I quit because it was a toxic nightmare. I then had to make up reasons for why I left that didn’t sound disparaging to Nike. When that didn’t come across as genuine and I was never able to get my footing to continue my career, so I stopped.

When you leave, no one really gives a sh-t or asks how you are or asks whether you might need a reference or anything approaching all of the support I see strangers offering to each other. Egos for days!!!!!!!

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The problem is your goal was to work for Nike. I hope you realize now that you don’t want to work for these premier companies and be in love with their products. The only thing that is going to happen is you end up being upset.

I know so many people who went to meta, TikTok, Apple and nvidia. It’s all the same song and dance, you make a ton of money and they work you too the bone. After you become a husk, they toss you to the road.

Nike is just picking up what everyone else is doing. This start back in 2017 and I haven’t seen a change in direction since.

Good luck, you’re on your own, now that you know that, you can move on.

To be clear I didn’t stop my life. I stopped pretending Nike is “all that” and stopped being disingenuous about it. Thats where one finds success: in being true to yourself. Letting go of all that BS - it’s not just Nike either. People go too fast and things are broken. My path was hard, but I wouldn’t change it. I was able to let go.

@ecu+1sHjvAR9 Yes adulting IS hard. If I can do it, you can do it! So can all the folks that got laid off. They can do it too! My point is that It’s a whole lot easier when everyone is falling over themselves to help you.

Sounds like you’re just living with your own bad decisions. Blame yourself if you did not have a backup plan or plan at all. Adulting is hard

@zsj+1sHjvAR9 Have you a point? It is unclear. Yes, “family” co-workers is BS, but aren’t folks propping that up by helping people they don’t even know? I would never ask you for help or a reference or for anything since I don’t know you. In fact, I would ask you not to comment on this post as you’ve not added anything relevant.

The problem is this has happened (layoffs) every two to three years. Myself even as a veteran just kind of gets tired of the song and dance. I’ll like the comment but my network is basically limited to Nike or intel, where you’ve made it clear you have no interest in doing either. So what do you want me to do? Write your resume? Come to your house and hug you? Along with the other 35 people who was laid off in the department?

It’s corporate America. We’re all on our own and always have been. The “family” cr-p was just a lie. You like the people you work with but you actually have a family to take care of that is your blood.

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