The layoff surprised me. It’s not that I think all the best about myself, but I still don’t think I deserved it because there were a lot of worse performers who stayed behind. It’s my own fault that I believed I was safe. Now that things have settled down - I’m happy that I was laid off.
Who knows how much longer I would try in vain to get a promotion that I could never get and who knows how much longer I would have to endure perfidious bullying. And yes, I found a new job faster than I could have imagined.