I’ve been laid off before (an acquisition who only wanted our clients) and went through all of the emotions of feeling anger, self doubt, worthlessness, dread, darkness/depression, etc.
For those of you who haven’t been through this before, remember this… This isn’t about you and is in NO WAY a reflection of who you are or what you’ve achieved.
This is about numbers and a bunch of clueless mo--ns who somehow got propelled into decision making positions, who value those numbers above all else, regardless of how misleading that information may be (have you SEEN some of the tableau reports that upper management blindly follows around here?).
They don’t understand the difference you make here every single day to make this place successful … because that’s how mismanaged / terrible companies work. but don’t worry, they’ll be figuring it out (the hard way) soon. I feel sorry for those who will be left behind to pick up the pieces from such short-sighted decisions.
Good luck to all of us! May we find much better places to land soon.
Fu-k Schwab.