Layoffs are teh sux.

[M1IRONMIKE]

I was once laid off, after getting out of jail, for braking into the concession stand at the ball park where I worked. Well maybe that was fired and not laid off.......

i was also laid off for refusing to work on Sunday at a fish shop I worked at....wait that was a firing also......

I guess I have never been laid off!!!!

[lukethedrifter]

15 years ago we had massive layoffs where I worked. They had given warnings, planned and prepared for it quite a bit. They had it so that a "coach" would escort the person out of the building. Our coach was "Betsy", and the guy in my office who chose not to go voluntarily was "Bob". Bob was extremely well liked, nicest guy in the world and a good family man. But dumb. Dumb as a brick. Dumb, dumb dumb. Company definitely made the right choice with him.

Anyhow, Betsy came to get him and broke down. Just couldn't take it, and the sight of watching Bob console Betsy as Betsy escorted him out of the office was just weird.

They timed it right before our bonuses. We were all mad and bummed about Bob, then we got our great bonus check and it was like "Screw Bob, Bob was stupid and deserved it". Then about two weeks later it sunk in that we were working like dogs, and that even though Bob wasn't too bright he did contribute. And picking up the slack sucked, and then we were like "Screw the company, I wonder how ol' Bob is doing".

I quit a year later, and we had cut so many people out that the day I turned my notice in I literally thought I was going to have to go to the president of Ameritech. They basically took out level 2 and 4 of the management tree, and my level 3 boss was in Indianapolis and gone. I honestly didn't know who to tell to eff off.

Bob still has an office in the basement.

[Swatcat27]

While the anticiaption of the axe is one excruciating experience, I was on the end of another extreme. I was on this project for a while & we were told that a 5-7 year extension was on the cards (it was like the 'I saw the extension at the airport' for real)...and in comes the PM, gathers the team in the conf room & tells us we are all gone in 3 weeks.

Euphoria overcome by suckitude...so darn depressing.

[jimedmondsfan]

15 years ago we had massive layoffs where I worked. They had given warnings, planned and prepared for it quite a bit. They had it so that a "coach" would escort the person out of the building. Our coach was "Betsy", and the guy in my office who chose not to go voluntarily was "Bob". Bob was extremely well liked, nicest guy in the world and a good family man. But dumb. Dumb as a brick. Dumb, dumb dumb. Company definitely made the right choice with him.

Anyhow, Betsy came to get him and broke down. Just couldn't take it, and the sight of watching Bob console Betsy as Betsy escorted him out of the office was just weird.

They timed it right before our bonuses. We were all mad and bummed about Bob, then we got our great bonus check and it was like "Screw Bob, Bob was stupid and deserved it". Then about two weeks later it sunk in that we were working like dogs, and that even though Bob wasn't too bright he did contribute. And picking up the slack sucked, and then we were like "Screw the company, I wonder how ol' Bob is doing".

I quit a year later, and we had cut so many people out that the day I turned my notice in I literally thought I was going to have to go to the president of Ameritech. They basically took out level 2 and 4 of the management tree, and my level 3 boss was in Indianapolis and gone. I honestly didn't know who to tell to eff off.

Bob still has an office in the basement.

And he's looking for his stapler!