Comments on: Laid off and angry

By: Still Can't Believe it

Still Can't Believe it — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:13:16 +0000

I am so upset about being told I am being laid off, that I am actually sitting at my desk at work looking up posts about being laid off – I usually don’t even take time out from my work to go to the bathroom, now I am playing on the computer because I am so scared that I can’t think straight.
After 22 years at this company, the last 16 of which I developed and managed a branch of the company – a branch that realizes a significant profit – because of the need to cuts costs across the board – I am losing my job. I have stellar evaluations and the greatest respect from my colleagues and business associates that anyone could ask for. I am just scared to death that I will not find another job. I can retire from my present company, but a far less rate than I need in order to make it. The worst for me, is that they are keeping the branch I developed open with reduced services,and they don’t even know what it is that I do to make it work and make it turn a profit. I am not of the mind to share anything with anyone from the company. I am just so scared and getting more angry by the moment – I am scared because anger and fear are pretty out of character for me. I almost think I need to go see a doctor about this – I can’t sleep and I am ok one moment and the next moment I am in tears. I find myself saying negative things to clients about the company – I would never do this. Any advise? Is this normal to feel this way? I appreciate any comments.

By: Michael White

Michael White — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:26:04 +0000

My situation may make you feel better.

I caused myself to be laid off. I took a great job with Ernst & Young making around $40k annually. Told them I’ve hadn’t used MS Office is a while and choked when two easy jobs came my way and then did not open a folder that was marked ‘Final’ on the cover only to discover that there were three corrections to be made inside! That was the last straw after only a month!! Two years later and five or six temp jobs later, still can’t let it go.

By: Iwillsurvive

Iwillsurvive — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:22:43 +0000

How do you write a post on here anyway?

I agree also. It’s embarrassing to say the least. I was probably one of the most diversified licensed guys at work, yet I got thrown under the bus by all the insecure nitwits that got the dog eat dog mentallity. I was laid off because I asked not to go out of town when my wife was sick (and we have two kids 3 and 6), even though I offered to go if no one else could. My boss told me that I was laid off because I didn’t go out of town and that it would be “a good lesson for me”. That phrase itself irks me the most. As someone else said, what comes around goes around. Keep your low life butt kissers and I’ll try to bury you, your company and everyone left there when things pick back up.

By: @laidoffinsocal

@laidoffinsocal — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:16:50 +0000

I agree, and am sorry for your plight. Getting laidoff is a very humbling experience. it makes you question your self worth, and the value you provide to an employer. but, how can some of the morons that work around this great land of ours still remain employed.

is that snarky or honest?