re: Post here if you have ever been laid off from a job

Teaming up with Tate is the deathblow I was looking for.

I was let go twice in the early 80's. It was tough everywhere. I had the opportunity to return to the first company about three years later and retired from it after 37 years. There were ups and downs, violent contact disputes, layoffs, restructuring, and ownership changes. It was seldom smooth sailing but who says life is easy.

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for one am always happy to see miserable people find a touch of joy every now and then.

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A miserable person is exactly how to sum up cuckeye.

Dudes been crying Orange Man since 4am

Career oil.. laid off twice.. third time company just went out of business . Went into retirement..

No problem with DOGE.. identify how to make things more efficient.. but to measure efficiency by only using dollars and time in grade is typical HR by spreadsheet . I disagree with this approach.. find snags..some departments have to many employees.. some to few.. some needs a revamp of workflows.. some need new tools.. software etc.. some young ones are exceptionally qualified.. some older one exceptionally under qualified ..get that corruption ( False claims) .. out of Medicare.. Medicare.. find more cost effective medical ..

.. do politicians deserve their salary and benefits … do we need all their staff… what groups are being targeted..

Should spend a few months working things out .. then take the appropriate steps..

4 times

3 of the times I was replaced by H1B or Offshored Indians.

Age 14 until age 44 I never went unemployed.

Then my whole division was absorbed in a corporate merger. Offered another position but w/relocation to Minneapolis so no. Took the severance package, but had another job within 2 weeks.

Four years later I was let go in a corporate restructuring. I was the highest compensated employee. Stupidest move I've ever seen. I brought in more than double the revenue of what any other account manager brought in. This made my income significantly higher and so, the stupid GM (who two years later was arrested and eventually convicted of child rape. His own daughter. 7 years in jail. Not enough.) he let me go thinking he would just hand my accounts to an inside account manager with no client relationship experience. LOL. Then, he started taking the end-user account information from dealers who registered their sales for incentives. Dealers found out and bailed. Within two years, the company was no longer in business in the US. When I was terminated the company had a 24% market share and he ran it down to a <.3% market share. Stupidest set of manage decisions I've ever seen.

Within 2 weeks I was working for a competitor. Within a month, I closed on a $7.5 million order. My annual quota was only $2.5 million. The next day, the national sales manager congratulated me on the order, then proceeded to tell me (in a conference call with the entire sales team) that this was not the kind of business they wanted. They wanted me to focus on developing dealers and their one and two piece orders, not working directly with end users to develop the pull. That afternoon, I planned to quit.

I called a buddy. He worked for the OEM that actually made the product that I was selling. My employer just stuck their name on it. I told him the situation. He said if my client could flip the order to them as a direct sale, that they woukd put me under an independent manufacturer's rep agreement, commissioned on the order, and that both of us, my buddy and me, would work to make the process smooth, however long it took to fulfill the order. He went to his corporate legal, they drafted a rep agreement and after a few tweaks, I was set. They gave me a cost that brought the order down to $7.25 million.

I called my client, who had been my client for 15 years. Told him the situation and that it saves them a quarter million. He was able to get the offer approved. Before sending an order cancellation, he gave me a day to quit. I called and quit within 30 minutes. No notice. Just quit. Sent it in writing by email to him and copied the company's president and CEO. Pissed the national sales manager off when I blamed him for throwing shade at me in that conference call and telling me that they aren't prepared to handle the kind of business that I'm accustomed to selling. Tough shite. The next day, my client sent a cancellation fax, email and hard copy by FedEx. This all fell inside their three-day right of rescinsion.

That order ended up being added to and all total increased to over $9 million, so I made a very nice commission on that order.

Two years later, I saw that national sales manager at a trade event. Turns out, he lost his job over his handling of me and losing that order. He was walking the floor of the trade show looking for work. Oops. Sorry. He seemed bitter.

Yup. Laid off because of Covid. Thanks Fauci you a-hole!! But I moved on. Turns out it was one of the best things to happen to me

In the late 70's to early 80's in the Carter recession I was laid off a total of ELEVEN times by the wonderful folks at General Electric.

I worked for a company that closed. Fortunately I had 2 other jobs so I was not unemployed.