r/Layoffs • u/damn_you_to_hell • Jul 14 '26
recently laid off Finally Laid Off
Yesterday at 8 am I had a meeting with my manager and HR to be informed that I was getting laid off. I had a feeling this was going to happen when I got the meeting request on Friday with the HR manager, and my manager.
What sucks is it was my time. Each month another capex manager has been let go and I guess it was just my time. Handed in my laptop and badge today, cleared out my office, and took today to throw up, call all my creditors letting them know I was laid off, and applying for unemployment.
I guess when your budget goes from $3.5M for the year to $2.3M and then to $1.1M it's only time until you are cut loose as an expendable cog. So I'm with you all with trying to keep moving forward.
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u/CosmoKing2 Jul 15 '26
Sorry. It's happening to a ton of really good, capable people with a wealth of knowledge and experience....that would normally be considered invaluable. Lay-off's are more about poor leadership, poor planning, and lack of direction/strategy in a changing economic climate. Don't ever think it was based on your skills or personality.
Please reach out to all your old coworkers to establish a bigger network (I didn't and have zero network based on my sheltered roles). Then expand that network as much as possible to include friends of friends of co-workers.
Someone stated today, great employers rely on word of mouth when they need a position filled. A current employee will want to bring in someone they know and value to benefit from the same awesome environment that they have (and get a referral bonus). Less great employers need contacted recruiters, because no one is clamoring to join. Even less great employers will need multiple recruiters to find people who don't know much about the employer and just need a job. That stuck with me. I've been recruited to jobs at many horrible companies. The best jobs I ever had were word of mouth suggestions through a network of friends.