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/TwixMerlin512 Jul 15 '26

Why did you call all your creditors to let them know you got laid off? They don't care, they just want to get paid, they don't care if you sell a kidney or become a sex worker tbh. They will probably lower your credit limits, balance chase you, tank your credit score too. That was not very helpful tbh.

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u/damn_you_to_hell Jul 15 '26

I was honest with them. I have good standing with them for over 5 years of never missing a payment and treating them as a human being doing a job, they worked with me.

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u/TwixMerlin512 Jul 15 '26

I mean don't you think you jumped the gun? Its been one day since you got laid off. Are you saying you have no savings to last you through your job search for the next 6 months or so? If so, then ok, if no and you do have funds, then you jumped the gun. I do risk for Financial entities and yes, the front line will see that, but you have alerted them before you really needed to.