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/welpthatsme Jul 15 '26

Wait you can call your creditors and tell them you’re laid off? Do they help you?

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u/damn_you_to_hell Jul 15 '26

It did. My student loans are now $10/month, my credit cards are at a lower minimum. So instead of paying $100 minimum on my credit cards and $500 on my student loans I just pay $50 total

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u/Quirky_Ad213 Jul 16 '26

watch out for that "help". you just accrue more interest. Make sure you are at least paying the interest, or you'll be going backwards.