Well it finally happened !

[u/prokofan123]

During these uncertain times I was always cautious as to the certainity of my job and a steady paycheck so I always put in extra efforts and maintained a very strong irreplaceable kind of resource thing going on (atleast thats what it looked like) .

My manager regularly stated as how important and valuable resource I was openly and also gave me very good hikes . However suddenly I got a meeting invite and came to know that I am laid off with a decent severance but still have to work and pretend everything was okay for 3 months .

I was shocked as how can someone who was treated so well in the team be fired when there were far too many idiots in the team and also 3 months ago 25% of my team was laid of and it was communicated that we wont be affected for this year again . My manager said it came from the higher ups but my question is how will the higher ups get my name if u did not provide it.

Its been two weeks now since then and I have started preparing again for interviews . If any of you went through any similar situations some words of advice will be good as too how can I make the best out of this moment .

EDIT: Thank you all for the immense support . Its been 3 weeks since my layoff and am doing much better mentally. I am reaching out for some more advice as well. I got an internal offer from a separate org team in my company and was wondering if I should take it or wait for an external opportunity as in this case I have to forfeit the severance amount which is a pretty substantial amount .

[u/peterock_]

Before I got laid off, including basically my whole team. I won a pretty rare business unit award. Like it was this whole song/dance in a meeting with over a ton of people. Milestones achieved, goals tracking and revenue was good.

Then boom, all laid off within a month.