This woman, who works in tech at a large corporation, was laid off a few days ago. She shared the entire call along with the discussions that followed. She also answers some questions I’ve seen come up recently, which is why I’m sharing this.
https://youtu.be/Uv2Azn93mLs
2 replies (most recent on top)
SUMMARY:
- The speaker was laid off suddenly due to company restructuring, not performance. - They're paid through February 2, with benefits info to follow.
- Overwhelmed and emotional, they worry about bills, a planned New Zealand trip, and finding another remote tech job in a tough market.
Despite anxiety, they’re cutting expenses, treating this as a forced break, and hoping to land on their feet soon. They ask for prayers or good vibes as they figure things out.
TRANSCRIPT: hello hey fan how are you I'm good how are you doing okay um hey thanks for making time on short notice and sure my invite was um rattling and not awesome and you do not have to um turn your camera on if you don't want to um I have a couple of uh notes to share with you um but uh I'll so I'll be glad
00:38
they have those notes to make sure I cover things but um I will also follow up with an email so you don't have to retain everything I'm going to say uh the difficult decision to restructure the XD org and uh as a as a as a result uh redu the size of the org and unfortunately you've uh you're impacted
00:57
by this change um so your last working day today but the good news is is you'll be paid through February 2nd um those are the most important pieces um of information your system access of an employee will be turned off at some point today I'm not sure when exactly uh
01:16
in your workday and benefits portal you still have access to you until February 2nd as an employee and then after that you'll have access to it as a as a long long night um and then I'm going to email you the specifics uh we s uh benefits and a few few other details
01:33
that will probably be helpful later and you're ready to go through them um I Ed on the last day uh you'll get your s's documents via that you sign to find and I'll go to your person email address um I want to pause I know I just rattled off a whole bunch of really big
01:49
mes um is there any questions or or um or anything that you want to ask are there any reasons other than just like restructuring like what's the reason for the restructuring that's a really good question um it has to do with the company is doing Consolidated priorities
02:09
this year and next year they're looking to um so Bo it has nothing to do with performance it has nothing to do with um location and everything to do with the company wanting to do less in Tech and you take on less priorities and as a result um you know the the team is being
02:28
um reduced for them to support another question I had was around um like my remote status is that like a factor in this as well yeah that's a really good question um it did to be perfectly honest it did C the remote status in general came up as a potential discussion but um it ended up not being a
02:52
factor okay um well please don't obviously feel a pressure to do anything today other B take care of yourself and um break down and have a few conversations if you want to again there's lot with people being impacted today so I'm sure everybody is going to be uh worried and confused and
03:14
feeling all the things so um number one take care of yourself today and as questions come up again just because you're not working after today officially um you are paid through February 2nd I'm so sorry s well um please again like take today and um take care of yourself and again I'm really
03:35
sorry but this it's is happening okay thank you see you on LinkedIn I guess um so I've already cried today uh I have already cried today um I'll probably cry more um yeah so I got an email like an hour ago that said hi I'd like to get together and share an update on our organization and
04:17
what this means for you so yeah I already knew that this was coming um at first I thought that like maybe it wouldn't just impact me because someone else mentioned that they got the same email and I was like oh well maybe cuz this has happened before when they laid off all of our managers so I was
04:39
like well maybe they're telling all of us at the same time that someone else is getting like someone big at the top is getting laid off but I reached out to that person and I was like does your meeting start at 1200 and she said no my meeting starts at 12:30 so when she said
04:55
that that's when I had my breakdown and that's when I started crying um uh I think the best news out of that is that I'm going to get my bonus so that will help um I don't know how much the bonus will be CU I don't know how well the company performed but that check
05:16
will come in March and I'll still get another regular paycheck um from work I don't know what I'm going to do I do have savings thank God thank God but like I I don't know what I'm going to do if it takes months to get a new job because I still want to remain in Tech I still want a remote position
05:41
which those are harder to come by now and um like I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't get a another job because I have the mortgage now and the mortgage is like 2700 a month um I have my trip planned to New Zealand next month I should probably cancel that if I can get a refund on my flight I
06:08
should probably cancel that which su-ks because I've been planning that since like this time last year um I don't know I don't know what's going to happen I don't I don't know I don't um um I don't I don't know what I don't know what's going to happen I'm trying I'm trying to
07:03
um have faith that everything is going to um everything's going to work out eventually I just don't know uh how long it'll take for things to work out and um it just really scares me because I don't I don't have anybody to like lean on um um like I'm not rich my family isn't Rich um like I don't
07:43
know I don't know um I'm sure it's all going to work out I'm sure it's all going to work out I just don't know how it's going to work out but I'm I'm sure it's all going to work out um I have a meeting that starts in 15 minutes ah let me tell that person I am not coming um go ahead and cancel that
08:30
cancel this and all following events because I'll never be here again after today at least it's not just me she said that like cuz I work remotely and a lot of our team is remote but she said that it's not just the remote people it's the people who live in like the city that
08:57
our headquarters are in so um everything's going to work out eventually in due time everything will work out late in the Midnight Hour is going to work out um so it's been like two hours since that phone call with my manager actually she's not even my manager she's like the director of my program
09:39
um I think I'm going through cycles of grief I've had full-on like breakdowns twice once before the call even happened because I knew what was going to happen and then once uh after that um and then I was talking to my parents about it and they've been you know very supportive and like
09:60
encouraging and I'm a daddy's girl and my dad was like it's going to be okay and everything and that made me cry even harder like I don't know um but yeah I've learned more details about it so details that make me feel a little better is not just me who was laid off um I asked my later I got to
10:22
talk to my actual manager and she said that like 24 people were involved in this so that makes me feel a little better um 24 people total like in my whole department and then on my actual team it was eight people and it was all like different levels of like hierarchy
10:45
on our team uh two of them are like the top positions on our team and those people are like great at their job um so and I asked my manager and she said it had nothing to do with performance and in fact she had already collected feedback from my upcoming performance review and everyone had
11:04
amazing things to say about me um so nothing to do with performance all about company greed yay capitalism um yeah so so I am still very anxious um but then on the I guess on the bright side is kind of freeing because I wasn't completely happy at my job anyway so at least you know now I
11:33
have the opportunity to find something new hopefully um sooner rather than later but also I'm I feel like I should also view it as for the first time in my adult life I'm going to get a break a break that's more than like two weeks I don't I don't think I would have another job in two
11:57
weeks Lord if you want to give me another job job within 2 weeks I'll take it I'll take it but um you know just I'm going to I'm going to view it as a sabatical that's what I'm going to view it as and if you've been watching my videos you know that I've been studying for a new
12:16
certification uh I have been studying for it but my company hadn't paid for it yet and they had you see you see how they do you see how they do so I still want to get that certification but that certific is like $600 so instead of the company paying for it now I have to pay for
12:35
it but I do think it would help with the job market um I can be a pess pessimist is that the word someone who thinks negatively I can be that but I've planned for something like this for being laid off like I've already thought about what I would do if I got laid off and I already know I'm
13:01
about to shut everything down I am anything that is not necessary to come out of my checking account I will not spend money on it I'm about to cancel I already canceled a lot of my subscriptions um with the no buy challenge but uh I'm about to cancel Amazon Prime because I
13:22
don't need to be buying nothing from Amazon uh I'm about to cancel Kindle unlimited which I do I do like unlimited but um I have the Libby card I can buy books from there and yeah I'm just I'm about to I'm really about to shut down all my spending I don't know what I'm going to
13:46
do about my trip I have a trip planned to New Zealand uh and The Logical side of me says I need to cancel that trip if I can like I need to get a refund on my flight the flight was the expensive part my flight was like 3,000 um so The Logical side of me is like cancel the trip some flights you
14:08
can cancel it and you get refunded the money back and some you get just like a flight credit did you hear my wrist pop some of them you get like a flight credit so I don't know if I'll get money back or a credit but part of me says like I should just cancel that trip
14:27
um and then another part of me is like worst case scenario eight months from now if I never found another job and and I don't even want to think about the house I don't even want to think about the mortgage but like if I need to like move back home with my parents
14:47
which I'm thankful that that could even be an option I haven't talked to them about that but I would I would hope that that's an option with them they have a spare bedroom um but worst case scenario if I have to move back home with my parents and I'm laying in the twin-sized bed in
15:03
my parents house and I'm like looking up at the ceiling would I regret having gone on the trip to New Zealand or would I be saying to myself well at least I got to go to New Zealand um I don't know I need to think and decide on that um yeah like I said I think I'm in the cycles of grief
15:27
and um I don't know if I'm in denial right now but things do feel a little more numb definitely more numb I may just take the week can't take the week off I'm already off but I may just like take the rest of the week cuz this is happening on a Wednesday um I may just take the rest of the week to
15:50
like decompress reset and then Monday just like start tackling things and uh going on LinkedIn and fighting for my life in the sea of all the other people who have been laid off again like in Tech Fields like Tech is it's terrible trying to get a job in Tech right now like I know people who
16:17
some I just looked at my phone and someone said like I finally got a job after being unemployed for nine months I do not have the funds for nine months um I don't know I don't know um it's above me now just got to give it over to God yeah if y'all are praying people pray for me if you not just wish
16:45
me luck and send me Good Vibes bye for
I just watched this 2 hours ago