Those of you that may have been given notice that we will be impacted by upcoming layoffs (my are was advised reorg in the coming months) - How are you feeling? I find myself going between angry, scared, & depressed. I am having a difficult time regulating my emotions and feel on the verge if a nervous breakdown waiting for the scissors to come out and cut ties.
Does anyone have pointers on how to NOT become a basket case?
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What happened to the reply saying the op must be a woman? There’s no option to delete or report so maybe the site took it down?
Remember Cigna has nothing to do with you as a person and your doing the best you can is a good way to survive. You owe them nothing and they owe you nothing. Seriously there is nothing Cigna has that is worth ur mental health. They gonna get what I have left over from living my life outside work and they can fire my a-s if they want, till then/ I get a new job ima sn---h the paycheck and sleep great knowing im doin my best.
I don't handle stress well. About the same. Except throw hopeless and contemplating taking a shotg-n blast to the face often in there too. That's more because of the job market than losing this BS position, though. Been applying for months to get ahead of the layoffs and mostly get jerked around. Really makes me feel worthless and f*cked in general. My BP is up and I'm too stressed to enjoy much of anything. We're not alone. It's just the sad state of the economy.
Try being a MA employee. We were nervous wrecks for months in the midst of RTO with all the rumors about buying Humana then eventually getting sold off. And we still hardly know anything.
I can empathize, and I wish you the best of luck, whatever that looks like for you.
I was laid off the end of last year in November and it took about 2 months to find something (the new company is a startup and they treat me like I am more than just a number on the payroll). Here is what worked for me:
Update the resume knowing that it is coming. Give yourself a few days to a week at minimum to process all the emotions and initially just take your time applying for places (4-5 places a day). Every situation is different considering family obligations, whether you have previous things scheduled, etc. Set up a routine of what you will do each day while looking for work. Definitely get long walks or trips to the gym in if you can and set aside some time of the day to do job applications. Know ultimately that you owe absolutely NOTHING to Cigna and subsidiaries. You gave them your time and so many years only for them to say that you were just a means to their end. On to the next chapter.