[tomrod]

I was laid off in the Great Financial Crisis and was very early career. Honestly, I was angry at the employer for a few years. Eventually I got over it, and it inspired me to become more resilient & diversified in income. I've had clients, customers, and employers end relationships since, some hard stops and some soft stops. I don't get ruffled anymore by it, and knowing myself without that first layoff in early career I'd not be nearly as able to bounce back after processing.

It's not easy. I wish all the best to the folks who have been laid off -- it sucks, its hard, and really can be nerve wracking.

A few suggestions:

- Register for unemployment right away

- If you have tight constraints on resources (such as low bank account and food/housing affordability) reach out in your network right away -- people, community organizations, food banks, religious organizations if you are an adherent (my biased experience is they tend to be insular with help).

- Junior career or low network cultivation - pound the street, apply to what feels like an uncomfortably crazy number of jobs

- Mid to senior career or high network cultivation - pound the street, connect with what feels like an uncomfortably crazy number of people, even second degree connections

All the best to yall.

[folkrav]

All great advice to make the best of a shitty situation. My comment was more about how tired I'm getting of that same age old "it's better for everyone this way!i!" BS line that doesn't help anyone. The situation is legitimately shitty, tons of people's lives will be, objectively speaking, negatively influenced by this from no fault of their own. Can we just stop pretending like it isn't shitty?

My personal finances are fine, I have decent income and savings, am decently protected in case of a layoff, and I'm not in a situation where I was laid off either. Actually myself had to announce it to 2 people from my team recently. I'm not angry at the employer in particular - don't hate the player, hate the game, blabla. I'm more generally angry at the way we choose to live in having no basis in humanity and no other reality than shareholders' wallets - seriously, who did _not_ know that the hiring rate of the last couple of years would not hold? - but that's another story.