[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.