everybody in tech who got laid off: "remember your employment is just a business decision"

yeah, no shit

though you all were smart engineers

Remember that employment is a vacation...a vacation from poverty.

At least in the US, there is/was the message from our elders that being a good employee (being a good person, father/mother, etc) meant being loyal to a single company for the rest of your working life. That is the ultimate career achievement. That's what my dad, uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc, all did. Right now, that's my trajectory.

Several years ago this company went thru a "right sizing" and each department was required to 'trim the fat'. Our department was already pretty lean, so the idea of our IS-VP laying off was absurd. Nope, he fired 5 people, which was the average number for each department. These folks were loyal, had families, did *nothing* but contribute positively to the company and fired simply because the IS-VP had to fill an arbitrary quota.

After that, the light bulb came on. We're disposable parts in the machine. Company will throw any of us away at anytime for any reason and loyalty is expected to flow only in one direction. Theirs.

@PaperTrail yep, seems super healthy and super non-toxic

really loving the corporate world