Hi this is just a rant. I have been employed at my current job for two years, as well as in 2018-2019 previously. About a week ago my coworkers and I learned we are being laid off from our nonprofit museum job. In our little department, 75% of us are being let go at the end of August. Without our knowledge, we had been declared a “financial failure” by an outside consulting firm and were being eliminated due to the museum’s new five year plan. They plan to remain open for one more financial year, and then close in 2025 for renovations. They decided that they only needed a fraction of their staff for the next year, and would instead lean more heavily on their volunteers (of which the numbers are significantly dwindling and aging).
So later after HR told us this one by one, I was asked if I would volunteer in the future, specifically for our holiday events. I didn’t even know what to say, I was so taken aback by their audacity to ask such a thing. I think I mumbled something about “we’ll see” before I ran out of there. What the fuck??