My mom has been working in her same office job for 30 years. She's exactly like me in the sense that when someone asks her to do something, she will do it, no questions asked to the detriment of her health. She's had several interns quit saying there's no future in the office and she's experienced pretty bad workplace bullying, not to mentions co-workers that does nothing and then forces her to do everything because they know she'll be there to pick up the pieces or she gets blamed. Yet, she says she's been lucky to work there with how safe and stable the position is (and how good her 2-day-office hybrid perks are).
30 years. And somehow I have a higher salary than her with less than 2 years under the corporate belt. My starting salary was already equal to hers.
30 fucking years and she just gets pulled aside by her new boss to be told “yeah, your name came up during the layoff discussion” and she can't tell anyone because she'd get fired on the spot so she's trying to keep herself when she knows her days are numbered as it's not officially announced yet.
I'm honestly just so fucking pissed with how she's been treated and how it's finally come to an end like this. Fuck corporations. We owe them no loyalty.
Edit / It was asked but deleted: my family lives in Finland so she's not being let go because they don't want to pay her retirement funds – by default, a part of her paycheck already went into her retirement fund. And when she does hit the retirement age, if it's not enough money, social security should over it. The biggest issue is that her entire social life and all friends are built around work so my worry is that she doesn't have a network big enough to find anything new.