I’m sorry, I know this is a bad joke but I’m feeling beat after being laid off last month and humour is my coping mechanism. I also can’t stand all of those “work hard and it’ll pay off” types of posts I keep seeing everywhere.
I’ve been working for this employer for just over two years, and I’ve given it everything I had. When I started this role, the company had a huge backlog of projects that needed to be dealt with and I managed to cut that backlog in half, started and finished new projects, worked extra hard to meet their unreasonable expectations and always received positive feedback from my two bosses. But apparently none of that was enough, because upper management decided to cut our department’s budget and discontinue mine and other coworkers’ positions. Now they’re struggling to find someone else in the company to take on the work that we were doing because everybody else is already stretched to their limit, and they clearly didn’t think this through. It just pisses me off because we had a great team, worked incredibly hard and always delivered on what was asked from us, but none of that mattered because we were disposable to them.
It’s very hard to stay motivated to find work now, after seeing that dedication DOES NOT pay off. I’m sure others in this sub have experienced something similar. How are you all coping?