I’d been with my company for 13 years. I started as a temp on a production line and had been promoted multiple times and was currently working in a salaried role in an office area of our company when we got an email Monday afternoon announcing the company was laying off several hundred employees globally to achieve a cost reduction percentage. The next morning at 8am I received an email telling me I was one of the employees being laid off. Several others I work personally with who had also been with the company for a long time were also let go.
This all happened while our private company’s billionaire owner doubled his net worth over the last few years during the pandemic while the company continued to induce more and more cost-cutting measures that were blamed on Covid and were supposedly temporary while telling us that we’re a family and everyone’s job was safe. You’ll also be shocked to learn none of the executives were among the layoffs.
This shit is so fucked up.