My workplace made around 25 people redundant for a merger then 2 weeks later scrapped the merger..

I can’t believe it, thankfully I was safe but some of my friends got let go, we had no warning and this company we’re merging with are notoriously bad, two weeks go by and we have no movement, but we have hardly any staff but the same work volume so everyone is overworked, I eventually get it out of my manager that it’s not happening now, so people lost their jobs over nothing and now we’re under staffed, I hate working life so much.