Ask HN: Have you been affected by layoffs?
I was at a company that got bought. Shortly thereafter they started laying people off. For some reason I wasn&#x27;t. I was one of the last ones there, commuting to a mostly empty office not doing much. Obviously by that point I was already deep into a job search.<p>They did some shenanigans to try to fabricate reasons to let me go with cause, presumably to save money. It had absolutely no impact on me afterwards in any way whatsoever. I got a new job within a month or so. It was a much better job that I stayed at for way too long.<p>I feel worse about the people who were laid off before me. The company took everyone on a big team building type trip to a tropical place. I refused to go. After everyone got back from the trip they started the layoffs just before the holidays. I told that CEO straight to his face he was a scumbag. That people probably would have rather had their paychecks through the holidays than some vacation with their co-workers, would they have known.<p>And yet, somehow the person who didn&#x27;t go on the company trip, and stuck it to the CEO was one of the last ones still around.