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When you’re down - it’s never who you expect when it comes to support and real help. Good luck through it until the next stop!
Ive never been put in a situation where I needed to tap on peoples shoulders for any kind of serious help, so here I am learning a very interesting lesson in life. What you said.
Thanks P1. I hope you never end up in my shoes.
Over the years my role has been eliminated due to reorgs. I've always been able to find a new role through my network.
The last one of these I went through was the most surprising. I had people I hadn't even talked to in a decade that used to be on my team reach out to me and let me know what an impact I had had on them and their career and offer to help me.
It was honestly one of the most touching and humbling things that has happened to me.
Good for you VP1
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What’s the context - How did you reach out to them with your needs, did you ask for a referral for a specific job ID at their company? Or did you make a general ask?
It’s funny. During quarantine so many previous co-workers who were laid off reached out to me and I did everything possible to help them land freelance and full time jobs.
When I was laid off 3 years later and reached out, a little over half of them couldn’t even be bothered to respond. 90% of those left my message on “read.”
I kept a list of their names and did the exact same to them when they reached back out to me after getting let go following a major holding company acquisition.
Petty? Sure. But f’em.
If i show you the amount of ppl i referred, helped, and opened doors for, you won't believe what i'm going through
I dont even need to write down their names. I knom them all by heart
Why did you get let go 1.5 years ago?
Possibly, lets see