🐠: I found out I was likely going to be laid off a month ago and I just received an offer (haven’t been laid off yet). Know that if you work hard and keep your head up, good things can happen!!

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Congrats! Accept your offer, slack off and get severance before you start your new gig!

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Congrats!!!

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Congrats OP :)

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Congrats! Love your attitude :)

Folks get nasty towards optimism lately. They’ll tell you to it’s “tone deaf”. Keep spreading positivity OP!

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Great!

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Love this! Good for you!!

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“iF yOu wOrK hArD...”

Wow, it didn’t take hard work to make Manager? Nice!

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