Just got laid off out of the blue on April Fool’s 🙈

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Pull a George Costanza (or Larry David the OG) and just show up to work the next day like nothing ever happened…”oh you thought that was real?” 😂😂

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need to be bold to stay in the business

They laid off people last year at Starcom on 4/2 because of this

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Ahhh you were the fool 😔

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ikr??

I’m sorry to hear. What city are you in?

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thank you! i’m in LA

I’m so sorry.

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thank you!

Sorry that happened. Who had layoffs?

a small agency in LA

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