Never feel guilty about leaving your job for a better opportunity.

Layoffs this year:

7,000: Disney
10,000: Microsoft
11,000: Meta
12,000: UPS
12,000: FedEx
12,000: Google
12,000: Walmart
20,000: Citigroup
27,000: Amazon

Job security is an illusion.

Never let a job steal your life. Agree?

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Except a lot of companies are not ballsy enough to actually do layoffs so they just mandate 5 day RTO til everyone quits

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Agree!

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Indeed

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Sure, I'd agree with that. It's always good to remember that we are all replaceable. And when you get down to it, each one of us is a cell on someone's spreadsheet. And if an analyst on Wall Street gets an idea that a company needs to cut costs, our cell on the spreadsheet has gotta go.

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Well said! They can replace us in 48 hours with the right candidate! Don’t sacrifice your outside of work hours to be a slave to corporate

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It's absolutely crazy how quickly things can change in someone's life because of some multimillion corporation. Loads of people were in that situation this year...

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And it’s still ongoing.

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Disney’s 7,000 happened last year

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Yes indeed

Yep, never get too attached to a company

I learned from being laid off that loyalty is for personal life. Business is business. I’m here for a paycheck sorry not sorry

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Exactly! The business will move on tomorrow without thinking twice

I agree with this 100%. At the end of this life we aren't going to be thinking about what jobs we did or what companies we worked for, we will think about all the things we missed out an and opportunties we didn't take advantage of. I don't want to be one of those people who really misses out on life.

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Life comes first! Work will always be there’

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That’s corporate America… my Team is my family. If you are the right fit (and we are picky) and you make it past the first year or two, no one leaves and I don’t fire them… 20 years in business. Only in Florida now… expanding to other states soon… Florida Pipette Calibrations.

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This is true! You really have to be the right fit. You can’t be worried about people that may not want to stick around and it’s easy to tell over time

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Well said! I believe this rings true for most people

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I was lazy and left all my eggs in one basket - my brilliant employer for the last 10 years - and the environment went toxic with folks being pushed out.... left me suddenly realising I had not prepared for this - so just seeing a background research of "what next" is best advise

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This entire thread is proof of our malignant society.

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Wow

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