You Don’t Need To Be “So Grateful For The Opportunity” To Have Been Laid Off, Actually

I wasn’t going to write a Medium post about being laid off but since I’ve done it everywhere else, here we are! I got laid off for the first time this Monday morning, after a brief meeting during which my colleagues and I were told that we would learn within 15 minutes of the end of the meeting if we were being laid off by receiving a calendar invite inviting us to a subsequent layoff conversation.

Because I came of age during the Great Recession and decided, foolishly, to study…