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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
So I thought that I would document my search and what worked and what didn't. Hopefully the folks present and future in this thread might find something that is helpful.
The shock of losing your job.
Even if you hated your job, its still a punch in the gut to lose it. I know that first couple of days, I was crushed and asking a lot of the wrong questions. A layoff isn't really your fault. If you did something really wrong and got fired, you probably have to remember that as a human being and a employee that you have value.
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As someone who had to give the bad news to over half my group after oil prices crashed this point is very much true, and our HR people made it clear to us that we should communicate this to the people we had to let go. At least in our circumstances this was absolutely true, nobody was being let go due to job performance or any other reason other than we were downsizing to survive. Hard for the people on the wrong end of the conversation and I'm not sure how many truly believed it but it really was the truth.