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Originally Posted by joethelawyer

Exactly. At the end of the day, you still have to worry about putting food on your kids plates, making the house payment, and trying to put away a little bit for the kids college and your retirement.

Whether you got some severance package or not, whether it was due to your performance or not, whether you get a handshake or a kick in the ass, when you walk out the door that last time, it sucks.

It most definitely does suck and hurt, more so if the person affected has not had any direct and real lose, such as a loved one passing or such, since we tend to put so much of ourselves into our job, often told as we grew up that if you are good, hard worker that you will always have a job. Yet, suddenly, a good hard worker is laid off through no real fault of their own.

My first lay off happened just before I turned thirty-two, literally the week before my birthday, a handful of weeks after we splurged and bought a new PC, as well as the week I started my GenCon plans (I didn't go) and in the midst of a freelance project.

It came out of no where, so much so that I had narrowly avoided buying a house, due to the inability of my company to answer a simple question, all while saying that our jobs were safe and sound. So, while it was mostly unexpected, there was that one hint, yet I was a hard worker, always putting in extra time when asked, and a team player. I was, literally, the third person to go, right after the two people in the company who were our anchor statements, i.e. So long as So-and-So has a job, we're safe. Thus, the two bad examples got let go and then myself, as well as a few other folk.

I was stunned, I didn't know what to tell my girlfriend (our lil' man just turned one a few months earlier) and it sucked. I went out drinking that night with a friend, who was there for me, as well as his brother, when I was laid off again.

It is an odd hurt, both times, hence those suffering it have all the sympathy and empathy I have, hopefully something, anything, said by us on here helps them a bit, which it seems to so far, and that's a good thing.