[sem000]

I definitely feel for the people getting laid off...

But hear me out, I think this is going to be a good thing for those people and the economy.

The achievers that are getting laid off now have the opportunity, or are forced, to take that risk to start their own thing and create tremendously more value to the world than they would have at Meta. Alternatively, they could take their tremendous skills to industries and sectors that could really use them and make transformative changes there.

[folkrav]

> I think this is going to be a good thing for those people

I want to see you say "You losing your job is actually freaking great!" to the face of one of to those 10k employees who now have to figure out how to pay the next couple of months' mortgage while they try to find a job in a now cautious market overflowing with laid off employees. And please, make sure to tell them it's good for the economy, that should make them even happier.

You cannot seriously be saying you feel for them and tell them them losing their livelihood in this economy is good for them either. Not everyone wants to have a high impact transformative job or change the world. Tons of people - I'd say most - work to pay the bills.

[tomrod]

I was laid off in the Great Financial Crisis and was very early career. Honestly, I was angry at the employer for a few years. Eventually I got over it, and it inspired me to become more resilient & diversified in income. I've had clients, customers, and employers end relationships since, some hard stops and some soft stops. I don't get ruffled anymore by it, and knowing myself without that first layoff in early career I'd not be nearly as able to bounce back after processing.

It's not easy. I wish all the best to the folks who have been laid off -- it sucks, its hard, and really can be nerve wracking.

A few suggestions:

- Register for unemployment right away

- If you have tight constraints on resources (such as low bank account and food/housing affordability) reach out in your network right away -- people, community organizations, food banks, religious organizations if you are an adherent (my biased experience is they tend to be insular with help).

- Junior career or low network cultivation - pound the street, apply to what feels like an uncomfortably crazy number of jobs

- Mid to senior career or high network cultivation - pound the street, connect with what feels like an uncomfortably crazy number of people, even second degree connections

All the best to yall.

[pb7]

>now have to figure out how to pay the next couple of months' mortgage

If I had to guess, probably with the surplus of their previous massive compensations and extremely generous severance.

[curiousllama]

You’re not wrong, but this is also probably not the best time to point it out.

By analogy: the cost of achieving 0 deaths from automobile accidents is probably not worth it. Still, prob best not to mention it at the funerals.