Got laid off this morning from a job I was at for a little over 3 years, and this evening come across a post from the CEO on Linkedin bragging about company profits.

These companies don't care about any of us.

Now I have to spend months, if not a year or more, finding a new company that won't care about me either.

It's exhausting.

Out of nowhere, I got a calendar invite from HR at 12:15 PM for a Teams meeting at 1:30 PM. No context, no details, just titled “Call”!

I had a sinking feeling.

The meeting began and within minutes, they told me they were “restructuring” and my role was no longer needed.

Just like that.

After 10 years of building my expertise in consumer and marketing insights and spending the last 1.5 years giving my all to this organisation I was being asked to put in my papers.

This is the first time in my career I’ve faced something like this. I’m still trying to process it.

There’s a mix of shock, stress and a bit of fear about what’s next.

All major MNC's & MAANG companies' revenue and stock prices are at an all-time high, and even startups are securing funding faster than ever. AI still isn't in a position to take jobs, so why are all major companies laying off employees and why is so hard to secure a job?

Bruh I just saw people from Paramount, Amazon and Target getting laid off WTF? Can someone tell me if there's any other companies in this list? Ik meta laid off like a few before a week or so.

Feeling devastated! I was laid off from work today. They terminated me without cause, and apparently, they can do that if they pay in lieu of notice. I'm just upset with the way they delivered the news; I wasn't even allowed to pack my own stuff. The director of my team, who I thought had a fun personality, was emotionless—like a robot. I expected him to show some compassion when delivering news like this. I didn’t even get to save my work; he told me to email my design manager about it. I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone and was immediately escorted out of the building. This is a 100-employee company—small enough that everyone knows each other well. I worked there for two years, and this is how they treat you when they no longer need you.

Is this normal practice when people get laid off? I haven’t been laid off before, so this type of behavior is baffling to me, as if I were some criminal. I wasn’t even allowed to say goodbye to my coworkers

I don't know where to rant about this so as the title says...

I got laid off today. Not a shock, a private equity bought us out earlier this year, and I knew the axe was coming. They made massive cuts in January this year and I figured I’d be gone next year. Turns out they didn’t wait that long.

This is my 4th layoff in a 20-year career. At this point, I’m numb to it and have learnt to prepare for this kinda shit. I’ve got savings to keep me afloat, but the job hunt has been brutal. I’ve spent the last six months applying non-stop, knowing this was coming and nothing but rejection after rejection. Maybe the market picks up next year, maybe it doesn’t. The only upside: all those interviews were practice, so at least I’m sharper for the next round.

Right now, I need to breathe and take a vacation. Years of endless overtime, stolen weekends, and “working vacations” burned me out to the core. To anyone else in this mess or in a similar situation: brace yourself, save every damn penny, and stop believing in job security, it doesn’t exist..

Edit update: thanks everyone for your words of encouragement. I have just booked a flight for vacation + canceled a bunch of subscriptions I don't need to cut down on my expenses + got my working docs and notes ready for more job applications while i travel. I hope this crappy situation doesn't last for more than 6 months!

I kind of saw the signs when the manager started diverting my duties to others and avoided talking to me. It was pretty much confirmed when they didn't put my name as point of contact for our alarm permit. I was told we had poor sales and they could no longer afford me. I tried my best to keep myself cool and not make a fuss and just grabbed my things and walked out.

I just finished applying for unemployment and hope they approve it. I tried to look up job search tips but nothing is getting into my head right now. My tears are forming as I type this so it looks like my emotions have finally caught up. I want to cry my hearts out but I don't want to let my brother see or hear it. I don't want to tell anyone because they'll just ask me what I'm doing to find a new job. I know what I should be doing but I can't bring myself to do anything right now.

They said they couldn't afford me, but I know that's not really what's up. Two years ago we lost a department manager and the store manager. I was handling pretty much everything except for hiring and scheduling until they found a new manager. But we were still without a dept manager so the new manager took that role while I did what I had been doing. The new manager was trying to hand some of his job on me but I told him I couldn't do both after trying it for a month. They eventually brought back a former employee who is the brother of a manager at HQ and was fired previously for missing too many days work.

The place has been losing sales for 8 years so it's only a matter of when the owner decides it's no longer worth paying out of his pocket to keep the place up. It's crazy that I first got hired to do IT for the store, then I ended up learning to code on my own to generate and e-mail orders from a spreadsheet, which they still use to this day.

I have 9k in savings which isn't much. I also have 13k in 401k in case things really go south. For now I just want to feel like shit and maybe relax for a bit because I feel like a mess right now.

TLDR: I got laid off a week from Christmas and it sucks

Found out this morning when HR joined a meeting that I thought was just going to be a catch up with my manager and I... I’m remote so I didn’t get to say goodbye to anyone, just got immediately locked out of everything which really hurt, ngl.

I feel like this couldn’t have happened at a worse time. The job market is absolutely terrible right now and my severance package will only last me a month and a half so I’m honestly terrified. If anyone is dealing with the same right now any advice is welcome.

I just wanted to say to everyone who got caught in this latest round of layoffs from Amazon, Target, Paramount, or anywhere else, I’m so sorry. It’s devastating watching thousands of people lose their livelihoods overnight because of “cost optimization.”

These are real humans with rent, kids, mortgages, and careers they’ve spent years building. I got laid off earlier this year, and I still remember that pit-in-the-stomach feeling when the email hit. It’s not just numbers on a spreadsheet. It’s people who did everything right and still got blindsided.

It’s completely unacceptable how normal this has become. The way companies treat layoffs like quarterly strategy moves instead of life-changing events for their employees? Something’s deeply broken in how we run things.

If you were impacted today, please know it’s not your fault. You didn’t fail. The system did.

I am devastated. I loved my job so much. I loved my boss. I worked there for a little over 2 years and I truly thought this was my career for life. I thought I was set and would never have to go through another interview again. But here I am, back to the start. I’ll never find another company like that, but clearly I wasn’t that special if I was one of the ones to go. I’m just really sad and hurt. Feeling a lot of emotions. I’ve never experienced a lay off, just had to vent.

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon’s 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. This would represent the largest job cut at Amazon since around 27,000 jobs were eliminated starting in late 2022.

Managers of impacted teams were asked to undergo training on Monday for how to communicate with staff following notifications that will start going out via email tomorrow morning

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/

What are your thoughts on this?