Layoffs Quotes

“Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it’s simply your attitude.”
― Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition

“Cash flow never comes from making people redundant.”
― kamil toume

“Takeover Twattery (The Sonnet)

Oligarchs don't even care about the welfare of their employees,
And you want them to care about social welfare! Keep dreaming!
Oligarchs have no regard for the struggles of human life,
And you think they'll transform the world! Keep dreaming!
I thought Mark was bad for not treating facebook's health issues,
But the chief twat makes Zuck look like an incompetent simpleton.
Oligarchs are poster boys for regress, not crusaders for freedom,
Better to have a CEO without answers than one who answers to none.
However, like corrupt politicians, oligarchs are made by people,
If anybody is to blame it's the morons who put them in pedestal.
If you had the common sense to question your pavlovian attraction,
Spoiled brats could never treat society as daddy's mine of emerald.
Now more than ever it is imperative to ban large scale takeovers.
Moreover, it is vital to legally shun the rise of billionaires.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Don't miss work and never be late. Your boss will appreciate it, and he will reward you by shaking your hand in gratitude after he lays you off.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“AI doesn't take any breaks. Plus, AI won't file sexual harassment charges when your boss flirts with it.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“When I arrived, I started off at the bottom of the ladder as a junior consultant.”
― Srivani Bairi, Freshly Laidoff

“Blindsided, I had a mild stroke after the termination notice email.”
― Srivani Bairi, Freshly Laidoff

“Brother suggested getting pizza to get my mind off the layoff.”
― Srivani Bairi, Freshly Laidoff

“When things are going well, they’ll go yeah, corporate jobs and software jobs are great! The financial growth, benefits, perks and the workspaces are the best! And when layoffs happen, the tables are turned. Instead, now they say, why become a consultant, you should have chosen a more ‘ever-green’ job.”
― Srivani Bairi, Freshly Laidoff

“Almost cracked a job through a referral from an old colleague but a college fresher was chosen over me. Life is so cut throat in this economy! Time for a post-failure pep talk followed by a probable nervous breakdown (snacks included).”
― Srivani Bairi, Freshly Laidoff

“I sometimes think back about the day I got laid off. I didn’t remember much of that doomsday, other than eating cake and being shocked out of my mind.”
― Srivani Bairi, Freshly Laidoff

“How we respond to something is just as important—if not more important—than our initial reaction.”
― Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition

“This used to be a great country. Not now. Not anymore.
I was laid off from the drugstore. Worked there almost thirty years. Worked my way up from the bottom, from Stock Boy to Manager, with little in the way of education -- I didn't graduate high school, was a semester shy when my dad got sick. I ran that damned place for the owner, Bud Wilkins. Then, when Bud retired, and had no one to carry on the business, this big chain bought him out and they discarded me like a badly worn sneaker."
--From the story "After the Layoff," included in forthcoming story collection BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS”
― Mitchell Waldman

“First we lose, then we win in Life."

Recently many people in the IT and Tech sectors are facing a difficult phase of their life. I had similarly faced a difficult phase in the Finance sector in the year 2008.

We all have gone through failures in life. But that should not stop us from trying for success. Staying hopeful and working toward our goals bring us an opportunity to achieve success.”
― Avijeet Das

“In the time of layoffs my two cents of advice to the entrepreneurs and business leaders: we share a great camaraderie with some people. We get amazing positive energy and warm vibes from some people.They genuinely care for us and want us to be successful and happy. They trust us and collaborate with us to accomplice our creative goals. We must hold on to such people in our life and stay connected to them. That's the way to lead a happy and satisfied life.”
― Avijeet Das

“In the time of layoffs my two cents of advice to the entrepreneurs and business leaders. We share a great camaraderie with some people. We get amazing positive energy and warm vibes from some people. They genuinely care for us and want us to be successful and happy. They trust us and collaborate with us to accomplice our creative goals. We must hold on to such people in our life and stay connected to them. That's the way to lead a happy and satisfied life.”
― Avijeet Das

“Layoffs are Happening → Re-skilling workforce, supporting startups, and increasing government spending on job-creating sectors can help.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“Today, white-collar job insecurity is no longer a function of the business cycle--rising as the stock market falls and declining again when the numbers improve. Nor is it confined to a few volatile sectors like telecommunications or technology, or a few regions like the rust belt or Silicon Valley. The economy may be looking up, the company may be raking in cash, and still the layoffs continue, like a perverse form of natural selection, weeding out the talented and successful as well as the mediocre. Since the midnineties, this perpetual winnowing process has been institutionalized under various euphemisms such as "downsizing," right-sizing," "smart-sizing," "restructuring," and "de-layering"—to which we can now add the outsourcing of white-collar functions to cheaper labor markets overseas.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“But the white collar workforce seems to consist of two groups: those who can’t find work at all and those who are employed in jobs where they work much more than they want to. In between lies a scary place where you dedicate long hours to a job that you sense is about to eject you, if only because so many colleagues have been laid off already.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“The career coaching industry can only expand. Whether or not the economy improves. And this is because the corporate world has changed. Today, in the wake of the last recession, companies are intent on being permanently lean; they churn people in and out as needed, so that the average executive or professional can expect to hold—what?—about ten or eleven jobs in a lifetime whether he or she wants to or not. And it’s interesting, isn’t it, that our society is so unprepared for this change. College, for example, prepares people for jobs, but not for the trauma of job change.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream