Life in today’s world of employment...Never get comfortable as a lay off or firing is just around the corner....been laid off twice in 4 yrs myself.
Where I work they give classes to managers on how to not bring direct feedback into an employee/manager discussion.
So, the company can’t tell anyone you were fired. All they can do is verify you worked there and how much you were paid. Tell your future employers you were ready for a change and took time off to research and find the perfect job.
My question, to you, would be was there a personality conflict between you and your boss? Might it have been a covert below the surface sort of thing. This “boss” may have been looking for any excuse to dismiss you.
I sympathize. Layoffs are never pretty, but you have to remember that you leave with your skills. They are left with a hole, where those skills used to be.
As an engineer, I was laid off four times. The final when I was 62 and I took full retirement. Worked as a government contractor for another 5 1/2 years and then laid off the workaday world and never looked back. It is a wonderful feeling not to have that threat and fear of layoff perched on your shoulder.
It is especially tough now, as a white, heterosexual, Christian male.
My network/phone guru and a developer got it around New Year.
I’m learning somethings about phone administration. So far, maybe .5% of what I need to know.