There are folks in this thread who insist that you are laid off BECAUSE you DESERVE to be and that accounts for MOST OF THE REASONS.
Just read some posts on this thread and you’ll understand what I mean.
No, that’s not true at all. There is a realization that when looking at a pool of applicants who all lost their original job say 12 months ago, that those who figured out how to do something in the interim are more likely to be productive workers than those who didn’t. No assumption. Nothing to do with the original lay off at all. Simply a human nature fact about how people handled the adversity of losing their job.
“There are folks in this thread who insist that you are laid off BECAUSE you DESERVE to be and that accounts for MOST OF THE REASONS. “
Being an engineer at both the local and corporate level I was accustomed to a requirement to bring to the table 10 times my salary in savings, speed or quality improvements and always exceeded that requirement so it would have been in a company’s best interest to hire me.
However, the central planners have created such a hostile business environment that hiring an additional person is the last thing a business wants to do and they will do everything possible internally to avoid the extra head count.