‘I feel like a clown because I gave this company so much.’ Woman Said She Was Laid Off the Day Before Her Vacation With No Warning

There’s never a good time to be laid off, but getting the axe one day before you go on vacation is especially brutal, in my humble opinion.

And that’s exactly what happened to a woman named Steph who shared a TikTok video about her experience.

Steph said, “I had been with the company for two years. There were literally no indications that there were going to be layoffs on my team. I had a full workload.”

She added, “I just like don’t have any ******* trust for corporate America anymore. My trust is just gone, because how can you look at somebody and say, like, ‘Your division is the only one that’s doing well, but we’re not gonna have layoffs,’ and then you have layoffs?”

Steph continued, “I feel like a little bit of a clown, because…I gave this company so much. I canceled plans so that I could work late. I haven’t had really much of a life for the past year, and I let this company just burn me into the ground—like, I am so burned out. And what do you get, you know?”

Steph said she worries about the folks who still work there: “I feel bad for the people who are still at the company and their workloads are kind of doubled. I honestly would rather be in my situation than in a situation where you’re giving so much to this company and…they just don’t care. And as much as these companies will say that they care about their employees, they literally don’t. They just don’t.”

Check out what she had to say.

@stephdavidbaxter

Not how i thought my vacation would go 🙃 friendly reminder that corporations dont care about you as a person ☹️ anyways let me know if you know of any companies hiring #techlayoffs2023 #layoffseason #layoffs #losangeles #techlayoffs

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Steph shared a follow-up video and got more in-depth about the job she was laid off from.

@stephdavidbaxter

Replying to @Rico plane answering some of the common questions from my layoff video 😁

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Here’s how folks reacted.

This person said they’ve been laid off three times and they learned a big lesson.

Another TikTokker said they only do the bare minimum at their corporate job.

And this person said they’re much happier now that they’ve been laid off.

Sounds like she dodged a bullet with this job.

Good luck to her moving forward!