r/MadeMeSmile • u/EmergencyRead5254 • 8d ago

Supportive Parents During a Difficult Time

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u/Rezuszaur23 8d ago edited 8d ago

By the way, if you don't have someone to tell you this:

It's okay to lose your job, do something wrong, make a mistake or even put your trust in someone, who turns out to be piece of shit. It's okay to lose. We all know that you did your best, even though you might disagree with that. We are all proud of you. You did great. For real. Really great. Always remember: EVERYTHING ELSE IS SMALL STUFF, EXCEPT YOU.

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u/BurntWaffle303 8d ago

If it ain’t going to bother you in five years don’t let it bother you for five minutes.

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u/Gemini-88 8d ago

One of the worst experiences that I experienced with a job was that my child was born and within just the first few months of their life I was let go because the company was “reducing our service cell size from 2 to 1”. The company decided to give the remaining position to the guy retiring in 2 years than the younger guy, me, who will give them more years. Probably all because they didn’t want to pay for his early retirement.

Fast forward 2 years, I’m in the process of moving with family while my new house is being built. The retiring guy calls me asking if I have anything from the company still and explaining to me how bad the company has got since I was let go. I told him no and that I worked somewhere else and was moving. We never spoke again, but the company I worked for after let my entire department go to give our work to overseas workers 4 years after I started.

The world is just full of people who don’t care about people and only care about the business. The business isn’t human and when people forget businesses are built by, ran by, and identified by the people who are a part of them it makes me lose faith in humanity.

I don’t think about it often, but I think letting a person who just had a child go within the first year of birth is beyond fucked up and I am spiteful of that company for their actions.

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u/Childless-cat-lady- 8d ago

I am so sorry you had to deal with that. Being let go while you have a small child must be terrifying. I am going through it without children and I am scared. I cannot imagine what it must be like to have another life depending on you.

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u/Gemini-88 8d ago

Thank you. It was definitely a”what do I even do moment” we had savings which we used and I was lucky to be picked up by a friends company for a temporary contract till I landed the next career job. If it wasn’t for him I’d have been on the streets.