It's hard for everyone when a business decides to do layoffs. Everyone goes through a whole gamut of emotions. Sad, angry, happy (that it's not them) and guilt. Right now I'm a little bit of everything (a talent from the Jew in me). I feel bad that my coworker is going, but a part of me want's her to leave already. Once she found out that she was definately being laid off she started being impossible to deal with. Everything that you ask her turns into the injustice of the company.

Me: Do you have any paperclips I can have?
Her: No! But it doesn't matter. In a week I'll be out on my ass and not even have a paperclip to my name.

Yesterday she crossed the line. She came in to my cubicle to whine/cry/rage about being laid off and started talking about how unfair our system was. "Why is it that someone gets to stay based solely on their years of service (me) while someone who has been a hard worker and fast learner gets laid off because she hasn't been here a while (her)?" WTF!?! What makes her think that she's better than me because she can make a fucking graph faster? Mind you, she's slow as shit after eating refried beans when it comes to any of our daily duties. She 'forgot' to do a report needed every 3 months for a whole year. Guess who had to do it... Yeppers, yours truly.

Now I know why they don't give any prior warning to people. I figure she's going to do dick as far as duties are concerned for the next week. She'll be too busy sending out resumes (fine by me) and bitching at me about how she should have been the one they kept (blow me).

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Okay? Last In First Out. It's not a difficult concept. Unless you're a complete fuckup, if the company needs to toss some people over board, they'd rather keep the tried and tested over the new and unsteady.

OMG!!! What an idiot!! I cannot believe someone would act so childish and stupid! But it's okay, now she will have more time for vacations and her purebred animals!! :-P

That was a completely heartless thing to do to you, Diva. :/

It's like saying to the person who survived a crash, "It should've been you who died." One just doesn't behave in that manner.

*hugs* I think you'll keep your work also because I know you're devoted and do your thang even though I know that you hate it sometimes. You're an honest and hard-working person with a big heart combined with a big mind and that is rare and something people ought to be fighting for.