Christian blogs about his layoff this week with comfort and wisdom despite his own situation. His prolific work across the years proves he's one of the greats as does the dignity in his blog post: Things to do and not to do during a wave of tech layoffs: christianheilmann.com/2023/0…

None of my layoffs went like his. Three of the layoffs were with companies that simply ran out of money. One I was told I had an appointment with an executive at a certain time. I got to be conference room, he called someone on the phone and the person on the phone let me go.

In the last instance a security guard escorted me to my desk where my belongings have been packed into boxes and escorted me out of the building. I had done nothing wrong. I was not fired, but let go with three months severance. That was the only company where I got severance.

I couldn't help that I was collateral damage a year and a half after they fired my boss. When the CTO left the company there was no one else left to protect me. I knew it was coming and should've been prepared, but I had reasons not to look for another job yet.

At one job a group but the company and brought a new COO who promptly fired for cause every single person. I fought the fired for cause and proved them to be liars, but I work in an at will state and still didn't have a job.

Six months later my Parkinson's got so bad that I could no longer type accurately and had to retire.