>Have stable wageslave job for over a year>Some big investment firm buys the company>A little worried but seems stable after two or three months>Finally decide to treat myself to an oled gaming monitor last week>Window shop replacement for 20 year old office chair and ironically consider secretlab briefly yesterday>Come in to work today, find out it director was flown here to lay me off because now they're "overstaffed".Sigh. Every six months to a year tops life find some way to fucking punch down and ruin things and fuck me over. At least now I have a fancy new monitor for all the gaming I'll be doing.Won't be buying a non shitty chair because even with them paying off the vacation time I have I'm sure I'll be hitting 0 balance again in a couple months, but fuck me, it's like the universe just wants me to give up.I mean what more of a sign do I need to just give in to being a neet forever. Maybe I should spend a stupid amount on a weeb gamer chair since I'm already screwed anyhow and itt'l just speed it up a couple months.Basically was prepping for it anyhow, only thing I don't have is a vr headset to go full pathetic incel and convince myself some avatar is my gf. Job market here is complete fucking trash anyhow most of the time and especially bad lately from what I hear.
You should've job hunted when they were bought out because that always means layoffs
>>82465097I had that but they did it to me after less than 2 months. At my current job which I've had for 2 years I was paranoid that I would get fired for making the smallest mistake. You might be able to use some of your old workers as references and try to apply again.
>>82465746I've been looking on and off since then and even a little before, since it was getting a little boring there with basically no path for advancement.Basically fuck all for postings except for either entry level positions for a huge pay cut, manager/director positions that need decades of experience and fancy degrees, or shitty scam websites posting phishing copies of ads :/That or temporary contract stuff that means I'd have to be looking again in a year, which I guess turns out I would have been anyhow.
>>82465972Didn't socialize with any of them since I was the only one here covering sites in two cities, plus zero heads up, walk in and walk out basically. Might have the whatsapp of the original guy who hired me (two it directors ago now in the space of less than two years which was also part of why I was looking on and off), but not sure.And that assumes I'll even find anything. Low population area, and just replied how there's basically only entry level or manager positions ever posted.I've reached out at some interesting ones on and off and basically just get dead air or "the position has already been filled" all the time.Try to start a side hustle and f all luck with that too.
On the bright side I bet they'll get complains from the local staff, and hope so. Lots of issues in both sites that needed hands on stuff short notice, but I guess flying people back and forth is going to be cheaper.Good luck with that in the long run when you don't have someone to drive three hours to fix a production outage same day baka.
>>82465994Don't have to be friends, just say this, hey I used to work with you, do you mind if I use you as a reference and then you can use me if you want. I got a work from home job so being in a shitty area didn't matter.
>>82466510Hard to do that when I don't have a way to contact them. Everything was through teams/a work phone.
