Wondering how other members have dealt with impending layoffs or layoffs, both survivors and victims. Working in the current economic environment, most people have either been a victim of layoffs or know someone that is laid off.
Personally, I dealt with laid-offs when my firm went belly up about a year ago. It was really more of a good than a bad because the working environment was toxic. The coworkers and the job was great, but my boss was a nightmare. (His desire to pit his employees against each other to improve productivity did not score him any points.)
So I wasn't upset that I didn't need to show up to work on Monday. Nor did I feel incompetent because the whole firm went belly up. Nonetheless there was a period of anxiety and insecurity about not having a full-time position. But as time went on, I started enjoying this free time - funemployment.
Others have criticized that funemployment is the epitome of entitlement and lack or responsibility and lamented about the previous hard working eras. But for someone that doesn't have dependents, a spouse, and a mortgage - isn't funemployment merely making the best of a bad situation? (Or is generation me a lazy, narcissistic and and entitled bunch?)
What are your thoughts and experiences with working under the sword of damocles, unemployment, and funemployment?