Layoff rumors spread faster than the speed of light within a company...............................
“Layoff rumors spread faster than the speed of light within a company...............................”
There are two groups you need to treat well in a company. The maintenance staff and the boss’ assistant. The first lets you do stuff that’s technically outside your control. The second lets you see the layoff list long before it hits the regular employees. Or, at the very least you can find out if your name is on it.
One of my coworkers, a terrible employee but a nice guy was about to get married, buy a car and a house. I told him he was on the list. He asked his boss, and his boss assured him he was not. He got married, bought the house and the car and got laid off. He lost the house and the car. At the very least a decent boss would have said, “I don’t know but it would be wise to not make any big financial decisions until you know for sure.” But quite often it isn’t the decent man who becomes the boss.