laid

In November 2024, I found myself on the receiving end of a companywide downsizing, or layoffs. The news hit hard at first. Those 15 minutes between getting the message (you know, the ominous one, “Can you hop on? Find somewhere… comfortable”) and the actual conversation felt like hours. My mind…

The journalism industry is notoriously fickle, and I’ve watched many colleagues around me get laid off over the years. However, the same fate didn’t reach me until I was 15 years into my career.In 2019, I was called into a corporate office I’d never been to so a human-resources employee…