đź’Ľ Laid Off? Do This 5 Things Immediately!

Tom Smykowski
3 min readJan 22, 2023

There is tens of thousands of developers laid off by companies. Sometimes programmers, but not only, wake up to an access denied message, having no contact and no information about what happens.

If you are in this situation, that article is for you.

First of all you have to understand it is not your fault, you just worked in a hostile company that made a final “show”.

Self Care

Working in a hostile company means you were for a long period of time under a high level of stress, the final act may be devastating. But I have good news for you. Actually, you may over time recover and find a healthier place to work. But now, allocate some time for self care.

We are not laid off every day, and such event in life means you have to listen to your body and mind closely, and take care of your needs more than usual while you process the situation.

World won’t probably crumble down if you take a week or more to recover. So consider it before going 100% into the next crunch.

Update Contacts

In the next phase you will start probably looking for a new way to earn money. Meanwhile it’s good you just connect with colleagues from your team.

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Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

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