"It's not your fault if you quit your last job because you believed the promises of your new employer. Maybe they offered you more money, more freedom, more challenging and interesting work. Whatever they offered, getting laid off trumps all that. "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?" Bruce Springsteen once asked in a song. I'm still not sure exactly what he meant."
"It's not your fault if you turned down offers from other employers because you valued the stability of your current workplace, or you liked your bosses and colleagues (a good hang is worth a lot, as one former journalist colleague put it), or thought you were serving a more valuable mission than the one your would-have-been new employer offered. It's not your fault. You made what seemed like the best decision you could've made at the time, given the information you had."
"It's hard not to blame yourself. Other people will blame you. Some people you thought were friends will use the moment to take their digs, bring you down a notch, criticize you for being too blind to see the signs. Your family might resent you for no longer being able to support them in the manner to which they were accustomed. If you're taking care of sick relatives, you'll all suffer under the sudden scramble to secure health insurance. But it's not your fault."
Job elimination often stems from poor planning or unforeseen market conditions and does not make the worker at fault. Leaving a prior job for better pay, freedom, or more interesting work remains a reasonable decision even if a layoff follows. Turning down other offers for stability, colleagues, or mission alignment was a defensible choice based on available information. Layoffs trigger self-blame, criticism from others, strained friendships, family financial stress, and urgent needs like securing health insurance for dependents. Responses from colleagues vary between indifference, solidarity, and practical offers of help.
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