Learnings from layoffs

• Don’t buy useless EMI for expensive cars or gadgets. If you cannot afford it, buy one within your budget, there are all ranges available.
• A job is a contract thats it. They don’t care if you have lakhs in loan or dependent families. Treat it like a task which gets over after working hours.
• This is esp for those egoistic and sadist managers and bosses who derive their sense of worth from humiliating their reportees, making then work on sick and emergency leaves, and creating an atmosphere of bullying.
• No one cares about your job or career progression outside your office. Don’t make it important than your family and health and give the same treatment to all your team members.

“Loyalty” is a good word only for dictionary

Don't be dependent on your current company, always keep your resume floating in the market

No harm is moonlighting or setting up a second source of income.

I have worked for Persistent Systems 2 years, one day hr asked to share the screen and do resign, given me 5 days to submit company assets and leave. This is called silent layoff and they are doing it from past few months, how shame it was. They do parallel hiring and firing, because to show government and market and for promotion that they have projects and hiring people. This says loyality, the same company took 4 rounds with 10 days time to release offer letter. Loyalty has went down like anything.

To not be attached to a company, they're never attached to you. All the bullshit about caring about a mission is fuck all.

They'll kick you out on any day. You can't get attached to a mission. It's only making money and becoming better at your craft.

• Start SAVING early in life and build a sabbatical corpus in addition to life investments.

• Have minimum 6 months of current monthly expenses and if you’re senior in your career stage minimum 12 months of expenses set aside in your sabbatical fund.

• As hard as it is to acknowledge, it’s a job at the end of the day and the realization is that it shouldn’t define you or be such a huge part of your identity that you can’t deal with it’s loss

• Spend more time with loved ones AND yourself every day. At the end of it all, you are merely a “resource” for the company. It’s not worth the late nights and weekends work.

• Cultivate one or two interests or passion areas that you can participate in. Makes life interesting and a lot more worthwhile.

• Enjoy the now. You can only plan so much for what you know/anticipate.

HR are hired to save company not employees.

Don’t take loans, unless the EMI is less than 10k per month.

Upskill / compete with your employer, keep em' on their toes !!!!