I would rather get laid off than go through what has been happening to me in recent months. Constantly, literally - every day, I have more and more work to do. My boss seems to be trying to make my job as difficult as possible and overload me with work.
We don't call it layoffs, but for me, any overload of an employee to the extent that he leaves the job because he can no longer stand it - is a perfidious kind of layoff.