I used to be petrified of the possibility of being laid off, but Ford has made my job so unbearable that now I'm actively hoping to be laid off just to get out of this mess. Go figure. And if you want to ask me why I don't quit, have you seen the job market? At least if I'm laid off I get severance, which would help me survive while I'm searching for something new.
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Man, I would love to get laid off. The job market does su-k though. I have at least half a dozen close friends (including 2 brothers) who are well qualified and willing to relocate anywhere in the US unable to find engineering jobs.
This is really a sub-par take. No one ever should wish for it. You can become indifferent to it, and that might actually allow you to not stress about it...and (oh my gosh) do your job better. No one knows WTF is going on and anyone that claims to just doesn't. Do your work until its not required anymore. Treat it like a business relationship and when your services are no longer required move on. You don't need a layoff to look for work. If you are just simply looking for a lateral move in automotive but that because things are changing, and is that really a "different" job? The job market is always strong if you know what you are doing and are adaptable. The people that will tell you doom about jobs have been people trying to gate keep or ones with an agenda that is helped by you thinking things are scarce.
I would not count on severance. The company is now using performance to weasel out of severance. Many of the people that are getting let go are getting a boot in the @$$ as their only send-off.
You might have the smoothest brain of all the koalas in this place.