Chloe Shih

I was like, wow, fuck me.

I'm like publicly, I'm the product manager, content creator.

And now I got laid off.

How shameful is that?

How embarrassing is that?

But then I just had to like own it and be like, you know what?

This shit just happens.

Like I think the stat was 40% of Americans get laid off at least once in their entire career.

And then at that time, I think last year it was like 150,000, maybe over 150,000 employees in tech, just tech.

got laid off.

So chances are, you have been laid off or your friends have been laid off.

And I've talked to many people who are executives, founders, hiring managers, who had to do the layoff conversations.

And the process in which they have to decide who gets laid off is not always is not targeted.

Like sometimes it's like, Oh, yeah, I'm gonna frame as a layoff.

And I'm actually like, I hate these people.

And they suck.

And

is an easy way for me to out but at larger at higher levels and larger companies um sometimes it kind of is random like they will put it in a spreadsheet put names randomize it like like close their eyes and then click and then this is the layoff and you can't discriminate based on a lot of factors and then you just have to say this was just the unlucky choice

So I think a lot of times it's out of your control.

And then for me, I knew I had a support network.