Owen Gregorian

And so I kind of learned my lesson of this reframe through that process that I have to look out for my own interests and not the company.

And that next company I was at for probably eight years, it was a long time.

But in the end, what happened was they did a merger and all the leadership that was over my group, all my bosses went away.

I got new bosses.

And I was a very top performer at the company.

They had a very structured review process and evaluation process.

And I was always ranked in the top 10% every year for five years in a row.

And then all of a sudden, they had to do layoffs.

And they had gone through all the low performers.

So they did something like five rounds of layoffs.

It was a lot.

They kept cutting people and cutting people and cutting people.

And so all the low performers were gone.

But they reached the point where they still had to cut more people.

And they laid me off.

And I really couldn't understand why.

I'm like, well, how can this happen when I'm ranked in the top 10% every single year, including this year?

I don't get it.

And I think what it came down to was just that loyalty of the leadership.

We had had this merger.