The Biggest Lie Of White-Collar Work

Hint: it involves a Beyonce song.

Here’s something from

Stowe Boyd

:

The Necessity to Pause

There’s a whole section in there about layoffs — an interesting topic, and definitely something to wring your hands over, but also completely unavoidable. Companies used to exist (maybe in 1950) for a societally net-good reason of providing jobs and income and a way out of the home (just for men back then). Now they basically just exist to make the founders and owners rich, and not much else. That pivot gutted a lot of other aspects of American life, but that’s way too complicated to dive into on a Friday post, so we won’t for now.

Basically, layoffs are inevitable. They happen almost everywhere, even at companies with $3 trillion market caps. They happen for various reasons and now we call them “right-sizing” or whatever, but the point is: you cannot run from them. I got laid off from a church in February. A church!