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[quote=Anonymous]I have been laid off once and passive-aggressively pushed out of a job once and IME it's tough on your mental health. The layoff was easier because it was very easy to recognize its as not my fault I was losing my job, but I still struggled with the feeling of instability and realizing that when you work for others, you really don't control your own fate even if you work very hard and do your job well. I was also laid off into a difficult economy so that feeling of not having any control was compounded. In the end I think I was better for having gone through it, as I gained resiliency, but it was still hard.

Getting pushed out is absolutely miserable and I don't wish it on anyone except that people who pushed me out -- I would love for them to experience what I experienced. In my case I was pushed out purely for personal reasons -- my director didn't like me and wanted to give my job to someone she was friends with, so she just made my job an absolute nightmare until I left and she could do so. It left me with a lot of bitterness and frustration, and I unfortunately did carry that into my next job and it was just a tough few years. I'm past it now but it was really tough. [/quote]

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