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How do you bring up that you want to be laid off?


Situation: My boss was given a month notice about getting laid off. He told me that he believed the department head was told to cut costs dramatically.

Situation, part 2: All tech products have a life cycle. At some point they go into maintenance mode where there's no active development of new features.

Situation, part 3: Although we were a market leader in our niche, we just couldn't compete with what was coming from Microsoft.

Thus, I had a 1-1 with the department head. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I probably alluded to wondering what I was going to do when the feature I was working on was complete, and hinting that, after working on this product for a decade, I was getting kind of bored.

The package was confidential, but given that my last day of work was February 29, 2020, I made out rather well. :)




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