[Bill,
April 4, 2007]
Stages of grief at job loss
At Another Monkey, my friend Harry discusses how he and his co-workers are coping with being laid off. To help cheer him up, I put the following in his comments:
My stages of grief depend on the situation. For job loss, they go like this:
1. You can't fire me — I fire you!
2. Those bastards fired me!
3. I'm still a totally worthy person. I am not what I do. I am a human being, not a human doing.
4. I'd look for a job, but what's the use? The world just turns indifferently to my hopes and dreams, and in the end, we all end up in the grave, to be forgotten.
5. All right, I'll send out some resumes. But not because I need a job to see myself as valuable.
6. Shit, I got hired. And I was just beginning to settle into being unemployed!