Getting Laid

     If it's ever happened to you, then you know how it feels. Your bosses sit you down in their office, make small talk and watch you squirm. "Is it bad?" I asked my manager while we waited for another manager to join us. "Here's the thing," she started with. It was bad. I was being laid off. I cried. I need a job to pay rent! "It's nothing personal," my managers told me. "Everyone has said kind things about you, and you've never gotten a complaint," one said as she tried to comfort me. Too many people go through the terrifying experience of being laid off.
   
      Even some of the biggest and best liked companies have to go through budget-cuts. It's affecting a lot of us now. Think of these numbers from businessinsider.com. The unemployment rate raised 7.9 percent in 2012, Yahoo! announced their plan to cut 2,000 employes(14.18% of its employees), Colgate-Palmolive Co. plans to cut 2,316 employees(6%), Google plans to let go of 4,000 Motorola employees(12.9%), PepsiCo plans 8,700 cuts(2.93%), and Hewlitt-Packard plans to can a whopping  29,000 employees(8.3%).

                                                    





Getting laid off is hard and something too many people are currently going through. If big companies like these are having financial issues, then who is actually doing well? It's really hard to bring yourself back up after being laid off, but a situation like this can sometimes lead you to where you're supposed to be. These recognizable names know being laid off was a blessing in disguise.

1. Michael Bloomberg

After being laid off when his company was bought out, Bloomberg used his severance check to create his own financial services company. He's a billionaire now, by the way.















2. J.K. Rowling

Rowling got laid off of her secretarial job and used her severance check to support her as she took time to write a book series. You know what I'm talking about, right?


3. Marc Jacobs

From one fashion company(Perry Ellis) to the next(I'm sure I don't have to spell it out).




Lay offs can happen to the best of us, but sometimes it can make us better. For more information on lay offs that paid off, go to

 http://www.onlinedegreeshub.com/blog/2011/10-famous-people-who-flourished-after-being-laid-off/

(I do not own any of the pictures in this post)