i got laid off from my job about a month ago. i was working as a UX researcher for a small design consultancy, and we hadn't had work for a while. i had seen it coming, but i convinced myself it was going to be OK. i moved halfway across the country for this job not even a year ago. we were gonna get the clients back, it was all gonna work out.
well, it didn't. the boss assured me that he had no problems with my performance, but he just couldn't afford to pay me anymore. i had to go.
fast forward to today and i'm on Linkedin, looking for a new job. and what do i see? the intern that i had been working with and training up for the past 10 months is now a full time UX researcher at the company.
they gave my job to the fucking intern
i lost my fucking mind. i couldn't believe it. and now i'm second-guessing everything. did the boss lie to me? was there something i did wrong? maybe worse, was this the plan all along? have the person with an advanced degree and 10 years of experience come in to train the new college grad and then cut me loose to save money? its not like he was keeping projects a secret from me, it's a tiny company, so where's the money coming from now? could he have lied about that?
i said when i got laid off that i wasn't sure if i wanted to do this anymore. the tech industry has become (maybe always has been) a viper's pit of evil men completely disconnected from any reality i reside in, concerned with nothing but increasing their hoard. things are just going to keep getting worse. i don't want to be a part of it.
i'm done. i'm fucking done. i don't know what i'm going to do next, but it's gotta be better than this shit.
