Well that solves that problem! Isn't it great what putting ones wishes out in the universe can do?

Problem solved!

yay! Happy layoff.

Congratulations on getting laid... off.

I was never happier then when I was laid-off from my last job. They did it right as I was finishing the graduate degree that they paid for and gave me all kinds of nice parting gifts. I hated that job and only stayed because they were paying for school and if they hadn't let me go, I would have had to stay for two more years to fulfill my end of the education benefits contract.

I'm getting to the point of feeling like I'd love to be laid off some days, but it's mainly because I've been loaned to a massive project that's deadly important, involves a million different departments coming to a consensus, involves systems and business processes I know next to nothing about, and the first unrealistic phase of which has to be finished in April. Oh, and I was loaned as a Business Analyst, only to find on the first day that they wanted me to be the Project Manager. It probably set my career back a few years, but I pitched a fit after the second week of sitting in meetings where people kept talking about things I'm completely clueless on and just generally making me feel like a dick.

On the plus side, it's a great stimulus to start working on those 3-6 months of savings that all the financial wonks recommend.

Congrats, AV! Freedom!

Congratulations on your new freedom!

I've only had one happy layoff in my life, when the company I started working for after I moved to Asheville was bought out by a company headquartered in a Big High Building in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. They decided to close the Asheville office, so I was offered a choice between a job with KPMG servicing the account for the new company, or getting a three-month severance package w/full benefits, along with a letter of recommendation from the company president.

Any other time, I would have gladly taken the job offer and moved to ATL - in fact, half of my coworkers did - but after having moved ten times in eight years up to that point, I was getting really sick of being itinerant. Plus, I had just started dating my future wife like two weeks before the announcement came, so I decided to stick around and take the package.

I got laid off a few years ago just - like, on the same day - as I was working up the nerve to go up to my boss' office and quit. It was awesome - I got 6 months of unemployment which I thoroughly enjoyed although, alas, I somehow did not write the Great American Novel, paint the Great American Painting or do anything much except experience the Great American Slackness.

Congrats! Have fun with your new-found free time.

If I have to be laid off, I'd prefer it to be in summer, but Nooooo, I got laid off as of Jan 1st a few years ago. Slacking is good, but slacking at the beach is excellent.

Congratulations, A V. Feeling crappy at work sucks, and maybe you got some nice severance to smooth the way.

Gratz!

Yay!

Congrats!

When we were freshly engaged two years ago, my sweetie (now husband) got laid off. This was the best thing that could have happened, because he lived 2.5 hours away from me and we were discussing how we were possibly going to end up in the same town, because he had a career as a tech writer and I had tenure at my university. The layoff, with its six-month severance, solved some problems.