u/NecessaryViolinist

Pretty much the title, I worked in tech. Mostly as a Data Manager. So lots of AI projects have been coming in.

Most recently I spent about a year training AI and then they just eliminated my position.

How do you get through layoffs without taking it personally because I feel like shit right now.

2 weeks in and I’ve only got 1 HR interview that’s progressing forward, at least last layoff I had 5 job offers I was going through.

I've been at this job for about 3 years. Usually it's expected to switch roles every 2 years (that was written into my contract) so that you don't get bored with the role, but that hasn't happened.

It's a fairly chill job, kind of like project management. And overall I'm very good at my job and it pays incredibly well (6 figures plus some). I've received 2 amazing reviews and was being trained to take on more responsibility. This job was actually a step down from my previous job where I was managing a larger team (that company went out of business though so I had to quickly hop to a new job).

Fast forward to now, my boss was very old and was at the company for over 30 years. So it's been chill, lots of exposure, good opportunities to grow, you know. Unfortunately she retired a few months back, leaving me out of a "job".

I was told I would be moved to a different team, it would be slightly different work, not a promotion, but overall just something new and exciting to learn.

However, 2 weeks before she retired I was told that was not the case and I would be moving under a new team being formed. They took 4 random people from around the company with no connections and no commonalities to the work and placed us under a young individual. My one coworker has a PhD and 15 years of experience in this job field and now has to report to a guy who graduated 8 years ago.

Whatever, I can suck it up and just do my job. A month went by, I'm getting my work done, and I'm realizing I haven't met with my new boss very often. I don't mind a hands off approach but I would expect at least a response to questions/emails within a day or 3.

But now it's at the point where every single 1 on 1, I schedule, it gets moved, or cancelled, or they're "too busy" to meet. And the project I am on is coming to an end. Usually I handle 3-4 projects at a time but this one was so large it was my only project.

But it's coming to the end, I've only been doing about 30 minutes of work a day and then I just sit and make sure nobody needs me the rest of the day.

I work remote so there aren't too many opportunities to touch base with others. I've tried to schedule calls with other coworkers, other higher ups, and I always get told they're too busy and need to reschedule.

The only other woman on my team has been meeting with me and has voiced the same concerns. Meetings getting blown off, no direction, no response to emails. And we're just trying to decide what we should do.

I've been feverishly applying to new jobs, I've applied to over 100 this past week and only had 1 HR screen call. I feel so stupid, so useless, it feels like I'm back in middle school and nobody wants to eat lunch with me so I sit in the bathroom stall alone eating a PB&J.

I'm going to continue to apply and keep pushing but are there any steps I can be taking? Should I schedule calls with HR, or different departments? I'm just so sad and depressed to be in this situation and I'm so embarrassed to even log into calls right now.

TLDR: I'm being quiet fired and I can't find a new job. HELP