And as I say, I agree. I can speak of a time at an aerospace company just north of here that use to lay off people by project. Entire teams would be told when they arrived for work in the morning that their project had been cut and the entire team was to report to the relocation center. There they would be offered another job and it might be in IT and it might not, but it was a job.

And at another place a little farther north if you did not work out you were met at the door in the morning by a security guard with all the things from your desk, your key card was taken along with any other company property, you were given your last paycheck and you were done. You had no idea as to why or who else was released all you knew was that you were gone.

It is a hard world out there, and in IT it can be very hard. I have worked with many who have had to take some serious lumps and move on. And there have been storied of cronyism and favoritism all along the way. The world is not fair. It is what it is. Sometime the best are let loose and the worst are kept. What has worked for those I have seen when this has happened is to take inventory of where they are and what they have and make the best decision for themselves in the now. It is better to forget what is behind and to press on into the dreams and adventures that are ahead.

All that to say I agree with you. It is "dog eat dog" out there".