Getting made redundant SUCKS - come out on top with your dignity in tact. #careercoach #careeradvice

The decision that changed everything for me in my career, and I love talking about this story because it's a lot of fun, is when I was made redundant and I finally put myself first and didn't care about the company. Story goes, the redundancy came from nowhere, as a lot of us face. When I found out, um, I literally had my morning coffee and I hadn't finished my morning coffee. I went and got my stuff, picked up my shit, and left. Didn't even say bye to anyone. Got home and then got a bunch of messages from people saying, Hey, like why are you leaving? I didn't even know you were leaving. Blah blah blah. The company had chosen not to say that I was made redundant. I would then be the first redundancy of many. They wanted to tell everyone that I had decided to go elsewhere and just like pick up and leave and not tell anyone. I then quickly informed everyone that actually no, I've just been made redundant. So yeah, it was a bit of a shit show to say the least. When I had a meeting with them, I said, "Look, obviously I'm now out of work, so I'm going to be posting on LinkedIn about my redundancy and I'm going to be looking for opportunities." They said, "Oh, we'd rather you not do that." I did that post and it went absolutely viral. I had 71 job opportunities presented to me. I then went and took none because I went out on my own. But through choosing myself and not putting the company first, not caring about them and going, I'm the one out of work that you've put— and you've put me in this situation, I came out on top. So if you've just been made redundant, you've lost your job, whatever it is, stop caring about the company. They don't care about you. Put yourself first and do what you need to do to get that next job. They make the mess, they've got to fix the mess.