You got laid off!

6 *positive* lessons I've learned from being there.

The notices started hitting X around 12:30 pm eastern time Tuesday afternoon. The Los Angeles Times, as had been widely rumored, was laying off more than 100 journalists as a way to cut costs.

As I scrolled through the posts of people who had just been told they were no longer employed, my mind cast back to the day — in the fall of 2022 — when that exac…