hr email dropped monday. "restructuring." my team's on the list of possibles. sleeping like garbage.
every time i ask what's coming, Tower upright shows up. once with Five of Pentacles. feels on the nose in a cruel way. is this "yeah you're getting cut" or "the illusion of job security is cracking and you need a plan either way."
don't want fake comfort. also don't want to quit preemptively and be wrong
Tower upright is sudden structural break — something built on a shaky premise gives way. At work that can be a layoff, a reorg, or just the fantasy that your job was safe forever. With Five of Pentacles under it the fear of lack is loud. Doesn't auto-mean you personally get cut tomorrow. Does mean: update resume, save what you can, talk to people outside the company. Tower favors those who stop pretending the building can't shake. If they cut you, it's brutal and survivable. If they don't, you still needed the wake-up.
resume tonight then. i've been refreshing slack like an idiot
tower + five pentacles is nightmare fuel but yeah prep > prophecy
sometimes the story dying is "i'm safe here forever." that can break even if you keep the job. still prep. just don't treat one major as a pink slip.
needed that. i already packed a box in my head
runway. contacts. linkedin. one application a day. tower doesn't care about your spreads. your bank account might.
they're laying people off. cards are decorative. update the resume
brick's annoying and employed somehow. do the spreadsheet
In classic decks lightning strikes the top of the tower — the crown, the ego of the structure. For layoff fear that can mean the company story of "family / stability" is what's burning, not necessarily your whole life. Ugly. Also clarifying. Build on something that isn't their crown.
company family rhetoric hits different during restructuring lol
hr said restructuring. believe hr more than the skeleton tower
don't quit preemptively. prep like it's real. those can coexist
got laid off with tower in my weekly. sucked. also survived
five of pentacles is the fear talking. feed yourself and call one recruiter
spiraling is optional. applications aren't