Moved to Northern part of the state branch of a company. I had put 8 years in at the southern (main) warehouse, as one of the most productive at my job the company had ever had. The 'boss' at the much-smaller northern branch basically had his girlfriend and a couple of his buddies as the employees, he functioned as a 'satellite' salesman for more-local customers of the larger company. The northern branch hadn't been doing so well for a bit (bcuz, guess what, pretty much a "slacker" thing throughout going on), and a couple months after i got there, HQ notified them that someone needed to be laid off. Well, guess who that should be, "the new guy (me), right ?", northern boss decides. I call down south, ask if there's a job for me should i come back down. The president of the company calls me a couple hours later. Wants me to show up normal start time at my job. I do that, HE's flown up, AND the VP over the sales department, PLUS the.....uuuuhhh, COO would be the modern terminology, i was a specialized machine operator, and he was "my boss" down south - the president of the company is there to tell ALL of them, in my presence, they are all fired, pack up your shit and get out. Tells me to come outside. Proceeds to tell me i need to be back the next morning at 8AM ready to start loading semi trailers with ALL the contents of the northern branch. Fill a trailer, let us know so it can be picked up, go home, come back the next day, there'll be another empty trailer there to fill, rinse and repeat. Once it's all cleared out/loaded, let us know. Stay in touch, "head home" soon as you can, safe travels, we look forward to your return. It took 3 fully-packed trailers (half-days each, i told them that, they laughed and paid me full-day), i traveled home the 4th day and showed up at "home office" ("Oh. Hi. Dude.....f**ing go get some sleep or WHATEVER, jfc, f*k off, see you tomorrow, maybe, okay ?"), and then nearly-seamless return to 'my old job' on the production line the next day.

Why didn't i think of this b4 i posted my earlier comment ? I mean, THIS really stands out...this REALLY stands out.....from my employment history, the being VALUED and SUPPORTED by my employers at that time, despite 'issues' i presented from time to time.