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Easy to announce; difficult to accept it. Job loss is always perceived as brutal and aggressive. The crisis seen from below is devastating because it rhymes with loss of a job, guilt, poverty and isolation, hence the image conveyed of the stereotype of social psychology in its negative connotations.
You just have to raise your head to manage your situation constructively in order to control your anger without letting yourself be controlled by it. Certainly, when you feel like the victim of a decision deemed inconceivable, it is humanly difficult to think logically and Cartesianly. However, you must be positive and try to build healthy bonds with your peers by knowing how to express yourself and your needs by talking about problems that are upsetting and disturbing, so you learn to control your anger proactively. There is a solution to every problem! Failure always opens up other perspectives. Arm yourself with patience, believe in certain tomorrows, have self-confidence and good will, ingredients which will serve as support to rebuild yourself well.
Fear in my stomach knowing that the announced closure is looming. The reality of the world of work and the uncertain future on the agenda. This unconscious loyalty of his person hesitating to opt for a professional reconversion, especially if the individual is at the end of his career. There will be work colleagues who leave; there will be those who stay. The doldrums of bitter reality… Losing your job means first of all undergoing a real change. However, the decision often feels like a great injustice. These are the consequences of the instability of work in the face of the laws of the market and globalization. We already have in mind that many of us will not see each other again. We already know that we will be far from the family if a possible job materializes. We have already imagined that we will be far from the connivance of friends and complicit habits, and this, just to follow a job, this livelihood to support one’s needs. Necessity obliges.
Dismissal for economic reasons is caused by the elimination or modification of employment following reorganizations linked to serious economic difficulties, jeopardizing the preservation of the company, or even following technological or scientific changes. Normally everything should be transformed and not lost!
Sometimes abrupt because they are announced out of the blue, job cuts are frequently discussed in simplistic terms. This simplism characterizes not only the employees who suffer from it, or their representatives, but also external observers and even company managers who decide to resort to it. This simplism can be explained in two ways. On the one hand, it is a harsh act applied to people, and therefore highly psychologically charged. This harshness primarily affects employees whose jobs are eliminated but also “surviving” employees and those responsible for the decision or operational implementation of job cuts. On the other hand, it is a management decision whose premises and consequences are too complex to be completely understood, controlled and, a fortiori, explained exhaustively. Hence a convenient refuge in a certain schematism which, at the same time, reassures and allows action. In fact, job cuts have multiple and devastating methods, justifications and effects.
Classically, job cuts are justified by technical and economic factors such as weak demand, a project doomed to failure, the failure to increase productivity linked to the modernization of production equipment, pressure from competition, etc. If any business is run, not by morally committed people, rather by pure financiers and associated lobbies, gradual decline will emerge, which will sooner or later lead to its downfall. And when we talk about a fall, the loss of jobs will follow because they go hand in hand.
It is first useful to recall that job cuts can take very diverse forms, such as not replacing departures, an incentive for voluntary departure by means of bonuses or even the adjustment of staff subject to precarious status.
The explicit and implicit reasons known, and the list of licensees disclosed, then begins a phase of astonishment when the so-called “lucky ones” enter their company, emptied of their colleagues. Relief quickly gives way to guilt, accentuated by the emotional closeness to the licensees: “Why did you choose me and not him? », “I feel relief as my colleague lost her job…” “I would have liked to be in their place because the couple who were made redundant have children…”, “Arbitrary constraints, injustice…”
Its employment, its life, its organization and its adaptation are therefore at the center of individual beliefs and natural inclinations because they guide each person’s choices by giving them meaning.
What we observe when losing a job is generally a denial of reality accompanied by anger, depression and rebound.
Denial being the refusal to accept external reality. The individual ignores the warning signs, believes that a solution will be found, and does not imagine being one of those made redundant. Anger, for its part, appears once the dismissal has been announced, it is directed towards the various factors that can serve as an auxiliary refuge such as management, human resources, unions, the State… As for depression, the latter is a more or less long phase. It is accompanied by a feeling of melancholy, sadness, worthlessness and loss of self-confidence. If the individual does not have the necessary resources to begin the rebound phase, this situation can transform into anxio-depressive syndrome.
Fall and get up; pull yourself together, get up and project yourself. The transition from a change undergone to one chosen at one’s expense goes through a delicate transition. A phase of self-esteem sets in, and we talk about invented narcissism. The latter restores self-esteem, allows the subject to understand the reality of the job market and to criticize their profile by highlighting it while retaining their capacity for action. He will thus gradually be able to adapt to the needs of a new company and a new position.
Faced with negative emotions, faced with sometimes dark, sometimes bright feelings, faced with one’s overly nagging passivity, analyzing the benefits of one’s new situation allows one to put things into perspective, but also to define one’s needs then to implement a new life project.
Forget the sclerosis of institutions, rhyme one’s cognitive coherence with one’s Carpe Diem, apply the philosophy of the reed in the face of the storm knowing how to bend without breaking, make one’s time a friend, the light in front and the shadow behind, restore meaning in his life to feel useful again, to enjoy his family and his grandchildren, to travel, to change his visual and imaginary scenery, to trust his potential, to invest in a hobby are all projects that allow to restore meaning to oneself, to one’s family and to one’s life, to maintain social ties, to use what one has acquired and to project oneself again into the future. The notion of resilience allows us to “bounce back” and not just “resist”.