Unemployed

I got laid off and everyone around me has been showing their true colors and I don’t know what to do or what to think of it. Everyone is acting like I’m just sitting on my ass and not doing anything when I have never been more stress in my entire life. I have my own bills to pay, food and other essentials I need to buy on my own, etc.
I’ve been applying to places, emailing people, and I’ve done a few phone interviews only to never hear back from anyone. I am fucking terrified. I don’t know what to do. I have money in my account, but it’s not like I can rely on that to keep me afloat forever, but the job search has been really tough and nobody is cutting me any slack.

Everyone I know had a friend or knew someone to help them get the jobs they all currently have, too. I don’t have anyone like that.

And on top of that, everyone has been basically shitting on me so badly lately. It’s a point where if I feed my own cat my mom will tell me to get off my ass, stop feed the fucking cat, and get a job. Completely unprovoked. Haven’t spoken to her at all. She just knows I have a cat and I became unemployed.

Every little thing I do has everyone around me criticizing everything I do and makes me think “why the fuck didn’t you guys talk to me like this when I had a job? Do you all think it’s okay to talk down on someone like this just because they lost their job?”

I would never talk to someone so disrespectfully if I knew they got laid off. I’m fully aware that there have been mass layoffs everywhere and that’s beyond a single person’s control. Wtf is wrong with people? Being unemployed sucks. It’s also a really scary position to be in when you also don’t have any support. I don’t know how long I can make the money I have stretch and I don’t know when or if I’m going to be hired by anyone soon.

It fucking sucks and everyone shitting on me recently makes me want to cut people off in the near future or something. Kicking someone while they’re down on their luck is just something I would never do. This is fucked up and I hate how it’s my own family doing this.

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anonymous Work December 12, 2025 at 11:01 am 0 0