To quote, perhaps inaccurately, Louis CK: "Divorce is always good news. It would be terrible if there was a couple who as happy and in love, and they had this perfect life, and then they got divorced? Oh that would be horrible! But that has happened exactly zero times."

As someone who's parents are going through this I cannot disagree more. There are circumstances where it does happen.

That's very sad. Why are they getting divorced if they are happy?

I don't want to get too deeply into it but PTSD is one hell of a disease and destroys families.

Also sorry to hear it - I apologize if my quote was insensitive. My point was just that if layoffs are deemed necessary, one way or another it's best if the employee and company part ways sooner rather than later.

No problem at all. No need to apologize.

Sorry to hear it.

It's certainly not good news for someone who might lose their job. It's also not good because it can scare off good people too--if you're watching the company you work for go through a massive round of layoffs and make the cut, won't you start wondering if maybe it's time to look elsewhere before things get worse?

When a company I used to work for announced its first ever round of layoffs, I volunteered to get cut. Took the payoff and got the hell out.

You hear layoffs and you think about the company but ignore the people in the company? OK.