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Yeah, not in 2008.

• dvirsky 6y ago
  That was a rough time. I worked at a start-up company that shut down just at the peak of the global panic. Forget rejection - even finding a company that was hiring people was hard. Everyone was freezing new hires, investors were running away from signed deals, etc. To make matters worse my employer did not pay me my last paycheck and severance pay required by law, I didn't have a lot of savings, my wife was fired the next day, we just had a baby, and we didn't have a car anymore because that was a company car. In the end it turned out okay - I managed to get a couple of offers within a week, ended up taking a job which paid 30% less as did my wife, we moved to a cheaper city, got a cheap car, and after a while the market started recovering and I found a better job. But man, that was traumatic. Some of my colleagues from that company were unemployed for many months.