I've been in a similar situation during the dot com of the early 2000's. Many people where let go and the company was put on "skeleton staff". Of those who wher

I've been in a similar situation during the dot com of the early 2000's. Many people where let go and the company was put on "skeleton staff". Of those who where part of the skeleton staff, although feeling sad, felt somehow special that we where chosen to keep our jobs. We thought we where awesome and therefore chosen to stay. Those who where let go got a salary package of two or three months, however, after continuing for a few months the company was unable to survive and the rest of the employees where fired. This time however, there was no salary package left to hand out since the business was completely broke. The lesson I learned from this; The moment large amounts of people are being let go, get the hell out of there while you're still being payed a salary.