After a layoff, a lot of the best people among the remaining staff end up leaving as well Agreed. But I was always the one that stayed. I remember in 1999 when

After a layoff, a lot of the best people among the remaining staff end up leaving as well Agreed. But I was always the one that stayed. I remember in 1999 when our company got acquired by another company and started doing layoffs - I had a very good friend that chose to leave the company at that point because things were going to be very difficult for a while. The company they went to turned out to be so much worse though while I made out very well by staying. This pattern has repeated several times in my career.