True story: a friend of mine was working at a program that was creating lists for layoffs (he was working at the same company as me, although in a different cit

True story: a friend of mine was working at a program that was creating lists for layoffs (he was working at the same company as me, although in a different city. we went to the same college). At some point he himself got laid off. I never learned (and probably neither did he) if he was laid off by his own creation.