I was laid off like this during the pandemic. Our company had one product that we were pinning all our hopes on and my department was operating at the highest l

I was laid off like this during the pandemic. Our company had one product that we were pinning all our hopes on and my department was operating at the highest levels of success according to industry benchmarks. However, that meant that my job wasn’t the bottleneck to this product’s success, so the folks who weren’t excelling kept their jobs (for the company’s time horizon, it didn’t make sense to replace them) but my department was laid off. It sucked at the time, but it was an understandable call for the business and I landed a much better job on the flip side. Business is weird.