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Post-layoff navigation, written by people who've been on the other side of the call. Field notes, a first-72-hours kit, and the portal we're building next.
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For anyone who's been pinkslipped, sees it coming, or stands beside someone who has. We'll be in touch when there's something worth your time.
No noise. No drip. Just what matters, when it's ready.
What we're putting in your hands right now.
Two things are open today: an editorial series of things we wish someone had told us and a free kit for the first seventy-two hours.
The First 72 Hours Kit.
A short, specific guide to the moves that matter in the first three days — and the ones that can wait. Written by people who've lived it.
Here's the Kit. The First 72 Hours, written down honestly.
A short, specific guide to the moves that matter in the first three days after a layoff — and the ones that can wait. Written by people who've lived it. — The PinkSlipped Team Download now →
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Field notes, faces, and the things we don't say anywhere else. New posts every week.
When I lost my job, I didn't know what hit me.
I spent years building a career, earning trust, shipping work I was proud of. And lost it in a fifteen-minute call. Not because of performance. Not because of anything I could have fixed. Just because I was part of a corporate layoff.
What I remember most isn't the shock. It's what came after. The silence. Nobody tells you about that part — the hours and days where you don't know what you're supposed to do next. The paperwork you don't understand. The agreements you feel pressure to sign before you've had time to think.
The systems that were supposed to help me were never actually designed for me.
I tried to find help. What I found was a maze. Legal advice was expensive and hard to access. Financial guidance assumed you had stability. Career services felt generic. The resources that existed weren't connected to each other, and none of them seemed built for someone in the middle of a crisis.
That is what PinkSlipped is. Not a job board. Not a chatbot. A single place that treats this moment with the seriousness it deserves, and walks alongside you until you're through it.
If you're here, you're probably in the middle of something hard. I want you to know: this was built for exactly where you are right now.
Get the things we wish we'd known, as we publish them.
One short note when there's something worth reading. Nothing else.
Most of what's written about losing a job is written by people who haven't.
The listicles. The motivational carousels. The "bounce-back" narratives you scroll past on a Monday. They are written from the outside looking in, which is exactly why they feel like that.
PinkSlipped is the other thing. A small, careful project about what actually happens in the ninety days after the call. What it feels like. What to pay attention to. What can wait. What quietly changes under your feet.
We are building a new kind of post-layoff navigation. We are not here to sell hustle, reframe your trauma, or turn the worst week of your life into a LinkedIn thought piece.
We are here to keep the lights on in a room nobody else will sit in, and to write it down honestly while we do.
We see you.
We are you.
We got you.
What PinkSlipped is, and what it isn't.
Navigation, not advice.
We don't tell you what to do. We surface what applies to your specific situation and walk beside you while you figure it out.
Quiet, not viral.
No public forums, no hot-take threads, no stage. Discretion is a feature. The worst week of your life should not become someone else's content.
Lived experience first.
Every word you'll read on PinkSlipped has been written or reviewed by someone who's been on the other side of that call. It shows.
The whole thing in one place.
A steady, trustworthy companion for the days, weeks, and months after a layoff. Legal questions answered. Benefits sorted. Money mapped. People in your corner who've actually walked this.
We've sat on both sides of the call. The portal is how we put what we've learned in your hands.