An IT professional from Kenya sold his house and was fired by the company just four days before his car was ready to move there to join Amazon in Europe.
Earlier this month, Amazon announced plans to lay off 18,000 employees globally, which were said to begin on January 18.
Tom Mboya Opio was among the 18,000 people affected by Amazon’s massive layoffs. Affected by the layoff, Opio took to LinkedIn, where he shared his ordeal.
“Well, last week I shared about my impending exciting move abroad. It was a relocation role to Europe with a leading global company. Sadly, as part of the organization’s ‘Annual Operational Review’ It has fallen due to business changes that have affected the .role and many others. The organization is shedding jobs globally and information is available online,” Opio wrote in his LinkedIn post.
He said, “We had to travel this weekend so that I could start work on Monday, January 16th, and the call came 4 days after that date.”
Opio further added that after planning for 6 months their family is really devastated and believes that God will have a better plan for them. He also mentioned that he and her would go for counseling as well.
Opio concluded his post by saying, “For me, I didn’t expect a situation like this at this stage in my career, but that’s life. One has to experience certain situations in order to be successful in others.” Be an example. Keep us in prayers. God is good all the time.
The year 2023 has started on a bad note for tech workers globally, and 91 companies have laid off over 24,000 tech workers in the first 15 days of this month, indicating worse things to come .
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