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1020 The colleague who stays composed during a layoff round and only falls apart in the parking lot isn’t unusually professional, they learned somewhere that grief had to wait until it wouldn’t cost anything

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/08/2026 09:23 EDT

The colleague who stays composed during a layoff round and only falls apart in the parking lot isn’t unusually professional, they learned somewhere that grief had to wait until it wouldn’t cost anything

The colleague who holds it together during a layoff and only cries in the parking lot isn't displaying professionalism — they're running a learned protocol about when grief is affordable. The protocol was almost certainly written in childhood, and the workplace just gave it a new venue.

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