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I used to own a business with employees. It was a small company objectively, but in a small town where I'm from that was a HUGE deal.
The company survived COVID, but due to total chaos with supply chains that happened after covid, my business got on hard times. I saw the writing on the wall, and started firing my employees and closing the company in order not for things to get any worse. I closed my company and landed a job in another company; a never missed a single salary.
It's absolutely shocking how quickly everyone drops you once they hear you've gotten on "hard times". All my friends, relatives, in-laws... EVERYONE drops you like you're burning pile of shit. Want to call an old friend for drinks? You're out of luck, nobody is taking your calls anymore, because now you're a "failure".
And let me repeat once again that I haven't gotten into any BIG trouble, just closed everything down before it did actually SHTF. It's just the optics of "being in a bad place" and poof everyone's gone! You're on your own now.
Nobody knows you when you're down and out