update from laid-off reader — being nice pays off! by Alison Green on April 16, 2009 Remember the reader from this post last month, who wrote in asking about whether she should send a thank-you note to her boss to thank him for the opportunity she’d had with him? She just sent in this update: I wrote to you on March 2nd asking if it would be proper for me to send a thank you note to my boss after getting laid off, because I felt bad for him/his company and I loved the job. Well I wanted to let you know it certainly paid off, because after 5 weeks off I was the first one hired back!!!! (And the only one so far.) Thanks. What great news! This is awesome. You may also like:here's an example of a great interview thank-you noteyou should contact your laid-off coworkersmy boss called a mysterious meeting with me and I'm afraid I'm going to be fired { 4 comments }
Anonymous* April 25, 2009 at 12:31 pm I sent thank you notes to the two men who laid me off…hasn’t paid off with a job or anything, but it opened the door of communication. I now feel I can meet with either of them and ask for advice, references etc. and I think they would recommend me for other positions within the corporation.