1. Yes. I let my employer know that I would be going to graduate school and offered to continue employment part-time in the field in the area. They asked me to wait a week for them to plan. I was laid off 4 days later. Two days before layoff, they gave what I felt was an unjustified middling performance review due to two punctuation errors from a pre-existing template on a report sent to a client.
2. I would have preferred the stability and benefits the job offered, but life happens and I moved on. I was reasonably angry at the employer for about six years after. I've moved past it now. I threw myself into graduate school work and getting supplemental income for my small family.
3. No. Any employer who reads personal performance or morality into a candidate's layoff isn't worth the time or effort to engage.
2. I would have preferred the stability and benefits the job offered, but life happens and I moved on. I was reasonably angry at the employer for about six years after. I've moved past it now. I threw myself into graduate school work and getting supplemental income for my small family.
3. No. Any employer who reads personal performance or morality into a candidate's layoff isn't worth the time or effort to engage.