# Laid Off in January, Rehired Abroad by August

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Laid-off team member · via X

The team was cut in January. By summer the company was hiring again - for the same roles, doing the same work, now posted out of Costa Rica. The job never disappeared; it relocated somewhere cheaper, which is the part the word "layoff" is designed to leave out. The people who used to do it found the opening the ordinary way: on a job board, reported by someone who recognised it.

*Source: [@PlumbNick · X · 1,143 likes, 230 reposts, 34 replies · 29d old](https://x.com/PlumbNick/status/2087726931898765756)*
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