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    It's nothing personal: On Wall Street, layoffs are a way of life

    Big companies such as Amazon and Google have recently announced layoffs. In Wall Street, getting cut is always acknowledged as an ever-lurking prospect – but it still stings when it happen.
    by David Gura Feb 05, 2023 3 minutes
    Emma Alexander was recently laid off from Goldman Sachs, along with over 3,000 other employees. Although the layoffs were unusually large this year, they are an ever-lurking prospect for people who work in finance.

    A few days before Goldman Sachs laid off more than 3,000 employees, Emma Alexander and her coworkers were feeling nervous.

    News that the layoffs were coming had already leaked, and anxiety across Goldman's global offices was high.

    Then, Alexander got a message from her boss, asking her to come to the conference room.

    "And I was like, OK, great," she recalls. "I guess it's me. I guess it's happening right now."

    Twenty minutes after meeting her boss, Alexander turned in her badge, and she left her office in Dallas

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