A lady captured the second she was laid off by Amazon in a Wes Anderson-style clip — as part of the burgeoning TikTok development

• Jennifer Lucas stated she realized she’d been laid off from Amazon whereas filming a TikTok.
• The video, a Wes-Anderson-style WFH montage, confirmed her opening her e mail and overlaying her mouth.
• Lucas stated she acquired an outpouring of help from viewers. 

Jennifer Lucas caught the unlucky second she was laid off throughout a playful day-in-the-life Wes Anderson-inspired TikTok.

Lucas, who up till not too long ago labored as an Amazon Internet Companies recruiting supervisor, was participating in a latest TikTok development — the romanticizing of mundane moments by mimicking Anderson’s movie type. Lucas had already created just a few variations when she filmed her April 26 video.

“I used to be attempting to movie a cute Wes Anderson type WFH and unintentionally filmed myself getting laid off??!” the clip is caption. The bouncy, upbeat soundtrack of Anderson’s 2021 movie “The French Dispatch” performed. 

After stylized clips of Lucas making espresso, brushing her enamel, and signing on to work, a sideways view of her overlaying her mouth with a hand was accompanied by the on-screen textual content: “opening the e-mail in real-time.” Lucas completed the video with clips from a “psychological well being stroll” outdoors. She didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark. 

In a video later that day, Lucas stated she was “actually shocked” by the choice and famous that, whereas she knew it wasn’t private, she nonetheless felt discomfort telling others what occurred. “However, that’s life — and I’m human,” she stated. “This doesn’t make me any much less superb or precious or sensible.”

“That is truly the MOST correct Wes Anderson video I’ve seen, utter aesthetic tragedy,” one viewer wrote. Lucas replied: “Feeling like an utter aesthetic prepare wreck right now.”

“That is millennial core rn,” one other commented. “Wes Anderson and everybody getting laid off.”

On April 24, Amazon Internet Companies started letting workers go as a part of the corporate’s plan to chop 9,000 staff along with the 18,000 workers the corporate laid off earlier this yr, as Insider’s Ashley Stewart beforehand reported.

In March, Insider’s Juliana Kaplan and Madison Hoff famous that, whereas it is true that hundreds of individuals have been laid off within the US, the layoffs and discharges price remained very low traditionally. However since extremely seen firms, comparable to Amazon, have carried out layoffs and related firms adopted go well with, it will possibly really feel like layoffs are in every single place. Tech, which has seen an uptick in layoffs, is “distinguished in some communities,” Aaron Terrazas, chief economist at Glassdoor, beforehand instructed Insider, however continues to be a technically “small a part of the general financial system.”

On April 27, Lucas instructed viewers she had felt “so embarrassed” to reveal that she’d been laid off, however the on-line response had left her “speechless.” She thanked TikTokers for his or her sort feedback and job leads. 

“I acknowledge that that may be a very distinctive expertise,” Lucas, whose video was considered greater than 5.9 million instances, stated, “and folks going via this most likely aren’t experiencing that. So, when you have been impacted within the layoffs yesterday — or simply in any respect this yr,” she stated, “I hope you do not really feel alone. I hope you do not really feel embarrassed, I hope you understand this doesn’t outline you.”