Recalled from layoff (employee, temporary, work, training)

[Duk123]

I was recently recalled from a layoff of 9+ months. The first week of retraining went ok and I'm very happy to be back. But I was wondering if anyone who has gone through this has any words of advice? Any pitfalls or challenges that you faced? Any mindset or preconceptions that you had to work thru?

[kodaka]

I think the biggest pitfall is emotional--

return employee wanting everything to go back to the way things used to be, when almost a year has passed and things are just different, just because of the passage of time.

or employees who want to pretend that you were just on a nine-month vacation and not that you were barely surviving while they lived, if not on easy street, certainly without the stress and worry.

Even with both parties are cognizant of the other side's mindset, the understanding and the adjustments can happen at different paces, and cause friction.

[7 Wishes]

Ironically, in an earlier era (probably up to the 1980s) this kind of thing was common as recessions were ending. In fact one of the words to the theme song of the 70s show "Good Times" was "temporary layoff".

I imagine a lot of the emotional pitfalls someone said in the last post to mine would be true, but glad to see that this kind of thing still does exist in this day and age.