If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this

Opinion It's not your fault Amazon hired you for a position that it no longer deems necessary – blame bad planning or unanticipated market conditions. Everybody guesses wrong sometimes, even with the power of the most sophisticated business analysis software and the smartest prognosticators one can hire.

It's not your fault if you quit your last job because you believed the promises of your new employer. Maybe they offered you more money, more freedom, more challenging and interesting work. Whatever they offered, getting laid off trumps all that. "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?" Bruce Springsteen once asked in a song. I'm still not sure exactly what he meant.

It's not your fault if you turned down offers from other employers because you valued the stability of your current workplace, or you liked your bosses and colleagues ...