A Reddit post has gone viral after a longtime Amazon employee shared a deeply emotional account of being laid off after 17 years with the company. The post titled — Got laid off after 17 years — lays bare the disillusionment of a worker who had spent nearly two decades at Amazon without a break, only to lose his job without warning. Advertisement

The employee wrote that he broke down in tears after reading the layoff email. For the first time in years, he said, he spent a morning cooking breakfast and taking his children to school — a simple routine that made him question how much of his life had been consumed by work.

“I told myself I was doing it for my family, even when I was too tired to play with my kids or sit down for dinner,” the post read. “Seeing them smile that day hit me

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