Let me relay to you my experience of being retrenched from work, not because of the pandemic, but because life is hard and at the end of the day, businesses are there to make money.   The Never-Ending Rumor   Ever since I joined the department that specific department way back in 2014, there was already talk of the department being shut down.  This specific department was as old as the company itself; a lot of the more senior members of the staff have been working there since the early 2000s and while they seemed concerned, they also seemed unfazed…