Fully agreed, it just shows what people should already know - the only folks who know a layoff is coming in advance are C suite and VPs, maybe a few others. And they will lie through their teeth about it right up until the moment it happens. I'm sure the recruiter who sent that message had no idea this was coming, and is just doing his job.

The rest of us have to read the tea leaves. But for every company that lays people off, you'll find employees swearing up and down that the business is healthy, layoffs aren't happening, and they know this because execs assured them for the third time just yesterday that there's no plans for layoffs.