It was through an internal leak that Monique found out she was among the group of employees being laid off from Amazon in April. Having had time to go through some of the stages of grief, like anger, denial, and depression, Monique, who works in human resources, said she was in the acceptance phase when the company emailed her at 7:00a.m. one day that her role was eliminated.

Monique joined the 27,000 workers Amazon announced it would cut earlier this year.

Monique, who asked for Insider not to use her real name for fear of retaliation, said she hadn't planned to stay with Amazon for much longer anyway. READ MORE