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Wrestler Who Still Has Job Says WWE is Supportive of Laid Off Talent

Though Lacey Evans was not one of dozens of wrestlers and backstage talent laid off or furloughed by WWE in April, she does feel that WWE is "very supportive" of the wrestlers it left jobless in the middle of a pandemic. WWE announced the layoffs the same day company boasted of having $500 million in reserves, the day before they announced dividends for shareholders totaling $9.3 million, enough to keep everyone employed into 2021, and the week before a first-quarter financial report revealed WWE is on track for massive profits even if live events don't return for the rest of the year. Nevertheless, Evans says WWE has made sure that all of her former co-workers "has what they need and is taken care of." Well, except for a job and a steady source of income during one of the biggest economic downturns in a hundred years.

"It's terrible," said Evans on the Walkaway Fight Club podcast, as transcribed by 411 Wrestling. "I take it hard because I know what it's like to come from no money and come from a rough childhood upbringing. I know what rock bottom feels like. I know what that sick feeling in your stomach feels like when you don't know what you're going to do. That's all that I could think about is 'Man, what are they going to do?'"

"This hits them last minute," Evans continued. "But I also do know that WWE is very supportive. They do what they have to do, but they make sure that everybody has what they need and is taken care of, and to the point of going forward. But it's just a crappy feeling. I just can't imagine being in that position."

However, Evans does compare the firings to her own life experience of being in the military and being a mom. "I also know of going back to the military, of being able to adapt and overcome. You just got to keep pushing. You can't let life no matter what it is, no matter what cards you're dealt with, you keep playing, you got to play your hand, and you got to play to the best of your ability. I mean, it's hard. Like I said, me being a mother, I've got to get up the next day. I've got to pour my cup of coffee and I got to keep on pushing. It reminds me to be prepared and not only to be prepared myself but to prepare my child because you never know."

Evans had even more advice for struggling former WWE employees. "You can't count your chickens before they hatch," she said. "You got to save for a rainy day. A lot of emotions and thoughts come through. I just keep them all in my prayers and wish them the best and then do the best that I can to continue to keep pushing and be good at my job and continue to learn and do the best that I can in there."

It's certainly not Evans' fault that WWE made the coldhearted decision to let go of so many workers at the absolute worst time when they definitely didn't have to. We're sure her sympathy for her former co-workers is 100% genuine, so this isn't a dig at her, but we have a hard time believing WWE has "taken care of them" when the very easy way to have done that would have been to not fire them right now in the first place.

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