It’s one thing to lose your job. It’s quite another to have your entire leadership profile buried underneath the kind of national landslide we witnessed last week. Just ask Peter Dutton and Adam Bandt. No awkward farewell email. No opportunity to control the narrative. Just the sharp crack of career collapse and a freefall into chaos.

For most of us, getting fired – or even being made redundant – feels like a distant threat that sits on the very outer margins of our daily mind loop. We play it safe every day, our behaviour governed by the guard rails of job security. We don’t talk about it, and when it happens to someone else, many quietly turn away with swift disengagement to avoid any awkwardness.