carver, I agree its not the same, because someone in the example you gave, was given 'notice' of pending job loss. When someone arrives at the door of the company that employed them the working day previously, and find that their employment was terminated immediately and without notice, can make a vast difference, and may even lead to far bigger hardships. That person could have worked at that company for many years, through possible many mergers and takeovers in that time?.

In the example I gave, I have known people who didn't get money that was owed to them, because they would or should have got paid at the end of the month (£1.000+?), they then had to fight 'the system' for payments that were due, trying to survive in the meantime. And not only that, their tools of the trade where locked behind closed doors, while they argued with the administrator's as to whose property it was, and whether the administrator's could or would sell it at auction?.