It is a fact that we are living a time when “lay offs” are becoming more frequent.  Companies have to make money in order to stay in business.  Some companies are going to lay off the last hired people first, no matter what, and there isn’t anything you can do about that.  For some jobs, however, it may be more subjective; in other words, they will lay off the people they can best do without, first.  You want to be one of those people they can’t do without.  The biblical mandate is to “work as unto the Lord.” 

Common sense will tell you what you need to do.  If an employer has two employees, one who is always on time, the other who is late half the time, one who he never has to wonder if he is going to be there, the other he just has to wait and see if he’s going to be able to work that day, who do you think he would let go first?  It’s a no brainer.  If he has two employees, one who does his job well, works well with others, and is an asset to the business, but the other one doesn’t have the best job performance, keeps things stirred up among the other workers, and just isn’t that great of an asset to the business, you can guess who is going to go first, when somebody has to go.  You want to be that person that he doesn’t want to get rid of.

It may be, that if you are that person that the employer doesn’t want to get rid of, but he has to get rid of you, he might take an active role in helping you relocate to another job.