<human>: Let me give you a little backstory:

I was working for this company for about a year, I worked a lot of hours and busted my ass every week, and was always held in high regards by my superiors. 

Myself and one other got laid off a couple weeks ago, and I had been told the reason for my lay off was because we opened another shipping DC and the costs of it were too much and they had to lay off the two newest hires. 

 I found out that the real reason is because the other employee that was laid off was making more money than the DC Manager because he was friends with a higher up in the business.  The amount of pay he received, plus the little amount of work he had contributed to the company caused our DC profits to be lower than usual.

The other employee was literally hired to do nothing and got paid more than twice as much than I was.  (That's a lowball)  

Now, here's the part where things get tricky:

I was informed by a higher up that a few people might be getting laid off, but they didn't know who they were going to get rid of.  Now, I didn't plan on staying at that job permanently, I wanted to continue on to college, etc etc.  I went to the DC Manager and said to him(I asked my other manager who told me this if it was alright), "Joe told me that you guys might be making cut backs, and I just wanted to let you know that if you're having a hard time making a decision on who to lay off, I am alright with being a cutback."

He kind of looked at me dumbfounded for a second, but told me he would tell the Regional Manager and see what comes of it.

So, I don't even know if I can take any legal action here, but if I can, should I? I would kind of feel bad because in a way I *did* kind of ask to be laid off.

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<bot>: I got laid off because a person hired around the same time as me with less qualifications than me was getting paid at least twice as much than I was, and it cut into DC profits.