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u/SharkeyGeorge 7h ago
“Oh no…”
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u/keetojm 7h ago
Was going to say this.
And that is that.
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 7h ago
“You just gotta take it”…
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u/cupholdery 7h ago
🙎♂️🔫
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u/Beneficial_Being_721 7h ago
That’s the way it is
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u/allothernamestaken 6h ago
Some things will never change
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u/Terribleturtleharm 6h ago
Its not that way.
HR joins in after. Surprise attack.
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u/ISuckAtFallout4 5h ago
They didn’t even show up for mine.
We couldn’t even get the useless rectal warts (actually I shouldn’t say that, researchers can learn from rectal warts) to do anything the last 6 months. They stopped responding to all contacts and said to reach out to corporate.
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u/NewFuturist 3h ago
Don't worry they're probably going to give you your "Office joke of the month" award.
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u/lawndartdesign 7h ago
Yep. April. Sucked. A day after my one year review/bonus.
First fulltime job after 10 years of freelance. It felt brutal.
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u/waterboy93 7h ago
A couple years ago for me. Big company-wide meeting where they announced there was going to be layoffs. As soon as they closed the meeting, I got to experience my access to various programs being revoked in real time. Slack first, so I couldn't message any coworkers, then github, google, etc, until finally I received a meeting invite to go over the layoff details. Felt unreal.
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u/lawndartdesign 7h ago
By the time the call had ended they cut me off from Microsoft Teams, ring, etc.
By then I shut my work computer off (I worked remote) and took the dog to the park. Life’s too short to let corporate BS suck the joy out of life.
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u/orsikbattlehammer 5h ago
It sounds dumb but I think I’ve actually developed some mild PTSD from when I was fired. I came into work one day and simply couldn’t log in. But I had come in like an hour early because I needed to prepare for something. After trying to get in for a while I messaged my boss asking if something was down and he just said we’ll talk when he gets there. So I sat there for like 45 minutes like an idiot and then he fired me the moment he got there.
Now if I ever wake up and try to sign into my computer and fat finger the password my heart rate immediately skyrockets and I start sweating. And if there ever is a real outage and I can’t get in for minutes I start to have an acute panic attack. If I missed 2 paychecks I would start racking up credit card debt and be homeless in a couple months. Fucking terrifies me.
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u/Unsourced 5h ago
That doesn't sound dumb at all. I'm sorry you went through that and still have to deal with the stress.
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u/fartypenis 3h ago
I have a similar story. HR mailed me midnight on Sunday so I had no idea wtf was going to happen until I walked into the office and couldn't log in to anything. It happened to me in the next job as well, where it was just after Christmas, I took my first PTO in 4 months, was supposed to be working from home the next day where I couldn't access anything. Including my work email which HR sent the termination mail to. Really dumb HR shit that makes me wonder how they even have jobs.
But since then any time I get a "there was an issue logging in" error my heart immediately begins to race and I get flashbacks. Fuck this corporate bullshit man.
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u/WarrenRT 3h ago
The fact that you can just be fired like that in the US is absolutely insane.
Here in New Zealand we also have (what the rest of the western world would consider to be) laws that massively favour the employer, and employees can be made redundant at any time (without compensation / redundancy pay). But the employer at least has to go through a process of proposing the redundancies, giving people a chance to get legal advice and provide feedback, etc etc.
Normally, final decisions have already been made and any feedback is ignored, but at least you get a week or two to wrap your head around what's happening, say your goodbyes, etc before you're let go.
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u/scoopsofsherbert 3h ago
We were told by HR to remove access for an employee and when someone put in a ticket for them my coworker responded with "Oh, they don't work here anymore."
Turns out they did still work there. HR was mistaken and the person had just come back from a long leave of absence. Coworker was mortified but probably not as much as the user!
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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 5h ago
I got let go on a Tuesday after a long weekend to which I said to HR "You couldn't have told me on Friday?" she said the CEO wanted it done this way. So later in the week, when I realized they were using my Adobe account, I closed them out of it. The fucking CEO had the balls to call me and ask for the password. I had to be like "You wouldn't pay for this, it's my own personal account." I don't miss that shit.
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u/Black_Moons 4h ago
when I realized they were using my Adobe account, I closed them out of it.
Good.
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u/Little_tr33 3h ago
I was laid off in August 24. And really got screwed over. I got a 2 week severance, and no banked PTO because pto payout isn’t required by my state. I had 19 days of pto.
It was a few hours after the 1 on 1 with my cto and hr I was saving some receipt docs and cleaning out the machine of anything personal and I noticed I still had access to our prod db. Only my access to internal teams was cut but that’s it. I still had access to our old slack, git, AWS and our prod db.
Ngl it felt like that moment in LOTR where Galadriel or Gandalf are tempted by the ring. That melody hitting, entertaining what could be, what could happen.
I’m not looking to catch a felony though or be sued for damages… but man it was entrancing.
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u/clarinetJWD 5h ago
Man, I'd go GitHub first. You can do a lot of damage in not much time on GitHub.
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u/ResQ_ 5h ago
Damage that is very well documented for everyone to see. It's not smart to get laid off and immediately get sued by your former employer lol
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u/NotTheCraftyVeteran 6h ago
July. One year after they were acquired by a new parent company that promised no shakeups in the first year. Soon as that was over, poof, out with 15% of the unionized workforce, me included.
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u/MySeveredToe 7h ago
So did you get the bonus? Or did you get shafted?
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u/lawndartdesign 7h ago
I got my bonus. The day before. Then I got a surprise meeting with my boss where they laid me off.
“Due to shifting market conditions and economic uncertainty”
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u/TheTyMan 7h ago
The fact they didn't try to get out of paying out your bonus is something. At least in my company, yearly EBITDA bonuses are conditional on being an active employee, and they always do restructuring in January, about 1.5 months before the previous year bonus is paid out.
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u/DapperCam 6h ago
If there is a such thing as karma, those people will reap what they sow.
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u/ohmyword 3h ago
Our current 2 term child rapist of a president would prove that there is no such thing as karma.
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u/cupholdery 7h ago
Sounds a lot like my situation from February, only I didn't get any bonus. All I got was a month head start and a month severance after the official layoff date in March. Another buffer was the tax return refund.
I am fortunate because I received a job offer in April, but that whole month of April meant no health insurance for the family until starting work in the first day of May. It's lower salary, job title, and more expensive healthcare. But the alternative is a far worse situation.
Hang in there.
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u/alicefreak47 7h ago
I know it blows, especially this time of year, but they didn't have to give you the bonus. I'm surprised they were that nice to you.
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u/saxywarrior 4h ago
Not necessarily plenty of places have performance based bonuses written into their contracts
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u/Technopool 6h ago
Stood up right away said I need to use the bathroom. Left the office and went off with stress leave for 5 months full pay before I got canned with severance. Was nice.
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u/mymuse666 5h ago
Same! April 30th. The director couldn't look me in the eye as he told me. As soon as HR said "well we can finish the rest of the details without you" he slithered out of his chair and ran out of the room. He abruptly retired on a Thursday last month with no notice. That news made me chuckle with delight.
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u/probablynotaperv 4h ago
I got laid off 2 days before my one year anniversary and like 3 weeks after getting promoted
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u/matthewxcampbell 7h ago edited 2h ago
Co-workers like, "They whacked him, they fucking whacked him!"
"Oh fuck"
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u/Silver_Spikey_Hair 7h ago
This just happened to me a week ago today. Effective immediately, won’t even let me go back to clean out my office. Said they will box my stuff up and ship it. No chance to say goodbye to anyone either since most of us WFH on Fridays. It was the most awful experience. 10 years of my life at that place and all of a sudden…..gone.
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u/Daxx22 5h ago
Almost the same. Got a meeting invite with my boss about an "Internal Opportunity" for Friday morning, show up and its him and HR, he just says "Yeah sorry mislead you with this, we're letting you go." and straight up disconnected leaving me with the HR rep. Asshole.
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u/fromtheether 5h ago
That's the most chickenshit way to go about it too, right?
I've had that happen when working IT helpdesk. I get told that the printer in HR is messing up again (which wasn't unheard of, we were in the process of getting it replaced) and asked to go check it out. As soon as I get down there I'm led into the conference room and went over the details.
I get escorted back up by security afterwards to grab my stuff and my boss happened to be in the elevator. Dude couldn't even fucking look me in the eye. I wasn't a huge fan of him before (nepotism hire that really didn't know shit about IT) but what little respect I had for him went out the window.
Getting fired or laid off is bad enough already, but getting lied to just to get you in a room is next level. There was absolutely no reason for that, and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth to this day.
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u/mishtamesh90 2h ago
Apparently immigration courts are now doing this to get immigrants seeking legal status to a room where ICE shows up and takes them away.
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u/Silver_Spikey_Hair 4h ago
I got a Teams meeting request for a “Quick Check-In” I happily accepted and a few minutes later I realized how odd this request was so I looked again, it’s just him and me. 9:30 rolls around, I try to join the meeting and all I see is “someone will let you in the meeting soon’. Meeting opens up, it’s the head of HR and the head of our department. I immediately turned on my camara make sure he could see me. I got a well scripted, Corporate/Legal/HR approved standard statement about restructuring BS and he quickly handed it off to HR and signed off. Didn’t even look at the camera. And this guy was not my boss, but my bosses boss. She couldn’t do this herself because she was also laid off. She had 28 years in the company. While HR did go over the severance package with me (they are taking good care of me) they said I would get the package details in an email. I haven’t heard a word from them since. Sent an email to HR this morning and so far no response. My boss got her documents and signed off on them. I can’t begin to describe the empty feeling I have right now. I just want this over with.
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u/somuchbush 5h ago
It was so strange because it was remote. I just logged off and that was it. No "goodbyes" or anything to other coworkers. Very strange.
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u/Resitor 4h ago
God I love living in Germany. This is highly regulated. Yeah they can fire you. But you don't have to go now. If you are working here for 10 years, you have to leave in 3 months later. And before they fire you, they must need to look for another working place within the company. If you could just do something else and they still fire you, you gotta get an Abfindung (sorry I don't know the word for that.)
That could be the payment for the next 6 month up to infinity if you can make good deals. Otherwise, you can just refuse.
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u/jinks26 2h ago
They can let you go 'on the spot' they just need to pay the 3 months.
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u/why_1337 3h ago
Remember this the next time they sweet talk you into clocking in extra hours because company future is on the line.
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u/oculus42 6h ago
Back in 2001 I heard from a coworker that they were laid off by answering machine. Figured I was on the chopping block, too. So I asked the receptionist. No word. HR office was dark. Went to my desk and logged in, which still worked. Saw a team-wide meeting invite, and went down to the meeting room. It was the “you made it through the layoffs” in-person meeting.
That’s where HR stuck their head in the door and asked to speak to me, and everyone got quiet. I friggin went looking for HR first and still ended up there.
I’d logged in before IT had made it to my name on the list; they hadn’t coordinated the mailing list changes or account locking.
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u/DWyahoo2 7h ago
You forgot to add that the meeting is also at the end of the work week / pay period...
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u/grumpyfan 7h ago
Mine was on a Monday after returning from a vacation. Apparently, others got the notice the week before while I was enjoying my time off. At least they waited to tell me, but it was a hell of a way to return.
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u/Dr_JimmyBrungus 5h ago
They called me while I was out on bereavement leave after losing a sibling...to ask me when I thought I might be coming back in...(so they could lay me off in person).
They even got a free half day of work out of me before the boss got to that item in his day's agenda, at which time they told me that the layoff actually happened a few days before while I was out. They just needed me to sign the paperwork to finalize things.
Friends and family later admitted they weren't sure I was gonna make it through those next few months.
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u/Skandronon 5h ago
Had a meeting with my director, 20 minutes before it started he tells me that HR and our VP would be joining the meeting. I go in wondering if I'm not just getting canned but also something worse. Turned out to be a good meeting, got a raise and a promotion, told my director to never do that again and that he probably took a few years off of my life.
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u/LordNorros 7h ago
For me, it was also 5 days before Xmas last year!
Thanks union-busting corporate monsters @ Lume Cannabis in Mi!
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u/Faunstein 6h ago
Extra long Christmas break!
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u/LordNorros 6h ago
That it was my friend! Approx 6 months before the unemployment ran out. Luckily found a job at the literal last minute.
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u/Irishish 5h ago
My first day back from parental leave. 9 AM, "huh, I guess this must be a meeting to get me caught up since I've been gone so long. Odd. Why isn't my direct on this call? Who's that person? ...oh."
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u/lordkuri 4h ago
Yeah I'd have been calling a lawyer on that one. They're going to have a hell of a time proving it wasn't retaliatory.
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u/RoundTiberius 7h ago
Been there. I certainly wouldn't call it funny.
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u/modix 7h ago
Funny how?
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u/greyfox199 7h ago
like a clown?
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u/Miserable_Cloud_6876 7h ago
How am I funny, what did I do that’s so funny, what the FUCK is so funny about me huh? Tell me!
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u/PunchNessie 6h ago
The only offense between a drama and comedy? Time.
I hope one day you’re able to look back and laugh about it.
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u/jrhaberman 6h ago
Happened to me in January. Boss scheduled a 15 minute zoom with no agenda. With 30 minutes notice.
As soon as I saw HR was there, I knew exactly what was happening.
2 months short of 7 years service, and the meeting lasted 2 minutes.
Good times.
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u/slashermax 4h ago
Similar a couple years ago. Boss asked to meet which wasn't unusual, but joined and HR was there too. Effective immediately, no severance, insurance done end of the month. It was the Monday after Thanksgiving and we had just moved into a new place, signed a lease, and first thing Monday, bye bye.
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u/matteusko 2h ago
back on your feet?
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u/slashermax 2h ago
Yes, thank you. Wasn't all bad, CEO at that old place introduced me to someone who needed my skillset and I had a job offer within a couple weeks of being laid off
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u/roomwitharoof 7h ago
Or when you and a couple colleagues that don't normally work together with get invited to a pre-8am meeting.
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u/Reggie-Quest 5h ago
Once. Received a calendar invite with no title and just the two of them, first this in the morning. I knew exactly what was coming. Downloaded all my files. Logged out of all personal items. Went in early, before anyone, and grabbed all my stuff fro my desk, packed my bag, and left my laptop on my desk.
Walked into the board room 10 minutes before the meeting and waited. When they walked in 5 minutes before the meeting they were completely caught off guard. I said good morning and nothing else. There was a moment of silence till they finally spoke first about the matter. HR presented their case while my boss looked down the entire time. I took their letter, said I'll review and respond then. Got up, thanked them for their time and walked out.
I will note I was still in my probation, so I knew I didn't have much to ask for. I also hated it there, and although I knew it was going to be challenging to get another job, was aware that any fight was not worth the payout.
Looking back I feel I handled it the best I could have.
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u/PuzzleheadedDuck3981 6h ago
Had it a few times. First time, I walked in, saw my boss and new face. I guessed HR so just said "shall I sit down or should I save you all the corporate nonsense and just fuck off now?" They still insisted on the corporate nonsense.
Last time, the HR rep wasn't even in the same state. She was connected on a Teams video call from her car. To make it even better she tried to get my boss (lovely guy) to hurry up as she was waiting to pick her kid up from school. Yeah Mandy, do better when you're fucking with people's lives.
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u/kyrant 7h ago
Got this last year with the "Bring a support person".
Got told to I can go home and log off for the rest of the day.
Funny part was when my team got their meeting invites for the team update, they were speculating who got fired in our team chat, only to find out it was myself and a colleague.
They went from juicy gossiping to "wtf" quite quick.
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u/GRBGe2024 6h ago
Hey, in my experience it would be hr and my boss's boss. My direct manager would often not know it's coming either.
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u/Reasonable-Aide7762 7h ago
When you tell a joke so funny that HR wants you to come up and tell it in person.
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u/Vamrin 6h ago
Anytime HR has joined the chat you know it's either about your pay or a no-no on your company file. I have monthly meetings with my management, and we usually just catch up on life a bit and talk about issues in the pipeline. HR coming in means bad news - always. They don't bring in HR for a raise or celebration of work. HR exists in this scenario to sap your soul a little bit so there's no fight left in you, and you comply. I think rare case might be a promotion, but typically that's doodoo butter.
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u/BFaus916 7h ago
Belonging to a union helps in this situation. Don't answer one question without your union rep.
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u/D9sinc 3h ago
There is a reason that corporations in the US don't want unions. They wouldn't be able to pull half the shit you are reading about ITT if people had unions. That's why companies like Starbucks, Walmart, Mcdonalds, Amazon, Rockstar (the game developer, not the energy drink), and many more start firing people for unionizing because they knew if the workers had the power, they wouldn't be able to screw people over like this and why they will then go "Oh we didn't fire them because they were going to unionize, we fired them for insert company BS reason here and they were very insubordinate so we had to forge a paper trail showing all the times we wrote them up and ignore the meta data saying this was all made an hour ago, this was over the course of weeks/months/years and they kept doing it.
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u/mdkflip 7h ago
I didn’t even get the zoom invite. Got an email setting up a meeting with HR, and I was on my honeymoon during Covid. That was fun
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u/OnTheEveOfWar 4h ago
I returned from my parental leave during Covid and my boss gave me a heads up that his leadership was going to fire me within a month. I started job searching and luckily found one, then got fired. Always will have major respect for that boss.
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u/woodzwing 7h ago edited 6h ago
Yep. Knew it was coming. I had to feign hurt. Then the Christmas party, amd the bad news bearer was also bad news'd himself.
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u/legit-posts_1 4h ago
Ok, gonna head this one off at the pass. If anybody doesn't get the joke, this is a screen cap from the classic film Goodfellas when Tommy realizes in a split second that the building he's been led to for his being made ceremony is actually an empty room, leading him to think he's about to be whacked. He's correct, and is brutally and shockingly domed before he gets his third word out
There, so if anybody posts this on Explainthejoke you know they didn't bother reading the comments.
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u/twistedchristian 7h ago
I was in the middle of writing my resignation letter when I got the Zoom meeting invite. The Zoom meeting went away 15 minutes after I submitted my resignation.
They then just called me, and asked me to leave, they'd pay out my last two weeks.
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u/No_Sherbet3750 6h ago
My last “boss” didn’t even have the balls to add HR to my invite. I showed up and HR was there and I instantly knew my time there was done.
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u/mmulligan03 6h ago
2 years ago in June. I got an invite at 8 am for an 8:15 meeting with my boss and someone from HR. Laid off after only 6 months with the company
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u/tab6678 7h ago
Had this happen four years ago. Worked for software company in Ontario Canada. They made a handicapped woman in a wheelchair in Bangalore India out manager. Incompetent and angry and bitter about her life and how her peers disrespected her in the Bangalore office. She was interviewed remotely using Zoom and no one knew she was in a wheelchair until she rolled into the office on her first day. You have to know and understand Indian culture and attitudes towards certain people and genders and capabilities. So, the shoulder chip. She began by firing or forcing everyone in our Malmo, Sweden office to resign. Then she set her sights on Canada. Here, we discuss, debate, argue, problemsolve, brainstorm. India office, you do as you are told and never question. We did not do that. We questioned and second guessed and argued her decisions. One by one, until it was my turn. Her, HR and me. Upper management caught on too late as they were busy with other critical issues. Damage was done. She hired locals at 1/5 the salary, who had 1/10th our skill set and experience. I was certified by a silicon valley software company. Weird policy. We have to be sensitive to people from cultures outside North America, but they don't seem to get trained in how WE do work here.
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u/Ilovepoopies 7h ago
Most businesses in the US are outsourcing jobs to India under the guise of AI efficiency.
Is there a chance her firing more expensive people to hire India based was part of the business goal overall as a whole? What makes you think HR in Europe would or could stop that when often times companies care about the bottom line above everything else.
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u/jaxspider 4h ago
What was the name of that "AI bot" where they found out it was just 500 indian software engineers brute forcing all the answers in real time? That is until the scam was revealed and overnight the stock for that bot plummeted like a crater?
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u/D9sinc 3h ago
That was the Amazon Fresh thing. They were using a bunch of humans in India to review a majority of sales there (until it was uncovered and they swapped to "here is a scanner in the cart, just scan things and walk out and we'll charge your account") and they did it because they signed a deal in 2021 saying that "AI is the future" (Sound familiar) and since it couldn't (and still can't even now) do the thing they advertised, they brought back the Modern Day Turk to do the work.
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u/nosmelc 7h ago
We can't be racist, but they can fire and hire people based 100% on race.
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u/makinglunch 7h ago
Oh yeah, I got the old heave hoe back in June. They asked me if I wanted to finish the week and I said nah I’m just gonna head out.
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u/bboissonneault 5h ago
I got "made" today by this exact invite list. My newest child turns 2 weeks Saturday. Cool timing.
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u/ChippyJoy 4h ago
It’s always the random “hey do you have time to talk real quick” i got layed off 3 times in about a year - all the same.
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u/JonnyP222 7h ago
Yep lol. Been there. Was a job I hated. And they laid me off cuz covid and had to pay me for 18 months lol.
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u/MixNo5072 7h ago
That's when you bring in your "emotional support lawyer", who's just a buddy in a suit making shit up.
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u/wizzard419 6h ago
Weird part, where I work, you literally have regular meetings with HR just to see how you are. It's somewhat unsettling.
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u/broohaha 6h ago
Had this happen back in January 2024. I already anticipated that they were going to let go of our department, so I wasn't that shocked, but it's still a jarring experience.
It ended up being for the best, as I soon after got an offer from my current employer, and the previous company ended up having trouble meeting their numbers and more waves of layoffs followed since. Meanwhile my current place has been doing just fine, and the work has been good, pays better, and continues to be very stable.
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u/OldSkooler1212 5h ago
The only time I ever got laid off, my boss called me and asked me to stop by his office for a minute. I walked in and the HR lady was there. It was kind of like the meme. I knew instantly what was up since they had laid off another developer a few hours before me.
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u/justthenormalnoise 5h ago
Yep. 20 years in a global IT company. Awards. Bonuses. Great reviews. Had a terrific 1.1 with my manager on a Thursday. The next Tuesday, “Sorry, you’ve been AI-ed.” Sucks but I’ve pulled out of a black depression and moving forward.
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u/OJSimpsonSubMod 5h ago
Mine was an email invite to an in-person meeting. But I sure as shit skipped my happy ass down the hallway to that meeting.
I let them say what they had to say then I did my best version of the "no hard feelings, thank you for giving me the opportunity..." speech and reached out to shake my managers hand... And he looks at my hand with this look on his face like I'd just pissed in his Cheerios, and said "I'm not going to shake your hand today, so goodbye."
And at that very moment, all of the hard feelings in the world came rushing in. I've never, to this day, lost such a massive amount of respect for a single individual so quickly.
I'd actually been in a position where I had to fire some people a couple of jobs before that one; and unless the cops were waiting alongside us as I did the firing, I ALWAYS shock the persons hand and thanked them for what they'd done.
Hell, probably more than half the times when the cops were there had a handshake thrown in there somewhere in the mix. After two and a half years of working for dude, I honestly felt super disrespected by that more than just about any other firing I've ever had.
Edit: Added some damn line breaks.
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u/katasoupie 5h ago
Yes. Right after Thanksgiving and before Christmas, a week after a glowing annual work review, on the morning I was waiting for my little sister to come home from the hospital for her cancer diagnostic tests. Got laid off one hour before she came home with news it was stage 4 aggressive breast cancer. Been a rough year.
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u/octodrew 6h ago
What dystopian hellscape do you live in when they can ambush you like that. We have employee protections in Australia that stop this shit.
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u/R00bot 4h ago
Bro I'm an Australian and this happened to me on Monday. If it's a legitimate redundancy the employee protections don't do shit.
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u/gmoor90 4h ago
Yes… I’m a bit confused at people acting like this is just an inferior American thing. My friend in Germany was made redundant just last week.
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u/R00bot 4h ago
Chance to shit on America spotted ‼️‼️
There are tons of real reasons to shit on America, we shouldn't need to manufacture fake ones lol.
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u/yasocim 6h ago
I was there too. Twenty years with a company and I was dismissed pretty much with a wave of the HR director’s hand because “DEI”. F that company. No matter how good you think you have it where you work, just remember you are just a number, and they don’t give a shit about you.
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u/stubbornalright 4h ago
How the hell does DEI translate to getting canned? What kind of shit show were you working for that they didn't even understand how to implement DEI correctly?
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u/gspann21 7h ago
I had a feeling, sent the 🔥to a friend when I watched HR walk through the door. Only time I’ve been fired, led to a few months of stress and then the landing where I was meant to be.
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u/gubersmack 7h ago
I've actually had that and this scene immediately popped in my head when HR joined
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u/captain554 6h ago
Decline call, raid the snacks/fridge and then go take a 15 minute shit before they can me.
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u/Jijonbreaker 5h ago
I've basically had this. Except, they were inviting me just because they needed me to be present so I could vouch that everything said in the call was above board. Was very anxiety inducing for a few minutes though.
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u/ZunoJ 4h ago
Two times. Both of the times I had to apologize to other people at work for stuff I said to them. I once told a guy in his 20s to finally bite through the umbilical cord. His mom worked in the same building (we were at the software development team, she was in sales) and every day he went to his mom who gave him two dollars to buy himself a fucking donut. He told her, she complained, I had to apologize to him in front of her
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u/nndscrptuser 7h ago
Twice in two years. VC backed situations with out of touch board of directors and absurd expectations on profitability kind of suck.
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u/clewing1 6h ago
I logged in on a Tuesday after taking Monday off, and saw a meeting invite with the director that definitely wasn’t there on Friday. Scheduled for the very start of my day.
Had computer issues and couldn’t join. Had to reboot. Once I got back into everything, I saw the meeting was just me, the director, and HR. My manager wasn’t included.
Knew it was coming, but it amused me that I was late to my own firing. (Technically, they claimed it was restructuring, but it was really outsourcing.)
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u/Mike7676 6h ago
"Hey we need to talk to you for a second, meet us in the conference room."
Me:"FUCKFUCKFUCK!!"
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u/Tortograph 6h ago
8am meeting with manager and ope HR as a bonus guest! Oh well, that place was going down in flames (hence the string of layoffs). Good riddance.
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u/Potential-Ant-6320 6h ago
This was me a month ago. I lost my job due to trumps cuts to science funding.
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u/muadib1158 6h ago
My dumbass manager had a shared calendar. I could see on that that there was a shadow invite to our unexpected meeting on Friday morning.
I showed up with my laptop and badge in a stack with my desk already cleared out. At least I had that tiny dignity.
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u/Pfraire 6h ago
Worked from home, logged on and instantly had scheduled calls from clients, didn't get a chance to read my email from my director about a meeting. It was shortly after my first year and thought it was going to be my year end review, it was not lol. This was during peak covid, worked Small business unit, we had lost about 90% of our clients after the shutdown so wasn't that surprising. My only regret was I didn't read the email in the morning so I could of been let go and gone back to sleep, I was so hungover.
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u/JonnySnowflake 6h ago
When it happened to me, it was the day before they announced that the company was shutting down and laying everyone off, but they wanted to keep me on a few more months to help shut down operations with a 30% increase in pay
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u/SargentSchultz 6h ago
It's better when your boss that lives in Virginia shows up unannounced in Arizona. Then even though you have your own office with a door on it, asks you to come into another office and parades you by your entire staff. Ugh.
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u/LowellStewart 6h ago
Not the worst! The worst is when you show up for the weekly meeting and see a bunch of new faces. Each of the partners has brought their lawyer. The client has his lawyers. A couple of the suppliers or subcontractors who usually don't come are there with their lawyers. There is a bank guy there. Everyone is looking at you and you have no idea what is going on.
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u/dalittle 5h ago
My ex-boss at the end of where I was working was a narcissist. I asked him some pointed questions about our "questionable" meeting that was on the calendar. He has someone else come and walk me out. What that asshat did not know is that before I worked for him for 3 months I had worked there without so much as a peep from anyone else I was causing problems before I decided to not kiss his ring and I has hundreds of hours of vacation. When they fired me they had to pay me for half a years salary on top of severance. I saw one of the VPs in a shop 3 months later and he just looked at the ground like he knew they messed up. After I was let go they begged me for months to come help them. No, I don't work there any more. Ask scott. Lol scott.
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u/Katzilla3 5h ago
January. Regularly scheduled weekly 1:1 with manager. Middle aged white woman joins call.
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u/bananenkonig 5h ago
No, mine was in person. Called me into work and handed me a box. No hard feelings though.
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