I had a similar experience in 2010. At that company, the passes were only for use after hours and on weekends; the doors were unlocked during business hours on

I had a similar experience in 2010. At that company, the passes were only for use after hours and on weekends; the doors were unlocked during business hours on weekdays. About a month before I was laid off, there were a couple of high-profile firings (first the VP of Engineering, then the Director of QA/IT/the India office a week later), and the CEO put in a new policy that whenever someone is let go, the doors are to be locked for a week or two so we'll actually need to use our passes to get in. This was to prevent the fired employees from coming back in and stealing or vandalizing or what have you, especially since they knew where the bodies were buried. Well, the day I got laid off, the doors were locked. I wasn't even a high-level employee! I kinda knew where some of the bodies were buried though... I was one of the few people outside IT with admin access to certain servers. I didn't even think anything of it until my boss called me into his office... where the CFO was waiting with a paper that had "CERTIFICATE OF TERMINATION" in big letters at the top.