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True story. I know a company that did a major layoff in by showing office space. As the movie progressed, HR walked around and tapped people on the shoulder.

by btilly 8y ago

True story. I know a company that did a major layoff in by showing office space. As the movie progressed, HR walked around and tapped people on the shoulder. If you were still there for the end of the movie, you were still there...

flukus 8y ago
I spent 15 months as "the glitch". Started on a 3 month contract to cover someone on maternity leave. After 3 months nothing was said, after 6 months the woman on leave came back and nothing was said, after 12 months still nothing. Eventually after 18 months they told me they would not be renewing my non-existent 12 month contract.
- cableshaft 8y ago
  I spent 12 months as "the glitch" myself. It was my first office job, in data entry, at a business office for Verizon. Me and two other people were hired as temps for a project that was just supposed to last three months. Those three months pass, and my supervisor didn't hear anything about letting us go, and wanted to keep us as long as possible, so he just had us keep filling out our timesheets. 12 months after our job was supposed to have ended, someone finally realized it and he let us know he had to end our contract. It was also a wake-up call that people that work in these offices can really struggle with working with proprietary enterprise systems. I was practically a star in the office because I could work around all the various bugs that some enterprise Java application had so we could order all the things we needed to for other business units (I had to do some seriously janky stuff to get it to work, like close and reopen windows at certain points to keep it from crashing, choose unintuitive options, interpret what weird and unexplained acronyms mean, etc).
paulryanrogers 8y ago
Was it meant to be funny or relaxing in some way? Just strikes me as sadistic or incompetent. When facing a potentially life altering event I'd rather be told face-to-face, like an adult.
jMyles 8y ago
Come on, are you for real? This is one of the most melodramatic, childish, cruel things I've ever heard of happening in a workplace. If this is true, I think you have an obligation to name the company and allow this to be researched and investigated.
rmason 8y ago
Holy cow that is one of the single saddest things that I have ever heard. I've known some cowardly heartless bastards in my career but no one that low. There is a local tech company here that used to have a yearly event where they'd invite the entire tech community in for beer, popcorn and a screening of either Office Space or a bunch of episodes of the IT Crowd.
buzzdenver 8y ago
Name the company or it didn't happen. This is really absurd.
6nf 8y ago
There's no way that happened. I'm calling bullshit.
doyoulikeworms 8y ago
I don't care if this story is true or not. It's horrifying, thanks.

by btilly 8y ago

flukus 8y ago

I spent 15 months as "the glitch". Started on a 3 month contract to cover someone on maternity leave. After 3 months nothing was said, after 6 months the woman on leave came back and nothing was said, after 12 months still nothing. Eventually after 18 months they told me they would not be renewing my non-existent 12 month contract.

cableshaft 8y ago
I spent 12 months as "the glitch" myself. It was my first office job, in data entry, at a business office for Verizon. Me and two other people were hired as temps for a project that was just supposed to last three months. Those three months pass, and my supervisor didn't hear anything about letting us go, and wanted to keep us as long as possible, so he just had us keep filling out our timesheets. 12 months after our job was supposed to have ended, someone finally realized it and he let us know he had to end our contract. It was also a wake-up call that people that work in these offices can really struggle with working with proprietary enterprise systems. I was practically a star in the office because I could work around all the various bugs that some enterprise Java application had so we could order all the things we needed to for other business units (I had to do some seriously janky stuff to get it to work, like close and reopen windows at certain points to keep it from crashing, choose unintuitive options, interpret what weird and unexplained acronyms mean, etc).

paulryanrogers 8y ago

Was it meant to be funny or relaxing in some way? Just strikes me as sadistic or incompetent. When facing a potentially life altering event I'd rather be told face-to-face, like an adult.

jMyles 8y ago

Come on, are you for real? This is one of the most melodramatic, childish, cruel things I've ever heard of happening in a workplace. If this is true, I think you have an obligation to name the company and allow this to be researched and investigated.

rmason 8y ago

Holy cow that is one of the single saddest things that I have ever heard. I've known some cowardly heartless bastards in my career but no one that low. There is a local tech company here that used to have a yearly event where they'd invite the entire tech community in for beer, popcorn and a screening of either Office Space or a bunch of episodes of the IT Crowd.

buzzdenver 8y ago

Name the company or it didn't happen. This is really absurd.

6nf 8y ago

There's no way that happened. I'm calling bullshit.

doyoulikeworms 8y ago

I don't care if this story is true or not. It's horrifying, thanks.