We had an awful set up at a major company where you were told to wait at your desk and you might receive a phone call (days of desk phones). It was pretty clear

We had an awful set up at a major company where you were told to wait at your desk and you might receive a phone call (days of desk phones). It was pretty clear what that phone call would mean. People were joking about it and prank calling people would thought they were about to get kicked out! It was pretty awful. I got the phone call!!! It wasn't what I expected, I got the choice of either redundancy (which I'd secretly hoped for) or reassignment. I took reassignment, figuring it might be interesting and the option of redundancy would probably be available in the future anyway. Anyway, they moved me to another team for 3 months so they could tick the box of removing a resource from my team and then moved me back. The work was pretty interesting so I didn't care. After 14 years I did actually get the option of redundancy and this time I took it!