> I just hope whoever processes severance checks is still working. In the dotcom era, I was in the middle of a mass layoff. At the meeting, "everybody go back

> I just hope whoever processes severance checks is still working. In the dotcom era, I was in the middle of a mass layoff. At the meeting, "everybody go back to your desk and dial extension 1234, and you will get a message with your employment status, instructions and next steps". PBX crashed. PBX took a while being brought back up because, well, the people responsible for supporting it wanted to find out whether _they_ were some of those laid off before deciding whether they wanted to bring it back up.