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My wife woke up this morning to an email sent at 3:16AM informing her that she was laid off as part of this restructuring. It's a blessing in disguise, IMHO --
by davely 4y ago
My wife woke up this morning to an email sent at 3:16AM informing her that she was laid off as part of this restructuring. It's a blessing in disguise, IMHO -- the work-life boundaries expected as part of her org were non-existent (calls with India every night at 8PM or 7AM, our time in California, on top of the normal 9-5 hours).
It's definitely hard to process. Lots of feelings of anger, sadness, relief, etc.
Fortunately for her, the severance is pretty generous (paid through March, then 6 months on top). But there's also anxiety about the job market right now with so many tech workers being let go.
- sequoia 4y agoIs this 9 months of full pay? How long was your wife's tenure if I may ask?
- smarx007 4y agoWhy would anyone wake up to an email at 3AM?
- Vaslo 4y agoI sometimes just wake up randomly in the middle of the night and use the restroom and check my email in the process. I know it’s dumb but I feel like punishing myself.
- carb 4y agoIt sounds like their job was pretty toxic and pushing through their work-life boundary. (This has happened to me before). When that happens regularly, and you get used to being woken up in the middle of the night to respond to a technical outage or needy management, the lightest phone buzz can shock you awake. Given the described situation, I'm not surprised they woke up to an unexpected phone notification :(
- davely 4y agoYeah -- definitely toxic! There were really no boundaries. We have two kiddos as well. So it ended up conflicting with bedtime at night or getting ready for school in the morning. Managers were just not sympathetic at all. To clarify, we woke up at our normal time and saw the email.
- rsstack 4y agoShe woke up at a normal hour and saw an email from 3 AM. "Woke up to find a notification on her phone", not "woken up by a notification on her phone".
- sokoloff 4y agoI read it as “woke up at <some arbitrary, unspecified time> to an email which was sent at 3:16AM.”
- davely 4y agoPerhaps I phrased that wrong. When we woke up at (roughly at 6:30), she saw a work email on her phone announcing the layoffs.
- smarx007 4y agoNo, it was me, didn’t read carefully enough. Thank you and hope your wife finds a balanced job soon!