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Everyone keeps complaining about being locked out of systems with just an email. Seriously, why do you care about this? You don't work there anymore: say goodby

Everyone keeps complaining about being locked out of systems with just an email. Seriously, why do you care about this? You don't work there anymore: say goodbye to your friends over text message or email. The reason from the employer's side is obvious: knowledgeable, angry people with access to sensitive systems can wreak a lot of havoc. So take your severance and get out! Locking people out of systems is not a new practice and the outraged indignation I'm seeing on LinkedIn--Xooglers calling the practice "inhuman" and "abusive"--are just incredibly entitled and naive. No one in any other profession is getting the level of severance that these people are getting in a layoff; you are a highly paid professional with Google on your resume and you're going to be just fine.

fsociety 4y ago
Imagine working at a company for 16 years only to discover you were laid off when your badge no longer works on your way to work. You can say "duh, told you so" and "well you got severance so suck it up", but it does not take away from the emotional impact of losing a major part of your identity. There are many lessons for us to take away from the layoffs this year, and it helps no one to trivialize it into cold facts. It has a real impact on people. By the way, these large companies have more than capable LDAP systems to lockdown access without nuking everything from orbit. The damage the companies fear when cutting access immediately is, in reality, probably the damage that is happening as employees create internal lists of who was laid off. The damage are companies burning good will during record profits.
- Invictus0 4y ago
  Don't make the company part of your identity! You are a disposable hired gun. People need to get real, no one ever promised these people lifelong job security and they had no business expecting it. 16 years is long enough to have survived 2008/9: if you went through that and still thought the company cared about it's employees, I have no sympathy.
  - fsociety 4y ago
    You are totally right! My point is that the industry’s culture encourages you to make your work your identity though, and no one wins for ridiculing people who were laid off (not saying you are, but other comments here are). This is a great opportunity to change the industry and how workers view their job.
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fsociety 4y ago

Imagine working at a company for 16 years only to discover you were laid off when your badge no longer works on your way to work. You can say "duh, told you so" and "well you got severance so suck it up", but it does not take away from the emotional impact of losing a major part of your identity. There are many lessons for us to take away from the layoffs this year, and it helps no one to trivialize it into cold facts. It has a real impact on people. By the way, these large companies have more than capable LDAP systems to lockdown access without nuking everything from orbit. The damage the companies fear when cutting access immediately is, in reality, probably the damage that is happening as employees create internal lists of who was laid off. The damage are companies burning good will during record profits.

Invictus0 4y ago
Don't make the company part of your identity! You are a disposable hired gun. People need to get real, no one ever promised these people lifelong job security and they had no business expecting it. 16 years is long enough to have survived 2008/9: if you went through that and still thought the company cared about it's employees, I have no sympathy.
- fsociety 4y ago
  You are totally right! My point is that the industry’s culture encourages you to make your work your identity though, and no one wins for ridiculing people who were laid off (not saying you are, but other comments here are). This is a great opportunity to change the industry and how workers view their job.

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