It's a sad sort of funny that I expected this to end with "and I got laid off today". Unfortunately there are literal hordes of people who went through exactly

It's a sad sort of funny that I expected this to end with "and I got laid off today". Unfortunately there are literal hordes of people who went through exactly that. I know smart people who were working on profitable output that got laid off because entire business units evaporated. At the end of the day you're not "needed" unless the company would have to close up shop if you got hit by a bus tomorrow. And if one IC is all that stands between a company and insolvency, said IC should probably start looking for an escape hatch...