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I work at a large corporation. Most of the people have transitioned to WFH now. At least five times I can say I had no idea someone had been laid off or sacked
by at-fates-hands 3y ago
I work at a large corporation. Most of the people have transitioned to WFH now.
At least five times I can say I had no idea someone had been laid off or sacked until weeks later. I just assumed they were on PTO or something, and then in the middle of a meeting, I'd say something like, "Yeah, where's James been, I haven't seen him online for a few weeks now." Then the manager would chime in and say they got laid off or let go several weeks ago and they were waiting to announce it to everybody.
Twice my director had a meeting with the team and forgot to include myself and two other devs to announce someone had been let go - which is scary AF when we're all on Teams wondering why they just randomly left us off the meeting, which then made us all paranoid AF for a few weeks.
The whole process with laying people off or people getting sacked has just been handled in such a ham handed way, it doesn't inspire confidence at all, and people are constantly looking over their shoulder when a team loses people and have to pick up the slack immediately.