At my last company they had no system for letting us know if someone had been let go. At one point they laid off the VP of sales and it came up almost by accide

At my last company they had no system for letting us know if someone had been let go. At one point they laid off the VP of sales and it came up almost by accident in an all-company meeting (not a massive company, <100 but >50) and people were surprised he had been let go. I was young, with nothing to lose (or rather just no self-preservation), and so I spoke up that the policy of saying nothing was silly and potentially very dangerous. If that VP, who I saw around regularly, had emailed me for a list of our clients I would have sent it to him, if he had been waiting at a door telling me he had forgot his keycard I would have let him in, etc. You could argue "You should have always asked up the chain before doing that or refused to let him in on your keycard", but then I'd just shake my head at you. When a VP tells you to do something it's not a great career move to throw up roadblocks, even if it's company policy, in my experience. Going forward the company agreed to send out bland, generic "X is no longer with the company" for "legal" reasons (as in they couldn't say "was fired", "left of their own accord", etc). Which was better for sure. I never thought to scrape our company directory, that's a clever way to do that for sure.