I've heard a few similar stories, here's one about an engineer who was 'too senior' to lay off when an office closed: They wound up with nearly zero responsibi

I've heard a few similar stories, here's one about an engineer who was 'too senior' to lay off when an office closed: They wound up with nearly zero responsibilities. Same as this story, they were relocated to a remote office and never assigned a new manager. Once a month, they received an email from someone on the QA team with updated i18n strings for the latest software update. Their sole duty was to append the strings, commit, and verify the build wasn't broken. They replied to QA with a single word: "Done!", and that was all they did. In their free time (as I recall) they made mobile games and about three years in, the company went into Chapter 11 and seeing the writing on the wall, they turned in their resignation... to whom, I don't know.