I used to work for a midsized tech-ish company up until 2 weeks ago. I was on PTO in the middle of the woods and I got a phone call from a coworker saying there was a “required meeting I had to attend” the next day. So I call into the meeting with what little cell service I had the next day and I'm on a conference call with about a half dozen people. All of us were getting laid off, and our managers weren't even all the call (in fact, my manager reached out to me and she said she had no idea that any of this was even happening). When everything was said and done, 100 or so people were let go from the company without warning.
A few days later to my surprise I get an email from HR at my personal email address (and to the emails of 100 other people) with a spreadsheet. Attached to this spreadsheet is the name, title, department, and personal contact info of all the people who were laid off. I was floored that this was being sent to my personal email address, shared with strangers, with personal information on it.
HR's idiotic reasoning was to see if we wanted to be included on a LinkedIn post showing that were were looking for work (as if the knife hadn't been twisted enough). Shortly after, many people responded with anger that their personal information had been shared without their consent. Others responded at how disrespectful and insulting it was to put everyone that was newly jobless in some list and post it everywhere.
HR responded that this is a common practice (no it fucking isn't) and more people chimed in and put them on blast. The LinkedIn post never materialized. What an insulting, exploitative, and tone deaf move to do to a hundred people you just put out of work. Bunch of assholes.