(I keep this very short)
Got hired as a “full-stack-developer” for their subsidiary in an European country. (They bought a competitor)
Everything was going fine (I thought). I had to learn Angular, AWS, React and Redux on the go, no biggie, this is just part of being a web developer. Even though I was hired based on my back end experience.
My technical boss (in USA) seemed nice, very clever guy, helpful, he seemed to be understanding that I was struggling learning all this new stuff and at the same time trying to be productive.
BUT, my last 7 days on my job where like this
Tuesday: Helping me understanding how Angular and Redux are working together, pretty cool stuff
Friday at noon: My access revoked. He said it was “some restructuring”.
Monday morning: Got a meeting invite for Tuesday “jonr's future at company inc”
Tuesday morning: “We are not happy with your progress at the company” speech.
Me: hearing this for the first time after almost a year: surprisedpichacuface.jpg
Never, ever, as Turing is my witness, did I get any negative feedback on my work. Actually I never got any feedback at all, so I assumed that everything was ok.
My local boss was just as surprised.
Today, I'm still salty about this.
tl:dr; Company fires me out of the blue after almost a whole year without any hints.