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Coworker Got Laid Off (a.k.a. Fired) Today – Management Got Pissed When I Left For The Weekend

My company had a round of layoffs today. Unexpected considering the company is profitable and they just hired people. We do IT Project work with the current project due in about 45 days and we’re ahead of schedule. Anyway, my coworker was called into a meeting, terminated, told to grab his stuff, and walked out. This happened to about 10 others at my company today as well. My boss came over to tell me this was due to “rightsizing” and I was pretty much speechless. About two hours later he tells me I need to stay tonight (Friday) to wrap up tasks my coworker was working on then come in on Saturday for a team meeting to discuss splitting his tasks starting Monday. When I told my boss I was leaving since I had personal business to tend to this evening and weekend (I really do) he said that this…


My company had a round of layoffs today. Unexpected considering the company is profitable and they just hired people. We do IT Project work with the current project due in about 45 days and we’re ahead of schedule. Anyway, my coworker was called into a meeting, terminated, told to grab his stuff, and walked out. This happened to about 10 others at my company today as well. My boss came over to tell me this was due to “rightsizing” and I was pretty much speechless. About two hours later he tells me I need to stay tonight (Friday) to wrap up tasks my coworker was working on then come in on Saturday for a team meeting to discuss splitting his tasks starting Monday. When I told my boss I was leaving since I had personal business to tend to this evening and weekend (I really do) he said that this would look bad on me Monday and that he was extremely disappointed in me. I told him I was disappointed in the company and would see him Monday. And they wonder why workers are not loyal or “don’t want to work.”

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