My company does these mandatory meetings every month where they go over monthly revenue, expenses, safety, materials, and a whole bunch of stuff that really doesn’t matter to anyone on the shop floor, but we sit through it, nbd. Well last December we had our meeting where we go over the previous month, revenue was 3mil (pretty typical), operating expenses were on target, etc. well an hour or two later me all the other newest guys were called into another meeting and laid off for what they claimed was only gonna be a week or two. It ended up being 4-5 weeks. This double sucked I had used up my unemployment eligibility prior to taking the job, they ended up only calling me back when I told them I was about to take a different job. The whole thing cost me a months worth of wages.
Now a year later I have become one of only only people left on my team, and have taken on a bunch of other responsibilities with no jump in pay. I am now actively job hunting and am def skipping the two week notice, because if they can fuck up my life on short notice then turnabout is fair game, the whole thing left a bitter taste and their yearly raises are fixed and won’t even make up for inflation so there really isn’t any incentive to stay except that the schedule is awesome (pay isn’t great but 40 hour weeks and 3 weeks initial pto are hard to find in my field).