This happened to my wife in June 21.
Backstory
She was a recruiter for a college. In fact she was the top recruiter and half new classes would be from her. They opened up to recruiting on Saturdays and she volunteered to do so if she got Sunday/Monday off. She stayed late 8pm on Fridays to do website walk through because of covid.
May 28th 2:30ish PM she bursts into the bedroom waking me up (I was working over nights) telling me she just got fired. I asked what happened. Well apparently they decided in January to get rid of the recruiting department that made 40k plus a year to get people making min wage working phone lines.
Her manager the department VP who treated her like a friend (had cook outs with this guy) knew and never said anything. Even though they fired him also he refused to tell people who thought he was their friend because that would betray the company.
She was crying and said she had to go back to work and I said the fuck you do. Calm down lets go to dinner early. She said I cant I have tours to give. No you do not. You have sick time call in say it made you sick and you wont be back until the 2nd the day after her termination happened.
This company is now doing horribly. The IT department still has not removed her from the system 6 months later. She gets the numbers reports every month and recruiting is down 40%.
Fuck them.