I’m their colleague (actually was; I’ve moved on). Context: the dude was an over performer. Delivered double his sales goal. Had a few other goals and delivered them too. Lots of momentum.
So in our company birthdays get a shout out. His boss knew the milestone birthday was coming up. Colleague banked enough for 7 days from prior year to rollover. Boss confirmed with my colleague the “2 week” vacation planned with dates. All other colleagues take 2-3 weeks depending on what’s going on so not unusual. Huge international trip seeing all their friends planned multiple countries with activities planned.
Boss calls for one on one scheduled Thursday morning - they are every 2 weeks so not unusual. Colleague is leaving Saturday morning so the team is buttoned up. They meet, HR is in the room - boss reads a statement and told that company is going in different direction - literally 25 seconds and leaves. HR hands package. Rif starts in a month (2 weeks are vacation and would have been paid out in cash but since they are taking it - it counts as paid out). They cut all communications devices at that meeting, he hands back all devices and is walked out of the building. (Standard in industry). They are told admin will pack desk and will get the package. A few other colleagues that day rifd as well.
His team was upset as they over delivered so didn’t think anything was wrong. Colleague didn’t even get paid out vacation because of the timing chosen. Just savage.
Loyalty has a cost - remember when you are changing jobs use the same notice period they give you. Literally just before walking out…I just did the same. Was in the middle of a product rollout. Just noped right out. No warning just - I’m leaving.
Rifd (reduction in force - layoff)