Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/s/6L22EZ82Lg
About a month or so ago I made a post about my hostile and unbearable new job. I'm here to officially update you.
As of yesterday I've been laid off due to "corporate restructuring". I noticed something was off when the new GM canceled a meeting with me, so they've known since last week at least that I was being let go.
At 2:30 yesterday I got a teams notice that I have a meeting at the end of the day with my manager and HR. I knew right then I was dead. I reached out to my manager to ask what it was about and received no resoonse. Due to "corporate restructuring" resulting from "loss of funding" I've been let go and the position is being eliminated.
It wasn't a shock. Thankfully I'm prepared. My resume is up-to-date, I've got a healthy stockpile of cash with very few expenses, a game plan, and a wonderful supportive girlfriend without whom I don't know if I'd have made it through the day.
But according to my ex-colleague (who saw firsthand what happened) today went on like I was never even there. No one even mentioned my name. Unsurprising. He and I are on very good terms and he's offered to vouch for me with some professional contacts. But he's also now worried that since the senior's favorite punching bag is gone that he's the new target since he's been struggling to keep up worse than I was.
I told him that he's probably not as deep in shit as I was but should definitely watch his back. This is a horrible, poisonous place to work and a part of me is relieved to be out.
Onto the next thing, whatever that may be.