Laid off via a calendar invite titled 'Sync'. No agenda, no context. For once, the invite was accurate.

My badge stopped working before the meeting ended. The meeting was about transparency.

We held a moment of silence for the departed colleagues in the all-hands. The next slide was executive bonuses. Nobody had rehearsed the transition.

The CEO said 'we're all in this together' from a boat. His boat. In the layoff announcement video. The boat is named after the company values.

They called it 'right-sizing'. Apparently the right size does not include anyone who built the product.

Survived my fourth restructuring. My team is me. I report to a shared inbox. The inbox is understaffed.

We got 'impacted'. Asteroids impact. I got fired. My plant got fired. The plant did nothing wrong.