Laid off our entire department without severance - Anonymous employee Common Thread Collective Employee Review

My entire department was cut without notice after we transferred all our files to a different server. We were unceremoniously given less than a week to return our computers and threatened that it would be considered theft if we did not do so in that time frame. None of us received any form of severance as we were told the company couldn’t afford to do so. It was one of the worst, harshest lay offs of my entire career and something that has scarred me from working with many other performance marketing companies. I was scared to leave this review before but I feel it needs to be said that this was unkind to so many. And I watched too many of my former coworkers suffer for over a year afterwards. I had to take on debt as most of us were not in the role for even a full year, so I was not financially prepared to take this kind of hit.