Pros
- smart, friendly colleagues - hybrid / mostly remote - great lower / mid-level local managers
Cons
You're doing well, you like your team and they like you too. You've had a good annual review a few months ago and a salary increase at the top of the range. You've been with the company for many years and you've made a name for yourself. You feel pretty good about your accomplishments and how people have come to rely on you. You have a lot of work. You're jumping from one thing to the next and you think maybe they should add more people to your team. One day you notice a sync with your director added to your calendar. That's odd, but you don't have too much time to think about it before you join the meeting. The HR lady is there. Your stomach drops and you start breathing irregularly. Is this really happening? Am I somehow dreaming? A few minutes and it's all over. All your accesses are deactivated. Your years and years with the company meant nothing and you have been tossed out to the curb. You're in shock. You pace around your house, your laptop and monitor still on that same desk, now mocking you. You feel dizzy and still hope that maybe it's a dream. You feel like you should sit down and do some work. Who's going to follow up on your projects? Don't they at least want to get all the knowledge you had and nobody else did? You sit down, you get up, you open the fridge, you close the fridge, you sit down again. None of it really registers. You're numb. You make some coffee, and start panic-investigating on LinkedIn. Who's gone? That guy, and that guy, and ... omg... that other guy is also gone? You're still numb. You'll be numb for weeks and will occasionally still hope it's not true. There's no way, right? People liked you. You did good work.
