Have you ever been out of the office on layoff day when you were one of the people getting laid off? Did they call you and tell you, or wait til you were back?

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I’ve been OOTO visiting clients on more than one layoff occasion. Just assumed my job was safe, because I was fully scoped on other key accounts, but friends did text updates as the day went on. It doesn’t feel good watching it happen remotely. Especially when you don’t get a chance to say goodbye.

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Yeah, I got a call on the only day I ever worked from home. Now that I have a way better job and get paid good money for the work I do, I wasted months putting up with working for an abusive design director. If you’re going through this today, know that the grass may actually be greener on the other side.

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A coworker was once called/laid off on a mountain during a ski trip.

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I’ve always wondered this!

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I’ve seen both happen

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I've seen both and experienced a near miss while we were moving offices. Folks were getting laid off while we all were working from home. I had a "1-1", conference call number attached, with my CCO that dissappeared off my calendar shortly after a colleague with the same kind of meeting on their calendar was let go. We moved into a new office with the herd thinned and trying to figure out who was missing.

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Yep. Was out of state on a client visit. They called and left a bunch of messages on my voicemail (no one communicated and they thought I was in the office). Was laid off the day I came back. I found the whole thing darkly humorous for some reason.

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They waited till I came back

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Why would they? Kinder, classier and easier to just wait a day or even a week.

Not me, but someone else was and he got the 10am meeting the day he got back from vacation.

I’ve had pals receive calls on vacay. Not cool.

I was on vacation during layoffs one time. It really ruined a day of leisure. I ended up just calling the ECD, who told me not worry. There were other people who were let go while ooo. I thought it was poorly handled in the sense that the rumors spread before any official notification was made, but not sure that there is a perfect way of delivering bad news.

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