My company just let someone go and boxed up his desk - while he was on vacation with his family. Keeping it classy I see

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You're probably not 100% in the loop.

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Uhhhhh any backstory on what he did to prompt such a shady way of terminating him?

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wtf

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Spend enough time in this biz and you will see it goes down like that a lot. Not a question of "doing something."

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Doing it any other way would make them feel smaller in their pants

Senior PM who hasn't been having a good year but as far as I know didn't do anything egregiously wrong. For what it's worth there are other strategies here doing a lot worse too. Very odd

Yikes. I knew someone that happened to, she was able to get a larger severance package because of the poor timing.

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