Blizzard Layoff

The "Blizzard 600" was a rough time.
Not something I'm ever going to forget.

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[Sifeus]

When the older generations ask us why we don't have "company loyalty"

[TheEvilProfessorMonoCulture]

All I'm hearing is... if I cannot be found I cannot be fired.
Hours of Metal Gear Solid has prepared me for this moment

[TheVergile]

managers: we need to lay off half of our staff. but we also need to make it as mysterious and suspenseful as possible. maybe a touch of inhumane disrespect and general stupidity.

[chanter]

Wonder if those managers ever said something like “Here at Blizzard, we’re a family”

[zac]

"We're a team! You should all be happy!"
*Starts the Hunger Games in the office*

[DavBotsArcade]

Managers not knowing how their staff come to work. Priceless.

[MrGeocym]

I once got a request through from company owner to disable the accounts of 50 or so people as they had been let go. Nothing unusual so far, until the next day when those 50 people came in to work and couldn't log in, so of course they called IT. After about the 5th call we caught on to the pattern, asked the employees to wait while we sorted something and then called the owner to tell her what was going on. She just said "s***! I knew I forgot to do something."
She had forgotten to tell the fired people they were fired

[Tux_Flamingo]

That's how the devs made hell so DETAILED

[Kairamek]

"Quiet quitting is kill work culture." Meanwhile, Quiet Firing be like

[ZWallAbuser]

The building had a back door, and if you went through this door, you were executed.

[zwink]

Google laid off a bunch of people earlier this year by simply revoking their building access. They tried to show up for work and they couldn't scan in.

[pohateos]

Had a similar experience at K-mart... my team was getting completely eliminated, and I was told on Monday that I had to let everyone go on Friday. I wasn't allowed to tell them because apparently the only thing keeping people from wholesale looting and burning the building to the ground was the small salary we got every two weeks.

I told my team 20 minutes after I left that conference call and we spent the week finding them new jobs. All but one was set to go by EoW and the last one was employed about a week later.

That was a pretty defining moment for me... since that experience, I have never given two weeks' notice again. I will line up a new job and then resign without notice.

Leaving without notice has never once hurt me...

[SirGentleshark]

Reminds me of the unicorn firm I worked for after it got acquired by one of the biggest US IT conglomerates, they pretty much sent a guy over in a suit and cowboy boots giving a big speech about "the new family" and inviting people 2 by 2 to take the elevator down to the basement where they'd either be read the terms of termination, a new temporary contract till year's end (for legal and HR folks mostly) or a new contract to be integrated into the big conglomerate - they asked people who got fired to "please don't make a scene and just leave", including one person who was entitled to no severance pay at all since they started working what they thought was a safe and stable job just a week earlier

Of course some of the people that got fired came back up and cried their goodbyes - the suits from the big conglomerate were afraid this would "hurt the new family image" so they went out and bought a box of assorted donuts and croissants for those that didn't get fired with a "You can expect more of those with us! Wink wink nudge nudge! We're cool bosses" cringey vibe

We (the ones that stayed) never got another donut box after this event anyway, it was a literal "Workers are unhappy over something we did, give them cake" moment

[kokutoryuu]

"Didn't I tell you to fire Mike?" "Yes boss, but mike always uses the back entrance, so we can't fire him"

[thomaswillard]

A tech company's malfeasance being undermined by their workers using a backdoor has several layers of irony.

[Cilraaz]

Years ago, one of the companies in my area (large national company, Fortune 500) took all of their corporate employees out to lunch. While the employees were out to lunch, they deactivated the access cards of the half or so that they wanted to lay off. When they got back to the office, if their access card didn't work, they were given a cardboard box, escorted to their desk, then escorted out of the building.

[okeanos]

Big companies - “We’re family here”
Also big companies - this

[Wulfjager]

Literally handled the layoff process like a death camp, picking between hard labor and "shower"

[deadgravewalker]

When you walk into work and they say they treat you like family, this is what they mean.

[CJBuzzy]

Got fired from a job without being told. Just showed up and someone else was at my station. Manager was out of office for the day and had left my belongings in a box on the side of the building. God bless this country of ours.