Frankly, I’d have rather had this experience than what I actually had: nonchalantly walking to my boss’s office right before the office closed for Christmas while thinking he was going to wish me a happy holiday.
I got something similar, just the remote version. Was supposed to have 1:1 with one of the corporate officers (c-suite). He was there, but then, fucking HR lady joined. As soon as she got on, I knew what was up.
They whacked me and most of my team that day in the span of about an hour and a half. HR is a bunch of useless twats and their only value is to read the “you’re fired” script quickly.
When your joke is so good that the HR folks want to hear it in person.
Me handing in my resignation letter so I’m one step ahead
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“Huh. What’s this? A spur of the moment Teams meeting with some VP whose name I barely know? Ah. And there’s HR. So it’s THAT meeting.”
Things at my current job are an such a massive shit show already. I imagine that my only reaction to such a meeting would be a full throated laugh, “good luck!” And just drop the meeting.
I’m more like “took them long enough to finally find one thing”
*inhales cigarette* “what took you so long?”
Mine have always been they just show up unannounced, take me to a conference room, and lay me off that day.
I got that call for saying I was “enjoying the view,” meaning the park-like landscaping out the window of an empty office I was admiring on the first sunny day of Spring. A woman in the hallway assumed I meant her butt.
