Employee fired via web meeting by an executive she never met along with colleague finds out her boss didn’t know she was losing 2 team members: ‘my boss told us she wasn’t aware of any meetings with upper management’

The corporate world has many tricks up its sleeve: the pointless meeting, the reply-all email chain, and the mysterious lunch thief. But one of its true masterpieces is turning employee termination into a stealth operation that would make seasoned samurai proud. It's like they're following a "How to Traumatize Your Staff" handbook, complete with appendices on maximum psychological impact.

Gone are the days when getting fired meant a somber chat with your boss and a cardboard box for your desktop succulent. Now it's all about the surprise calendar invite from an executive you've never met—like getting a party invitation from a stranger, except instead of cake, you get unemployment. The modern layoff comes with exciting features like sudden digital exile: one minute you're a tech-savvy laborer checking Slack, the next you're checking the job listing section of a newspaper like you're a real-life black-and-white photograph. Locked out faster than someone who forgot their Facebook password.

"Today I got laid off via GoToMeeting webinar. My boss didn’t know about it."

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One employee's seven-year commitment to her company ended via A web conferencing webinar—a digital termination so swift that even her boss didn't know she was losing team members. But the overall inadequacy doesn’t stop there–Her boss's boss got axed too, creating a corporate version of musical chairs where everyone loses their seat or little Zoom window at once.
But hey, at least they saved money on those farewell cards nobody wants to sign anyway.
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