Coworker Got Laid Off (a.k.a. Fired) Today – Management Got Pissed When I Left For The Weekend
My company had a round of layoffs today. Unexpected considering the company is profitable and they just hired people. We do IT Project work with the current project due in about 45 days and we’re ahead of schedule.
Anyway, my coworker was called into a meeting, terminated, told to grab his stuff, and walked out. This happened to about 10 others at my company today as well.
My boss came over to tell me this was due to “rightsizing” and I was pretty much speechless.
About two hours later he tells me I need to stay tonight (Friday) to wrap up tasks my coworker was working on then come in on Saturday for a team meeting to discuss splitting his tasks starting Monday.
When I told my boss I was leaving since I had personal business to tend to this evening and weekend (I really do) he said that this would look bad on me Monday and that he was extremely disappointed in me.
I told him I was disappointed in the company and would see him Monday. And they wonder why workers are not loyal or “don’t want to work.”
Netizens’ comments
- Guess they probably should have figured all that out before they fired your coworker. Sounds like its above your paygrade to put a plan in place for their mistake.
- They get away with this stuff because after a round of layoffs most employees cower to their demands even further as they fear they too might lose their job soon.
- “Wrapping up THEIR tasks/ dividing THEIR responsibilities is not my concern. I’m not paid 2 incomes and moving forward I won’t be adding any tasks to my workload as it wasn’t MY decision to “right size” the team. Have a great weekend”
- “Rightsizing” implies plenty of remaining employees so that overtime & weekend work is unnecessary. OP, they have unintentionally made you very important and I hope you adamantly refuse any extra hours.