A Citigroup employee of 10 years was told she had lost her job in a phone call that reached her on holiday, with her husband and her seven-year-old beside her. She wrote about it from the plane, where the child was laughing at videos one seat away, and said: 'Now I have to figure out who I am and I'm not ready.'
The post appeared on the r/Layoffs forum on Reddit, where people compare notes on severance terms and job hunts after being let go. By Monday it had drawn 819 upvotes and 327 replies. The details were ordinary ones: an aisle seat, a child watching videos in the middle seat, a husband working through expense claims by the window.
