Being laid off by a faceless email in the remote work age may feel impersonal and disarming, but at least social media exists to commiserate with fellow blindsided colleagues.
With more than 200,000 tech layoffs in the past few months—affecting employees at Twitter, Amazon, Facebook-parent Meta, and now, Google, there has been ample opportunity to do so. Terminated tech employees have gone online to detail their dismissals, from receiving unannounced midnight emails to finding out they had been fired when their access badges failed to open the office door.
