After a particularly restless night last November, Liz Mclemore checked her work email around 3 a.m. and felt her stomach drop. A meeting had been added to her calendar for the next day with the Chief People Officer—and even more ominously, without a subject line.
“I had been working long enough to know that’s never a good sign,” the 45-year-old tells Fortune. “I knew this was a fork in the road.” Sure enough, she found out her position in email marketing at a tech company had been eliminated; for the second time in three years, she was out of a job.
