A Google engineer found out she had been laid-off while she was on vacation when her boss sent her a LinkedIn message
A Google engineer of five years said she found out she had been laid-off while on vacation after getting a LinkedIn message from her manager.
The former employee — who asked to remain anonymous over fears speaking to the media could hurt her future job prospects — said that she was on a vacation with her family and had not checked any of her work emails."I had some friends randomly text me checking in but I thought they just wanted to know how my vacation was," she told Insider in an interview."It didn't occur to me that they were checking to see whether or not I had been laid off.
The engineer said that she ended up checking one of her two personal emails, when she realized that her manager had sent her a message on LinkedIn. "I was like 'oh my gosh.' There's no reason why he would try to contact me on LinkedIn," she said."'Why would you not email me or send me a message on chat? There's so many other ways you can reach me.' Her manager apologized in the message he sent to her and informed her that she had been laid off, she said. The manager said he had no other way of contacting her and her termination notice had been sent to her second personal email at 5:00 a.m.
She added:"I think it's hard to give so much of your time and energy to building something for somebody else and make them money off your work only to just be brushed off and let go that easily." to be laid off by Google in a major cost-cutting effort by the tech giant. CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to staff on January 20 saying employees were being let go globally across various divisions and functions.
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