Its been an interesting morning

3 years ago by js10 to c/programmerhumor

It was to talk about "team restructuring"

planetaryprotection 323 points 3 years ago

Randomly got a message from one of my reports asking what this "Mandatory Team Meeting" was on his calendar. I hadn't been invited, but it was our whole company shutting down ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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EnglishMobster 133 points 3 years ago

Hey, that happened to me, too!

I got scheduled for a mandatory meeting with 1 hour notice. During lunch.

I asked my boss what it was. He didn't know either. I joked that it was us being shut down.

Sure enough, 1 hour later we were both writing LinkedIn recommendations and helping each other find jobs after it was announced that our whole studio was being shut down by corporate and myself plus all my coworkers were all now jobless.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 41 points 3 years ago

A former coworker of mine once learned that his company was shutting down because the office was raided by FBI agents who seized all the computers, servers and company documents. Everybody sat around in the empty office for a little while and then went home, and nobody ever got paid or heard from the company ever again. Even the tax documents at the end of the year didn't get sent out.

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bitwolf 9 points 3 years ago

What did he have to do without the tax documents?

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planetaryprotection 19 points 3 years ago

I at least had the cathartic experience of being told "hey we need to shut down EVERYTHING before 7pm because that's when the email will turn off, so log into every service you know we use and delete it all." And then I spent the next couple hours clicking every delete button I could.

K8s clusters? Delete. Prod DB? Delete. Prod DB backups? Delete. S3 buckets? Delete. Cloudflare account? Delete.

It was actually kinda fun.

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Agent641 9 points 3 years ago

This sounds therapeautic

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