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Originally Posted by Looch City
Man stuff like this makes you realize how inconsequential regular employees are in corporations.
No matter what your job is, what project you're currently working on, what deadlines are next week or tomorrow, how high priority the task is....#### all that, you're getting laid off and lose all access immediately.
It's hilarious and sad at the same time.
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I can see it from both points of view when I have sat in the dreaded "sit in your office and if you are still here by 1PM, you still have a job" layoff round as well as having to help facilitate the lay-offing.
During those sit in your office rounds, people definitely backed up company data into their personal google drives, etc. and had time to delete all their work and emails. The company can usually restore that but sometimes malicious behavior is difficult to deal with. Same thing with company property like laptops - information and documents can be saved and cached and disseminated even if your access is cut off in a remote lay-off. This can lead to privacy breaches and other damage which can get very costly or even involve law enforcement.
But I think we all know know after all the cycles in O&G that at the end of the day, the company only cares about its business & information and not about the employee. As friendly as you are with the HR person (and they are great people!) they are there to protect the company and not the employee.