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That layoff happened a couple months after upper management claimed there would be no layoffs.

Same here. I left a few months before the acquisition. I found out about the acquisition through a news article, probably on Reddit, and I contacted a friend of mine still working …

Not to mention the love interest relationship, which is basically, "Love interest doesn't trust protagonist until the story reaches a climax and all of a sudden she's protag's girl…