When your network login suddenly stops working.
Or, when you get a weird email from the payroll system about having just withdrawn /exactly/ how much PTO you've accrued.
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Warning Signs You're About to Be Laid-Off
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#32I got hit by II, back in 2010. They hired an intern, asked me to train her... a month later, I was laid off.
Also, I knew a number of people who worked for a local video game company who got the axe after their paychecks had been late for a while. They were all complaining that they haven't been paid in about two months, and then one day the CEO calls people into his office one at a time... 11 people were let go that day. A bunch more got the axe about a month later. They weren't a big company. It took a while for them to get their final paychecks, and I think that was only because a couple of them threatened to sue.
(edit: just to make this clear, I didn't work at that video game company, but several friends of mine did, and I got to hear the stories)
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#33"It's not you, it's us. We still want to be friends."
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#34The one that got me, was the German company I was working for was bankrupted by the president of the company as a key sale of the software product fell through. He did it on December 23rd, before any of the directors could intervene (A quirk of german company law). I found out on the phone on the 28th while back in the UK. Fun times. So my contribution: "When it appears the directors bet the company on a single sale…
Honestly, I think that is what you heard down the grapevine. Sounds like a cover up for something much more heinous. Was this information public/private, how did you find out? (Not attacking your trust, just sounds a bit odd to me)
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#35When the CTO stands up and says "there will be no layoffs" it's time to clean up your resume. Happened to me twice.
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#36Looks like I'm going to be laid off soon :'(
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#37When you wake up to this https://twitter.com/bartt/status/653946266938818561
Wow that's brutal, especially the Github subject but from what I gathered he missed a call that went to voicemail.
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#38here's another sign you're about to be laid off: none of this happens, and you haven't done any real work in months.
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#39When somebody needs to say "let's get all outstanding code checked-in ASAP!"
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#40I got hit by II, back in 2010. They hired an intern, asked me to train her... a month later, I was laid off. Also, I knew a number of people who worked for a local video game company who got the axe after their paychecks had been late for a while. They were all complaining that they haven't been paid in about two months, and then one day the CEO calls people into his office one at a time... 11 people were let go that…
Sounds very similar to Crytek.