It had to be very early in the morning, on January 20, to discover with astonishment his dismissal. Google, which announced the elimination of 12,000 jobs worldwide, warned those affected through an email first thing in the morning, so some unfortunates did not have time to check their mailbox before arriving at work. .
As the American site Business Insider tells it, it was only when she noticed that her login credentials no longer worked that an employee from New York understood that she was no longer part of the company.
Terminated before your maternity leave
Another former employee tells the site that all employees had to scan their badge on Friday morning when they could, until now, simply present it to security guards to enter the building. A good reminder for those who have forgotten to check their emails.
In the United States, dismissal procedures are generally expedited. An 8-month pregnant woman, who was about to go on maternity leave, was kicked out of Alphabet (Google’s parent company) over this simple email. Another employee, dismissed after twenty years of presence, experienced this dismissal as “a slap in the face.”
Alphabet is the latest tech giant to lay off its staff en masse. Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft had previously announced similar plans. According to the Layoffs.fyi site, technology companies have cut 60,000 jobs since the beginning of the year.
Source: BFM TV
