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I only saw one question and my response to it would be, "I have no idea". If it's that much of a pressing issue after all this time and has to be answered then maybe you can track down these people and ask them ...
You are not half as important as you think you are. None of us are. If you get hit by a bus, the world will barely shudder and the corporation will go on.
What you should do, in a situation where you are working with clients (let's say you are in IT Consulting) you start working the phones. Call your colleagues; call your suppliers; call the clients for whom you were working on projects. Do Not Bad Mouth The Company. Simply say that you are shocked/dismayed to be relieved of your duty and if there is anything which you can do to make a seamless transition for the projects on which you were working, you would be pleased to try to help--but recognize that you are no longer working for XYZ Corporation. You do this for yourself; the Firm is going to wish you would curl up and die. These are YOUR relationships--as friends/colleagues, and the Corporation cannot eliminate that camaraderie. These same relationships will also help get you re-employed.
No one is going to take you up on the offer, but they are going to remember that did the 'right' thing, especially you when you are re-employed and show up to work on the same or similar project with another firm. It is called not burning your bridges, and leaving on the best terms possible.
Close the chapter in your life. Move along. The sun will come up regardless of whether you and I are there to see it.
Reminds me of what happened with one of my buyer clients. We were waiting for a status update on her loan; I decided to email the loan officer after neither of us were able to get a call back. I got an automated email saying he was no longer with the bank. Found out later her loan was denied; too many weeks later. I would never willingly work with this bank again. (It's one of the major ones).
Call your colleagues; call your suppliers; call the clients for whom you were working on projects. Do Not Bad Mouth The Company. Simply say that you are shocked/dismayed to be relieved of your duty and if there is anything which you can do to make a seamless transition for the projects on which you were working, you would be pleased to try to help
If someone called me trying to give me a line like that (and that's what I would think it was), I would blow them off. Calling up your customers or colleagues only makes you look desperate and foolish.
If someone called me trying to give me a line like that (and that's what I would think it was), I would blow them off. Calling up your customers or colleagues only makes you look desperate and foolish.
You ARE desperate. You just lost your job. You don't have to drool desperation or use a oparticular 'line', but it certainly is time to put aggressive plan B in motion. Ensuring that your friends, colleagues, and customers are on board is paramount. You don't have to whine or talk sour grapes, but you do have to let them know that the situation has changed. Network.
Yes, if they despised you to begin with, well, then that's another matter. But if you have strong relationships with them, then by all means, engage them completely.
Unless we're diverging into the hypothetical, this is a situation which the OP was in a long time ago and which he's simply rehashing for some reason which rather eludes me, anyway.
Basically, companies do not care about you, or any employee, at all. Its sad that employees have to tip-toe around companies, especially during the interview process, but then these same companies will disregard you without a second thought.
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Its a generational thing
