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Have you ever shown up for work one day to find a co-worker was suddenly gone with no explanation, and it was fairly clear you'd never get one? I realize that bosses have no obligation to discuss what happened, but it's still jarring when you see someone every day and then suddenly you don't. And based on conversations I've overheard, I'm not the only one who's curious.
No one I really worked with closely. I did work at a call center where a lot of contractors were used, and management would call the agency and tell them to not report back.
*raises hand* I was a vanished coworker. In 2009 I was laid off but they waited until everyone else was gone for the day before they told me (my boss and I worked later hours than 95% of the other people in the law firm).
Up until then everything had been copacetic, including my relationship with my boss - we LOVED working together. So there was NO inkling of a layoff. I was shocked and speechless when the HR rep told me I was being let go.
Once they were done with me, I cleared out my desk and went home. The next morning I got a LOT of phone calls from coworkers asking why my cubicle was empty, and shock that my boss didn't go to bat for me and try to save me.
Three months later they let another 10-12 people go - turns out, I was a test case since they had never laid off an employee go in the history of the firm until me. They wanted to make sure they got it right before they did the larger group, I guess.
Have you ever shown up for work one day to find a co-worker was suddenly gone with no explanation, and it was fairly clear you'd never get one? I realize that bosses have no obligation to discuss what happened, but it's still jarring when you see someone every day and then suddenly you don't. And based on conversations I've overheard, I'm not the only one who's curious.
Yes and get over your curiousity.
Stay professional and just do your job.
A group of us were hired and during training I returned to find one person gone. No one said he was gone to those who had been in the field that day. It just became apparent when he was never seen again. He was never mentioned again by anyone. It was like he had never been there. The cloud of silence definitely did make his sudden disappearance more curious. It became even more so when another person walked not long after and they spoke about it.
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Have you ever shown up for work one day to find a co-worker was suddenly gone with no explanation, and it was fairly clear you'd never get one? I realize that bosses have no obligation to discuss what happened, but it's still jarring when you see someone every day and then suddenly you don't. And based on conversations I've overheard, I'm not the only one who's curious.
The only people who're curious are the ones that feel self-conscious and are projecting that they may be next to go.
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