Anonymous, first-person accounts from Indian professionals who were laid off. Unfiltered. Unsanitised. Real.
After dedicating four and a half years as a Recruitment Manager, I was asked to leave the company shortly after successfully building our internal Automated Tracking System (ATS). For 4+ yrs, I poured...
After returning from maternity leave, I rejoined work only to face unexpected challenges. The system promotion that had been promised before my leave did not happen, despite my five years of dedicatio...
What "Stability" Actually Cost Me A few years into my career, I stepped away for a medical break. It wasn't planned, and it wasn't easy — but the harder part, in some ways, was what came after: figur...
My role was recently eliminated due to a global team restructuring at my company. While sudden corporate shifts like this are never easy, I know it's just business and part of working in large tech co...
It was a typical Wednesday on my way to the office when I received notification that my GitHub access had been revoked, followed shortly by an invitation from HR for a transition discussion. As part o...
A normal work day, i was working on my safety management protocol for one of my studies. I got an invite from PV (pharmacovigilance- which is my department) director that a meeting is scheduled- no ag...
The worst part was not the layoff itself. It was that my manager found out when I did — from a company-wide email. He called me immediately after and said he had no idea. I actually felt bad for him....
I had been with the company for 8 years. On a Tuesday morning I got a calendar invite titled 'Quick Sync' with my manager and an HR person I had never met. The call lasted 6 minutes. By the time I got...