The Friday I Got Laid Off


The Friday I Got Laid Off It took nine minutes to end a career I’d spent years building. It took one weekend to decide it wasn’t going to end me. August 1, 2025. A Friday. By 9:30 am, I was locked out of every work account. Email, CRM, calendar, all of it. Gone before I fully understood what was happening. No notice. No explanation. The only way left to reach HR was my personal email. If you have ever been walked out, or quietly logged out, you know the specific silence that follows. Not...