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An ex-Google employee, who worked at the tech giant for 15 years, shared her layoff story on LinkedIn and revealed that she got abruptly disconnected from an on-going video call..
Despite being loyal to the company for fifteen long years, however, she was abruptly laid off from Google and got to know about the same when she was disconnected from a video call and wasn't allowed to join back in...
From the smallest of things triggering you to not knowing how to introduce yourself anymore when you meet new people, from realising you no longer have an inbox full of emails the next morning to watching the Google shuttle go past knowing you can no longer ride in it, the next few hours were likely the hardest hours of my life," she wrote...
Concluding the post on a rather positive note, the woman says that she will now get the time to spend more quality time with her husband, whom she met through Google, and that she is leaving as a 'proud Googler' who will fight ' folks who claim Google maps is inaccurate or that Youtube has too many ads'...
The impacted employees in the US will be getting full salary for their notice period, a severance package starting at 16 weeks' salary plus two weeks for every additional year at the company, and bonuses and other benefits as per their respective contracts..
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