Imagine waking up one morning and lying in bed, checking your overnight emails before you have to make a work call to France, when you see a message from your company’s chief executive.
It says a lot of people are going to be laid off. The next email is worse: you are going to be one of them.
You sit up in bed, heart racing and grab your laptop to log in to the company network. Your password no longer works. It’s time to make the call to France but you can’t remember the name of the man you’re supposed to be calling, or his number. It was all in an email you can no longer access.
You text a favourite manager, whose number is thankfully in your phone. He texts back to say he has been laid off too. He found out after trying to enter the office and discovering his badge didn’t work.
Eventually, you get up and contemplate the dismal weeks ahead on the path your life is about to take.
