Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 12, 2021

No job, no medical insurance for the carpal tunnel syndrome.

This is getting hard work, Mike.

And this is only the beginning for Mike!

Well, at least Mike is doing it face to face. Doesn’t really make any difference but it provides focus for the hate and resentment.

The dreaded 1990s tap on the shoulder from HR.Of course now you have a hint when your login credentials have expired and IT forwards your call.

Yep, he knows! What was your first clue?

The year Mike paid dearly for his Summer fantasy.

Yep. He knows. Never ask “how’s it going” before you fire someone. Haha!

You lose your job, you lose your insurance because you can’t afford COBRA on unemployment money

Knows or strongly suspects. Employees aren’t as dumb as some in management seem to think they are.

His carpal tunnel problem is about to be solved.

Never got laid off. Always fired. Feel like I missed something.

When I and my team got laid off despite being heavily involved in projects that were still funded and on target, all we got was blamed for those projects stalling and failing…

I would call a general meeting of all the employees, and tell them the news in general, and then host a brain storming event to start a new company (or two), and THEN privately tell those who were fired that they are on the list. Those who did not want to go would probably find vacancies from those who chose to join the newly forming company.

And, if HE knows, everyone knows because he’s always the Last one to Know.

I remember when employees used to be that dedicated.

“You and Bernie”, eh? Yes, he knows.

Something’s not right here. Bernie would wait until the project’s finished and then do the layoff. And Mike wouldn’t be going person to person, the coder’s manager would tell him to go to HR, they want to talk to him. As soon as he leaves his desk, his manager revokes his login.