An early morning surprise all-hands, with an ominous "don't come to the office today" and no details.

If you survive that heart attack, you're treated to performative PR jargon over Zoom, taking no questions.

Instructions to wait quietly for half an hour to see if you receive the "you're fired" email.

Watching your peers accounts wink out like dead stars in Slack.

And then you have to go back to work and, what, give delivery estimates?

Not a shred of humanity anywhere in the process.

Y'all execs are so particular about abolishing remote work because human connections and face to face interactions are so important to you, until it's time to tell someone they're about to pay for a mistake you made.

And that's not even touching the elephant in the room, that these companies are making massive profits in what may be the greatest wealth transfer in all of human history?

This is the...fourth one I've witnessed personally, now? I was laid off with even less grace than this over a year ago. I can call it out because I've got no skin in the game anymore. I'm not getting rehired; I don't need to cultivate a professional image on the net anymore, so I'll tell y'all what you need to hear:

Unionize.

If your work doesn't have a #union . Make one. Start right now.

Collective action is the only thing that will protect you from your boss's greed and incompetence.