Sorry ‘bout your luck, Snoop’.
At my last company, (an e-commerce co.) they had several rounds of layoffs. During a typical round, managers would quietly pull “canned” employees into a conf. room and tell them the news. While the employee was away, admins would disable their logins, emails, etc. IMHO, it was not the best and not the worst way to go.
However, during one round, things went haywire…
Everyone knew layoffs were coming, but no one knew when…or who. While the managers were meeting with each other, discussing the “canned” lists, admins started shutting off accounts! Suddenly, random folks around the office started asking, “Is anyone else having network problems?”, and “Hey, I can’t log into my email/machine!”. After a few minutes of this, it became evident why. Ugly, ugly, ugly.