This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/Ukelikely_Not on 2025-05-30 20:36:09+00:00.

I work(ed) as the Program Director for a non-profit focused on programs for people with disabilities. Unsurprisingly, all of our funding has been abruptly cut off since Jan 20. We knew things were bad, and were anticipating layoffs. The layoff isn’t the problem - we all worked hard to avoid it, but it was inevitable.

However, the way I found out was WILD. Our Executive Director was cancelling an upcoming fundraiser at a brewery (because we knew we couldn’t support it), but didn’t realize she had replied all to me and my other coworker (also laid off). She said, and I quote, “my two employees don’t know it yet, but Monday is their last day”.

Excuse the fuck out of me?!? What a fucked way to receive that message. That was at around 8:30am today; she then didn’t even come in to the office to face us. Apologized via text and email, told us to leave our laptops and office keys, and join a zoom meeting on Monday.

It’s genuinely the hardest when someone you once genuinely looked up to as a mentor and guide becomes unrecognizable (over a series of events ending with this one, not just this one incident).