There are moments in life that changes your trajectory.
Where the path you were on disintegrate and you are left in the woods - wondering, what's next?
03.12.24. A date that I will never forget.
On 02.12.24 at 11.45pm local time, I was asleep. It was not a normal day at work as we knew people were getting impacted and there were major transformation going on throughout the organization. After that week, 5% of the workforce would be laid off however, who and where were uncertain. Unbeknownst to me an invitation from Global went out for a call scheduled at the stroke of midnight.
Within 10 minutes those on the call across North America, EMEA and APAC were notified that they were laid off. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you view it, I missed the call because of the hour it was scheduled.
The next day, amidst a flurry of WhatsApp messages, I piece together that I was also part of the 8,500 employees. Two of my colleagues in Singapore attended the night call and looking at my email with the invitation 'Business Update' it wasn't hard to piece together that my time with the company was up.
Somewhat, a few months ago I remember thinking what would I do if I were one of those impacted and that in a way prepared me as I did not have any aftershock just a sense that this chapter was closing.
The consolation - my local leaders were angry as they were not consulted on the process and my colleagues across the country were shocked about my termination. After all, I was a top performer and I delivered but as they say, wrong place, wrong time.
It's been 5 months since then and I have not the motivation to go back to Corporate. I am still searching as I've seen the other side of things and I don't know if I would want to go back.
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