But in my case, my manager set me up with a Final Warning meeting with some trumped-up reasons. I was shocked. So I just tried to really stay on the ball for the next two weeks, and I assumed everything was gravy.
It wasn't gravy. They didn't call it a layoff or provide severance. They said "You've been here for nine months, and you haven't integrated into the PayPal culture."
Weirder still, my colleagues have ignored my private messages since. But candidly, I'm glad to hear that there was a layoff going on. I was taking it pretty personally. But why shouldn't I have? My manager listed reasons I wasn't meeting expectations--though they were bogus.
It was all pretty mean-spirited, but like I said--I'm glad to know what was going on actually from reading this page.
I worked out of the Scottsdale office.