Hear me out, gotta vent... My supervisor sounded like a robot reading the severance letter. I understand there are policies, but it surely wasn't comfortable receiving phone calls from people that should be been gone that are now cleaning my office asking me what I want and don't want. I also was told by a mentor that he was told he was not allowed to write me personal reference letter. I was also told that the employees that were safe at the end of last week were told not to have any communication with people 'no longer with the company'. I was laid off in one of the most active assets, and the assets that are not doing well or that will be divested have remained untouched. Low-performers remain untouched. People whom have had HR complaints against them- untouched. I was always told the place was political and never realized the extent until now.
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Your supervisor was not told he couldn't write you reference letter. He was told to do so as a personal reference, not as a Devon reference because as anyone with an HR experience knows it's common for companies to only give the former employees job title and dates of employment. I was in the meeting and saw he misunderstood what was being explained to him. At the end of a day, Devon has been a great place to work and unfortunately has had to cut staff and coming on here and writing anonymous rants is not the way to get through this.
Replace "could have been" with "should have been"