"Yep. We were terminated by Idera without even our managers knowing."
in wake of travis being acquired last month. https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-01-23-travis-ci-joins-idera-...
I wonder if he believed that, even as he wrote it?
The irony is that the better the engineering staff was, the better this works out for the firing company.
If some newbies can pick up the code and quickly become productive, that's to the credit to the staff that was fired.
When the new owners figure out what they actually want to do it's easy enough to get rid of the messenger. Either fire them or they leave in a huff.
Not sure if thats douchebaggy. I've seen several layoffs like this, where everyone finds out at the same time not by levels.
It also doesn't sound like everyone found out at the same time.