Google Employee On Learning She Was Fired

Sunder Pichai has confused the cuts have been made after cautious consideration.

A former Google worker has documented the second she obtained to know she has been laid off by the tech big. In a video uploaded on YouTube and TikTok, Nicole Tsai, who was a Program Manager at Google, revealed that she found out she had been fired when she woke as much as an “ominous” textual content message from her boss and located her entry to the corporate properties had been reduce off. 

“I rushed downstairs to search out out that I had misplaced entry to mainly all the pieces. I could not log into my e-mail and even examine my calendar,” Ms Tsai stated within the YouTube video titled ‘Day in my life getting laid off at Google’. “I known as my boss again and we simply sobbed over the telephone as a result of she was additionally discovering out about my layoff for the primary time in the present day too,” she added. 

Watch the video under: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q6KnZxA14U

The former Google worker stated that she spent most of her day crying and scrolling by way of LinkedIn to examine different workers who have been additionally impacted by the layoffs. She stated that she began receiving calls from her co-workers in addition to she found who else was let go. 

“I feel the worst half is that it looks as if nobody was consulted on this choice, and everybody was simply discovering out in regards to the layoffs on the similar time. It simply felt like a very dangerous recreation of Russian roulette,” Ms Tsai stated within the video. “There was no consistency round who was let go. It was additionally not efficiency primarily based so it simply felt actually random,” she added. 

At the top of her video, Ms Tsai additionally said that she felt “so drained from being unhappy” that she determined to go to Disneyland to carry her temper. She additionally said that she just isn’t certain what she is going to do subsequent. 

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Meanwhile, in response to her LinkedIn page, Ms Tsai had been working at Google since July 2021. In her submit, she stated that she was “fully blindsided” after discovering out she was being let go, however added that “there’s some consolation realizing I’m not the one one”. 

Google final week introduced it is within the strategy of shedding 12,000 workers. Some of the employees realised they misplaced their jobs after they have been unable to entry the techniques. Chief govt officer (CEO) Sunder Pichai has confused the cuts have been made after cautious consideration. He additionally said that Google will “assist” workers as they search for different alternatives.