This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Felisha Case, a former technical program manager at LinkedIn who was laid off in May. She’s 40 and lives in the Denver area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
A week before I was laid off from LinkedIn, a colleague told me he’d heard something was coming. So I waited.
One morning in May, I logged into my computer and went to grab a cup of coffee while it was booting up. When I came back, there was a meeting on my calendar that hadn’t been there 30 seconds earlier.
I checked my email. That’s when I realized: If you have this meeting, you don’t have a job.
For the first time…
