Found out I was laid off from a news alert before my HR call

The Bloomberg story went live at 8:52am. My calendar showed a "check-in" with someone I didn't recognise at 9:00am. By the time I joined the Zoom call I already knew. They read from a script. My manager wasn't on the call — told later they'd been excluded to "avoid conflict of interest." My Slack and email access cut out about four minutes in, mid-sentence. I found out later my manager had texted me a personal apology within minutes, saying they'd found out the same morning. I believed them. I didn't blame them. The executives who spent 2021 hiring everyone they could find, then declared 2023 a "Year of Efficiency" as if the excess was someone else's fault — I blamed them. Four years. Severance was fine. Being processed like a line item was not.