Locked out at 2am. Found out I was gone from a journalist's tweet.

A notification on my personal phone at 2:17am. A tweet from a journalist saying the first wave of Twitter layoffs had begun. I looked at my work laptop. Locked. Corporate email gone. I lay there trying to understand what had happened. No call. No email. Nothing from my manager, who I'd spoken to the previous afternoon about a project. In the morning there was an email from an HR address I didn't recognise. Subject: "Your employment at Twitter." It said my last day was effective the night before. A link to a severance agreement. I never got to say goodbye to the people I'd worked with. Some I'd known for years. The internal communication channels we'd used were all company-owned and gone. The only explanation for doing it at 2am: they were worried about organised resistance if people could talk to each other first. That tells you something about what they thought of us.