That sucks dude. They just laid you off with no warning?
Pretty much yeah but I had a feeling this was going to happen.
We were doing two projects for the same publisher, one was basically in live ops/maintenance mode and the other was due for release in a month or so. I was on the maintenance project, mostly doing performance optimizations and trying to improve loading etc. The other project was coming along well but the publisher was being really difficult for reasons I don't know. Last week on Thursday everyone on that project was told they were being temporarily re-assigned to our one remaining project that is being paid for, while I would remain on the maintenance project. We were supposed to find out the status of the held project this Wednesday.
On Tuesday we sent off a build with my performance improvements to the publisher, but they had been sort of ghosting us for almost a week now and the metrics numbers for the previous release weren't really looking that promising, and since no one else at the studio was invested in the project I knew it wasn't long for the world. I come in Wednesday morning and the boss pulls me into his office and tells me that they're probably gonna close the project and he spoke with big wigs at the publisher and they just didn't feel it was worth the cost. I was told since the remaining paid project was now overstaffed and there was no programming work on the doomed to fail internal passion project that I should just take the rest of the day off. Stupidly I left a few things at my desk even though in the back of my head I knew I was done.
I emailed my boss that night asking if I should come in the next day, he emailed back and said he'd call me the next morning, which he never did. Then he emailed me late in the day and told me to call him this morning. I called in, was told that because the company had had 3 things cancelled or shut down in the past 2 months they were going to have to do some layoffs because none of the stuff they are negotiating is close enough to signing. I am being paid for the next week and I still have access to slack and my company email on the off chance things change, and I was told they would bring me back if they find something before I find something and that was about it.
As far as I know, so far I'm the only one let go.
And of course I checked my work email and see that the publisher for the project I was on has a bunch of questions about what I did. Fat chance that I'm answering.
