Taking a bullet
On a training course up in the London, about 10 years ago, with 3 other people from department.
Monday : Announcement from our company that redundancies would be starting this week.
Tuesday : Redundancies started. Numbers were announced. My 3 companions were getting jittery.
Wednesday : The paring down continued.
Thursday : Announcement that the redundancy process had now finished, barring 1 person who was out of office. Panic on the training course now sets in.
Friday : Everybody is now on tenterhooks, the anxiety is killing them. So I took them to one side and explained that it was me. I'd been told on Friday the week before, that I would be made redundant, but to keep it quiet.
The reason for my redundancy : I'd told my line manager that he was a lazy bastard who spent more time doing his other role of Council Leader (not his day job, just had dispensation, and I was fed up backfilling for him, so asked for a transfer to another team).
(GhostAtTheFeast Soup Sir?, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 18:16, 1 reply)

That reminds me
When my former employer was making their first lot of redundancies, one newish young lad was in another office on a training course.

He was told he was being made redundant by his office manager ringing up the other office and telling him on the phone while in a room full of others (rather than waiting until the following day when he would be back in the normal office to tell him in person).
( thistle, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 19:00, closed)