I want to go on record right now to state that I have never been escorted out of a work environment!
I have been, right after Obama’s re-election in 2012. Defense contractor cutbacks in California, which had been occurring since late 2006. Since I was laid off and just signed away my security clearances, I had to be escorted out of the building. I don’t think I ever hated Obama and business-hostile California more than at that moment.
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I have by sheriff deputies.
As the Dotcom bubble hit, the tech company I was working for called all employees in for an emergency meeting. We were all in conference rooms and the boom was lowered. The company was filing for bankruptcy and no longer in business effective at the top of the hour. A deputy would escort an employee to their desk and allow them to pick up their personal belongings. A sad but happy day.
I worked at a large company that was collapsing. I accepted a buyout when the gettin’ was still good. The day of the layoff, I first laid off most of my group. Then I got the exit interview and was escorted out. We all met in the parking lot and went out for drinks.
The last company that I worked for I was in a upper middle management position. I announced that I was planning to retire within a year or so. I ended up getting included in a layoff pool for whatever reason with a very slow trigger. At the exit interview, I did the usual paperwork but kept my badge. I started in a consulting role immediately afterward. 10 years later I’m still doing some consulting for them.
Yeah, when we were bought out a similar thing happened.
We could hear the locksmiths drilling out the old door locks during the meeting...
The new owners tore out all the clean room and process equipment and moved it half way across the country, and pressured the landlord to never allow a similar business to occupy the site.
They did stop short of burning the building down and salting the earth, but not by much.