Not long after receiving the investigation report, I have my regularly scheduled six-month performance review. This one’s with Elliot, not Joel like usual, and then I realize Heidi is joining it. For a minute it doesn’t compute. Then I realize why the company’s chief employment lawyer is sitting there for my “performance review.” It’s less of a savage attack on my career and more of a quick euthanasia. Elliot and Heidi fire me in a perfunctory manner moments into the meeting. Elliot doesn’t even look sheepish. My laptop is confiscated. I’m not allowed back to my desk to retrieve the personal
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