Cart.com, thank you for laying me off. Really.
Just one day after another round of layoffs at Salesforce shook my beloved Tableau community, and just five days into the new year (“I’m looking forward to all the great things we’ll build together this year,” my manager said in a new year’s greeting via Slack just a few days ago), I received an invite to a Zoom meeting from said manager. No topic, no agenda. Scheduled at the same time as our daily team standup. I sent him a message asking if the time was incorrect. He confirmed that it was correct. Because I am a pretty smart cookie, I knew something was up.
At the scheduled time, he had some technical difficulties with Zoom. While awaiting resolution of aforementioned technical difficulties, I noticed an additional person had joined the meeting — someone who I had not seen on the meeting invitation, didn’t know, and wasn’t expecting–a woman with “SHRM” after her name on the screen. Ah, I thought, Something is definitely afoot! Sandra or Sharon, or whatever her first name is (I can only recall that it it starts with “S”), from the People Team managed to arrive before my manager while he was resolving his Zoom issues. “Good morning,” I greeted her. She did not respond. I checked to make sure my microphone was unmuted. It was, and I heard some background noise from her end, so I’m confident she just decided not to answer me. Clearly, this person is great with…
