So after the cut, I am having wind down meetings with my previous coworkers,

You know how sudden it was, and most people were taken by surprise, (I am not, because I am psychopathic enough to know big three too much by subconsciousness, plus the Soviet system) especially those in Europe are shocked.

French managers keeps quitting (I just wrote a farewell message to her yesterday, AFTER the termination, not before. She is going to leave this week) Italians are furious. Polish are shaken (they lived under KPP for decades and they are still resentful about them today. their standard of expectation is really low coming to many things including employment) because even per the communist standard, things like this just didn't happen to your job. katyn even took more timely implementations than this. So everyone is upset, and whoever in the US and Canada knows the writing is on the wall. Do people in India care about this? And business in China is no more anyway.

But, everyone who still remains has residual work to do (I feel bad about one person in Shanghai office. Everyone working with him except his US supervisor and one more coworker is cut, so he has like 10% residual work now) and knowledge, data needs to be transferred, or at least being told what not to do.

So I am working fully today dealing with the residual work and I have two series of the wind down meetings with my previous manager (real manager. the fake one is cut with me too) and coworker in the coming weeks. And I always treat my work as a hobby, having the most fun out of it, wanting to see how the program wouldn't work and why, I want to keep learning. I am more annoyed I cannot see closely the trainwreck myself while being paid.

My real manager gets tipped off with my information and the other learns from my knowledge a lot (he is from Poland). Isn't this ironic that how much coworkers value each other and how little the company values? What a sharp contrast. (you know where the contrast is quite modest)

Oh, of course. The real bad ones are the US employees. Most terminated employees are less caring than those overseas, with three exceptions. Most strangely, all my LinkedIn invites didn't go through among the US people (either cut or not) and all invites went through with those from Italy and Poland.

Now I am really wondering why? Can anyone make sense out of any of this?

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@1ggj
thank you for your kind words.
During situations like this, my aim is more precise, however. I aim at the decision makers, and I am not empty handed. Information is valuable and powerful. It just takes one kind of mind to process them efficiently

Well my friend, you seem like a better version of myself. I too am for the freedom of information and the third position of neither capitalism nor communism being the best fit, and love the Italians compared to the French, but when people (Stella mgmt) mess with friends and coworkers, I want them to hurt as well. Best of luck to you and stay gold.

And we all exchanged the residential addresses so we can mail each other postcards =)

“ If they need your help, they can pay a $750/hr consulting rate. ”

Nah, I don't need money, I have enough despite my young age. I am here playing for fun and automotive world is my playground. What I want in return is seeing all the drama and having friendship through human connection. Even though the country is capitalistic, I am the opposite of this. (but I am not communist neither. I have been anti-communist since 8yo)

I am just a nice person and I am willing to share all the information I have about how the company is doomed, so everyone nice to me can make even better, informed decisions.

Why the he-l are you helping "wind down" if you're cut, tell them to su-k it. What are they going to do? Fire you? If they need your help, they can pay a $750/hr consulting rate.

I am physically located in the US (deep in the countryside however), through US payroll, with a US passport, and speak with a hint of trans-Atlantic English, but that's all my current affiliation with the US. (and yes, I am becoming Canadian also, it is complicated) I am that one cutting all ties to big three in my life, driving a Packard and Miata.

I am pacifist so I even refused to bear arms and I refused selective service registration altogether. I have been in constant conflicts with the US for many different reasons since a child. (I guess, I wouldn't go to GDLS, aka old Chrysler Defense then)

Culturally I am more of a mix of anti-communist, White Russian emigre, Shanghai International settlement resident, influence of Polish (separately from work, probably that's why I get alone with Polish employees well) with strong British background in cultural traditions and allegiance, also engineering approaches learned from the Germans since a kid, usually getting along with Italian employees much more smoothly than three quarters of US employees, having lifelong tension over the French (despite high consumption of French products) enjoying Czech TVs all my life, growing up watching Japanese cartoons. What a life to have at a young age with all this.

Q - are you a US based employee? Or a foreign national?

And most interestingly, one supervisor, who tends to be a snake,
not shaken when one of his report died a while back, was overwhelmingly sad last Friday. Either it was emotionally traumatic for him too, or he knows he would be next. (and he has been with the company since a young man, even slightly younger than me now, and he is close to retirement these days)

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