About 3 pm, I got a meeting invite from my manager. With HR.

This almost never happened.

The meeting was planned for 4 pm.

Not much time to prepare myself. I suppose that was intended anyway. 🤷‍♂️

As you might have guessed it, the meeting didn’t last very long. It was a fifteen minutes meeting. My manager explaining to me that

Due to organizational restructuring, your role has been made redundant.

In simple terms, I was “let go”.

Or in simpler terms, I was fired. 😀

It doesn’t matter how you put it. The result was the same.

Of course that was my last day. I had about two hours to clear up everything.

I did not have a big enough Cardboard box (as they show on TV or in movies) to take my belongings home.

I was in that office for around 5 years. I had collected a lot of junk during that time.

I asked one of my friends slash colleague to keep some of the stuff and promised that I would take it home later. ¹

The only thing I chose to carry back was a trophy with my name on it.

The only thing that indicated that my time in that company meant something for the company.

That was several years ago.

Today I teach Python to 8th standard students.

It is one of the most satisfying of my assignments.