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I don’t disagree and a lot of other people in the comments thought so too. Others said don’t leave your co-workers hanging since it’s not their fault. Guy had worked there for a lot of years so I think he was in shock/auto-pilot.
1,700 word email.
tl/dr - You don't work here anymore. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. Have a great day! >

In recent layoffs at the company a friend of mine works at (10-15% of the company), they suddenly just suspended all the emails, IM, and other logins of affected staff then had a company-wide meeting 30 mins later to cover what was happening during this "period of restructuring".
I would prefer that fate to having to read a fucking essay about the subject. >

Does the name of company your friend works for rhyme with boogle by any chance, heard the exact same thing this week >

Nope. But this sort of thing is common in the industry. For reasons below:
From an organizational standpoint it's "best" to fire someone before they know they're fired (as in: pre-emptively lock them out of accounts). That way they can't make backups and take notes of ongoing work and projects that they could use as leverage to get a new job, or as vengeance. In some cases, for example if your organization has certain security/safety accreditations (ISO, etc), then locking people out of accounts before an official layoff might actually be required to conform to the accreditation. >

I saw an ex-Boogler post on LinkedIn that he was on-call when his access was cut off and went the extra mile to let someone know he’d been laid off and someone would need to take over. When ex-employees care more about the operation of the business than the C-Suite… >

That sounds like a wasted energy to me.