[Symbiote]

That sounds like an awful environment.

Someone I know was "walked out" from the UK Ministry of Defence. He wasn't allowed to touch anything after being informed, but he was taken to his desk and asked what was his -- pictures of his children and so on.

(British employment law requires employers to give a notice period, but the employee doesn't have to be at work. This person would have then had three-six months "gardening leave" on full pay.)

[madengr]

One defense contractor pulled all the keyboards over lunch break. Employees return from lunch with a pink slip in place of the keyboard.