[ibejoeb]

I'm not suggesting that it is, but this sounds much more like a firing than a layoff. Pretty shitty way to do a layoff. This is the way you remove a potential problem, i.e., play it cool until the doors are locked, then full lock-out. That's very different from "Hey man sorry, but it's layoff season, as you know, so we're gonna pay you out for the next 4 weeks and you can keep your coursera subscription."

[dosethree]

The difference is sort of meaningless. What matters is if you are getting severance or unemployment, and if you can get a recommendation. If they are going to fire you for invidual performance, youd think they would put you on a pip, but some companies will just wait and lay you off.

But the two can be similar in that if you are valuable you won't get fired or laid off, unless the company is in serious trouble.

Sometimes you are just on the wrong project. It is good to be generally aware of your projects value if you want to keep your job.

Cucumber, IMO, died like 8+ years ago and never really made sense. It was useful for a team to define requirements and then see the progress to implementing them, but Gherkin was a sticking point and integration tests are hard to get/keep working, esp with javascript apps that are now so popular. The fact that someone would pay a OSS maintainer up til now seems like a crazy waste of money.

[vladsanchez]

Been there. I was laid off, the same (shitty) way, returning from vacation on March 29 2009.

Took me almost a year to stand on my feet again.

Life is Good!

[ibejoeb]

2009, one of the great vintages.

I feel you. There've been some wild swings in the past 20 years.

[kdhamric]

I know another person laid off from this same company last Friday. Pretty sure it was a layoff that impacted him.