[boring_twenties]

I think it's totally fair. This is what the stock is worth today, and this is what they need to offer you in total USD. Why on earth should you accept a lower offer just because their stock is lower? And what a thing to have your own manager openly gripe about, yikes.

[ipaddr]

Then he recommended that person be let go.

[shaftway]

To be fair, I don't think this person ended up being involved in that decision. I've been in contact with them since and there doesn't seem to be any animosity.

There are plenty of more obvious reasons I was let go:

- I was in the last cohort hired before the hiring freeze.

- I had a terrible fit with my first team (this manager was on that team, but it wasn't with them) and put in for a transfer after about 3 months.

- The VP for that area came down pretty hard on me directly because this represented a permanent loss in headcount and made it clear that they'd be extremely upset if I pushed for it.

- I put in my transfer request anyway (the day that they announced transfers would be frozen), and was actually transferred about 5 minutes before the freeze happened.

- In my new team my new manager gave their two week notice on my first day.

- I enjoyed the work, but the new manager and I never really got along.

- I was one of two people on the team, the other person was in the same time zone as the new manager, and I wasn't.

Frankly I'd have been shocked if I hadn't gotten laid off.