This is exactly what happened to me years ago, upon coming into work one morning and reading first email marked urgent with red flag. I was already sweating bullets with my shaking trigger finger hovering over the mouse. Screw it; click. It was short and to the point, except we were told to report to the 3rd floor, room 3114. Out of around 110 people I was one of the 9 that got to keep my job. In my case I was not a coder, but was the validation architect who wrote detailed plans on how to go about testing/verifying the code, including lab design & equipment required. Sweating bullets for sure. The new top level executive brought in to trim the fat was from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and had a prior position at Enron.
Some folks knew of her and her nickname among former employees was known as the angel of death. Well, damn this is already really freakin bad news! The following morning upon all returning to work, those that didn't make the grade had their badges revoked and escorted by security to HR. By 12 noon they were all gone and the 9 of us were about to embark on the dawn of a new day, new secret project, new work/life.
And so is Rogue Nation!
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell