the first Monday after Christmas. Then about 4 weeks later they got rid of 50% of the people who had reported to the C-level team (me included).

Fortunately I could see the writing on the wall and had another job off in-hand when they told me. I had just received the formal offer letter and the stock option agreement and was literally printing them off and standing at the printer when the HR team messaged me and told me to meet them in a conference room. Timing was almost comically good.