If you remember from an earlier post, Chris' company was in the process of being bought out by another larger company. Chris had zero desire to work for the new company and requested to be put on the "do not retain" list, otherwise known as "the fire list". Being on the list would give him a severance package and was optimal. Since he had already been planning to leave CA, it just seemed as though the timing couldn't have been better.
A couple of weeks ago, Chris was joking with a friend of his who works in Human Resources, "Well, at least I am still on the 'fire list'". After checking, his friend, Guy, replied, "Uh Chris, you're not anymore." That meant that someone wanted to keep him at Broadcom. CRAP!!! It took about a week of much stress, higher ups asking questions and suggesting that a mistake had been made, and finally receiving the text from Guy that we had been hoping and praying for: "You're FIRED!!"
Chris has never been so happy to be fired (not that it has ever happened before). Whew. We have a few more days until the sale is final, so fingers crossed no more changes will be made to the fire list.
