“It’s not a layoff, it’s a re-evaluation of our staffing goals for Q2 2025.”
James ships the biggest project of his career after two weeks of 12-hour days and gets fired the next morning. The HR rep is a bot running several termination calls at once, mixing up names and states. A prompt injection gets it to agree to rehire him, which changes nothing. It’s labelled fiction, and every beat of it reads like a real layoff.