An ex-Googler said finding out they’d get far less stock than expected felt like a ‘second kick in the chest’ after losing their job

• Google informed laid-off employees that it had miscalculated the quantity of inventory they will get in severance.
• Some workers will likely be getting much less inventory than they initially anticipated.

An ex-Google employee who discovered they’d be getting about 40% much less inventory than anticipated after dropping their job mentioned it felt like “a second kick within the chest in three weeks.”

The search big mentioned on January 20 it was laying off about 12,000 employees. Every worker within the US obtained a generic layoff e mail adopted by a personalised message outlining their particular person severance package deal.

On Thursday, Google informed laid-off employees that its emails had misstated the quantity of inventory they might get, based on emails seen by Insider, and apologized for the errors.

The previous member of Google’s engineering workforce informed Insider that the inventory discount “genuinely modifications the outlook as to how I used to be going to strategy this.”

The individual requested to stay nameless as a result of they’re nonetheless in search of a brand new position. Insider has verified their id and employment historical past.

The ex-Googler informed Insider that the revision, which got here nearly three weeks after the preliminary correspondence, was an disagreeable shock.

“Admittedly, I had performed my very own tough calculations. I assumed to myself: huh, that quantity [of stocks] appears fairly excessive. However then I assumed: Perhaps that is them saying, ‘Hey, we’re taking good care of you as a result of we did a shitty factor to you on the final minute’.”

The employee acknowledged that Google workers have been “ridiculously well-paid,” however mentioned that the revision had been an enormous supply of concern for his or her household: “I used to be actually up until 2 a.m. final night time careworn over it.”

Within the newest e mail, Google Folks Operations informed former employees: “First we need to apologize for an inaccurate calculation that appeared within the preliminary notification e mail. The severance package deal that we defined within the help web site, detailed documentation and publicly was appropriate, but it surely was inaccurately mirrored within the e mail we despatched.”

A consultant for Google informed Insider in a statement: “We’ve adopted up and corrected the calculation — and this does not change the truth that all departing workers will nonetheless be eligible to obtain wage and inventory models for each the discover interval and the severance fee, in addition to their 2022 bonus, unused trip, six months of healthcare and extra help.”