The father of a newborn baby was unceremoniously laid off from his job at Google in the middle of the night- and he only found out when he did because he happened to be feeding the baby.
Nicholas Dufau had six months of associate product counsel time under his belt and was on parental leave at the time, having only welcomed his daughter into the world earlier this month.
“Last Tuesday morning at 2am, I became a father,” Dufau wrote in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday. “The next day, my Google teammates showered me with heart emojis and virtual confetti, wishing me well on my paternity leave.”
Dufau noted that the layoff was rather impersonal, with no one even breaking the news to him via phone or video call.
“On Friday morning at 2am while feeding my infant, I received a notification that I had lost access to my Google corporate accounts,” he wrote. “I had been laid off via automated email.”
The new father stated that the callous nature of the layoff hit especially hard, especially since he was just put on paternity leave.
“Every layoff hurts- the timing of this experience, however, not only made me feel acutely expendable, it made me feel naive,” Dufau stated.
Earning his Juris Doctor in 2015, Dufau is a Los Angeles-based lawyer who was relatively new to Google, though he will likely be better prepared than most to re-enter the job market.
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