Is the network down, or did I just get fired? - Senior Sales Engineer CA Technologies Employee Review

I worked for CA for four years. When I was not able to log into the network, rather than assume the network was down, I assumed I had been fired. That day finally came in a rif. And crazy enough, literally on the table they had two packages for me. One a severance package. The other, an offer to join a sales group in another department as they found out how "valuable I was". Can't really make this stuff up. CA is where good software goes to die.