I have seen this on a site before and I never understood why. Whats the point of limiting the length of the password? Its not to save storage space since the plain text isnt stored and the hash should be a uniform length. So whats the advantage?

Perl scripters call ourselves “Superior”

I had a very similar thing happen to me. The oddity was that I had just signed an offer letter with another company the week before and I gave my two weeks notice to my boss, but that message hadn’t traveled up the pipe yet. So my one-on-one with a director was basically

Director: “Half you team was let go, but your job is safe!” Me: “Cool. You know I’m leaving next week, right?” Director: awkward blank stares

I really wish I had been laid off. Saved someone else their job and I would have gladly taken that severance pay on the way out the door.

So, you should ask yourself, with every decision you make “is this good for the company?”

This was just a “team restructuring” but I was scanning the invite list to see if there was a name missing.