New Delhi, July 11 -- What was supposed to be another day at work turned out to be the worst nightmare for 19 employees at a four-year-old startup. In an urgent meeting, their boss disclosed that the company, related to cloud/chatbot management, had run out of money and was shutting down right that moment.

Taken by a surprise, the Redditor said that none of the 19 employees saw that coming because there had been "no warnings, no layoffs."

In a Reddit post, the user said that the team received an "unexpected email" from the CEO requesting an urgent all-hands meeting midday. "In that meeting, he told us something none of us saw coming: 'the company had completely run out of money, '" the post read.

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