I was months away from 20 years with the big yellow tractor company in Peoria IL in the fall of 2015. They announced there would be 10k people laid off. Yes, 10,000. Sure enough, not just me but my whole DEPARTMENT was let go. We were doing long term planning...future footprint of the company and all that. Guess we didn't see that one coming!
I had a pension and 401k with them, but was forced to move them out. They allowed me at least to roll the pension into an IRA, like the 401k. So at least I was able to keep what had accumulated in the pension.
But still........