@BritishKoalaTea I had a job where the emergency meeting was called at 4 pm on a Wednesday afternoon. We learned that half the staff was let go, they were in the other room.
About a year later, my department had a new boss. She called an emergency meeting at 4 pm on a Friday afternoon. Panic set in. We showed up and she had dinner and drinks for us to go home early because we had finished a huge project! She had not been told about the prior emergency meeting, so she had no idea why we looked so tattered. She never called an emergency meeting again without letting us know exactly what it was about.
@somcak yikes! No wonder people were stressed.