Sorry to hear that, hammervice.
Two days' notice is more than some people get. At the last office job where I worked, I had the unpleasant experience of turning up one Monday morning and asking "Where's ____?" only to be told the guy in question had been told on the Friday evening that he was made redundant and wouldn't be required from then on. He was not even give the chance to say goodbye to anyone. Presumably he got severance pay.
I've heard other stories of people actaully not being told about their job loss until they were outside the building - called outside on the pretext of a fire drill or something of that nature, then the bosses informing them that their jobs were gone, their pass cards and accounts had been disabled, and they would not be allowed back into the building. The contents of their office desks were collected and brought out to the car park for them to retrieve their stuff. This was in case anyone, getting upset at the news, decided to delete a few files on the computer or something.
I'm not going to say "Consider yourself lucky" because losing a job unexpectedly is always somewhat traumatic, but at least you got a small amount of notice and a chance to say goodbye to people.