#anxiety

They never give us a heads up about stuff like layoffs. It just happens. How are we supposed to plan our lives? Keeping us clueless just makes everyone angry and scared.

I'm pretty sure I'm done here.

Now that the frontier acquisition is complete, will Dan still need Hans as special advisor?

I enjoy his run with Hans

I dont know what is wrong with me. I feel like I will go crazy because of anxiety. I dont have family and I can only rely on myself. I am so worried I wont be able to find another job. And staying home all day is driving me crazy. I dont know what to do. I apply everyday but no interview so far.

But it doesn't matter. Rolling layoffs have become our life. There's no room to breathe easy even for a second.

Because I just witnessed the r@pe of a market/area. I'm good but damn T-Mobile you scary.

I'm newer to OI... how do they typically let people know that they have been laid off? Is it a last minute meeting? Do you get an meeting invite at the beginning of the day? Are you told individually or is it in groups? Is it your manager sharing the news or is it typically HR? Like all of us- I am nervous!

Success and failure come from the top down. Abby has to be free falling because the company is getting worse by the day. Just grow a pair and fix the management crisis.

It’s pathetic that anxiety leave is a regular reason for people to be out of work. Life really isn’t that serious and if someone is below grade 5, really why are they stuck with incompetent management that su-ks the soul out of them? This is the company culture at this point.

I work in a CEC and I just got an email for a meeting with my director tomorrow. A big group of us got that email to be exact, should I worry this is a layoff convo??!

I'm in one of those bad stretches in life when problems just pile up - family issues, aging parents, health stuff. Everything's breaking down all at once, and the bills keep piling up. I'd probably handle the job uncertainty better if everything else wasn't falling apart. As it is, I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop and make it complete.

Good luck! This is the verified!

I've whipped myself into a frenzy anticipating layoffs next week. You'd think that by now we'd all be numb to this and learn to deal with it better. But every time the threat looms, which has become an increasingly frequent occurrence, I seem to have a harder time with it. This past week, I barely managed to focus on anything, or switch off for a moment once I'm back home. How do you cope?

I work in Sales and there are so many whispers that we are going to get hit hard. Does anyone else feel like they are walking on eggshells every day? We have lost a few AEs already.

Indefinitely? Until we all go nuts from anxiety?

Just sitting here and waiting, not knowing anything and just praying I'm not on the list...I can't wait for it to be over, one way or another.

Lately it feels like my brain just isn't firing the way it used to, which is far from ideal in the time of layoffs. I'm slower, more tired, and small things keep slipping through the cracks. I have made some changes and seen a doctor, but progress is uneven. I feel like I'm signing my layoffs notice myself.

I'm in fraud analytics and a bunch of my coworkers got pulled in for a surprise meeting today, one I was not part of and I'm extremely anxious and on edge. Has anyone heard anything yet? There's nothing out here that will pay me the same as I make and I really cannot afford to lose this job.

Let's wait and see instead of deciding this is the day or this is the week. It's not good for anybody's mental health.

Dust off that resume and run for the door, this is not going to be pretty.

I don't know how anyone will be able to do any work until then. The tension is palpable.

Wealth and brokerage have been struggling with their strategy for better part of last 2 years.

Every couple months there's an org update email followed by period of radio silence and generic "We will get through this together" bs during AAM

Recent colocation posts have reignited the debate on how the new HR wants to proceed.

My takeaway is, if you're a executive CIO reading this post, what pleasure do you get in associates going through stress, anxiety throughout the year???

Why can't you let someone be who just wants to keep their head down and work?????

I am sure most, if not all of you, are stressed and anxious. The truth is nobody here has the answer for what is going to happen. Nobody who does know would risk their job to post something here. I’m nervous alongside many of you. I just wanted to wish all of you the best as we approach uncertainty and hope you can find some time to get rest.

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Knowing I have to go to the dell office tomorrow in Round Rock

Is it just me, or does it feel to you like were living in The Traitors game show. Every day the Faithful try their hardest to generate cash, meanwhile the Traitors (HR in our case) are weighing us all up for the Ax, then they invite the unlucky ones into a room alone to tell them the bad news ... meanwhile the rest of the company carry on regardless and only learn who has gone when they don't turn up the next morning (no official announcement of anything).

We even have our own Donna Kelce (Secret Traitor) who provides the Traitors lists of potential unfortunates to be cut - I can reveal, the Secret Traitor - its ATHINA KANIOURA S&T Chief !

Seriously though, isn't it just like living in The Traitors, every night you get a terrible sleep wondering if tomorrow morning it will be your last. Big obvious difference - we don't get to banish the Traitors, only the Secret Traitor gets to do that. Oh and this show goes on for a decade ...

I left, and I was lucky to find a decent job. I can imagine the extra anxiety people who relocated have been going through. After the expensive move and all the other costs, including to your social life and consequences for family members, the very real possibility of losing your job anyway must be eating at people. Companies truly treat us like trash.

At the risk of sounding whiny, it would be great not to constantly worry about losing my job with all the obligations I have. If you have a family, it's really difficult not to feel under immense pressure all the time. People having decently paid jobs for long stretches sounds more like a myth these days. I truly wish we all had more stability in exchange for working hard and a lot.

With everything that's been happening I've been looking and applying like crazy for a couple of months and all I'm getting is complete silence in return. I don't remember it being this bad even at the start of the pandemic. To say I'm worried would be an understatement.

I can't relax, I can't watch my favorite shows, I can't even play with my kids without getting agitated. We're supposed to be able to rest and recharge our batteries over the weekend, not worry about the layoffs all the time and whether we're about to be jobless. I really hate this place.

Customer Service skills that have moved back to FT are FAST (top producing financial professionals), WT or Wealth Transfers (non-retirement transfers such as death, registration changes, etc.) and next week VIP SH services. The contract with FIS requires that FAST and VIP be serviced by US staff. When VIP moves over, there is no more contractural requirement to keep remaining US staff on board. There are highly tenured FT Legacy US staff remaining whose applications to return to FT keep getting rejected. Why? FIS will retain the Retirements and Shareholder skills until the end of tax season. Tenured staff with those skills are needed to maintain service levels. Why else would staff with years of experience be repeatedly rejected from returning to the same roles at FT? This is the anxiety being felt among those staff members. FIS will no longer be servicing FT after May 2026. The remaining staff is highly demoralized. Teams have been consolidated into unmanageable groups. It seems likely that the final layoffs will be announced in March. It's a terrible way to treat people who were not responsible for any of the choices that led them here. One last important point, those rehired at FT are doing so with a pay cut. That's right. you can perform the skilled role at FT that you are performing now for less money. The benefits are better and the 401k match is higher (85%) but the salaries offered are lower. Make that make sense.

I'm in retail, and my boss barely spoke a word to me this week. My guess is he already knows what's coming and knows my name is on the list. Let me tell you, it's not a fun feeling being 99% convinced you're being let go but still having that 1% of hope that you might be wrong.

It seems my early auto deposit at the bank is not appearing at the same time as it always has. Anybody else having issues? Hopefully this is not portents of things to come.

Layoffs are often announced on Tuesdays. Let’s see which org is up.

My mental health has been suffering because it’s simply not sustainable to keep worrying and stressing every single day. That’s where we’ve been for over a year now, just not knowing from one day to the next if more cuts are coming. I’m having more and more trouble dealing with it, but leaving isn’t an option.

I barely manage to drag myself to the office every day, already exhausted by the fact that everyone else is in the same situation. We are all equal parts demoralized and worried about our jobs. I just wish this were already over so we could at least know where we stand. The problem is that it never really ends. The only question is how bad it will be this time.

For the past decade, each year has been progressively worse than the previous one. And 2025 was already really, really bad. I don't dare think about what we might expect from this one. I've been praying for a new job, but having zero luck, so I guess I'll be forced to find out anyhow.

Anyone else feeling super anxious to see how this RTO will play out? I almost feel nauseous with it all

I was researching job openings during work yesterday, and my manager walked over and saw my screen. She confronted me about it, and I denied it in the moment. Now I'm anxious about potential consequences. Could this actually get me fired, or just put a target on my back?

That's how bad things have gotten. Elevance is destroying us.