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Saw this on Reddit, thought it was #cool / #gold

I had to lay off my entire staff (and myself) with 8 hours notice.

I was the contract project manager on a government project (office type work). At our periodic review on a Thursday, the government announced they would not be renewing our contract and our last day was Friday (the next day).

I brought everyone into the conference room first thing the next day, let everyone know that we were all out of a job and that today was everyone’s last day. I had everyone email me their resumes, and we went over everyone’s on the conference room projector and updated them over the course of the day. I then printed out “reference” sheets for everyone, and we all spent the remainder of the day writing letters of recommendation for each other. I ordered everyone pizza, and bought everyone a round of drinks at the bar next door. Most folks had jobs by the end of the next week.”

I heard In Lorain, only about 10 out of the 50 FTEs asked are moving South. of the 10, 8 need to go due to immigration status. #cool

#cool: First of all so sorry to know that you are impacted and sorry to know ghat the exit / severance payout has not been smooth - I know how frustrating it can be on such a difficult transition time.

Just to understand - The initial deal was:
(1) those that were ‘laid off’ need not come to office from Feb 4th and will get paid until April end PLUS a severance of No. Of years of service > No. Of weeks of pay.

(2) A select others will be given an option to relocate to ATL with all expenses paid

(3) and if they are not ready due to school etc, they will be provided work from home in SF until August.

So what is the deviation that you are seeing from the original deal?

Are there salary negotiations?
Are they not honoring (1), (2) or (3)? What is the actual concern?

Macy,s has turned cold hearted. Everything has been screwed up across the board. HR wasn't prepared, some employees still don't have letters defining there severance and Macy's is just saying we will work with you.... They are asking people to stay until August now ,because they screwed up everything with these layoffs, but no incentive, no money at all. Macy's just thinks people should be grateful to have there paycheck until August. News flash Macy's there are other jobs out there! So far I have heard that the majority of people are saying no thank you! Macy's appears to have had no plan in place. The way things have being handled they just decided one day out of the blue to layoff all of these hard working dedicated associate one day and didn't put any thought into how it would affect business. Apparently contractors will save the world! Funny thing is the CTO Naveen did similar things at Home Depot and as soon as he was fired they began reversing all of his decisions and bringing things back in house.

Apparently CEO Jeff Ganette is clueless and just letting his CTO run rampant regardless of how ridiculous the plan is or how incredibly inept he is! Macy's is trying to paint this picture as cost savings to the investors but they are hiding allot of things behind the curtain in the dark spaces where no one goes. That's probably why they are rushing things at a feverish pace. Quick look over here at these pretty numbers while we hide things over here and do our dirty work.

Shame on you Macy's the store that has called itself the great American department store for many years and is now in route to send up to 70% of business to contractors and a large majority of that in India. You laid off thousands of American workers, many with 15,20,30,40 years of experience, so that you could just turn around and pay the contractor companies probably the same or even more money. Now the only question is how long before we hear welcome to the first annual Amazon Thanksgiving Day Parade? #COOL