#cuts

Heard some folks are getting whacked starting tomorrow.

Ceremonies have started..

1200 jobs cut in Europe. Brussels office closing. Moves to Antwerp and Prague.

200 job cuts in Prague, but taking in ~90 from Brussels.

Singapore office to close. Employees moving to refinery with cuts.

900 cuts at Imperial oil (all above-field, 350 from sites, rest from Calgary)
Calgary office closing, employees moved to Strathcona.

20% reduction in headcount in ExxonMobil Canada (separate from Imperial Oil)

Employees are our greatest asset*

• Provided we can pay them peanuts in developing nations

Telling some of your top performers and employees that the decision to cut your job was done to "strengthen the company". Next month they'll be saying their people is their power. It used to be "we only keep the elite, top performing" as if your status here is some badge of honor. Only the best get to stay. Think that lie has run its course. They think folks who continually refuse to pull their weight, do the bare minimum and constantly whine about the need to do more will match the work ethic of the folks they are laying off. Good luck with that. Ive given up my weekends, evenings and worked so many hours because of these so called competitive moves. Who's going to do that now? This is about a bottom line, a bottom line gets you bottom of the bucket quality. I hope this company finally gets what it deserves. For folks outside of the company thinking of doing business with Imperial or ExxonMobil. Stay far far away. Unless you love not getting paid, having no one to answer your phone calls and now no one to hold those individuals accountable to do either of those things.

This is the favorite time of the year for Staples “holiday greetings” through November layoffs.

Get ready to be ready, it will be about cutting the staff, cost, manager preference, or last hard first fired.

Update your résumé, pay for it if you can NOW and circulate!

Connect with recruiters and send the hiring managers your resume directly through Linkedin or company email.

Pick out the top 10 companies (maybe 20-40), and start networking now.

I have a great track record over the last decade plus. I have gotten a raise for exceeding or meeting expectation every year . Several of those years have been exceeding, but I’m not going to wait. I have never seen it this bad.

When the layoffs happen, I noticed that my workload increases, but it doesn’t equal out to financial compensation if they were to hire a person to do it full-time! I refuse to be cheap labor for more time than I have to.

Most who leave Staples are compensated MORE and are less stressed.

Good luck, stay strong, be proactive!

Continuing to cut and slice the organization when you've already won. By his words, we are already in a league of our own... so let's ruin organizational morale further. Winning at all cost is an endless pursuit.

Story by Katherine Hamilton

Imperial Oil plans to reduce its workforce by 20% by the end of 2027.

The job cuts, along with broader restructuring efforts, are expected to save $150 million a year by 2028, the Canadian oil company said Monday.

Imperial had 5,100 regular employees at the end of 2024, according to its annual report.

The other restructuring efforts include working more closely with its major shareholder, ExxonMobil, to drive productivity improvements, including higher production, reduced downtime, lower unit operating costs and better project planning. Imperial also said it plans to further consolidate activities to its operating sites.

The Calgary, Alberta, company expects a one-time restructuring charge of $330 million before taxes in the third quarter. Its 2025 guidance is unchanged.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/imperial-oil-to-cut-20-of-workforce-in-next-two-years

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/exxon-mobil-cut-2000-jobs-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-30/

Teradata’s still a beast in the data world we're decades in and still running some of the biggest workloads out there. Shifting from an appliance based company to a Cloud, hybrid, real-time analytics, we can't stop winning. The direction of vantage is strong

And about the chatter this week yeah, there are some cuts, but it’s mostly performance trimming, the kind of thing every big tech shop does. Look at Google, Meta, Amazon, and even Qualcomm. We can support our laid off coworkers and still appreciate what we have here. Teradata skills are transferrable anywhere. The core product teams surrounding vantage aren’t going anywhere, and the tech is as strong as ever.

Teradata isn’t slowing down. The platform is rock solid, and that’s why the biggest players keep trusting it!

not a good sign for the economy too.
30+ people were let go.
we fear that more will be let go.
godspeed all

From another thread:

900 Calgary campus employees gone. The remaining folks will be shipped to the manufacturing sites primarily Strathcona (Edmonton).

Some site folks (non wage) are to be replaced by higher performing folks from the Calgary move. Redundant positions especially in the mid to higher CLs at the sites to be replaced with Calgary folks that have been working global roles.

Was just laid off after over 4 years of working there. Can’t say it was unexpected since people seem to be randomly let go (people hitting quotas, high performers, average) and others that don’t seem to pull their own weight still there. Maybe they’re connected

About Union Pacific Corp.:
The Union Pacific Railroad is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans (as of 2016). The Union Pacific Railroad system is the largest in the United States and employs over 40,000 workers. The company is one of the largest transportation companies in the world and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

We are now about what 28000 employees... maybe? And they HAD 8500 locomotives, they only are running maybe 3300? How many are stored broke or have been sold off?

Who makes the decision on who actually gets laid off? And is it mainly the non-senior people who get cut?

LAYOFFS CONFIRMED THROUGH NOVEMBER:

"Accenture Revenue Rises 7% as Layoffs Continue Through November"

https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/accenture-revenue-rises-7-as-layoffs-continue-through/497601

JOB OPENINGS BY COUNTRY BASED ON LINKEDIN NUMBERS (DATA AS OF SEPT 26, 2025)

LinkedIn Accenture Job Openings in India: 26,000+ Accenture Jobs in India
(several in recruiting, which is an indicator of offshoring only increasing)

LinkedIn Accenture Job Openings in the USA: 1,000+ Accenture Jobs in United States

LinkedIn Accenture Job Openings in the UK: 324 Accenture Jobs in United Kingdom

Other (selected) countries: 110 Accenture Jobs in Costa Rica, 283 Accenture Jobs in Argentina, 238 Accenture Jobs in Brazil, 164 Accenture Jobs in México, 162 Accenture Jobs in DACH (Germany, Switzerland, Austria), 104 Accenture Jobs in France, 248 Accenture Jobs in Spain, 335 Accenture Jobs in China

You heard it here first. Don't get why people haven't already spilled it.

Facilities teams all over about to get gutted, engineers and techs will all get replaced with green badges. Lots of badge flipping around Christmas.

Good luck running a factory without a facility team.

I lost my job at the hot chicken sandwich company today. They called it a “strategic restructure.” I called it getting canned from a place that sells spicy bird meat.

They pulled me into the “Cayenne Conference Room” — aka the breakroom — and told me my “passion” wasn’t a good fit. Translation: I ranked our worst customers on a whiteboard and started a petition for bigger sauce cups.

I packed my ranch packets, flipped the “open” sign to “closed,” and walked out smelling like ghost pepper and poor decisions.

Hot chicken? Sure. Hot mess? Absolutely

This is how I will get through staring at their empty desks.

70 staff member laid off in late Sept. a lot of them through email! Absurd

Is anything happening today?

Sep24 6am UTC - Sep25 6am UTC totals: 80 layoffs, 9 additions.
September totals (except Sep01): 5635 layoffs, and 825 additions.
Methodology and day-by-day breakdown is in comments.

I know a dev team in Pacific, which had the last day yesterday, but they are still in Slack and it is unclear why O stopped cutting access to some people. Maybe it was too easy to track layoffs. Therefore, these totals are the floor estimate.

Anyone have news to share about the like-li-hood of layoff after G2E finishing?
Please share any news. Thank you.

https://mishtalk.com/economics/seattle-reeling-over-tech-layoffs-especially-microsoft/

Is that even possible? These are the numbers sent from their communications, sound like support will be gone from Oracle soon. This is such a high number.

From a company that care so much of their customers lol

Worst day in the history of this company, most of the people were laid off - global functions, AMER region.
Half of the people who got the letters have time only till Jan 23, then they will be laid off.
For rest handful of people, package is same, rest benefits go down, specially the bonus was reduced to less the 50% of the current one.
Curious case, a web marketing leader with 13 years was laid off, in comparison to a leader who just joined the company in July.
So much politics, so much biasness.

For Group 2 and Group 3 - leave while you can, only those will survive who are good at licking.

RR sold this company, sold the lives of thousands of people, shame on him.
worst CEO in the history of this industry.

Big cuts coming for HR and benefits folks. Will be a sad next few weeks for them.

No more cuts expected tomorrow?

I have been a CRC for seven years and have seen many changes. Each year we have less people to help the customers. I am concerned they will shut down more branches soon. Does any one have any information

It all goes down Monday

Ice Berg and his side kick Marne cut a dozen people in procurement this week, then hired another executive to run IT, moved Almost Ded Ned out from Sandipshit because he wasn't bringing any revenue (scapegoat 1). Then gave Ded a BS Innovation title and probably more money.
Heat is turning up after a terrible August and horrible Q3 outlook for Gilly Bean West. But don't worry the new mascot car, Miles Dumpster, in all the communications will keep morale up.

Today was the chopping day at NGS. Many managers. Directors. And lower level people riffed in preparation for JG bid. They cut to the bone marrow on this one. All their experience. Knowledge base and loyalty they got rid of. I hope they don’t get it.

They have sunk to an all-time low.

As they continue to make cuts, we have some snake-leaders hiring candidates from outside the company. You can't tell me there weren't hundreds of internal applicants that were fully qualified!

THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT US!

If there is one thing Follett is good at it's cutting payroll. Congratulations to the new student CEO. follett is teaching future leaders how to treat their employees poorly.

Why again ??????

Seattle Children’s Hospital will lay off more than 150 workers this fall, blaming the cuts on the loss of federal funding.

The hospital confirmed Wednesday that 154 employees will be laid off and 350 open positions will be eliminated, effective Nov. 15.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-childrens-layoff-150-jobs/281-62ef8f3f-69a5-4824-bf24-0524ec70a7d4

Rumor has it c-suite and EC cuts are next now that the farce of a Board meeting is done. About time they start treating the senior leaders with the same ruthlessness they treat everyone else. AMN continues to use RTO to do layoffs without paying severance and hide poor financial performance. That may seem like good business to the bean counters but what it reflects is a bankrupt ethical culture.

Senior leaders bully SMEs into submission on quality issues, ignore compliance and cut corners that will ultimately harm patients (pay attention clients!). SpeakUp is a joke and the Board doesn’t have a clue that the worst offenders were the ones sitting in that meeting with them including those in charge of the so called quality and ethics programs.

Mark my words this company will not exist in 3 years. It is being run straight into the ground by unethical people.

How true is this?

Sep16 6am UTC - Sep17 6am UTC totals: 75 layoffs.
September totals (except Sep01): 4857 layoffs, and 544 additions.
Methodology and day-by-day breakdown is in comments.