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Charter Shuts Appleton Spectrum Facility

Charter Communications is ending operations at a Spectrum facility. The facility's final day of operation is May 21. This action impacts 313 employees. The company submitted a worker displacement report. Work from Appleton will transfer to other U.S. centers.

https://www.wpr.org/news/spectrum-call-center-in-appleton-will-close-leaving-over-300-people-without-jobs


Can we talk about the choke hold India and Indians have on the firm?

Pretty much the title. I know every group has their bad apples but seeing how many employees of other ethnicities (not even talking about white people here) have been disproportionality replaced by those from South Asian countries is absurd. Am I alone in thinking this?


Wells Fargo Employee dependent Scholarship

"Confirm eligibility as a dependent of a Wells Fargo employee with required employment status."

My child is applying. Deadline February 26th. If they are awarded this year, and I get displaced after they are awarded..how would that work? What if I'm displaced and then they are awarded, are they no longer eligible? (Unless I'm in my 60 day non-working employee period). I ask because I'm 99 percent sure my displacement will happen between March and June of this year. Thank you in advance.


Severance packages are being scaled back in favor of terminations

In 2026 WF is moving the cost of severance packages to the line of business. LOBs are not funded for this cost and will instead force terminations through low performance reviews. Displacements will be delayed as each LOB works through this process. This is so sad, many good people will be forced out due to 'low performance' who truly deserve a package.


Location Strategy

Apparently has been put on hold . I was initially informed that I would be released at the start of the second quarter. However, today I was informed that this decision has been reversed. While I am grateful to retain my position, I must admit that I was looking forward to the relief of not having the threat of displacement looming over me, and I would prefer to receive a severance package should they decide to terminate my employment. I am now concerned that I might receive an IM or one of those unnecessary RTO reports, which they could potentially use as justification for my dismissal. This marks the third occasion on which I have experienced a similar situation.


Bonus, Bonus, what will it be??....

Wow! Some concerned about bonus! Let me tell you, I was displaced on 9/30/25. I don't get a bonus. I don't get anything really. And to be clear, I thought like you OP! Yep, so some got laid off, but we are here doing all the work now. I guess that might have some basis, but I have to say, I've got NOTHING. And the job market SU-KS. Yes, those of us who've been cast off, we are not thinking bonus. We are thinking, how to provide for the family, how to put food on the table, how to pay the bills. I get your bonus concern. Can you get my survival concern?


AI - Winter is coming!

Artificial Intelligence is being promoted as the next great engine of prosperity. AT&T, like many others, insists that AI will be a job creator, a force that opens new opportunities and drives innovation. But let’s be honest. If AI is as successful as its architects hope, it will never generate more jobs than it destroys.

The entire purpose of AI investment is efficiency. It is designed to automate, to optimize, to eliminate human error, and ultimately to eliminate human labor. If after billions in research and infrastructure AI does not eliminate millions of jobs, it will be judged a failure. That is the paradox. Success for AI means displacement on a scale society has never seen.

This is not alarmism. It is simple math. Every breakthrough in automation has reduced the need for human workers. AI is not just another tool. It is a general-purpose technology capable of replacing cognitive, creative, and managerial tasks once thought untouchable. When machines can write, analyze, negotiate, and even empathize, what remains for us?

The consequences go far beyond unemployment statistics. Work is not just a paycheck. It is the backbone of civil society. It structures our days, gives us purpose, and ties us to communities. Strip away meaningful employment for millions, and you do not just create economic instability. You unravel the social fabric itself.

If AI succeeds, we face a collapse of civil society:

  • Mass displacement of workers across industries, not only manufacturing but also white-collar and professional roles
  • Erosion of identity and purpose as people lose the roles that anchor them in society
  • Concentration of wealth and power as the benefits of AI accrue to a handful of corporations and investors
  • Political instability as inequality deepens and trust in institutions evaporates

We cannot afford to be lulled by glossy promises of “new jobs” or “reskilling.” History shows that the jobs created by automation are fewer, more specialized, and often inaccessible to those displaced. The scale of AI disruption will dwarf past industrial revolutions.

This is not a distant future. It is unfolding now. The urgency is real. If we do not confront the societal consequences head-on, we risk trading human dignity for technological progress. And that is not progress at all. It is collapse.


Incentive and displacement

How will those of us that have been displaced (October) be remembered for incentive allocations that are happening now (finalized in January)? Will leaders just need to remember us that have been displaced or is there an organized process perhaps led by HR to advise managers so they don't forget us?? I was a top performer.


Did anyone buy or lease the Orin?

Rumors from earlier this year… Is bnsf doing directional traffic on the coal loop? Did they run through Edgemont yet? Did they do anything with the Orin???

Every bit of industry has been changing this year. People are getting laid off or displaced to other locations. (Example… Union Pacific is wanting to make North Platte an away terminal).


IBM Tried To Replace Its Workforce With AI But Hired More People Instead

With companies like IBM laying off thousands —
Microsoft laid off 9,000, Amazon ousted 14,000,
Accenture about 11,000 — it might be time to
seriously consider the future of this
displacement.
We won't be holding our breath.

https://www.bgr.com/2025199/ibm-tried-replace-workforce-ai/


vSphere is under fire with new rising displacement software

I spent over 10 years in vSphere. Now that Broadcom bundled vSphere 9.0 and you can never buy alone, many alternatives are coming up. Proxmox is outdated. These guys are out of their mind.

But I am seeing a few players. Some are ex-vmware employees. It is very very very interesting to see one of them takeover vSphere in a few years.

Of course, the top enterprise customers are stuck but anyone less than 1000 servers should be an immediate target.

I am very looking forward to see vSphere displacement in action.

19,000 employees were kicked out due to greed and destruction.


Money not worth the stress and disruption

For those of you that are holding out to be displaced. You got to look at what the cost to yourself and your family is of staying there. The money even at the end of your long career is not going to be worth the time that you lose away from your loved ones. The leadership doesn't care if you were single parents they don't care if you have children they don't care if you have a loved one you're caring for they don't care if you have parents that you are monitoring. This is all stuff that can be done with you working at home and every now and then just checking on your kids your spouse your parents. But management has decided that is not important prioritize your life based on the most important things which is not your career.


Pssst. In case you didn’t know about the 100 Million

Reading posts for far too long without contributing aside from a thumbs up or down.
All the bit$hing about layoffs and RTO can be summarized and understood by understanding the un mutable living fact. Which is, 100 MILLION of us will be displaced by AI by 2030.
Fact, not fiction. There will be civil unrest. There will be difficult times. This vast wasteland called T is the least of our worries, Look to your right and to your left. I promise you those employees will be unemployed.


Dozens of Wisconsin workers losing jobs as Xylem announces layoffs

Xylem, Inc., a major American water technology provider with operations in Wisconsin, has announced it will be laying off dozens of employees at its Waukesha facility.

According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) letter submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Xylem will permanently reduce its workforce at the facility located at N19W23993 Ridgeview Parkway, Suite 200.

https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/dozens-of-wisconsin-workers-losing-jobs-as-major-company-announces-layoffs/


Was 10/15 that bad??

Was today October 15th really that bad? Yes, it is sad people have lost their roles (unless they wanted to of course) but I have only heard of a handful of names. From previous posts you thought there would be 1000+ Anyone know total number of colleagues who left us today?


How many got LRed and existed out on Oct 13 after 60 days, are non-USA different dates?

Acknowledge if impacted this cycle. There are numbers out as large as 7000 LRed this cycle as notified on Aug 13, 2025 but there is no formal place to sum it up. Are WARN notices available and what age group employees with locations impacted…. This is a whole mix soup, everyone served different.

How is the job market outside… hearing pathetic stories…