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The two way street

All you hear is “there’s a storm a comin”, whatever. What most managers don’t realize or don’t care to realize is that for now things are slanted one way…..for now.
There is a storm coming, yeah, I get it, layoffs.

After the dust settles, there’s another story to tell coming from the employees. Things will be slanted the other way.


Charles River Laboratories is shutting down a cell therapy site in Hanover

Charles River Laboratories is closing its cell therapy site in Hanover, Maryland, a company spokesperson confirmed to Endpoints News on Feb. 5. The shutdown will impact 20 employees, according to a state WARN notice.

https://www.biospace.com/biospace-layoff-tracker


Bonus for laid off employees

Should laid off employees expect a 100% bonus payout on 2/27 if they were terminated due job elimination with no mention of performance? I assume most who were laid off in January never had a performance review with their leader…. Severance docs only mention pro rated bonus for 2026 and is unclear about how bonus for 2025 will be paid out


Total number of employees-Informational

The 10-K filing is now published.

As of 12/31/2025:
Total # of Employees: 133,030
Number of Retirees/Beneficiaries: ~477,000

Compared to 12/31/2024:
Total # of Employees: 140,990
Number of Retirees/Beneficiaries: ~496,000

They no longer breadkdown by domestic/international, age ranges, ethnicity, or anything else. Interestingly, they claimed 43% of the workforce is represented by collective bargaining which is unchanged from last year's, and still higher than previous years' 42%.


Qualcomm Climate Survey Transparency

The climate survey should be handled by an independent third party, with results shared transparently with employees. Currently, employees are pushed to participate, and there is no clear breakdown of results or visibility into improvement actions. In all-hands meetings, the data is presented positively, which does not reflect the actual work environment.


Prior Year Bonus Payment?

Does anyone know if prior year bonuses are paid-out if an employee resigns before the pay date in the current year? Obviously I cannot ask our HRBP because they’ll know about my departure before I’m ready to give notice.

This is specifically about a US-based employee.

While we are it, does anyone know if the quarterly bonuses due to revenue generating plans are paid-out if the employee leaves before the paycheck arrives?

Thanks!


Two Gaston Sites Announce Worker Layoffs

Dozens of workers are facing layoffs at two facilities located in Gaston. The specific companies affected by these job reductions were not explicitly named in the provided headline. This event signifies a significant workforce reduction impacting employees in the Gaston area. The headline indicates that a notable number of individuals will lose their jobs. Further details regarding the reasons for these layoffs were not available.

https://www.aol.com/articles/dozens-workers-two-gaston-facilities-100532669.html


Wealth

Sudden wealth is coming for many. It will allow many to walk out of the door without warning. It will cause Chaos in corporate America and the shift back to employee leverage will begin.


Clinicians…how do you reconcile working here?

Physicians, social workers, counselors, nurses….how do you do it? I’m not talking about finance, IT, or those departments. Just the member interacting employees. You can perform whatever mental gymnastics you want to make you sleep better at night, but you’re really just gatekeeping healthcare on behalf of a company who’s primary responsibility is to maximize financial gain for its shareholders. Doesn’t seem quite in the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath the Nightingale Pledge. It definitely wasn’t for me.


When will the US Cellular Slugs be Terminated?

Last August, T-Mobile made the mistake of retaining a good portion of the US Cellular workforce, especially the field technicians who have zero technical skills, are overpaid, constantly complain, and make comparisons to “the way they did it at US Cellular,” even though it is inconsequential. There are markets that are over indexed due to this additional “workforce” and it is likely that good T-Mobile employees will be terminated with the slugs remaining here in the near future. If the leadership had any bit of intelligence, they would dump those US Cellular slugs now and try to get back to the way the company was operating prior to both the Sprint and US Cellular disasters that are destroying the company


100+

lululemon let go of 100 part-time workers who helped answer customer questions by phone, email, and chat.

These workers helped people every day, but the company decided it wants to use only full-time workers for this job instead.

Lululemon says this change will help them do a better job helping customers and make the business run more smoothly.

This is happening while the company is also looking for a new boss and dealing with some disagreements with its founder.

no store closures, just changes to how customer help is done.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-lululemon-layoffs-customer-care-part-time-work/


You are not a tree, you can make decisions and influence your life (RTO or no RTO)

To all the people on here complaining about RTO—you are wasting precious time and energy. Don’t waste your efforts whining on here to a group of people who, to be honest, 90 percent don’t give a damn about your problems and the other 10 percent is glad you got you got ‘em. Don't live with the dogma of other people's thinking. You decide what your limits are, or if you have any limits at all.

My cousin’s company issued an RTO mandate a while back. Do you think he took to an internet message board to complain and seek pity? Nope. Not a chance.

He mocked up a concept for a small mechanism for his desk. I think it was a printed circuit board with a slot for his work access badge, connected to a small remote radio unit (it was a cheap RRU from the web) and some kind of signal repeater with a diffuser which made the system think he was on site 24/7.

When they asked him about it, he played d-mb. Then instead of complaining, again he went and improved it with an integrated I/O switch, a battery backup unit with uninterrupted power supply (BBU/UPS), and a linear encoder so the signal output run time was limited to a max of ~65 hours weekly. He tweaked the battery size and a few other design features so that he only has to go into the office once a month for routine maintenance.

My point is sometimes it is better to tap into your creative side than it is to moan and whine on the internet. With the time and effort some of you guys have invested complaining and ruminating here, you could have had 2 or 3 prototypes assembled and tested.

Update: They made him a partner/principal at the firm about 2 years later.


More HR employees - GONE

Wow. Well I just found out TWO people in HR, extremely vital employees in Benefits and HRSC RESIGNED in December. Resigned because NOTHING CHANGED and they just couldn’t stay to watch this place crumble any longer. Did the HR leaders send out an email to Human Resources to inform them? NOPE. Do they have a game plan? Doubtful because no one cares anymore. I am shocked. I found out THIS WEEK and they have both been gone for weeks already. How awful that no one got to say goodbye to these valuable team members. I am so sorry for them. I am so sorry for everyone in HR that is still dealing with the turmoil of 2025. There has to be change immediately before we lose the last few still standing.


Call routing

If the company doesn’t change call routing they will go under, slowly and devastating to employees and customers. Morale is at an all time low across the board. Kareem needs to go. If you know you know. Kareem is the most worthless manager of all time


4 Rounds of New Year Layoffs and Its not even 2026 Yet!

OMFG, it’s not even 2026 yet and there were already 4 rounds of layoffs announced. According to the WARN Tracker website, West Des Moines is laying off another 65 (1/2,1/23 and 2/6). Sacramento is laying off another 114 employees on 2/6. While it’s great to have a paycheck, this place is toxic AF and not worth the fear this place is filling my soul with. WF used to be such a fun and great place to work.


White-collar Slackers, Snowflakes and chronic Whiners currently employed by Ford most likely will be let go during the month of February

Ford Leadership warns The Ford Motor Company is at risk of continued existence and is rapidly moving the Company forward for survival. Leadership announced every Ford employee must report to their assigned office five days a week starting in the second week of January, no acceptations will be approved. Leadership has identified 25,000 Slackers who were recently warned by email that they are at a threat of being issued Performance Improvement Plans during the second week of January. The odds are 9 out of 10 of these 25,000 Slackers will flunk their Performance Improvement Plans or refuse to even accept them and will be summary fired and unemployment benefits will be denied.
The goofing off from home days, while on the Ford clock are officially over.