#layoffs

I spent the best part of 20 years working for AT&T. Started before SBC bought it. Throughout that time I worked with some amazingly talented people. It's sad to see it's decline. It's global presence in network was stripped to the bone. I keep seeing LinkedIn posts from people trying to promote what is now once again a US centric dead duck.

To my former colleagues, I wish you well. It still amazes me how sh1t managers survive, who call themselves leaders when everything else says the opposite.

I've seen really good, technically super savvy people get pushed out in favour of continual cost savings on an ever declining customer base.

AT&T really need to get back into what they do well and kick everything else into the long grass.

I miss the people and talent. I don't miss the nonsense.

I walked away from Verizon two years ago. The internal dynamics were exhausting, and I couldn't see a path to grow there. From what I read today, those same patterns are still around. My own career took off in a much better direction after I left, so I have no second thoughts.

someone was supposed to come in to a meeting and messaged last minute that they got fired. rumors are flying that they weren't the only one

I have been at the same store for over three years now and it is crazy how much things have gone downhill. No communication from anyone, they refuse to bring in help and instead keep cutting people, and they keep dodging the raises they promised us. It feels like they are squeezing every last drop out of the people who stayed without giving anything back in return.

Layoffs this morning

With losing more states and maybe more to come, has anyone heard if they will adjust VSP staggered dates?

Firmwide but CCB and CIB confirmed to be affected

The easiest way to reassure shareholders is through layoffs. The last few months have been nerve-racking.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/mattel-executive-dumps-nearly-40-212237190.html

Roberto Jacobo Isaias Zanatta, Executive Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT), sold 39,083 shares on August 31, 2026, according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing.

My responsibilities have tripled since then, my entire team is anxious, morale is at its lowest, and leadership hasn't addressed the burnout. Instead of gratitude, I feel overwhelmed and resentful. Layoffs are sometimes just as bad for those who are "lucky" to stay.

So I'm posting it here. Employees are judged by appearance and flattery, not performance. During layoffs, favorites stay and hard workers go. People are bullied for personal matters. HR isolates anyone who speaks up.

Signs: You're being excluded from team meetings so you can't do your job. You get a sudden negative review despite good history. You're assigned last-minute projects with impossible deadlines. This is how they push you out without severance.

Do employees know there is a direct correlation between share price and employee layoffs? This Board and management team has destroyed any value in this company which constantly drives the value of PayPal lower. Now we seem to be relying on lowball buyout offers to give us any hope. I have lot of company stock from the 7 years I’ve been here and it constantly goes down. Even if they sold the company for $90 a share I would still lose money over a 7 year period!!!!! That is absolutely nuts.

The flashing lights are blinking red,
The servers groan and cry.
The "Think" signs hanging on the wall
Are watching tech hopes die.

An email lands at three AM,
"Restructuring is here!"
Which means your budget got slashed down
And mainframe teams disappear.

The cloud is mixed with legacy,
The software’s glued with tape.
They bought Red Hat to save the day,
But there is no escape.

The consultants pitch a massive plan,
With slides of pure design,
While engineers are pulling hair
To keep the code online.

Oh Watson AI used to rule,
The champion of the screen,
But now it’s just a broken cog
Inside a sad machine.

So raise a glass to Big Blue skies,
Now overcast with gray.
The storm is blowing through the tech,
And blowing cash away.

HR mentioned it was a bunch of people getting laid off today. Anyone else?

Is the work staying with Optum or moving to Sutter? Any layoff info?

Note: Used AI to clean up and organize the wording of this post. The information and content are based on what we’re hearing from our contacts. AI did not generate the information.

The dates being discussed are not completely baseless or intended to add fuel to the ongoing rumors. They are based on information we are hearing from reliable sources.

The dates being mentioned are Sep 14 for the US and Sep 14 or 16 for IDC. One reason being discussed is that last time there were legal considerations around the Sep 2 timing and stock vesting, so there may be an effort to avoid similar issues this time.

Again, none of this is officially confirmed. This is simply what we are hearing.

If multiple people on Blind and here are independently talking about Sep 14, there could be some truth to it. Something similar happened last year when there were a lot of rumors about Sep 2, and the layoffs did happen on Sep 2.

Potential impact:
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Based on what we are hearing, the impact could be mostly GVPs, middle management (M2/M3), and some ICs. But this is also not confirmed

###What you can do between now and Sep 13 midnight.
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1). Back up your personal materials
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Do not take Oracle proprietary or confidential materials. But download your personal documents such as paychecks, benefits information, contact details, performance records that you are entitled to keep, etc

2). Get your personal laptop ready
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Have your personal laptop set up with everything you may need for a job search. If something happens unexpectedly, you don’t want to be trying to transfer everything from your work laptop at the same time

3).Understand your health insurance options
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If you’re concerned about coverage, call Covered California this week and understand your options (Blueshield Silver instead of Cobra etc) before you need them. Don’t wait until the last minute. Also understand how WARN and COBRA work so you can make an informed decision based on your situation.

4). Review your life insurance
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If you currently have employer-provided life insurance, understand what happens to that coverage after termination and consider whether you need a personal term life insurance policy to protect your family. You can buy 20 year term insurance plan this week

5). Be prepared for the process
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If a layoff happens, you may receive a meeting invitation such as a ‘business update’ with your manager Sunday night or Monday morning (or just an early morning email). They will explain the next steps, including severance, benefits and returning company equipment. Follow the official instructions you receive.

6). Don’t panic
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If it happens to you, take a breath. Understand your severance and benefits, and apply for unemployment through EDD if you’re eligible. Give yourself some time to process everything.

7). Start preparing now
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Update your resume and LinkedIn profile. Start applying for jobs and consider using the time to upskill, especially in AI. You can spend part of the day applying and part of the day learning. It may take some time, but don’t give up.

Layoffs are happening across the industry, but the uncertainty and repeated restructuring can be very stressful. If something does happen, remember that it is not the end of your career. Take care of yourself, stay positive and focus on the next opportunity.

Hopefully none of this happens 🤞 But being prepared is better than being caught off guard.

Yep more coming today

Oh boy wait until yall see. The rumors on here are true. Manager cutbacks at the store level to align with reseller ops. October announcement. Obviously they are preparing for a total divesting within a few years. No wonder executive
Leadership is all moving out of retail.

well BDX is at 178 today......christ almighty when will TP be held accountable??? Guess more layoffs coming soon........

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/us-suspends-green-card-filings-by-cognizant-amid-visa-fraud-probe-threats-to-american-workers-11788917800925.html

Hearing there were leadership calls yesterday where people were briefed on large scale layoffs. Anyone heard anything about this? Seems like every sep/oct massive changes happen here!

I have never worked under an executive leadership team that has generated this level of distrust among its own employees and leaders.

What makes the situation particularly difficult to understand is that we are watching major strategic decisions fail in real time—many of them shaped or implemented with significant involvement from McKinsey and Cognizant. Rather than acknowledging the mounting evidence, reassessing the strategy, and holding the appropriate people accountable, the response appears to be doubling down on the same thinking and the same ecosystem of advisors. The decision to add another SVP whose professional background includes both McKinsey and Cognizant only reinforces the perception that leadership is becoming increasingly insulated from the realities experienced by the people actually responsible for delivering the work. There is also growing perception that internal advancement has become a thing of the past—that developing and promoting proven talent from within is no longer a meaningful part of the company’s leadership strategy.

The experience with Cognizant has been especially troubling. Reports of investigations involving the company only heighten concerns that many employees already have based on their direct interactions. Communications have too often been characterized by shifting narratives, questionable representations, a lack of transparency, and an extraordinary level of confidence by Cognizant staff who claim they can perform the work better and faster—despite operational results and historical experience that repeatedly call that assertion into question.
The people closest to the work are then left trying to manage the consequences: declining confidence, knowledge loss, execution risk, service concerns, employee disruption, and the enormous amount of effort required simply to keep these initiatives functioning.

At some point, this stops being a problem with execution and becomes a problem with executive judgment.

Perhaps the most damaging aspect is the apparent unwillingness of senior leadership to reconsider the direction when the evidence no longer supports it. Good leadership is not demonstrated by continuing to defend a strategy simply because significant time, money, and executive credibility have already been invested in it. Good leadership is demonstrated by recognizing when assumptions were wrong, changing course, and holding decision-makers accountable.

Instead, employees are watching leadership repeatedly double down while the organization absorbs the consequences. That is why trust has deteriorated so significantly. Employees can tolerate difficult decisions. They can tolerate restructuring. They can even tolerate strategies that ultimately prove unsuccessful. What is much harder to tolerate is leadership that appears unwilling to acknowledge failure, learn from it, or accept accountability for the results.

The de facto strategy increasingly appears to be: outsource all strategic thinking to McKinsey, outsource the work itself to Cognizant, and eliminate the institutional knowledge, experience, and proven talent that built and sustained the organization in the first place.

If senior leadership wants to understand why confidence in the executive team has eroded, it should start there.

Allegiance is a TPA thats been owned by Cigna for some time now and up until last year handled its own hiring/ firing process, benefits for employees and totally independent CEO. We were fully integrated with Cigna’s HR structure 1/1/2026. Our entire hr department was let go during this change. We were promised nothing would change except our benefits and we’d have access to apply to cigna internal positions. This hasnt been the case. Our entire reimbursement account department was just let go. This used to be such a nice small company to work for and now we are being run into the ground

Was talking to a HR consultant yesterday. Was absolutely blown away when she told me every 2nd CV she is seeing is either current or ex PayPal employee. And they are coming from junior, middle and senior level employees. What in the world is happening. It seems except Enrique and his cronies, everyone is jumping the ship.

People that cant do, instead work in risk telling everyone how to fill out paperwork. Because there is no communication in risk either, you wont get the same answer twice. The org is rotten from the head down.

I'm based in the US and just got confirmation on the actual long-term roadmap leadership is working toward. The goal is to aggressively shrink the total US workforce down to exactly 4,000 employees by 2030.Right now, upper management is debating how they’re going to enforce that number. We don't know yet if they'll manage to hit the 4K baseline through natural attrition which is entirely possible given how many people are completely checked out and looking for the exit after those brutal SHAPE survey results or if they're going to have to resort to more structured layoff rounds to force the headcount down.As part of this 2030 strategy, the US roles that actually survive are going to look very different. The plan is to push as many positions as possible completely out of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, relocating whatever is left to lower-cost US cities. But even with that domestic migration, the absolute ceiling for the entire US footprint is capped at 4,000.They’re keeping the exact timeline quiet so they don't trigger a mass panic or scare off customers mid-cycle, but the end state is already decided. If you're currently in a US-based role especially in the high-cost Bay Area offices, this is the reality on the horizon. Dust off your resumes and protect yourselves.
For employees in the other mature R&D hubs globally, I don’t have any information on the global situation but good luck to you too, since we don’t know what they are planning and things don’t look good in other countries too based on posts here.

In a series of last minute team meetings members of Marriott Customer Engagement Centers teams , Office of Consumer Affairs, Case Resolution Team, and Social Media were told their entire team is being eliminated. In the openings remarks of the meeting the Sr. Executive leading the meeting referred to Marriott's 2026 "Growing Forward" initiative. A complete insult to the intelligence, dedication, hard work, of the Customer Engagement Centers "best of the best". Options to apply for new roles under the restructured organization were discussed. The job openings will be opened to the public. There will be fewer openings than the positions being eliminated. All roles for these teams will officially end on November 23, 2026.

Well Jack-Attack's lock up period for bringing in Accenture grifters is just about at event horizon... So which positions are on the chopping block to make room for the buddies about to come in and save the day? Well, just think about which leaders have suddenly disappeared (quite a few) and you might be able to connect the dots. Someone else will appear magically in their stead with a "different title" as to not warrant lawsuits when someone's role was "eliminated". (Thanks legal eagles you guys are so smart.. LOL). These roles will not be posted publicly as there is a "candidate" waiting in the wings that was already "interviewed".

Cisco has not fired a poaching shot against Buffy-Duffy which is a tale tell sign that they are not concerned about bringing in D- sellers. He's bringing in more Cisco dudes than Bob bringing in IBM dudes. Guess who's getting NA pole position? An Accenture dude! Of course, makes sense now does it not?

Yes yes look over there and ignore the shell game. Bethpage and Plano will be sold and leased back by the opposite orgs and when the planned bankruptcy stops being the worst kept secret in business, both successor orgs will default on their obligations. But make sure to bring your a-s to work to a desk you had to request with no trash can because that would be too many hours in the cleaning contract. Badge swipes above all. What is anyone even doing here anymore?

AVPs and fake directors...you're on the clock!

A few months ago there was a report that Centene was partnering with Cognizant for AI tech enabled processes. This partnership would bring about $5 billion in revenue to Cognizant, while saving Centene a ton of money by not having staff. I started doing some research on this company and was shocked at how many times they have been sued by their own employees in the last 5 years. It seems like this company wants all of the US work it can get but refuses to have US employees, and if they do have them, they discriminate until they are sued. Today, this article came out regarding Cognizant's PERM filings are suspending pending a fraud investigation regarding HB1 Visa's and other PERM filings. This investigation based on Whistleblower complaints. Centene laid off thousands of American's to partner with a company who allegedly treats their American staff like cr-p??? Is that why Cognizant works so hard to make their Indian born staff become US Citizens, so then they can legally say they had US staff? I am all for equality and work with some amazing people from many diverse backgrounds, but it seems like Centene wants to replace their staff with AI and a vendor who prefers to hire non American's ....allegedly!!!! Very sad ☹️

This is pretty serious. When a law firm is already investigating PayPal over potential WARN Act violations, it tells you the layoffs are getting real and messy. Definitely worth paying attention to.

https://straussborrelli.com/2026/09/08/paypal-warn-act-investigation/

What's going on here?

comment below. does your boss talk about department succession planning and their desire to be 2 levels above their current role? do they also talk about how much political capital they have above them and that they manipulate people? are they petty and talking about how bad they want someone else’s office? do they talk about how other leaders doing their jobs are threats? do they talk their way into every conversation even when they should not be in the room? do they insert themselves into every decision? do they treat the job like their passion project? do they seem unconfident and not able to do the job honestly?

my boss does.

why aren’t these people chosen for layoffs?

Tech industry job cuts in the Bay Area have already surpassed the entire previous year's total by September 2026. Companies like PayPal, Amazon, and Synopsys have announced significant downsizing. This year's disclosed eliminations reached 12,947 positions, a 27% increase over 2025. Meta Platforms has led these reductions, planning to eliminate 3,715 roles in the region. The trend indicates a challenging period for tech employment in the Bay Area.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/09/04/tech-economy-jobs-paypal-amazon-layoff-ai-internet-bay-area-san-jose/

Laid-off tech workers are applying for a high-paying dishwashing position in San Francisco. The restaurant owner claims many applicants are unqualified for the demanding role. He is seeking individuals who can handle multiple tasks beyond just washing dishes. The restaurant is located near Uber headquarters, which recently announced significant layoffs. The owner hopes to find a dedicated employee for his busy weekend shifts.

San Francisco, California

https://nypost.com/2026/09/03/lifestyle/laid-off-bay-area-tech-workers-apply-for-50-an-hour-dishwasher-job/

Payments company PayPal is implementing significant job cuts, impacting over 250 employees at its San Jose headquarters. These permanent layoffs are scheduled to take effect on October 30th. The affected positions are primarily within senior software engineering and engineering management roles. This reduction represents approximately 1% of PayPal's total global workforce. The company is reportedly undergoing a broader cost-reduction initiative.

San Jose, California

https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/paypal-layoffs-payment-app-cuts-over-250-bay-area-jobs/

ThriftBooks is closing its Halethorpe warehouse in October, impacting 136 employees. The company plans to consolidate its operations by relocating to its Arizona site. This move is part of a broader effort to streamline its national network. ThriftBooks is offering relocation assistance and placement support to affected workers. The online bookseller has been a significant provider of new and used books since 2003.

Baltimore County, MD

https://patch.com/maryland/towson/thriftbooks-close-baltimore-county-warehouse

Employers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have reported fewer mass layoffs this year. This trend suggests a stable regional labor market despite economic uncertainties. Transportation and logistics sectors are contributing the most to these announcements. The overall number of layoffs is expected to continue easing through mid-2026. This indicates a positive sign for the local economy.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

https://www.costar.com/article/1241368499/dallas-fort-worth-layoffs-ease-through-mid-2026