#layoffs

If they were to do layoffs would they be more likely to do them when we were actually physically present in the office?

This is a genuine request, and I'd appreciate honest (not snarky) feedback. What would you do if your boss revealed that layoffs were imminent and your team might be affected? It might not be everyone, but it could be. Which is surprising, as we've already had several team members leave. But apparently, that doesn't 'count'. Alas, the 'powers that be' don't view our reporting work as 'valuable' - more like 'oh, that can be done with AI' or some other assumption that diminishes the complexity of what's required. I've been down this path before... and somehow survived by various means. Should I apply for other opportunities at AT&T? Please note that I enjoy my current role. I like my boss. But those above him aren't cool. Am I jumping from the frying pan into the fire? Please note: I'm nearing retirement age and want to make the most of my time.

We have a gasilian CEO's waiting in the wings. We have left enough old people go, why not one more?

Any inside information on what jobs are being eliminated? What states are being affected?

Nice job WF displacing people on 9/30 so they aren't still considered employees on 12/15 (with their 60 days notice) to get the entire year of 401k matching!

Clearly it’s the month to cut. Heard anything about the looming layoffs?

The walls are crashing down around you. The future of a stable, well paying job, in a great city, is over. The vision of a lucrative nest egg is challenged. Your sense of identity and worth is compromised. Your doubts are setting in.

But remember.. you will be okay. You are blessed to live in a great country with free healthcare, and decent safety nets. This is a hole you will climb out of. You are worth it! And you will go on to do amazing things. Just different things and ones you can’t comprehend or envision at this time.

Maintain your physical and mental health and stay strong! The best is yet to come.

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Any thoughts on what was shared in today’s town hall with RFAB, DM6, SMFAB, LFAB? In a meeting last week, supposedly Yunus said there were no plans for further headcount actions. But please still voluntarily go burn all your TBK in Q4 so you’re cheaper to fire. Seemed to allude that Q3 numbers aren’t terrible, but they are worried about Q4.

Or is all the pain going to be felt down the ladder by the people who need jobs the most?

Gartner TA alum here, to those affected please know that as painful as this is right now, you are better off out of there and the conditioning Gartner has put you through will set you up for success literally anywhere else. Hands down the most talented and human TA team I’ve ever worked in and your hard work will be valued so much more elsewhere.

For years Gartner has attracted talented TA professionals by promising career growth, “work life balance” and a place that people are proud to work for. Once they’ve dangled the carrot they’ll work you to the bone and make you think your work is never good enough.

The writing was on the wall when Obert rocked up with his empty fluoride stare. But then again, we all know he’s just a scape goat.

The post is not mine, I saw it here: @fh+1k6dh96e5

I joined this fkn company cuz of the defined benefit of plan because in my mind it used to offset the PIP/PDS bullsh-t we have to do every year. Well Atleast they don’t do layoffs right ? I mean even tho the PDS system can be biased it can never be soo biased and merit must count somewhat right ?

Now they do fkn PDS/PIPs and do layoffs AND the raises are sh-t. So can someone please explain to me how does this make imperial better than CNRL/CVE/SU ? Fk being equal, I think imperial is the worst of all of these.

Oh and we don’t get company wide bonuses.

Take a look at the job postings in India to understand who they will be firing! Pretty classy to keep posting about jobs and hiring in India the same time you are firing and doing mass layoffs of the long time employees who built the company.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/exxonmobil-india-careers/

Care and WAEM at their finest. While announcing mass layoffs they can’t even skip a few days of posting about all the jobs in India. Talk about insensitive and clueless!

https://www.linkedin.com/company/exxonmobil-india-careers/

Something big is going down in Spec Chem. Either a sell off or something disruptive. NDAs are being issued and signed. Rumor is Borger is going to be sold off.

I was literally just laid off for AI. I rewrite and audit extensively documents on process and procedures and directions.

They said what I do in about a month can be done in less than 5 mins with AI at a fraction of the cost.
I then told them they will have another BP Disaster without a Human making comments and common sense oversight. They said this would be no different than a human making a mistake and HR sees this as a positive to meet the bonuses promised to others. Been with them 10 years!!!!
All I get is half a week per year with pay the company if I don't sign the exit package or one week of pay per year if I sign but I can't claim unemployment... HELP!!!

I've been told marketplace is the main target of the next wave...no specific depts just that area in general is the target.

It’s so infuriating to read in the news how the Provincial government tries to tie the layoffs to the feds, focusing solely on the pipeline or some perceived “red tape.” I’m with IRP, and there was no shortage of projects (less so now, no one knows what to do). For approvals, we asked AER or provincial bodies.

Those corporations don’t care about ease of regulations - they only understand regulatory consequences and cost impacts. Right now, it’s very cheap for them to get rid of all of us with no reason given. I almost can’t blame IOL (or more so Exxon) for what they did. It aligns very well with the nonsensical decisions they were making. BTC, DTI, how is this allowed in Canada

Pretty sure major news orgs would be interested to hear about mass and repeated layoffs at a fortune 500 benefiting from CHIPS Act funding, H1-B and outsourcing.

People are nervous and watching their backs, so now there’s this constant tension where nobody feels secure enough to plan their future here. It’s a huge mistake, and it’s going to cost this place way more in the long run than anyone at the top realizes.

Paycom, Oklahoma City’s largest technology employer, is laying off over 500 workers as many of the positions are set to be replaced by artificial intelligence.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/information-technology/2025/10/01/paycom-layoffs-2025-workers-replaced-with-ai/86448337007/

Just heard layoffs coming in those two organizations. Shamedul we have to live like this everyear every quarter. Hans is getting the company to be all off shore. Verizon will not end well in the future.

Permanent layoff of 5% of workers.
Moving Monoweld line 82 to Mexico in February 2026. Eliminating 15 jobs with that line leaving.

Colleagues in deal desk being notified of termination today. Whole teams wiped out. San Antonio office.

On Monday there was a small RIF on some of the staff. Not large numbers but a shakeup in most functions at Mercury. This is directly after Q1 just ended. The only news that came from the execs. was an email about the Fremont shutting down and 'strategic' changes. You'd think with the company finally making money and getting wall street confidence there could be just 1 quarter that didn't have layoffs.

The person on either side of me on the same team were called into HR.
They both came out crying they didn't even have the decency to lay them off individually they did it as a dam group!

Step 1: Slash MPT using the "ranking" system
Step 2: Close QP and layoff hundred
Step 3: Sell Kearl to Suncor

Goal: Shed pension risk based on the demographic curve before the majority vests.

NOTE: We are on Step 2 this week.

Clowns. Direction lost. more layoffs. poison culture. the yearly survey that doesn't mean a thing.

I was laid off unexpecting Oct 3, nice end of day email from director saying be in a quite place - business. After working the previous night until 2 AM on another engineer firewall work. Just to join a teams call at 930 with HR. After 20 + years just to tell me position eliminated. I would be paid until end of Oct and get a severance and cobra pay. Total Shock, fear and stress set in quickly that morning. To find out my team but 3 people were laid off with no notice. We were busy so very surprising.

After a few days I found it a blessing. A company that strides to do more with less. Pile up the workload, work days nights, early morning and global on-call. Assign you other engineer jobs with no pay, no training. The only thing I wish I did different take FTO more often then I did, but I cared about the customers the clients and wanted to help with projects. Everything TU doesn't stand for today.

I was lucky enough to find a new job with energy company two months after my layoff. Only because I was looking for a new job due to burnout. Lucky enough I got to bank my entire severance and cobra pay - 33 weeks plus that low annual bonus in 2024.

Found out I was under paid, TU with those 2% annual raises if you were lucky. Some of you don't get anything.

Two months, found a better job better salary, no after hour changes, no on-call, got a 15% bonus this year. Was always use to 3% at TU and thought that was good. Got a 5%

Opened a new Roth IRA, High Yield savings, paid off debt and bought into a DVC with that total severance package.

So for those who been with the company and are over 40, you will get extra pay for age discrimination.

Has anyone else had a business update today?

It's been very carefully worded not as redundancies in the update however colleagues in Germany reporting redundancies to the CI department

Just finished my layoff meet, good luck all.

I am not a manager and noticed a delivering displacement training added to my continuing education in DevelopYou. I didn’t add this and don’t have any directs… anyone else?? Am I on the list?

A company that specializes in the logistics surrounding medical equipment and products has filed official notices with Pennsylvania to reduce their work force in the coming days.

Owens & Minor Halyard, Inc, located at 500 Independence Avenue, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, has filed a WARN notice with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

https://tristatealert.com/cumberland-county-medical-distribution-center-to-layoff-75-jobs/

Critical roles are gone, and it’s a mystery how we’re supposed to get anything done.

So many attrition tactics are being thrown at us - relocations, PIPs, you name it - which makes it clear they want far more people gone than the 2,000 officially announced. And each one feels like a slow, painful grind, sometimes costly too, only to leave you jobless in the end. At least a layoff is quick, straightforward, and comes with some payout and benefits.

WashU has eliminated 316 staff positions and “closed 198 open and vacant positions” from the Danforth and Medical campuses and the Central Fiscal Unit (CFU), Chancellor Andrew Martin announced in a University-wide email addressed to faculty and staff on Tuesday afternoon.

https://www.studlife.com/news/2025/10/01/washu-announces-over-300-layoffs-and-cuts-to-almost-200-vacancies

we have discussed the last week, with the governments intention to cut funding again once the shut down is over that we will be laying off the following positions. This is not set in stone, it is only what will happen in the event that the government cuts funding again once the government opens up. Our sources have told us to plan for this.

The priority of layoffs will go to employees who have been there long term and should have moved out of that position by now(including team leads) but have not, it is to weed out employees that we can’t plan to continue to grow and prioritize employees that we can grow on less funding. Roughly half of the application support analyst positions, 1/3rd of developers/DBA’s/Devops, and nearly 3/4th of the scrums masters.

From what we have been told this morning, this will be the biggest layoff in the history of our time with the VA if President Trumps goes through with what advisors are suggesting.

Consulting Department laid off a few people, including Country Manager

Employees were told the layoffs were about redundancy and not being strategic enough. Sure, some low performers were cut. Plenty of solid, capable people were let go in HR, Marketing, and Sales all over the world. Meanwhile, the company SPENT A LOT on acquisitions and EXECUTIVE LEADERS WHO HAVEN'T DELIVERED. The people who actually kept things running were the ones who got cut. This isn't strategy, it's protecting LEADERSHIP and their image.

1,200 job cuts (~20% of the remaining workforce) announced yesterday at a European Forum meeting.
Head offices employees “offered”to move to production sites. Significant headcount reduction in GBCs at Prague (Czech Republic) and Budapest (Hungary), with jobs transferred to... Guess where? India, bingo.
This does not factor in possible sales/shutdown of chemical sites in the UK and Belgium.