I don't. All the people I know who were laid off are seasoned workers with plenty of institutional knowledge and a track record of high performance. It's like leadership is sabotaging the company by cutting the best and leaving the worst behind. It makes no sense.
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Let’s face it. It sure looks like CDW leadership has decided the future is cheap offshore labour, and North American employees are just collateral damage. The people at the top get their cost savings, the workers get their pink slips, and the customers get to deal with whatever mess is left behind.
Was this the plan all along? Gut the workforce, ship the jobs overseas, squeeze every last penny out of the operation and call it a brilliant business strategy?
And when the whole bloody thing goes to sh-t, you can bet the geniuses who cooked up this scheme will blame everyone but themselves. BRING IT!
Scary part has been watching high performers get cut. Nothing can save us now even with good performance.
yes lol
The only pattern many of us have seen in the last round of layoffs is job title and salary.
It’s as if they assumed everyone with the same title were all identical in skills and got rid of the highest paid of them.
@OP
There were a lot of great coworkers let go the last 2 times. This last time was especially rough. Yes, many of the tenured people (who knew their stuff) were cut. Why? Because CL doesn't want to pay the higher salaries. But, as you know, you get what you pay for. Sometimes a valued coworker is just worth the cost.
Isn't that concept obvious? This ship is going down!
I am sorry but yes I know of plenty of bad people let go. I also know of useless or ineffective groups cut. For those, we did have some nice people cut because their department / team was not effective.
That is one big change; with other layoffs before we told people about the cuts and gave them 30, 60 or even 90 days to find another role internally or externally before their exit date. That is how we kept great talent even when we made cuts.
This past round we told people with no notice and they were gone instantly.
That’s what’s crazy. When we had time / notice , then even if an id--t leader made a mistake, somebody else could save the coworker.
Down vote that last comment all you want but it's actual factual.
Some decent people are left but they are all feeling stuck and would quit if they could.
The rest of what's left has helped high performers quit for greener pastures. Everyone that has the means isn't waiting for the next layoff while they keep getting nickel and died on pay while miss CEO keeps making her $15-20 million.
Don't be mad at the truth. Maybe self reflect a bit and get yourself in a position where you don't have to stay on the Titanic.
Money = Freedom
You have partners even telling you on other threads how bad working with CDW is now. They'd rather work with SHI and Insight since there's less red tape.
Seems like a lot of people are blinded by the free pizza and coffee.
@ab
You must be one of the people that I had to wait 1-2 days on to approve a bid, release a an order to process, allocate hardware.
Maybe one of the one's that let CW orders sit and not send the PO to disty for a week.
Maybe one of the one's that took 1-2 weeks to assign or even read the SF cases I entered until I had my manager contact you or your manager.
I quit because everything took 5-10 times longer and I went from getting things done and moving on to new business to having to twiddle my thumbs and wait on a pile of orders and making excuses on behalf those slowing me down. My customers loved me and I was highly profitable but the stress with me performing while others just treated their job like a minimum wage gig got old.
Lucky me I'm smart and don't need a job any longer as I invested early in actually decent companies that are pushing Ai.
Young and retired. But it brings me joy to come on here and see how others that are smart are also now seeing how d-mb our leaders are.
Our leaders infested CDW with low quality people including their inner circle. Now look.
People said I complained too much but I saw the dumpster fire grow real time starting years ago.
These leaders are truly greedy as they won't accept what's going on is because of them. They love the power and attention. Don't you see them with big cheesy ugly smiles at summits and events. They don't realize people are being fake friendly to them. Who likes Karen looking females that got to the highest areas of CDW not because of performance but because of DEI. Funny how the change in % of gender makeup of the company coincides with the stock tanking and earnings misses.
You must be one of these horrendous hires. Stay stuck there.
We're losing more because of the brain drain that is occuring because those that are most employable elsewhere are leaving because of the layoffs. Leahy's failed strategy and subsequent 6:00AM layoffs last year have sunk the corporate culture. For her it's irrecoverable. She needs to go as do a number of others on her team.
@OP You nailed it. Yes we are letting go of all of our top talent to sabotage the company. That's exactly whats happening. It's the deep state that's handling it for Leahy so they can make money shorting the stock to fund the reptilian take over. And the AI overlords are letting it happen! Su-ks.
Yes
Yes. I know of plenty. There are plenty of bad coworkers (doesn't always mean bad person) that we have laid off. But that is not the point. What scares me is that some great talent has also been let go. In the past there were always people who thought they were good coworkers but were let go and the people around them shrugged their shoulders. But the last round or two felt like MANY great talents were let go. In some cases because their whole team was cut.