I have lost access to everything. No workday or email. They said my last day would be December 31st. and then the severance package would kick in. Is this what happened to most of you? Also, did they say anything about the bonuses or RSUs?
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Maybe that means 2 extra months of pay and you don't have to work?
@be I see. This is different from when I was let go - in the weeks between the time I was notified and my last day of employment, I still had access to everything including physical access to facilities as well as electronic access to systems. At midnight past my termination date, an email was sent to my personal email account with the new Workday sign-in information, the only thing in there are paystubs and W2's.
If you have not reached your vesting date, RSU’s expire. If you are not employed after FY, no bonus.
If you’re on a Mac google “target disk mode” yw
Copy/Paste, or use the Snippet tool or take a screenshot of each paystub, then paste into a Word doc.
Fill the Word doc with however many paystubs you want to save, then send it to your personal email. You can convert any content within the Word doc into separate PDFs if you need to send those piecemeal to anyone later on. There's nothing about doing that which is flaggable, those are your own personal records, which you are entitled to have.
Or take a pic of the paystubs when you've pulled them up onto a laptop screen or monitor, and then you have them on your personal phone. Transfer those pics to a personal thumbdrive.
The key is to save things to your own personal devices then to a thumbdrive, so they're electronically accessible to you whenever you want, and physically in your possession; rather than relying on some HR person to maybe or maybe not get around to forwarding them to you, once your access has been cut off.
The cloud is too open to having things hacked or "lost in the ether"...use a thumbdrive.
@b5 Perhaps this is true after termination, but Workday is blocked from non-Comcast devices for employees.
@b2 why is that necessary? You should have access to Workday to retrieve pay stubs and W2’s even after termination.
What is the best way to send yourself your own pay stubs to yourself without getting blocked/flagged?
Lesson learned for anyone working where layoffs are imminent, happening, or about to happen:
Make sure your current personal contact info. is updated in Workday.
Keep on your own personal email or thumbdrive, info. you may want to access after being laid off:
- HR contacts
- Reference contacts
- Colleagues contacts who you would want to stay in touch with
- IT contacts
- Certificates and/or accolades you received in writing
- Healthcare info./docs
- Tax info./docs
- HSA info./docs
- Screenshots of current accrual of PTO
- Paystubs for the year
Having all of this on your own device/backup is essential for peace of mind.
Just keep it updated on a monthly basis, so if SHTF with work/a layoff, you're already prepared, and don't have to risk spending too much time scrambling to get all of this saved for yourself, before they cut off your access to company systems.
Optional: Keep a draft of a pre-written "It's been nice, see ya" or a "FU, a-holes, get bent!" email, and pre-address it to whoever you will want to receive it. That way, if you're laid off, immediately after you get the news, proofread it quickly to be sure there's nothing you want to add or omit, then you just need to hit send, and chances are it'll go through before you get disconnected from email. Bonus points for addressing a "FU" email to an "All Users" distribution group, so every single person in the company gets the email...lol.
what org are you in? im talking to people right now on Teams that have been let go. they are working normally.
Confirmed. If you are in the severance group they are restricting your access to websites, cloud services, etc. they are attempting to restrict information leaving. This includes both laptop and mobile devices.
wait so badge access is denied and you cant accesss email? What about teams? does severence kick in now or you are getting salary until dec 31 and then severence for 16+ weeks after? Are you actually supposed to do work?
I am part of the 10/27 / 12/31 wave in GTO. Comcast universal Ticket site unreachable. Lost my VPN access this morning, not sure what will happen after reboot. Lots of other sites were giving the iboss malicious website blocked page. Teams was working and was able to access workday. Waiting anxiously for severance package details expected imminently since to-date, everything has been verbal.
It’s to block what information flows out so people can’t take sensitive documents to competitors or use it against the company.
Not being able to access docs necessary to help with transition definitely makes sense. This must be the innovation they’re talking about it’s too bad I can’t be a part of it
There is definitely something going on. I am now being blocked from accessing my Gmail, which has never been put behind webshield before. And, my ChatGPT also constantly says the response can't be loaded. Neither of these were occurring yesterday or before, up until first thing this morning.
@a1 I take it back I think most people lost badge access and other stuff like that even for Dec 31st
Sounds like you'll have a pretty chill 2 months lol
You shouldn't have access issues talk to I.T.