People talk about unstable employment at Comcast as if the company only recently started treating workers this way. The shift away from long term careers started a long time ago, and we’re talking decades here. What we're seeing now didn't come out of nowhere. It's been building for a long time. It’s only getting more prominent so more people are noticing it.
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@a3 It depends where you worked within the company. Just saying that overall turnover is common and layoffs are a part of that. Especially true for contractors, who make up a huge % of the engineering workforce.
BTW, never said I was a "Lifer" just said it felt that way since only a few people were left who were there longer than I was, and I was only there 8 years.
BTW, good luck next week. Just glad I am out of that place and enjoying my early retirement. Unfortunately my daughter works there and seeing first hand her fear right now. Gen Z not handling the fear of layoffs that well.
If you weren't prepared and coasting this entire time, you yourself are part of the issue and culling is required.
Take the severance, be happy, take a break, use your skills to get a job outside of the cocmast (lol others spell it this way too right?) bubble. If your skills can't get you a job outside of the bubble, than you need to look within as to why you got cut.
15 years here. The last 3-4 years have been different for sure.
@OP
I contracted for Comcast for 8 yrs, working on WiFi products in the Downingtoen lab. After 4 or 5 yrs I felt like a lifer as people just came and went, and few were there longer than I was. I was let go last year, along with many others. There are few left that have been there any length of time. So yeah, turnover has always been very high.
Became “more prominent” means it is now beyond its own decades-long normal dysfunction. You admit that by stating that.
@a3 also 20+ years. Been through many layoffs… but absolutely nothing remotely like this. This is very different.
@a3 sounds like you should be laid off. been here too long.
you’re part
of the problem
@OP stfu. Clearly haven't worked in Comcast long. 20 years here. Only experienced layoff within the past 4 years.
This is why millennials and the newer generations skip to a new job every 3 years.