There has to be someone with a conscious that is willing to be a whistle blower . Help us disco people ! When are the lay off dates !? What are they saying …. What areas ? Do I leave or wait it out ? It’s so hard to gamble and take another job because it’s the first offer I got and I’m scared there won’t be another one , but after 15 years I don’t want to give up the severance ? Are they making people sign NDA? On either side ? Please I’m begging tell me something concrete . Why is everyone loyally secretive on the cof side !? Someone has to feel bad for us . Tell us the tea .
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@ah Agreed and well said! I did 20+ years in leadership and felt the same. Rumors of site closures, department closures, downsizings just caused unnecessary stress and anxiety. I guess we all just got accustomed to it and ground out all of those years. Your advice is sound.. use this until another job comes along... I wouldn't wait for a severance that may or may not come.
@ah Agreed and well said! I did 20+ years in leadership and felt the same. Rumors of site closures, department closures, downsizings just caused unnecessary stress and anxiety. I guess we all just got accustomed to it and ground out all of those years. Your advise is sound.. use this until another job comes along... I wouldn't wait for a severance that may or may not come.
@b5 it means you are on h1b visa
@a1 what does sponsored mean ? I don’t think I am . I’m just struggling and stuck . Do I quit now and miss out on a severance …. Or . I just wish they gave me the choice with some transparency
Reminder.. Legacy DFS Severance end of Q2 2027..
@ah stop this AI piece of S. Wurthls. Dishcover rules, pun intended
I am sorry you feel so much anxiety over this. I dealt with it for decades. My best advice is to get your resume out, stay at your job, do not go over and above, do not move for them. You will get another job. In the mean time, you have a job until you don't. Just do your 40 hours and a competent job and figure that sooner or later there will be clarity. I would not be taking on debt right now. When this all settles down, you will either have a better gig elsewhere, you will keep your job at the company, or you will get your X weeks of severance and I think you will also be able to collect unemployment once the weeks of severance have expired, that is your job loss date I think. No idea how long that lasts.
You are wasting valuable time of your life worrying about something that you know the part you can control. Control your part and let the rest happen while you are enjoying your life, maybe even your job. My best advice from an old guy who made it decades in that type of environment. I worried so much and let them live in my head for so many years. I ended up quitting on my own after 25 years. I wished at times they would give me a package, but it never came. In retrospect, I wish I had all those hours back that I obsessed over this sort of thing, the never ending performance process. I bet I lost 5 years of my life due to stress I put on myself. Even if you make it through the layoffs, you are going to have to go through performance management twice a year where they have to have people who are put on pips and let go. That was a never ending cycle that took a lot of time out of real work and subjective to say the least. Easier said than done, but you know what you can control and what is out of your hands. Just do not let them change your life by moving for a job, unless you want to move to that area anyway and if the job fails, you got paid to move to this new location. Good luck.
Haha! Welcome to Thunderdome, my friend! It's only gonna get worse with Warren going after the banks in a few months....they have to find a way to pay off, er pay for all those investigations. In fact, why don't you reach out to her office to make your case for all of us!
Are you sponsored? If you are, then it is a certainty you are gone by beginning of q2 next year.
Otherwise it is still unknown when the rest of dfs staff is gone.