What's Real & What's Rumor?

I am trying to figure out what’s real and what’s rumor/hype/trolling. Here are my two cents on this. If you read this, you will still be confused but I did give it a shot – here it goes:
What people are “REPORTING”:

Some folks are reporting that Talent/HR has a 12/31 end date – I doubt this for a number of reasons (the primary reason is that they are ‘never’ done with layoffs – we are in a permanent layoff state – the only thing that changes are periods of them planning layoffs and not actively cutting)
Some are reporting about people that they know, this includes cuts of employees in Learning & Dev.
Rumors that mgrs, dirs, and ICs are affected.
Rumors that 100s are affected, I doubt it though.
The claim that 100s were affected is iffy and thin…
Several people say they have seen Comcast employees announce job losses on LinkedIn, including in this discussion. I have not verified those LinkedIn posts.
What’s “DISPUTED” – a disputed statement is not an incorrect statement though:
Total cut #s: Some are claiming everything from 15%, some 30%. Some are saying 20K. Claims are competing and nobody knows or can prove.
Dates: Some predict comms after the 10/22 earnings call – some think it’ll be staggered by job level. If this is true, how come that some are repoting that they have been notified. It’s messy and confusing.
12/31 departures: some mention that date, don’t know what that means if we already have people saying they’ve been cut
Badge access: Some report changed expiration dates. OK. But others point to a possible system issue… Which is it??? That discussion is super confusing.
Why Cuts???: We are all over the place trying to figure this out – mgmt. restructuring, offshoring, and other things... All are interpretations, not confirmed reasons for individual cuts. We are still guessing
Soooo, if you’ve received notice yourself, share w/us when you were notified… your org/team/level. If you have it, share the stated last day? Please don’t use names as I don’t want this post taken down or me getting blocked. Corrections to anything above are welcome.

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@as It is hundreds of people and they are not down. They told us they are off spring our jobs in march to India. We have to spend the next 4 months wondering if we have a job or if it’s going to India.

Facts: Region VPs impacted this past Monday. Only RVP left in each region with RSVPs having 1 VP and two Sr Directors. RSVPs have to be next as the reporting structure makes no sense

HR and tel

@OP You A$$hol3

@OP you are wrong and being really condescending

@ab I’m so sorry you and your teammates had to go through that. It says a lot about the kind of person you are that, while you’re still processing this yourself, you took the time to help the rest of us understand what may be coming. Thank you for being so honest and thoughtful. I’m wishing you and your teammates something better on the other side of this.

Fellow Comcast human with empathy.

I also wish folks would stop saying they haven’t seen X posts on LinkedIn. It’s the algorithm. Or maybe the two companies’ CEO billionaires made a deal to make the “Comcast” search limited so to not worry Comcast’s investors if they see too many of them. But the “Comcast” term search isn’t accurate on LI. I searched it also and didn’t see much. So imagine my surprise when a friend Liked a post from a mutual friend stating they got laid off by Comcast. I then did a “Comcast” search again and still didn’t see that mutual friend’s public post included in my search under “posts” even when I filtered by date. So some people see them, some don’t. It’s the algorithm. I’ve seen myself that not everyone’s post for whatever reason shows up in a search.

Wow. Talk about throwing sh*t at the wall and hoping something sticks.

That first point about HR and Talent? That was my post. Want to know why I posted it?

Because I was one of the employees impacted. I sat on a call with dozens of my colleagues and watched us all get laid off. Throughout the day, we compared notes and tallied the numbers coming in from across the organization. And, in case you’re still struggling to grasp the scale of it, we were talking hundreds of employees.

So by all means, sit there and “doubt” whatever you want. But maybe consider that some of us aren’t pulling information out of thin air for internet points. Some of us are actually living through these changes in real time and posting here to share what we’re seeing firsthand.

You’re entitled to your skepticism. You’re not entitled to mistake your ignorance of what happened for evidence that it didn’t.

@OP

Downvoting this. You wrote an entire “what’s real” post while admitting you haven’t checked the employees publicly announcing they’ve lost their jobs. I’ve personally seen at least 11. Being notified now with a 12/31 separation date isn’t a contradiction.

What makes you the authority on whose layoff is believable? You haven’t done the verification, but somehow your doubts deserve more weight than their firsthand accounts. That’s the same arrogance employees are exhausted by from leadership. People are losing their livelihoods, and you’re treating your own lack of awareness like it’s evidence.

@a5 do you have this comment updated in smartsheet?

hi ALL - please downvote this post - it makes no sense and it's condescending

This is 100% one of those managers that dismisses all of their employees concerns

the OP got downvoted into oblivion. expressly. never seen so many thumbs down in such a short period (20 min, 20 dislikes)

Project manager entered the chat

I know you mean well but any post or comment that comes off dismissive to people’s anxieties and desire to speculate to find certainty of what will happen is not going to be well taken.

I've heard 50%

Is this post serious or trolling? Dude LinkedIn memebers aren't going to troll LinkedIn with their professional profiles. There's 180,000 people working here. You're not connected to all of them that's why you might be seeing it as much yet. Its happening. Its real. It can be googled. The company is splitting into pieces. Stock has tanked. These posts are annoying.

12/31 end date means that's when their employment ends...

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