Was anyone given rationale on the “standard criteria” used to make layoff decisions? Was it performance? Compensation?
Trying to understand my role in my position being eliminated after nearly a decade as a CC.
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Last year my director and sr director called me into a meeting to tell me my team was loosing 2 people. They gave me names (not highest paid not lowest paid) and I balked, so they let me swap one of those names out because I said it would absolutely cripple the team. However because that person got pulled from the list and replaced with a different name- when their milestone anniversary came HR did not generate a Bravo which tells me this stuff is submitted months in advance.
I had a directive to let to go of the highest paid employees. The others were at the lower end of the paygrade. Not performance based based on what my SVP directed.
@pz yes the pattern seems to be picking the most senior and best paid employees, irrespective of their work effort/contributions
Accounting says they need to reduce x millions from expenses or investments to maintain margin. Then each CIO has a number to make, translate to % cut. Managers have to figure out how to cut down the % of total team cost. Everyone has their picks.
@py not bragging. Just have been here for years..almost 20, raises compound over time.. thats all I meant.
She did praise me, but apparently I wasn't doing well enough. Between those 2 things, I was picked.
@k3 Yes, that is why you were let go. You made too much. Hopefully you are making enough now but hopefully you arent bragging. Prob why you got let go too, thinking you are better than everyone.
@hh I hope this is true because we keep hearing that people are just randomly selected.
@k0 I think they are looking at their metrics and budget. Mine praised me a week before I was let go. I don't act or talk like the rest of her team, don't fit in well. I make more money than the rest of them too. When she had to chose, I was it.
OP, Your director and/or immediate supervisor laid you off. How was your relationship with he or she?
@jy thats been my experience... and those are the people who have usually been there the longest .
Largest salary goes first
@ch They don’t pick the people. If your team is tagged for a RIF, your director decides who gets laid off.
Dumpster fire.
Random cr-p: It’s typical for leadership around here—if there’s nothing in it for them, they won't waste a minute of their time on it.
Was told in post-layoff meeting that the plan is to use AI to do more with less.
@d0 💯
It is such a shame that they care more about those things than they do the patents.
@ct 100% Gotta drink their kool-aid and be their puppet
@ch think there's a mix of performance, salary and protected class. They have to spread out the age groups and minorities. But, they also look at who they're going to save them the most money by letting them go. I also truly think that at least in H&C, they get rid of people that don't 100% buy into what they're trying to "sell". If you don't act or talk like them, they don't want you.
I can’t figure out how they pick people. It doesn’t seem to be solely based on performance. I was one selected this last Thursday. I was in H&C. The people I know (from my team) are nurses. They also let people go that were on fmla. This isn’t my first time going through this and in the past it seemed like they let most of the people who had been there the longest go first so you would assume those making the highest salaries. There are lots of changes happening in H&C and I can’t say I’m upset to be let go in this first round. I don’t think it’s the last and now I don’t have to stress about it every couple weeks.
If you’re American, you are targered
lol. If you’re ‘privileged’, they’ll find a way to replace you. Usually with the REAL AI ( Another Indian). It’s fun to see that place crumble. The quarterly emails from drunk Unkcle Steve are even better. Everything is great if you ask him.
wondering the same thing. i was let go versus others who did not have better metrics.