In COO CAO we were made aware earlier this year if we are not in a hub location we will be let go but they did not say when. Any idea on when that would be? Has anyone experienced this before?
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HY is all together evil. Sorry you got downsized so that an overpaid incompetent little POS in NYC could get another bonus.
@cn it's messed up..struggling as bad as they are and people are willing to work albeit some prefer and it makes the most sense to be wfh with the cost of things these days. But they are insistent on draining everyone's wallets to get there. Everybody would be much better off wfh. I'm sure the police would be happy not much traffic. If you didn't have to be out then don't go. I swear we've learned nothing one step forward and two back.
@be I'd like to know how. I accepted a severance package because I was in a predicament where my chronic life long condition affected my ability to get to an office because of the travel involved (several doctors signed off indicating it was detrimental to my health to make the trip to the new location CIC as the commute would be 2 hours one way.)
We had to interview for our own jobs, and if we went we were required to go when the site closed.
We had to give them an answer. Yes go and expect to commute losing severance option or no be laid off take severance. I had a year...guess which one i picked.
Long short of it. Ada allowed me to wfh. But wf wouldn't allow it but so many times. Location strategy superseded a medical accommodation somehow.
And they can limit the number of times you can use it.
Specifically told by the Ada team at the time in the spring of 2025 the below over the phone:
'You shouldn't use your medical accommodation to avoid rto.
Even if we approve we will deny after so many times even if it has been approved in the past or if you have a valid note regardless if anything changes or not. It's not permanent.
Plus nobody likes going to the Dr asking for notes all the time and we'd simply get tired of approving it at a certain point.'
Knowing this, I had an offer, but I had to let my manager I couldn't do it, everyone else was on board and okay until they said all this.
So after nearly 25 years I had to let it go.
Both orgs are actively hunting anyone outside of hubs that doesn't have a solid justification for it. The axe will fall, just a matter of time. The d-mb thing is, naturally, being connected is a valid justification in the eyes of execs.
Nobody is going to know or at least reveal on this site.
Some of the people I know in COO are nowhere near a hub yet to this day they are still around working fully remote.