I was laid off last week. I have a theory about which people were affected by Thanos' snap in this last month : please post here if you see major deviations from it.
I see that people who worked from home a lot were laid off, much more than those who stayed in office. This is in 2 ways : hours in office per day, as well as days in office per month.
Do you agree ? At least in OMC ?
use tools at hand. Why not use VirtualBox and have secondary system unmonitored after hours for surfing lay-off site so u are not “ monitored”
i never worked from home and i was laid off.....in fact i enjoy better working from office, because of the working ambience and because people /infra is accessible.
Actually all logics are speculations...there is not certain logic of why people were laid off.
My manager at senior director level also got this as a surprise about my lay-off and the manager rang up to say this and was really sorry about my exit.(having worked for more than 10 years, i know my manager was sincere)....Also in was certainly not getting salary on higher sides (as that could be the reason )..in fact new joinees are getting at market rate and i could be making probably half......Plus there are people in my team who are further 10 years plus senior to me, so the reason of overstaying also does not hold good.
We really dont know what happened....may be it was destiny....Its better to move on.
One person got saved by his director uncle.
And the story continues...few more OMC teams got impacted today. Same story tomorrow.
At least 45 people were laid off in the Apps teams all over, that I know in the past 2 weeks:
The criteria for layoffs is decided on the product that you were working for and your performance solely from you manager/senior manager's/and above's eyes.
If your working in Bangalore and get a meeting invite followed by a phone call from the HR to attend a meeting or conf in their new office in outer ring road, then you can be 100% sure that you have been targeted.
All of the layoffs have been initiated with the consent of the upper management, manager levels M4 and above would have to approve the layoff. If they start behaving different with you, giving you less work or ignoring you. Then your mostly in line for a layoff.
There is a rumor that there is an open window till end of April 2019 for managers at M4 and above to further layoff reportees in their team. I saw one team which had 2 cycles of layoffs.
What you should do:
Laptops, personal PC's, Oracle Call confs and e-mails are being monitored actively. Do not keep anything personal, pirated or copyright material in them.
If you report to someone with M4 designation and above, treat them like God for the next 1 month till the end of April. Say yes Sir to everything do not get into arguments with them. Be nice to them and do whatever it takes to keep them happy. Work in the weekends till April end. Give them status updates and try showing your working hard. All it takes is a though in your superiors head to get fired.
I think the criteria is just a number, 2-3 from every team(as per manager's wish) except in certain teams like QA.
Did you have urgently complete your mandatory performance appraisal two weeks before firings happened ?
Do you think it was a coincidence that due date was a seemingly random day in the middle of the year ?
Answer these two questions and you'll have answer to yours.
Nope, do not agree.
RIFs are as mgmt wishes. There are 100 reasons to layoff anyone, similarly there are 100 reasons to not layoff one.
The top reason that u r safe here in Oracle is only that u r loyalist and sycophant to ur mgmt team.
"I see that people who worked from home a lot were laid off"
Nope. Stop trying to come up with elaborate theories. It's the usual:
if it wasn't your entire team; you were the irritant, low-performer, and/or unneeded.
What about visiting thelayoff.com 10 times per day on work laptop from corporate network?
please do not use your company laptop to do anything unrelated to your job, or take your laptop to anywhere where you suppose not to go.
scan your badge anytime you come in the office.
lip your managers' a** as possible as you can.
your real contribution doesn't even counted, pay more attention on those 'minor' things.
It's human nature to favor familiarity so when you are working from home and not a familiar sight to managers in the hallways everydayt, you are at a disadvantage. Your advantage is that you don't have to wear pants or drive to work (and all of the cost savings with that) but you have to work much harder to stay current, relevant, advertise yourself, and prove valuable to management. So yes, it makes sense that work from homers have a higher RIF rate.