Those laid off in the last round, any luck finding a new job? I don't see any companies hiring right now so I'm extra nervous about possibly being laid off. Can anybody tell me if it really is as bad out there as I'm imagining or are there available jobs once you really focus on looking?
12 replies (most recent on top)
However bad you think it is, it’s worse. By hey stock’s up 10 bucks so hopefully shareholders can be happy about destroying people’s lives.
Immediately comes to China’s defense. I’m glad you don’t have a job and I’ll be even happier knowing you never will
How does all that boot leather taste? So typical that someone like you would immediately shift the blame to China. So glad a–holes like you got to keep their jobs, really.
How can lay-offs be unethical when you just admitted it’s the worst economic time? You are admitting the economy isn’t doing well but at the same time ViacomCBS doesn’t owe their employees to mitigate their losses and try to SAVE other people’s jobs. We all should go down with the ship? I understand your angry but point fingers at the people responsible for unleashing a deadly virus on the world and then tried to cover it up. China is who you should be mad at. That’s just the economy as a whole. Media companies have been in decline for longer than this.
The job market is an atrocity right now. Companies who normally have at least a hundred job openings will have like 5 on their website now. Companies who have hiring freezes also neglect to take down their job postings, meaning many of us are applying for a bunch of jobs that aren't even jobs anymore. I have applied for MANY jobs and have heard nothing back. ViacomCBS did the most unethical thing possible and laid off thousands during one of the worst economic situations in our country's history. Many of us who were laid off were educated, well-qualified individuals, thrown out without even a second look. I hope every single executive at ViacomCBS burns in hell, gets hit by a bus, whatever. I'm DONE.
I turned down a job because they baited me in telling me it was just like my old job and then in the final interview they revealed that I'd be doing the job of three people, without compensating for that. No bueno.
don't know I used word baffling? well yeah it is, as many other major media companies either have not posted a job in months or like other poster in thread says about NBC, will post but state hiring from within at this juncture disclaimer. I have seen that "due to covid, we are seeking to hire internally for X amount of days, then they will consider new employees"on many company sites. I mean, like most businesses, you will most likely find your next gig from your professional network or friends. that has been the deal for long time. now, I am speaking mid to lower level positions. if you have the skill set or higher up the chain management position, a recruiter will find you first before an on line posting gets you a gig. either way it, its a double whammy of mega mergers and this pandemic. in past large scale layoffs, the housing/market crisis for instance in 08-09, at least half the folks I knew who were let go from various media companies, ended up in a totally unrelated field.
NBC will only hire from within but legally have to post “open” positions.
Baffling? HR departments continue to post jobs as normal, what's changed is that there is a hiring freeze coming down from corporate. But no one will tell you that. Those of us who have been applying to jobs for months know this because we get no response - total crickets - from every company we apply to.
If you have a job, hold on for dear life no matter how bad the conditions. No one is hiring in these uncertain times, across almost all industry sectors. If you become unemployed, you'll have to get in line behind the 30+ million of us already looking. Start piling up cash for an emergency fund to get you through many months, maybe more than a year, of being unemployed. UI doesn't last forever.
This business, in ny or ca? Yeah it’s bad. Depends on your skill set but even companies hiring, you are doing whole process remotely, interviews and the jobs themselves are WFH. Even without pandemic, all these media mega mergers, tons of people out of work. Remember pre pandemic, Viacomcbs had at least 750 million as target in savings from downsizing/ redundancies. That number has likely increased with pandemic. HBO merger, man, so many people I know lost gigs in that deal. What’s baffling, viacomcbs has newly posted jobs daily. Unfortunately, many will have to change careers in media businesses to something completely unrelated until things somewhat normalize. Good luck.
It is not good out there.