Thread regarding Hy-Vee layoffs

Sounds awful. Did they really layoff the large group in mass in a room?

Around 200 hundred jobs Marketing, IT, Customer Care, and Administration. No prior notice to employees. Long time loyal employees being escorted out by security as if they didn’t just give years of their lives to this company.

Any estimate on how many jobs were cut? It’s odd that the news hasn’t picked this up yet.

Another IT person here, I was remote too. I've not been here long enough to develop a bond, I was hardly engaged. I liked Work-Life-Balance and $, so I cannot complain. The good thing is that the job market looks good and I hope I'll be able to move on and find something comparable.

Good luck to all who stayed behind and God bless all folks who lost jobs today.

I knew this was happening based on how Randy talked about things on his Huddle call. When he told corporate employees to start looking at applying for store jobs you knew it was because jobs were getting cut from the office.

Maybe he should stop giving the same group of execs and SVPs new titles and pay raises and sell that jet they bought to “tour” competition is states he himself has said Hyvee would never be in.

I was laid off by getting a zoom invite with subject line of "Mandatory". Was then told at the meeting that my last day is April 3rd. 30 minutes later my AD account was deleted. That was it. I worked remotely in IT and I think there were 5 or so people in the meeting with me.

Can someone with knowledge provide some specifics? What departments were hit? What percentage of the corporate office and HST employees are gone now? How were employees told? Where is this in the news?

Cuts have not been 50% in IT. Not yet, anyway. Some teams have had very deep cuts.

What part of corporate did you work? Like was it a special project or department? Just curious as I’ve not heard anything about it and usually word travels lightning speed around sometimes on things like this

It's a disgrace what has happened recently. Dozens of people were let go (some nearing retirement) but somehow Hy-Vee can afford to sponsor IndyCar races?

And yet, not a word on the Iowa Workforce Development website. How does the WARN Act not apply here? It feels borderline illegal what has happened.

https://www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act

I hear they are going to start having store employees grab their ankles as corporate rams them in the you know what.

What supervisor did they layoff ?

We are just monkeys to corporate America.

Was it actually 50% of corporate?

They hired me 3 weeks ago and I am now layed off. I have never worked for a more heartless company. Watching everyone else on my team that has been there for years longer than I have get laid off in a large room as we are just numbers to them. They didn’t even have the respect to do it 1:1. So so unprofessional

Few thoughts:

• would be terrifying to have a newly created corporate job as most likely it would be gone within a year
• sounds like they have a real dilemma between trying to figure out what jobs are necessary and which ones aren’t and where they should spend their money, at the corporate level or store level all the while ensuring that those at certain levels keep their fat wages…doubt you ever hear of pay cuts after a certain level. So yeah that’s crazy
• at store level you’ll have a store with 50+ openings yet that store will regularly need to cut 200 hours off their weekly schedule…now make that make sense?????
• immediately following Covid and all of the long hard days/ hours spent ensuring that people had enough to eat, while paddy beg the corporate coffers to levels they’d never seen…after all of that seeing how hours were immediately cut and DVPs immediately went out and tore stores a part for how they looked instead of thanking them for how hard they worked, followed by anointing a select few store managers without any sort of application status, I learned in that moment that I will never work harder than a superior, I will never stay longer than required, and I will never step up to give an ounce of effort beyond what is required for my immediate job duties. At that point I was free and really all the stress goes away.

I heard Randy just gave himself a big bonus this last month for doing so well.

Back in the pre-Randy days the company cared about and strived to care about the employees. In turn the employees cared about the company. Just a coincidence this came about when RE took over as CEO? I don't think so.

Don't ever give your labor away for free. Wherever your next job is, I hope you now learned that companies don't give an F about you so don't give them an ounce of effort off the clock. When I finally learned that lesson it made work a lot less stressful.