Hard working is not the answer. Many hard working people are laidoff.
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In the eyes of management, no one is indispensable. Everyone is just a number. As much as I dislike it, sucking up and having networks to the top is what keeps you safe. With the company in this situation, maybe it is better not being safe and making that bold leap to a career outside of the company (some for the first time).
Make yourself indispensable? Well, that sounds good on paper. Doesn't work when the work when leaders higher up are making the decisions and not running it by the actual supervisors or leaders close to the person they're letting go. My manager didn't even know I was being let go. A few years back when two of my direct reports were let go, I was told 48 hours before it happened, given a script and had to deliver it to them together in the same room with HR. I had absolutely no input into it. Indispensable has nothing to do with it at 3M. Whoever makes these decisions doesn't even consult with the people who would know who is indispensable.
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@qbd+1iCIJqOO Your comments demonstrate a complete lack of maturity and compassion. Disgraceful.
Some of these replies are ridiculous. How to avoid getting laid off? Make yourself indispensable. Do the kind of good work that no one else at the company is capable of.
No one likes layoffs, and the uncertainty is hard on all of us, but using this as an opportunity to broadly criticize management or DEI initiatives is irrelevant and just makes you look bitter.
Ahh, ESG and D&I, that sounds like success in a Fortune 500 company.
Make sure you are in management and well connected, meaning kissing the right boots all the time.
Those are the people who are never affected under any circumstances.
There are well known examples where the whole lab was fired, but somehow the manager in charge was spared and even promoted after a while !
Find a new job and leave:
- When you are hypnotised and not seeing life and work outisde the organization
- When your bonus is a joke but you hope that the next one will be better
- When your job mandates experimental medical products injections
- When SFDC is the leading indicator of your performance
A recent headline: “Peloton stock soars after reports of new layoffs”
In the USA some CEOs are incentivized to cut staff in order to artificially prop up their stock price. This is an act of moral turpitude. Because it is so common, many have sold their souls for the equivalent of 30 pieces of silver; the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15 in the New Testament.
Thankfully there are a multitude of women and men CEOs who do not stain their souls with such betrayal. Seek out those firms that actually value their colleagues, offer competitive compensation, and thrive. They are out there to be sure.
If any firm is treating you poorly and despite your best efforts to improve the situation, shake the dust off your feet and move on. Life is too short to remain under the lash of heathens.