How does HPE layoff people? How do I know if a 1-1 with my manager is a regular 1-1 or a layoff one?
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May 1, 2017 seemed like just another normal work day during my 35th year at HPE. I finished a disk replacement at a customer site and proceeded to my next service call and received a call from my manager as I waited in the lobby for the customer to escort me to the datacenter.
He informed me that he had cleared my schedule for the rest of the day and to meet him in the office at 2 pm.
Since it was Monday and my schedule was heavily loaded for the entire day, my instincts and the burning feeling in my stomach instantly knew what was about to happen.
Like me, you won't know either.
"There is no set guideline for how to do it and when"
There are two major documents for people leaders that provide guidance on how and when to do it. They provide guidelines with details on the whole process on how/when/what-to-say/security with scripted suggestions. A global wfr worksheet is also available to view that shows the actual dates of submitting wfr names (3 weeks ahead of the notification), the notification date and employee last day of work in a timeline schedule for all geographies for the whole year.
Are you still with HPE?
There is no set guideline for how to do it and when, just that it has to be done on Monday or latest by Tuesday depending on how many people you have to cut. When I had to do some, I started sending invites on Monday when I started the day so I wouldn't ruin their weekend with the stress. Another time it was a giant call where the people on the one before me were fired, the people afterwards were not. It's always different and it su-ks either way.
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AReyou still with HPE?
Watch out for a randomly scheduled Monday meeting from your manager.. Why ? that’s the beginning of your two week notice. I know from experience.
Everyone here is correct but I’ve never seen a layoff meeting where there a bunch of people. It can be very short notice, early on Monday morning. When I got laid during Covid, my director pinged me, “You busy?” at 7:30AM.
But there’s really no magic formula for knowing if you know when your layoff will happen. It’s more of a gut feeling honestly. Your primal instincts detect that something isn’t right. I can say that not getting assigned any new work or getting assigned very minimal work are good indicators. If you feel pretty helpless in trying to do more work is a common feeling during times like this. Perhaps another way to know is possibly having work with no strict deadline.
Either way, just have your resume at the ready. Don’t bother trying to look internally for another position. Everyone and their mother tries doing that and only the well-known are successful. Not to mention, it’s incredibly rare to find something that is relevant to your career goals.
If you do get axed, one thing you cannot do is panic and impulsively apply to jobs online. Take your time and make sure your mind is clear before doing that. The worst thing you can do is apply for jobs out of fear. This will ruin opportunities you would actually qualify for.
Good luck! As my father always told me, “Plan to fail but never fail to plan.”
Mine was a Monday meeting that none of my co-workers were invited to. They had another meeting about an hour after mine. It was a muted Teams meeting were all the attendees were told that if you're on this meeting you were WFR'd. Very cold but I volunteered so I really didn't care.
After HPE tried to get me to up sell my customers products and services they didn't need or that we couldn't support I was glad to leave.
Good luck!
My notification call was at 8:00 am on a Monday.
If you get a 1:1 meeting request with your manager on short notice, say about 15 minutes, well what can I say, prepare for the worst (well I mean prepare to be laid off).
When they schedule a random monday morning meeting...