Dear exited US Foods family members, It is with deep sympathy that I add this post. I am new to posting though I read this board a couple times each week. I had a horrible weekend just thinking about those of you that we lost. I wonder if the leaders of those departments that lost coworkers also had a rough weekend and postponed some activities to think and pray for all of you. I wonder if they talked to their family members at dinner or at a family meeting about how there are people that are hurting and asking them to pray for them or even do a volunteer activity together to make sure their kids grow up with empathy and kindness for those who are hurting. It seems the many RIFs at work are making even my department feel how bad these can be. I wonder if any of the executives or even our department leaders, who are well connected looked at the openings on Indeed or Linkedin and found openings and decided to call friends they know at those companies to tell them about one of our affected former employees to give them a better chance to recover? Or will they sit around and drink and watch the baseball or football playoffs or hang out with friends and laugh at a fancy dinner. My friends and in my and other departments all took time to do the considerate things above and are calling our friends at other companies starting today to see if they can be hired. We called our former associates to see how they are doing and plan to continue. Some were doing fine but most were terrified and not in a good place. Two of them were so angry and off that they said some scary things. We considered telling our security department but thankfully we read the articles and hearing of his interactions with others in our department, we do not have the feeling that the security department Vice President will know what to do. I wondered if he would just talk about it openly to everyone in the same way he has about other things going on in the company or with his previous employer. My friends and I have talked this morning and decided to check on the ones with the irrational or hostile reactions and try to get them talking about other considerations. We know you we all affected before the holidays and ask that you reach out to those you still know who are still here if you need anything. We might be able to help as friends with finding work or giving money or something. I know of one of you that cancelled a trip a week to visit your cancer stricken mom because you can't afford to now. We have gathered some money together and will call you today to send it to you to help you with those costs. We hope readers on here will do the same for those you know who are no longer with us. Those of us in Human Resources know the severances are small and the services that are being offered are not worth the paper they are written on. We will be there for you. I close by asking those still here to help your former colleagues. I also vow to join those on this board and do what ever I can internally to force our leaders to take action. I did not realize how helpless one can feel to hear scary reactions from former associates and feel like there isn't anything that you can do because you know the person responsible for dealing with those consequences is not a man of integrity and is in over his head. He had the nerve to talk to a friend of mine in another department and tell him how bad our Field Vice President was handling WPV incidents in the past and how she opines too much now when complaints surface when they have to work together on an incident. Telling our internal field leaders to just call him directly next time is not acceptable. You are now part of our Human Resources department and ask that you behave as such. We also vow to be more helpful on your needs in our regions and to help our associates inside to let them feel the US Foods that I have grown to love in the many years I have been here. This was suppose to be a short post but it is hard to contain my feelings of what is happening in our beloved US Foods.
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@bb I said I would work to correct my not getting involved in the past in another post I made today. So here it is. Your department is on the list once the currently ones are running smoothly. There are others too. Automation is also a plan for the field. Please prepare while you can and start looking. Some of your leaders know and others have been told to not say anything. We have already heard some of you spoke to your managers about this and they told you they hadn't heard that. I pray this helps
From a person with a heart in Human Resources.
It isn't that they are being given to non-Americans. Its that they are taking it away from loyal employees and hurting us in the progress. They shoulda have offered us transfers to other jobs in the field and back filled them with accenture and slowly transitioned. If we ever turned one down, then they could have layed us off then or later and both known they tried. We helped create this place and at least deserved that.
@OP I work for US Foods in the TA department. It seems my entire department is wondering when we will be eliminated and replaced by Accenture. It’s disgusting taking jobs from Americans and offering them to people overseas.