Use this thread for the layoffs on July 30th
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Site activity for Optum on the TheLayoff has been down. I don't know if is because layoffs have been smaller or because many who knew about this site have left already. I'm guessing it is both and that there are larger waves this fall of layoffs.
Good luck to anyone hit by a RIFs. Take the 2 weeks to focus on yourself and getting your applications out there. Things are competitive and depending where you live, unemployment is not much of a bridge to the next job.
@17p Sad to hear people were impacted today. Can you share any level of information? I'm in OI. Which division or job roles in Optum were impacted?
Who sat in on Lou's call about the exciting OA changes rolling out in September? Got a warning this time.
Loved that "under 1k responses" question they only mentioned verbally that happened to have the lowest score was about pay and benefits.
Bleed is intentional and the non-AI work involving under 32s will be done in India.
@qq Yes and no. With all the offshoring to India (and yes, even still to Ireland) and a ton of shuffling people around, it's hard to tell.
Steady or growing headcount AND layoffs can both be true.
@17p Sorry to hear. Obviously nobody here knew that since they didn't post anything earlier.
@17n tell that to my entire team of 97 people
Sounds like nobody impacted today, or too small for any traffic here.
Usually this site is blowing up by this time of the day - must not be that big of a round?
My notice came around 10 AM for a mtg at 11 with my second line manager back in March.
@ca they won’t set up a meeting for next week. They will actually send an invite early Thursday mine was around 7:30 am and meeting was at 9:00
@r6 it will be someone else can’t remember her name someone high up. The invite stated “Business update” or something like that . Will prob get invite in the morning at 7:30 or so!
@vd from it won’t be a 1:1 from your team lead Mine was from person I didnt know. Got the invite at 7:30 am. Subject: Business update
@10f same thing happened to me :(
@OP I have heard tomorrow will be a massive lay off day! I try not to listen to rumors but every layoff on this app has been correct
@OP is tomorrow the BIG layoff???
My meeting invite was sent 15 minutes prior. On a Thursday morning. I knew right away what it meant and honestly it was one of the best things to happen to me. It forced me to get a new job (obviously) and I love my new job so much.
@vc thats what I am gathering now. my gut tells me my 1:1 this thursday is set up to tell me i am done. my manager probably wants me to think its just a normal meeting for us.
@r6 As a former people manager (yes I was also RIFed) I've seen layoff meetings as many ways as you can imagine. Usually as an organizational update received an hour or less before the meeting with someone from HR. In some cases it was by the VP delivering news. In the last round before I left I was able to contact my members individually and let them know. The notices are dones as early as possible but sometimes run into early afternoon. They are also almost always done on Thrusdays but can be done any day of the week.
@ca subject? Mine says org changes
MORE layoffs this month? They just did one last week!
@cs does the meeting cones from your manager or HR? And does the meeting usually happens first thing in the morning let say 9am local time at least?
@db they'll come out slowly. June batch took a while to surface as people are not here posting. The heads counts under CIOs etc tell the real story. It's dropped a lot July 2nd week once the RIFed names finally dropped off the system.
It doesn’t seem this week’s layoff were too bad for what it rumors had predicted.
@ca nothing. That's what. They don't do it that way
@ca You usually wouldn't get a RIF meeting until a couple hours before it happens.
I just got a random morning meeting scheduled for next week. I already know what's about to happen
Is this another megash!t post or something big is really planned for next week?