Thread regarding Medtronic Inc. layoffs

@15e You are incorrect. Poor performers are absolutely prioritized as targets when resource cuts are identified. Unfortunately, high performers that are highly paid are also prime targets which is why that promotion could cost you. It’s a strategy/balance act of how to meet the cost cutting goal with minimal impact to getting the work done.

@bd This is not true. ICs need to train people. Prin's are the ones who have the real knowledge and talent. Managers manage people at MDT - They do not train.....they plan resourcing and review employees.

You should find work that motivates you. Focus on what matters in your current role. Prioritize.

Try to get promoted!
Your chance of getting RIF'd is not in your control and does not depend on your level.

These restructuring strategies are large, multi-million dollar considerations being made at the VP (and higher) level. They are not about keeping tallent or shedding poor performers. Do poor performers get caught up in the re-org? Yes, as an added benefit, but RIFs are not based on performance. They are based on new business priorities.

@xg I’m still here, babe. Watch me put in a hard 40 this week and get paid. Ain’t getting more than that from me.

I’d agree with your work ethic, but that would require both of us to pretend you actually have one. Leave if you’re NON-MOTIVATED!

Most people don't like their jobs. But you go out there and you find something that makes you happy.

We're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, okay?

Would you say in a given week you only do about fifteen minutes of real work?

@bz Ah, yes. The tired rhetorical meat shield to manipulate people into conceding to any and all asks. If you don't do it - then you don't care about the patients!

Real motivation? It’s the patients that we serve. Simple!

Your only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing your job. But you know that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. Aahh, now, are you going to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?

Whatever you do, don’t volunteer to train people. That’s your manager’s job

Folks please remember, NEVER commit only use "I will do my best" to finish the task.

Just do what you can in 40 hours. Nothing more. The job market is hot garbage. Medtronic knows this and will continue to add more work to you until you quit.

... dont try hard? Just make realistic commitments and follow through. Doing more than that is just a quick road to burn out