Thread regarding CDW layoffs

It has impacted me emotionally on a great deal. I have had to re arrange alot of finances so I am set up and prepared if I am laid off. I feel like I am not living my life and just walking on eggshells. I have always worked well over 50 hours a week, and given so much to the company. Recently i have only stuck to 40 hour weeks, to finally enjoy my time and life with my kid. I do have a choice to look for another job and keep options open. As the fear may be exactly what leadership wants.

As for sellers, in my almost 20 years. They just have high egos. They think they are superior, and no job matters as much as them. However, their job does need others. However, not all sellers are like this. Bids, orders, commissions, configs, etc. Working together to get "their sales" out the door and to get "their paychecks" I have not met many sellers, with no ego. Meaning those who actually volunteered to go down to the configs center to work to get their orders out for the customer. Sellers who paid for their customer RMA to ship to their house or office, while waiting for vendor returns to approve. While issuing price adjustments, later tonhave it reversed once the RMA credit went through. While the high egos of sales reps just demand everything "now"

I am sure some sellers will get upset with that, and gas light. Some do that very well. But some may agree to the extremes they would go through for their customer because they understand others are busy as well.

Extra work for everyone and no pay raise.

@rq
I knew things were like this after I was 5 years into my career. I was one of the top sellers but then I started getting shafted as my managers continually got changed and I started.getting looked over for opportunities that went to people that su-ked up but were underperformers.

Then I got continually stabbed in the back while I hunted for new business because high profile $0 accounts got hoarded by people waiting for a partner to get them into an account by bringing CDW a deal. "WE'RE ALL ONE COMPANY" though and "ALL ONE FAMILY"

I stayed another 15+ years but my hunger ti be #1 was extinguished. I just made as much $ as I could with what I had and was still always one of the best on my teams.

I invested however and stayed within my means. I am now free of all those horrendous TWO-FACED sc-mmy people.

I learned how to HATE people while working at CDW. Out of the 1000's of people I met in my tenure...only a handle actually cared about me and are still my friends. A HANDFUL out of 1000's.

I know more about business and how to run a business than our C-level DEI figuredheads.

My advice is quit if you can. If you can't...I'm indifferent. People should've seen this coming as everything in terms of operations and business practices got slower and worse after Richard's retired.

Things will only get worse. I'd suggest only working your required hours and not doing anything extra. Do the minimum amount of work to stay employed and get out as soon as you can as the place will only make your life and health worse.

Everyone only cares about themselves at this point and only see customers as dollar signs and not people. Definitely the type of relationships I try to avoid. Just users.

Throw your resume out there with smaller partners as people use them for stepping stones so they always have churn.

Me...I was smarter than most and am young and retired. I escaped the matrix. Too bad I was laughed at and no one listened to me. Those people are all now still stuck there and now feeling like I did.

Told them so 🥳

@rq im sorry you are going through this. Im is the same boat where my health is deteriorating because of this job & I contemplate if my physical health is worth the chaos

@rq Yep. Accurate synopsis.

I'll tell you what. As bad as getting whacked in July was, at least I know it's over. It's been really rough financially for us so far, but the further away in my rearview mirror CDW gets, the better and more free I feel. It must be horrible being left behind and having to work there (and have to do more than one person's work) for the paycheck. (I know the feeling, up until July.)

We now know there is systematic culling. Many great coworkers are being let go. The pattern is in place. It's just so sad for me to watch a once-great company sink into the ground. I keep asking myself "Who's going to do all of the work" and "Won't the customers notice?"

I’ve been here for a long time (decade+). I’ve seen and been through a lot of changes. Never in all the years I’ve been here have things been so difficult. Anger is at an all time-time high. I feel punished for staying. Before you all start beating me down about “just quit then”, I’m at an age where no one will look at my résumé so my options are very limited. Trust me if I could quit I would in a heartbeat. This place is taking a toll on my health, and my sanity.. I’ve been doing my job single-handedly for years and years and the people I’ve come to depend on keep getting laid off. there’s nowhere to go anymore for help. It’s a struggle just to keep your head above water every day. I wanna be helpful, but I’m severely limited on what I can do anymore. So we’ll just send it off to the India team and they will help yeah right. Isn’t that the answer to all of our problems?

Our adjacent teams were all RIF'd so much that their processes broke and now people are trying to pick up the pieces and no one knows where to start because the whole team owning it was cut

This just about sums it up......"Everyone left is doing the work of two people while looking over their shoulders and being scared of being fired. So we are stressed, dissatisfied with the direction of the company, overworked and fearful for our jobs."

I support a fair amount of sellers. Most sellers can't keep up with all the process and sales motion changes that are coming down from the Ivory Tower. Sellers are getting no guidance and it is left up to the downstream people to figure it out. Seems like a good time to take advantage of the unlimited PTO until they figure it out. ;-)

My direct manager was laid off earlier this year, as was another coworker. So, now the "team" of 4 is now just me and one other person. We also have no clear path of escalation. Things that my boss used to handle now come to my desk. But I haven't been given any decision-making authority, so issues just get tossed around like a hot potato.I end up escalating issues that should go to a director to a VP, but they're too far removed to understand the situation, so I have to spend all day dealing with that which means I'm not doing my own job because I'm doing my job, my and my former managers job. Things get backlogged. People get angry. Then people call me to fix it. I tell them I don't have the authority to fix it. All day. Every day.

Sounds awesome !

Everyone left is doing the work of two people while looking over their shoulders and being scared of being fired.
So we are stressed, dissatisfied with the direction of the company, overworked and fearful for our jobs.