So much pageantry. So much suspense. All for a game of thrones style underwhelming finale.
Four or five months heads up that "we'll be making adjustments throughout fy27 and we don't know who will be impacted" isn't compassion or clarity. Its chemotherapy for terminal cancer.
Just take me out back on a friday and give me the ol' yeller treatment. Or to HR and give me a box to put my stuff in. We dont need to do this elaborate charade.
Remember donahue telling us right before Christmas? what was that 2024 or?
@c4 Nah. They created this problem. They can pay to fix it. Make them make you leave. Don’t do their dirty work for them. Do a good job, do you make the necessary preparations, but unless you find something amazing, make them make you go away if they are no longer in need of your services after executing on what they told you to do in the first place.
OP, you can just walk away any time too. If all you want from HR is a box you can bring your own too. No drama from Nike and no drama from you... you got what you wanted. Simple solution. Finding you next job, now that is another story. Use the next 3-4 months to prepare. Save money, cut spending, update your resume... there is a lot you can do with the heads up that they gave you. Just assume you are on the hit list and act accordingly. This removes all of the drama and gives you a head start on the job search. If you don't get laid off than you are still in better shape for the planning and savings.
@ae Go read other company posts on this site. I wouldn't count on WARN as your indicator. The WARN rules are pretty easy to work around and the fines for non-compliance are trivial.
@OP it’s just complying with the federal WARN act, which Oregon adopted, mass layoffs require sixty days notice.
I was a 2024 RIF. I'm here to tell you it's the same everywhere you go now. Corporations have become fully tranasctionaliized, and employees are a commodity. No one sticks around anywhere for more than a few years now. There are no more private penions, few bonuses. Do your job, stop trying to be a high performer, that just makes you a blame target and ultimately counts for nothing when layoffs are being decided. Stop giving 2 weeks notice unless you're counting on a reference and/or dont want to sc--w your boss, because the same consideration will never be afforded to you.
@aa This I believe is true finding ways to fire people, that way they reduce severence expenses.
Get ready for leadership to gaslight you into thinking you are not doing your job.
This will set them up to make themselves look good and have documentation and a reason to let you go.
In the words of Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part. I was let go in the last round so I remember what that’s like. Make peace with the fact that it very well could be you, put the car in neutral and coast.
@a5 forced attrition was my first thought as well.
@a2 a one's age is not defined in years, but rather, the number of Nike Layoffs they've been forced to endure.
I am old, A2. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.
He’s trying to spin the long lead time as straight talk.
Misery and anxiety are the goal.
They needs as much attrition as they can get before they start paying out severances.
True. But at least we know it’s not happening until the end of this year. Otherwise we would’ve been constantly thinking it could happen this week or next. That’s not fun either.
Outing yourself. Ol' yeller reference. You are one of, what, fifteen old people left?