I know, objectively, that layoffs are done for the week, but subjectively, I still can't stop stressing and worrying. The "what if" is permanently stuck in my brain.
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Stop stressing and being lazy. Start your search for a new opportunity. I promise you will earn 25-30% more. Go find out for yourself.
I'm out of a job at Comcast at the end of the year, and honest to goodness I feel sympathy for your position.
Why? I've got clarity on what I need to do next, I'm getting a severance and support, I'm no longer part of a performative and toxic team. So on at least the first two fronts, that feels advantageous (I don't know about your team, obviously).
When the company loses another 150K connects in Q4 and Q1 on and on into 2027...every single quarter the company fails, you'll feel the ping of uncertainty.
So - I mean this with all sincerity from someone losing their job to someone keeping their job: I truly truly feel sorry for your situation. That stress won't abate. Best thing you can do is work as hard as you can and hope the fever of myopic idiocy at the highest levels breaks.
And sharpen your resume at least once a month. Apply for positions to familiarize yourself with the flow of the job market these days, get free interview practice in the real world. Look, folks with 25-30+ years experience were let go. They haven't seen the job market since Clinton was President! Maybe that's not you, but we can all use the practice.
I'm not such a doomsayer to say "ha ha you're next." I hope you have a long career and this miserable stock we have so much of does bounce back eventually. But if you were standing on the outside advising someone inside the company, I think you'd agree that planning for continued failure is very sensible.
Not knowing how many layoffs there will be in the future. Knowing for sure that no matter how good or important or useful to the company your work is, it doesn't matter when it comes to layoffs or promotions. Knowing that even if you might be eligible for promotions, the company will do everything it can to keep that from happening, even using the RTO policy to stop promotions and high ratings en masse. Knowing that the same golden parachute tier that caused this mess is still in power after this restructuring.
Sure, nothing to worry about. We're all just hunky-dory here. Morale? What's that?
Same. “Safe”….this round, with Q1 fears looming.
Unfortunate l'y that is unlikely to change even if you were marked “safe” this time around. This was apparently the largest cuts in a layoff in decades if not ever - and there are rumors of more in Q127. I was impacted this round after about 10 years but am almost relieved to not have the stress and feeling of doom every time a layoff was announced that I “survived” in the past. There’s a lot to be said about how the news is communicated, even bad news, and the silence and lack of transparency is deafening this time around. More useful information was shared here through anonymous posts than anything I’ve heard yet from official channels.