Well, the Allstate layoff bug hit the Protection Plan group last week. Reports of all remaining U.S. based CX, some marketing, and some field. Along with the ending of unlimited PTO and getting the ALL ungenerous PTO annual bank, definitely signs the old SquareTrade is finally gone.
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Seems like if you worked for your friend, you got to keep your job. There's a lot of close relationships and friendships at that organization. I imagine lawsuits will probably be coming at some point. They need to investigate the personal relationships of some directions and some seniors to their direct reports.
This was inevitable. The goal of all major monopolies to buy, merge, layoff. Unlimited PTO is a lie esp in tech. Take too much time off, you get piped/laidoff/fired for failing to make deliverables/goals. I fell bad for the decent app engineers but welcome to the big blue we---e.
What was the APP layoff package?