Will HR and my manager schedule a Teams meeting?
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when you receive the invite, just propose some other time for next year so you have enough time to look for a new job.
The biggest sign is that you work at fiserv.
An email that says “Business Update” typically from your upper manager.
A dreaded, sudden and inexplicable "Touch Base" meeting with your boss will appear on calendar a day before...
I finally left on my own earlier this year...and was best decision I could have made. The pressure and nonsense from above was just too much. I didn't double my salary of anything major, but landed in a good place with good people...and a lot of Fiserv refugees actually! A couple months later, I recognize a recovery from quite literal PTSD from the toxic environment there...we had a major issue go wrong, and here management swarmed in to support the team...that is NOT how it would have gone at Fiserv. The baseline positivity outside the orange gates is something I can't overemphasize. I'm also realizing that I am no longer adding a bottle of Tums to the weekly grocery cart. I spent two years watching the culture and tone morph--naively hoping for a turning point or change in direction or leadership that didn't come. The management, including senior management just two down from FB maybe, are good people--but bullied and scared into compliance and echoing FBs directives. I am not a quitter, but it came down to what was eroding my health--mental and physical. FB should enjoy his position now...because history and karma are going to judge him much differently.
Mine came in the form of a Teams meeting with the title “Organizational Changes”. It was me and 70 of my coworkers. I figured it was a lay off since they normally just email organizational changes.
Mine came with my regular 1-on-1. I logged in, and noticed my manager, her manager, and someone from HR was in attendance. I knew then my goose was cooked with Fiserv.
It was the end of 4 years of being dumped on with more responsibilities, being woefully underpaid, working weekends, up at 3AM for installs. I was not a happy camper because I was promised some help, but that never came.
I was given three months to document my processes and hand over responsibilities to the team. On my last day, they should have just let me go early, but I spent the afternoon being threatened with loss of severance and medical coverage for my family because I dared to save personal document off my laptop. So I had to beg and grovel with HR just to get out the door with my small parachute.
Same happened to me as @uvr+1nAxEmqQ posted. I can honestly say it was the best day in my life and most importantly in my career. It was like waking up from a nightmare,..so much happier now - truly.
In Brookfield if you're Finance you will get an unscheduled Teams call asking you to come up to a 3rd floor conf room. HR and EJ will be there to deliver the unsurprising news.
Your manager will schedule a ‘quick update’ or some other similarly named 30-minute touch base. Once you enter the meeting an HR representative will join.
"Boss cancels your one on one meetings "
^ This guy's been laid off
Boss cancels your one on one meetings
Can't speak for everyone but I got an email for a 2 on 1 conference room meeting...well don't have to tell you what happened next.