I truly DO want to be laid off or my title to be surplussed. How bout you? It's not that I hate my job. I kind of like it and I'm pretty good at it. My boss is cool and I think the next few levels seem cool. It seems above them are horrible people but oh well, it's a corporation. I just want to retire BUT I'm not going to leave until they pay me! My job is obviously being replaced by technology and de-skilled tasks done by cheaper overseas labor and sooner or later I will be laid off. Actually, it can't come soon enough. So like most of my coworkers, I just give minimal effort and care and I take off work as much as I possibly can. Most of my work and my work environment is so laughable it could be used for Saturday Night Live skits or some kind of comedy act. Even my boss knows it's joke. And nobody cares. How about you?
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Never hurts to ask
If you really wanted to be laid off, you would have already quit. Stop trying to make yourself sound more important for no reason.
Hate to tell you but people who want to get laid off or volunteer never get picked. They now know you’ll leave anyway and they don’t have to pay severance.
" Anyone have knowledge of a non union management employee asking their boss to include them in the next surplus and how that worked out?"
Over the last 10 years or so, yes, I have seen it several times. Actually, I am not aware of a time when a request was not accommodated. Makes it easier for everyone. They just need the number that they were tasked to get. If you've got someone willing to go, even a valued and high performing member of the team (which usually seems to be the case among those who volunteer, BTW)... that is just one less difficult conversation the Boss has to have. Path of least resistance always wins,
They won't lay people off. They will force people to a new designated office location. When you refuse to relocate at your own expense they will terminate you for insubordination. No unemployment, no separation bonus.
Anyone have knowledge of a non union management employee asking their boss to include them in the next surplus and how that worked out?
About 6 months ago I asked my boss what I needed to do to decrease my performance enough to get on the next surplus list. He just laughed, he knows I don't have that in me. All I've managed to accomplish is to cut back a few hours a week, down to an average of 50. I'm doomed to stay lol.
Your manager would like to hear this from you. As a manager, I would prefer to layoff an associate wanting to leave rather than impact someone else.