If we’re told we’re finished sixty days after our replacements are hired, what does that mean exactly? What if it takes them a year to hire a replacement? I want the severance and I’m totally ok with training them but honestly, when will this nightmare end?
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Those that are getting 60-day notifications are likely not getting a resource to train and there is No backfill. Your position is just being eliminated to remove an expense.
Now, they will however hire a Contractor if/when they need them who is Remote.
Many of the positions are not being backfilled with a replacement.
It will be Who is in a position to provide some knowledge to and no concern about the current capacity of that person. HR is working to a number and that is all they care about. And I will say, most immediate managers have Zero idea of the work each of their people do. In 3/4 months, they will reap what they sow.
All the guidance will be totally to the benefit of the company to continue holding all the strings. Pushing more and more uncertainty (and distrust) to those associates in purgatory status. If you can deal with that and the promise of the severance package, then great. If you are going to suffer (mentally/emotionally) with that amount of uncertainty, plan for your own departure on your schedule--you may be leaving money on the table in some cases, but you'll control the timing. It's cruel in a lot of ways. Fiserv can't run BAU work well, but they really find ways to mess with people as they trip their way through this RTO/NJ cluster. No consideration for people...none. Zero.
If you seriously consider the term rat _f**k_, and its origin, consider that the tail is smooth going in, and barbed coming out. That is fiserv in a nutshell WRT loyalty to their employees.
It ends the day you decide it ends. If you make the decision to stay and wait for whatever lousy lump sum they might give you, then you'll sit in purgatory stewing while the company controls your fate. Or, you can leave on your own accord and control it yourself.
You’re in a giant holding pattern until they hire a replacement or decide they can go without you in general. After your replacement is hired they will tell you 60 days, but maybe less but nothing in writing because they don’t want to be held accountable to a date. Good luck.
Good news! Rumor is that your 60 day period can start even if they can't find your replacement.
This waiting game reminds me of the hold music for IT where The Crying Game is on repeat…. It’s painful.