This forum would have been nice to hear at an actual town hall. So many responses but quiet voices all these years. This company been toxic for over 3 years.
I was shared this link and read some responses and find someone of these very relatable.
When I was laid off it was quite a shock and unexpected and my team was shocked to hear the news. My manager never even brought it up a week prior. I even worked the night prior to my layoff and joined a call with director and HR to find out my position was eliminated. Director was very short no eye contact over teams. 20 plus years of service to end over a 10 min call.
My first reaction was wow cause I never been laid off. So when HR asked me if I had any questions, well not at this time because I am actually shocked. I asked when is my last day, she said now. I can log off. I said oh I have customers, projects, clients and my team to notify and I stopped in my tracks and said no I don’t. 20 plus years of service and did me dirty like that but again I am just a W2 to Transunion.
As I shutdown my laptop I felt blessed that this toxic environment filled with bad leadership was over. I mean I was already interviewing with companies and calling out of work. I never called out before like I did this year. He-l I even wanted to quit this job in May. Instead Transunion was letting me go with pay not to work enjoy fall temps and pay my HC, send me severance for each year of service plus additional severance due to age discrimination and pay me cobra healthcare which I was not going use any way. Also they included some useless challenger gray and Christmas that turned out to be an absolute joke. If anyone been laid off use them for resume that’s about it.
I can collect unemployment work under the table for a bit.
At the end of the day it was a blessing. My leadership a joke. I was forced into roles, I was constantly for 2-3 years asked what am I working on by team lead, manager. Spreadsheet of how many tickets are be closed by manager and fed to leadership. Working 70 hours a week. 9-10 hour day and logging back in at night 11-1am or 2am.
All these new responsibilities with same pay.
Absolute blessing. Absolute joy to hand off projects that weren’t mine back to senior teams.
Since layoff I’ve been more family time, happier, mentally clear, more focus driven. Eating right, exercising. SLEEP. No on-call and no pointless standup meetings.
Not saying the grass will be Greener on my next chapter of life but leaving a backyard full of sh-t I can’t complain.
Hearing more layoffs that took place recently, yall were warned with the first one. Y’all were told all was ok and was it? Absolute liar.