Why would anybody want to quit right now, when chances of being laid off and receiving severance are so high? Unless you land your dream job that comes with a major raise, you should stay and make them cough out the money if they want to get rid of you. I have no intention of walking away as long as severance is a possibility.
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Managers intimidating employees now if they don’t perform to a certain level severance can be held back. Or outright fired .
Go find your dream job it’s a nightmare here
upper management is absolutely reading this, and i hope they feel terrible
“it’s just business” and “it’s not personal” and “this is growth blabla” is bs buzzwords, and we all know it. We earned them BILLIONS and they all decided to drive the company into insane debt and we pay for it. they don’t. they’ll land just fine. maybe even become csuite elsewhere where people actually die from sh-t quality and their bumbling mistakes while many of us struggle to pay for healthcare or even rent or mortgage. They are sh-t people. And they read this and feel misunderstood because they think we’re too stupid to understand BUSINESS and GLOBAL MARKETS AND BLAHBLAH.
no. we get it. we understand. and you’re still just garbage. read this and feel bad, nielsen csuite. every time someone is looking at you in public, feel anxiety and wonder if they know the truth about you, that you’re sh-t at your job, you’re greedy, and you fu---d people over possibly to the point their recovery will be long and difficult. fu-k you. i hope you are haunted to your last eye blink.
personally, to be fair, a lot of immediate managers in my department were great. nice people. smart. kind. they actually did their jobs. they’re being laid off too. i’ll miss having them as good bosses who weren’t psychopaths. it’s the higher managers who kept rotating thru directionless, getting that resume title bump and forcing out the few good upper managers, who own this nightmare. them and csuite.
anyways. yeah they read this. and good. feel bad and i hope the orcas sink your next bullsh-t yacht adventure 🖕🏻
I was told Management is looking at this board for mo--s. They cant trust each other any more.
I think this is going to be hard for a lot of people at my business unit. Not because they don't deserve a better job, but because of the market here and our niche experience, which is how Nielsen kept most of us on board this long anyway. I hate this company to my depths, but I personally have no idea what I'm going to do next, I'm terrified.
No, start searching for a new job ASAP. If you get one before you're laid off, do both jobs and wait for the Nielsen layoff/severance. By which I mean do your new job and Nielsen can pound sand. What're they gonna do? Fire you? lmao
Nielsen is full of bad engineers and manager that won't find a job like the one they have today anywhere else in the world (there's a reason Nielsen has lost it's competitive advantage), those will for sure stay until the end.
The rest of us should be actively trying to find a new job, staying here will just make you sad and bitter...
“Even sweeter now knowing they cut the severance check down to 1 week per year.”
Glad you’re celebrating this while others are in serious turmoil because of it. Not everyone can immediately find a new job. I agree it’s time to start the search but your comment just comes off gross and insensitive.
Nope. Found my dream job making more money in a more stable work environment, not this toxic environment where my whole team and manager have given completely up and we all are fearful and bitter. I quit. I couldn’t handle it anymore. Life is better on the other side of Nielsen. Even sweeter now knowing they cut the severance check down to 1 week per year. Well worth leaving them in the dirt.
Bad take. Job searches can take months. And since Karthik the Clown cut severance in half, even long time employees won't have more than 3 months of severance coming.
Everybody at Nielsen should be Quiet Quitting and looking for a new job now.
I was laid off in September of last year. The job search took me five months, and I was lucky, most take longer. Start looking, the jobs report may be positive, but it isn’t at all in our space. I applied to 360 jobs on LinkedIn, that is not even counting the job applications directly to the company website, which was easily at least 100. All of these layoffs have made the candidate pool huge, don’t think it is as easy to find a new job as it used to be, because it definitely isn’t right now. The poster was not goading you to forego severance, he was giving you a very smart warning.
There's no reason not to start looking. Job searches can take a long time and you don't know what it will be like until you start.
oh yeah employees who have been here for only two years should really stick around, not look for other jobs, for that sweet two week severance. lol
you sound like management goading the heard to continue to toil the land for you then discard them into the trash can when not needed.
We have self respect. Something you tried to strip away from us.
Don't take this advice without evaluating your risk tolerance. If you have bills and people to support waiting for severance might be a bad idea.
Severance benefit was just cut and there is no reason to think Nielsen's owners won't cut it again. Reducing severance is a red-light indicator that Nielsen, or any company, is in a desperate death spiral.