If you are concerned with being LRd you may want to remove any scheduled PTO from workday before it hits. If you don't and lose access you won't get paid for it if the system logs it as taken. You can always reinstate it later if needed.
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When LRd you will lose access but not to everything. Certain sites that require duo will still put you through duo and you will be able to log in. Connected recognition won’t be immediately blocked, you can cash that in after being notified. Apart from that there’s roughly 24h after notification before the access to certain pages/apps is blocked. I know all that as I was notified in Feb. PTO will be paid out no matter if you had it planned in workday or not.
Someone said you don’t lose access to anything. That’s not true. I was LRed in February 2024. You lose VPN access within 24 hours.
Was that within 24 hours of being notified or 24 hours of your employment ending? In my experience, both personally and with friends, because everything was behind the VPN, VPN was not terminated until your employment ended. Badge access worked as well, so you could go into the office and access anything via the internal network instead of VPN, so they only revoked your access to propriety stuff and admin rights if you had them.
Now that "Zero Trust" has enabled access to email and some websites, I can see VPN access going away, but there's still internal stuff you can't get to that are HR related, like Workday, our stock portal, ADP, etc.
Someone said you don’t lose access to anything. That’s not true. I was LRed in February 2024. You lose VPN access within 24 hours. I recommend saving anything non-proprietary for your resume/portfolio before you lose VPN access and are kicked out of SharePoint sites by your former team. Anything that does not require VPN, you will be able to continue to access (which is a lot but not all).
I’m still mad about the whole shutdown, I’m-stealing-your-pto-so-we-don’t-have-to-pay-you-for-it-when-we-fire-you thing.
Could you "correct" any PTO used to say T2G? If impacted?
You could, but that might raise a red flag and cost you severance money if they turn around and fire you for stealing from the company (submitting false claims). Why try it? Just cancel any "pending" PTO if it's not already cancelled by your manager or HR.
Exactly why would you down vote this? This is a strange crowd.
Because the OP is wrong. When you're notified, all planned PTO from the time of notification to termination date is automatically cancelled. It IS paid out in full. Plus, you continue to accrue PTO during your last 60-days. (It's actually your last 30 days because that's when they terminate you, but they base it on the additional 30 days they pay you "in lieu" of notice.
I know this because I was at the 220 hr PTO accrual limit and was taking every other Fri off to "burn" a day's PTO every pay period (8 hrs) so I could continue accruing my 6.xx hrs every pay period. When I was notified, they paid me out 244-ish hours of PTO (the 220 hrs I had, plus the 4 pay periods of 6.xx hrs earned each during the termination period).
A friend was on PTO the entire week before the LR announcement was made. He was out of state. His boss texted him before the earnings call telling him to watch it, then texted him an hour later to check his work email to advise him of the "meeting" the next morning. Laid him off over the phone and cancelled his PTO so the week he'd burned plus the week he was still planning on using were not used and were paid out instead. I'm not sure if cancelling the "used" PTO part was a Cisco policy or if the manager just did it to be nice, but an extra week's pay in severance is an extra week's pay.
Could you "correct" any PTO used to say T2G? If impacted?
You don’t lose access to anything when LRd at Cisco. You have 60 days of prepping to look for another job while being paid and with no other responsibilities. Unless they’ve changed since 2018, you still have access to all systems
Agree, perfect idea. Keep your powder dry.
Exactly why would you down vote this? This is a strange crowd.