I mean what’s left of us. I became completely numb.
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WARN notes that over 1,000 employees will be impacted February 2025 just from 1515. Hadn’t realized the total would be that high. Please don’t let the industry and merger dictate any stress (your health is most important) and the employees who worked hard and made a difference should be proud of their personal and business achievements .
Paramount
Event Number: 2023-0251
Address: 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
Number of Affected Employees at Site: 1,031
Total Number of Employees at Site: 4,265
Date of Notice: February 13, 2024 - 295 employees notified on September 24, 2024
Region: New York City
My group was told that “morale goes both ways”… That alone says it all
They legit have gutted the Company. The vibes at 1515 are terrible. They laid off a number of bright and intelligent workers without a real plan. I think many of us are just happy to have a job and a paycheck at this point.
praying i get laid off eventually, I'm pretty sure the stress of this whole ordeal contributed to my miscarriage, can't even get time off for that because there's not enough coverage unless I want to create a big fuss with HR, definitely not interested in pursuing that as much as I want to run far away from this place and never look back. I hope karma gets these ghouls for showing us how disposable we are, not like I can support a family comfortably with what they pay me...
I've been through layoffs at this company many times before. These rounds have been by-far the most demoralizing. The vast majority of the people left don't see how they can continue with their workloads with a barebone staff. Lots of nepotism left people around who are not very helpful and got "heavy lifters" laid off. Nickelodeon especially. Seems like current management doesn't care what happens to the company they are suppose to be running and realized the IP is the only value left. Its worth realizing that all the brands we think are huge - working inside the company - are not that big of a deal in the current marketplace and are mostly nostalgia. VMAs? They don't matter anymore like every other award show, they claim the viewership is low because of streaming but the reality is both tentpole events AND key shows like reality shows have been replaced by social media and NEW MEDIA. A podcast is higher ROI and higher impact than a news show like TDS can ever be.
People who are left realize they are in a dying dinosaur that will eventually end up like PanAM, only a cultural reference, not relevance.
Management shooting themselves even more in the foot with the sloppy integration of AI. The images used for their Ad Manager on social media is so sloppy it's been turned into a meme on facebook groups. Messed up faces, generic copy, colors off, very sloppy because they fired everyone.
Sorry for ranting but after making it through all the rounds so far (next one is in December) i don't see how this company can successfully operate at a competitive level.
Amazon, Netflix, Youtube and other big tech companies must be laughing to the bank and hiring up all the fresh fruit that dropped onto the market place.
Not fa----g well
It's not good at all. One post said it "no enthusiasm". Dread logging in/going into the building. It's even worse when you have leaders that have no clue what they're doing and they make things up as they go. They don't want to hear anything you have to say to better the dept. all because they have a constant need to display their power. They are condescending, rude, display unprofessional & disrespectful behavior in meetings, and don't even know how to trouble-shoot any issues that come up. They never jump in to help their team. And when issues are addressed to them to handle, they dump it off on someone else - all because they don't know!!! How do you get to that level when you're head is that empty??? And how did things get to be soooo bad???
Different people react differently because everyone has a different situation - you're not going to get a consensus. Plus the fact these post views have plummeted since the sep layoff
Literally no enthusiasm anymore. It’s a chore to even start my day. This company is about to crumble.
stupid question to ask
Hanging in there. 😔