Good luck everybody...
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Here's how it works: if your manager get's invited to this meeting, then at least one of his direct reports is impacted. If you're a manager and are invited, consider yourself lucky to have escaped the axe this time. If you're invited and your manager is not, wish him good luck.
Here's a simple litmus test to know beforehand if you're on that list: Look at your manager/director/VP straight in the eye when you pass him/her in the corridor. If he is shifty eyed, it's time to update that linked-in profile.
Why
All this "stealthy" open transformation places more mistrust among management. Bean counters making life and customer impacting decisions when they nor senior mgmt have a clue what's happening. Can an employee be expected to provide professional support on Monday and be fired on Tuesday.
I will be glad once this is over and done with one way or the other. Yes they tried to be transparent with the transformation, however, I have never seen so much talking and so little said in all the meetings and memos coming from the top. In some ways their 'transparency' made the days leading up to the cuts worse. Good luck tomorrow everyone.
If they schedule a 1:1, then keep changing the time and room location, it's you. But as another poster said, keep your head up. Things will be better down the road. Been there, done that.
PROTIP#2: If your PTO request for 3/1 has been denied, you're probably affected .
PROTIP: If your boss is canceling your business trip on Tuesday, then you are likely on the chopping block!
HQ employees are aware of the upcoming bloodbath next week Tuesday.
The word is Mfg Ops will be hit hard.
From those that have gone through this before, has NetApp historically favored laying off a US citizen over an international employee with an H1 visa? Not taking performance metrics into things, if the two employees are equal, has NetApp played a sympathy card in the past to avoid revoking a visa?
There have been stealthy layoffs happening since Wednesday with the big one coming on Tuesday.
Tuesday is what we are hearing too. Please post if you have heard any specific numbers for specific organizations or sites.
Highly unlikely the entire team. Best guess at this point is that the meeting was on a strictly need to know basis which means if a manager was invited then at least one direct report person of that manager was impacted
Is it safe to assume if your manager attended this meeting at least one person from your team will be let go? Or more likely everyone from the team?
The rumor for subgroup HSG impacts is 5%
Security scheduled an all-day meeting in the Shocker conference room in Wichita for next Tuesday.
Several sources today have confirmed the mass layoff will be next week Tuesday!!
'Til Tuesday folks.
Any idea how it is done in non-HR locations like Boulder?
Welp Monday or Tuesday as expected. Can't say I'm surprised.
Wichita's head of HR has 11AM-5PM of Monday blocked off and 9AM-5PM Tuesday completely blocked off. Looks like Tuesday March 1st was right all along.
Speaking for Wichita/Boulder, the meeting was scheduled by EVP HR Gwen McDonald. Here's the meeting contents:
"Your attendance is required for the above scheduled meeting. Please cancel or reschedule any commitments and ensure your attendance. Please arrange a private location where you will be able to attend the meeting via WebEx and phone. Further details will be disclosed at the meeting.
This meeting is confidential and you must not disclose to anyone that you have been invited to attend, including your manager. Do not forward this invitation."
The real question is why are certain managers not invited to the meeting? Various people managers weren't invited while others were. Some managers were invited to both Thurs and Fri meetings at 2:30-4:30PM CST.
The meeting itself does not contain that its a pick either one scenario. Some managers aren't scheduled at all with the meeting.
If you ask me, I think the most likely reasoning for these events is that the scheduled managers have impacted direct reports.
Can someone here share what they talked about at the mandatory manager meetings?
What a cluster and not of the CDot variety.
Use your VTO and sick time now. They will not be paid out.
Vacation is paid out upon your termination date with NetApp (which is generally 60 days following when you've been notified and walked out -- your specific termination date will be printed on your layoff paperwork)
ICP is only paid out if you are at NetApp >= April 29 (That means you want to make it to around March 1 so your termination date is past April 29). ICP is paid out as if you received a 3 rating and got the lowest percentage possible -- example, if they set the ICP budget for a 3 rating for your level to be 6 to 8 percent, you will get a 6% bonus. Make sense?
Someone already documented the severance calculation. That gets paid within a couple of weeks once you return the severance paperwork and 1 week goes by (which is your window to change your mind and withdraw your agreement). Anyway, you cannot sign and turn in the severance paperwork until your termination date (60 days following your notice). You basically sign away your rights to sue NetApp and talk bad about them and in return you get the severance check plus cobra for your severance period. Cobra will be company paid through the end of the month in which your severance period ends.
Let's say you are entitled to 5 weeks severance and your official termination date is 5/1/2016. You'll get company paid cobra through the end of June (your termination date would be ~6/8/2016 but you get your medical insurance through the end of the month). In this case, COBRA facilities the health insurance and NetApp pays the premiums (including what you used to pay via your paycheck). Once your severance benefits end, you will be responsible for 100% of your health insurance. Make sure you cancel the insurance once you transition to a new insurance plan.
Here's a really good article to keep things in perspective:
http://www.insightjewels.com/guy-eran-annual-layoffs-its-not-your-fault/
Hang tough.
If you are impacted, keep your head up and understand that down the road you'll be in a much better place.
Based on experience, sometimes managers do not know who will be impacted. If the manager is impacted, the Senior Mgr or Director will send the message to him/her and anyone under that manager.
Regardless when it happens, things will be chaotic and shocking.
There's always a manager's meeting before layoffs. It's called "training".
Managers got to know who are laid off through emails or 1:1 meetings with their managers. Not many managers sitting in a meeting talking about who got laid off.
"There have never been any mandatory managers meeting before layoffs."
How do managers know who on their team is being let go and what the process is?
There were some cuts made yesterday-today. Anyone have news on that? Overall news other than Mgrs are meeting?
From what I know, there have been "mandatory" manager meetings 1-2 days prior to other layoffs that I can remember
Does anybody know if sick or vacation time gets paid out upon a layoff? Should we be using up sick time if we think we'll get laid off?
Why people like to spread rumors to scare others? There have never been any mandatory managers meeting before layoffs. Regardless, layoff will happen within the next three business days.
This is horrible!
88% will be okay! That's a pretty good number, I'd take that bet. Relax everyone it will work out no matter what. Please work out please work out (fingers crossed). Lol
Maybe the Mgrs will get hacked, NetApp had an excessive layer of middle mgmt.
My group also has managers all in a meeting tomorrow morning. This could be accurate.
Sources say Sunnyvale HQ getting hit hard on Monday.
Looks like my manager is invited to both meetings!
Duck and Cover! Winter is coming! Confirmed main volley being fired tomorrow morning.
Not all managers were invited to the meetings. Plus there is a duplicate meeting friday. So things may not happen this week.