Here is the story about us, employees, uncovering the huge layoff that's been kept away from the media and the public eye.
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2017/06/23/layoffs-website-littered-with-comments-from.html
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Greco said in May,
“We have a significant opportunity to thoughtfully and permanently remove unnecessary costs,” he explains, adding that the next task will be to “challenge” leadership to both attract and develop talent throughout Advance Auto Parts. “With stronger talent, we will build new capacities required to win in the future and evolve the culture to deliver value.”
Until a parts person runs the CEO office, you will get this kind of garbage. I remember a Pepsi guy once ran a little computer company called Apple into the dirt once too. Need to find the Steve Jobs of auto...
20000? That's 1/3 of the entire workforce
Rumor has it that after all is said and done, 20,000 jobs will have been eliminated.
Jake was the first to report it, hence, he's famous now. Jake the whistleblower on layoffs.com
Oh, man - "may you live in interesting times" seems like a perfect fit here.
Oh, btw, I was let go on Tuesday - feeling relieved (temporarily)
It's good that this got covered - so, thank you Amanda Hoyle whoever you are. They need to feel some pressure from the public about this - people know that executive pay is skyrocketing while they keep cutting jobs. What they need to do first is to see if the executive pay can be reigned in and if things can become normal again - after that, if we still have issues - let's do transparent and orderly layoffs. Not like this, hush hush, you don't even know who's being cut and why.
My two cents, my opinion only.