Please, if anybody has any new info on incoming layoffs can they please share it with us?
I'm so stressed out by not knowing what's going to happen I'm having trouble sleeping. Letting us know there'll be layoffs and then giving us no details, just letting us wait... To me, that's just unnecessarily cruel behavior.
let's do the time warp...again!
From the what it sounds like is it a fair assumption that the supervisors and managers that had their groups wiped out were put on at staff positions in the "high grades" as they are called? Just wondering because if that is the case and the older, more experienced personnel have been let go (or most of them), where does that leave some 1-5 year staff person who would someday would want to supervise. It would seem that would become very difficult if there are many past supervisors at staff positions who will quickly pounce at the chance to become a supervisor again and they will have the experience. Just seems from the posts that is what I have been reading. Anyway, just my 2 cents.
Been there. I would add that even after some time has passed, I’ve felt angry and “defeated.” It’s easy to think “wow, I guess I’m not any good at this afterall.” But, you have to remember that it’s really only a person or two who will decide your fate, and these people don’t want to lay off their people. So, it isn’t that every manager and colleague you’ve ever known is pointing the finger at you, judging you, and sentencing you to unemployment.
I’m still not fully back on my feet, but I’m making progress toward new career goals daily (and I’ve actually had the time and perspective to really consider what those goals are). Meanwhile, I’m also pursuing several non-work interests and reaching goals in these areas as well. Having a blast doing it! I never had the time for these while working, and it will be bittersweet for me once I do land the right job.
Do your best, and don’t stress the rest. Life will go on either way. Greetings to my former AK friends, and best of luck to all.
-1gf, well said.
Hang in there. It is truly ridiculous how this has occurred repeatedly over the last several years.
It’s easier said than done, but try to look at this philosophically. I always assumed I’d be laid off sooner, or later, from the day I took a job in this business (I joined just after a large round of layoffs). If you treat it as a given, and as if it’s not if, but when, it can help. After several rounds, I actually had my office partly cleared, just in case. When it happened it was still a jolt, but life has moved on, and yours will too if you lose your job. I promise: you can survive it!
management is incapable of making a decision so they hire outside consultants to come in and look at the landscape and make it for them and even then they still wont make a decision,
It is cruel behaviour to the employees, and cowardly from management,
level after level of supervisors that almost never get cut, only the individual contributors one by one,
whoever it was that placed this company in this untenable position was greedy (and outright evil)