Will the blood start spilling as soon as you arrive to work?
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Starts at 7 am.. good luck
I'm calling in sick for the next few days. Hopefully this will help me avoid getting laid off.
There are rooms booked all day in Warren and M---ord as "Undergoing Maintenance" from 2/4 - 2/8. Is this related to layoffs or there is actual maintenance?
My director said that HR is going to announce ping pong, foos ball and super mario cart tournaments and then fire everyone who shows up
Sounds like an execution camp
Sounds like it's pretty much the same routine for each person.
Wouldn't it make more sense to call everyone to one of the huge conference rooms that hold 200 people, give the speech for everyone, then have you hand in your badge at the table in the back, your laptop at the next table, and then you have one of a group of security guards standing by the door escort you to your car?
You can do 200 people in 15 minutes.
Proplefinder is going to crash with all the activity.
just keep an eye on people finder
There's tons of ways to word being canned. Fired, terminated, axed, let go, pink slip, etc, etc....but the reality of the situation is THEY are ending THEIR relationship with you. All those terms I mentioned (terminated, axed, etc) are from a victim's point of view. Don't have this victim point of view. They are not doing anything to you...they are merely ending their relationship (i.e. they are no longer paying money to you).
They conduct the layoffs individually, and they have a lot of people to lay off, but they will definitely start in the morning. It will take all day to get through everyone, or even a couple of days. When this happened to me ten years ago (at a different company) it took about fifteen minutes in the room with HR and a director (my manager did not do it, it was done by a director). They gave a quick speech about why they were cutting people, went over the severance package including what was included re healthcare, gave me papers that said that if I accepted the package, I was waiving my right to sue, and handed me a bunch of paperwork for COBRA and info on 401k transfers, etc. I had the option not to sign anything in the room, but money would not be put in my account until I signed. I signed right there. I was asked for my badge and laptop right there. I had not brought my laptop into the room. I handed my badge to them, and there was a security guard who walked me to my cube where I handed him the laptop and grabbed a thermos and a snow globe paperweight that were still in my cube. I was then escorted to an exit by security. I was numb through the whole thing and in shock and did not really feel much while it was going on.
I officially don't care. Bring it on.
My understanding is that we would receive a call or email telling us that we have to be in our cubes on a certain day and time. Not having received this yet, my guess is we actually have to be ready to work tomorrow. Dammit.
Also a separate rumor that Mon-Tues are for mgrs & directors. For those of us in MI having been WFH due to the weather, that now makes more sense.
I would say it would be a whole day or days, because they probably need you to some conference room, talk to you, you sign some paper and security escort you out. There are more than 4K people you know.
yep and they claim that we should work as - One Team - on drive2great.
None of us know. The lack of transparency regarding this whole process is the most painful aspect :(