anyone else here woke up with anxiety this morning?
having us wait a week is unforgivable!!! what a bunch of arrogant bastards!!!
sitting around the house, just made my monthly mortgage payment. looking around at my kids, wife, wondering what the F is gonna happen next week. totally not cool!
/venting
Anonymous62721 - you are not correct about Citrix waiting a week to notify because of a U.S. law. Layoffs are covered in the U.S. by the Federal WARN act and in some states by state WARN laws. In the Federal WARN act the company must give 60 days notice OR 60 days pay if certain thresholds are met. Citrix could have satisfied the law by laying off last week and giving 60 days of severance pay.
Our entire department got let go. Even those working remote,
I've been stressed since reading the e-mail last Wed evening. It's lousy to tell us a week ahead of time. In 2009, they gave us 1 day notice which avoided the levels of anxiety we are seeing in the offices these past few days. I know I have zero motivation right now - I imagine most people are experiencing the same. I'm not only wondering about myself but should I not be one of those let go, I feel so bad for those who will be leaving us.
Just to add... HR at Citrix is pathetic. They care nothing for the people they are supposed to help. They only care about the vultures in management and protecting them from lawsuits from the unethical and often times illegal practices. PW in HR in FTL is a wretched troll, and a despicable human being. It would amaze me if she could look at herself in the mirror, but then again she doesn't cast a reflection to begin with....
yea it's getting worse with every passing hour here in Ft. L. people on edge. nobody can concentrate. my team basically checked out for the week. i'm struggling to keep my composure and focus. this sucks :(
I am a spouse and of course I was told right away. Lets just say, my anxiety has been through the roof.
Agree with you 100% if we wanted to reduce spending why he hell suddenly decided to hire more than 150 employees in india in the first place.
I am at the MBO bonus level, and honestly feel like asking my boss to take back the promotions and raises. Just not worth it! For most Florida technical positions, people will probably have to leave Florida to find employment--I was looking around and jobs at our level simply do not exist here. Nervous? Hell Yes!
Citrix is shooting itself in the foot if it gets rid of any of us on my team--we have a hard enough time finding qualified people and we are majorly overworked as it is. If we lose even one person, it will have severe implications on our customers. We're barely surviving workload-wise as it is! And I hear that from other related teams all over the company. They want to improve sales? How about having enough staff to keep the customers HAPPY? That'd be a good place to start--reducing employees is the WRONG direction, for the most part. And reduction of the US staff would be even worse. Many of us hear from customers that REFUSE to work with India staff, yet I bet that is what the trend will be--fire US staff and hire in India. People I know in sales have stated that some of our largest customers have told them that we WILL lose them if we move more things to India. Are the executives listening? I doubt it. Of course there are probably about 10 managers/executives above me that could EASILY be eliminated (but won't be) and nobody would even notice.
I laughed when I read about vomiting below - I almost puked myself. It's a lot of stress guys. I do not even work for Citrix, my husband does.
is captain tesla tidying up before a buyout? daheb was beyond painful to watch on stage last year. ajm is out the door soon. people physically vomiting because of this bs uncertainty.......sure looks like dignity and respect to me. 11 million in payments in 2013 is how many teslas again?????
have you also notices how with the exception of ONE developer in Ft. L. not one new hire or contract to perm move was at a level high enough to receive MBO bonuses?
i bet "who" get's quarterly payouts will play a big role in "cost savings" LOL
@Anonymous62721: uh if you were there for 16 years, then you know in 2009 they made the announcement on a wed. and project respect took place the very next 2 days (thu. and fri.). as long as they include the "notice" pay in your severance they can lay you off same day. you are probably thinking of federal WARN act (http://www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-warn.htm). don't worry, I
m sure Henshall and Friedman have themselves covered on that one.
thanks for the explanation about the one week notice rule...
I AM a significant other... I was told... My significant other is being much cooler about the whole ordeal than I am. But, boy, how can you react when you know how much time and effort they have been contributing... It is not about money... It is about fairness... I was close to vomiting, too, I must confess...
I am also a Senior/Principal level employee that has been their 16 years. Unfortunately, I found out that it is a US & International law (probably SEC related as well) that the company must give at least 1 week notice of their intent to layoff employees. So by law, they couldn't make the announcement Wednesday and start layoffs the same day or even this past week.
LOL! well I didn't vomit but I was close :-) my a$$ on the other hand is having a very turbulent time :P
yes, significant other has been told. why hide?
overpaid, as in Sr. Dev I, maybe II :-), well into six digit range :-/ which in S. FL. is above market average from what I understand.
Not sure if this is going to make it any easier, I vomited to this morning.
Did you, guys, tell about the upcoming layoff to your significant others and the kids? Or are you just gonna break the news next week when it actually happens(or does not happen)to you?
Anonymous62672, would you mind sharing: what is "overpaid"?
Try not to stress (like I did for bit) - friend sent me this ==>>
How to Replace Worry with Wonder
Written by Jafree Ozwald
www.EnlightenedBeings.com
"When you can stop worrying about the future, you'll become such a drunk laughing nuisance that God will then lean down and start combing you into his hair." ~ Hafiz
Worrying is one of the most destructive habits a human mind can entertain. It is a disease of the psyche, which forms when we feel disconnected from our soul and our spiritual roots. Something happens in life, and a perpetual stream of negative fear based thoughts flood into our head and begin repeating themselves over and over. Fearful feelings bubble up inside and fill the narrowing mind with doubt and resistance to trusting to life. The thing we are worried about may or may not manifest, yet the mind clenches too tight, and is able to let go and relax.
Worry manifests when we rely only on the logical rational mind to serve as our guide and forget what it's like to live from our heart. We then become lost in the trail of perpetual tension left behind in the mind's anxious "what if" thinking. The worrier inside us has lost it's spiritual roots. It's forgotten how to deeply enjoy this life, be free from attachments in this world, and trust that everything is always unfolding perfectly in this divine all-intelligent Universe which never ever makes mistakes.
Worrying is an effect of not trusting our spiritual connection to the Universe. This disconnection creates the assumption that we are powerless beings, who are not the real manifestors of our future. Statistics show that 99% of our worries never manifest, yet it's that little 1% that the mind worries about! The ego/mind wants full control of reality, thinking that having a stronger more strategic hold on life is the most optimum place to be. When we resist trusting in life, we stop letting in love, and honoring the divine mystery that surrounds us. The ego/mind then becomes very tight, tense, demanding, controlling and worried about everything.
We tend to worry become the ego abhors being weak, vulnerable and unprotected from unexpected change. It thinks real strength is found in hardness, and wants total security, safety and a 100% guarantee that life will be ok. Yet, the ego doesn't realize that life is a perpetual leap of faith into the unknown. The ego has forgotten that true strength is found in softness, and that water always wins over rock in the end. Our ego is learning how to have a soft forgiving heart filled with trust, for this is the only way to relax, enjoy this lifetime and truly become worry free.
The worrier within us can be a bit tricky to catch and sometimes super challenging to stop. We can get accustomed to blindly following the over-analytical, skeptical, doubting mindset, and feel this is more intelligent and trustworthy than our free-flowing spontaneously arising intuition. The worry addict inside us is that part which has stopped appreciating life just the way it is. It feels incapable of accepting that whatever will manifest tomorrow will be for the highest good of all concerned. The worrier inside us is like a 24 hour slave laborer, who is constantly efforting for security through pushing the mind to dwell ONLY on a negative perspective of life. It is illogical and soooo fearful that it believes thinking positively is just some weak, gullible, naive, unrealistic mindset that is unprepared for some potential future horror that could occur.
"If your problem has a solution then why worry about it? If your problem doesn't have solution then why worry about it?" ~ Chinese Proverb
There's not much you can do to convince a super worried mind that a negative outcome is not coming ahead. A biochemical cocktail has been created in the worry filled brain that make it quite challenging, and almost painful to believe in positive thoughts. The worrier feels at home and life is somewhat under control if it keeps thinking negative thoughts. The worried brain cocktail generates this right feeling that we should be worried, and continue on this path, being even more serious and concerned about any potentially highly critical or important life situation. The worried mind cannot trust life or take a vacation, for it's never a good time to joke around, have any fun, appreciate our spiritual nature, or celebrate being alive today.
When the cocktail of worried biochemicals have taken over the brain, it is soooo powerful that the only place to find any freedom or clarity is by shifting gears into higher consciousness. When we interject a steady stream of pure awareness into our mind, we slowly stop believing that our fearful fantasy is going to manifest. The energy of pure consciousness acts like a river of clean clear flowing water, which purifies away the negative ideas which have little foundation in reality. By simply being aware of our consciousness for a few minutes, we can instantly release our ego's need to be afraid and in control. We can begin to sip a deeper succulent experience of life that feels open, trusting and loves enjoying the sensations of a deeper relaxation inside.
"The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I." ~ Ramana Maharshi
You can tell a worried mind several million times not to worry, yet the reason why it continues worrying is that it is uneducated. It doesn't know how to relax the body, love the mystery and trust in a perfect future. It thinks too much, feels too powerless, and feels the need to be in control of it all. Yet, when it imagines some fearful scene is occurring, it believes it's thoughts are having no energetic impact on the outer environment or people. The worried mind is ignorant of what quantum physics has proven the past 50 years. That thoughts are things that impact our world.
Every thought and feeling you have is impacting your environment, community and the entire world on some level. For example, they've proven that a person who you're emotionally close with on the other side of the world can feel it when you shift into a highly emotional state of love, anxiety or fear. We know people are more prone to doing business with those who live from a state of trust, faith and connection, rather than worry and fear. We are able to manifest, magnetize and attract the right people and situations we want when we our heart is resonating with the feeling that everything is going to be fine.
The more we understand the deep power we each hold in every thought we think, the easier it will become to step back from the worried mind and transcend it. If we cannot step away from the mind, we are a mere slave to it's forces. When you look at your worries directly, you may see that they typically are directed at the outer world. The mind tends to get hooked on thoughts about possessions, money situations, home life, our physical body, what other people think, if our loved ones are doing ok, and what we will manifest in our future. The untrained mind can worry about anything! It is a real creative genius that will poke around every possible fearful corner.
Sometimes the mind will worry about our loved ones, thinking that this is a form of caring about them. We might even feel guilty if they don't worry about them, thinking that not worrying or fearing for their life means we don't truly care about them. The problem with this is that this worrying energy is sending out a negative vibration of fear that is unhealthy, untrusting, unsupportive and actually pulls their loved ones down energetically. When we worry about someone, it energetically drains the life force of another person, cutting off our trusting relationship with them and causing them to feel more isolated and lonely in the Universe.
Be aware! Worrying is a highly unconscious habit that can more addictive than cocaine! It can completely destroy a life that was potentially filled with joy, love and laughter. If we don't learn how to transcend this addictive mindset, the energy can even implode within ourselves. When worry becomes self-abusive, we perpetually doubt who we are, why we are here, what we are doing, and fear being wrong about everything we say and feel. We can end up doubting our lives on every level, and this can evolve into an insanely stressful way of being that manifests into a psychosomatic disease and eventually death. Now this is something to worry about! It's vital to create a new response to life where we are deeply appreciating and trusting each moment, feeling the great goodness of life that is naturally here and all around us now.
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will." ~ Epictetus
Do not worry, there are some basic steps you can take this week to stop your inner worrier in its tracks and reclaim a life f
i have a funny feeling i may be :(
i fit the senior level overpaid developer profile so...
I feel your pain. Would have been much better to find out the next day, if not immediately after the email came out. Hope you are not affected.