#layoff

Exactly one year ago today, I, along with many others was informed about our LRs. It was a surreal and chaotic day. People were pulled into abrupt call with leadership, only to hear a cold, unapologetic monologue. No closure. No empathy. Just a hard stop.
That moment marked the beginning of one of the most challenging phases of my life. Self-doubt crept in, overshadowing every achievement I had worked so hard for. It felt like the ground had shifted beneath me.
But here’s the truth, it wasn’t the end. With God's grace, relentless effort, and the support of those who stood by me, I can proudly say I’m in a much better place today personally and professionally.
To anyone who’s recently been LR’ed, this is not the end of your story. It’s a painful chapter, yes, but also a powerful turning point. Believe that better things await, as long as you're willing to explore, learn, and grow.

Keep exploring. Keep believing. Never give up.
Cheers to resilience, reinvention, and rising stronger.

I'm an ex 19 yr employee that had great reviews and more than exceeded our expectations of profits for years. I got laid off first round but had that icky feeling. Thinking the company I've been loyal to for so many years would do the right thing. It's all politics and bringing in 22 yr olds right out of college that have never been in a refinery, to replace you're 22-24 psg. Chevron will suffer from these horrible decisions! There is no loyalty or morals! When I received layoff in round one, almost everyone in the notice was 45 something and up. Get out on your own terms! I regret not being able to say I retired. On a brighter note, almost a yr pay has me enjoying my family and waiting until next year to even care about looking for a job! I wish you all well and sorry you are going through this!

What happens if you go into the office, your manager works in a different office and you are laid off? Do they send guards up to you to escort you out?

Who got the golden ticket?

Folks, if you are so worried about being terminated, then you already know the answer - you are a goner. Those that are confident in the real value they bring to COP will survive.

I hate that we have to have this mind set, but its a new month so im wondering if layoffs are coming around again. With the amount of issues with clients and clinicians due to all of the changes and clinicians choosing to leave due to it all, I can only imagine how much was lost money wise so worried about if/who will be cut next.

Sep13 6am UTC - Sep15 6am UTC totals: 7 layoffs.
September totals (except Sep01): 4704 layoffs, and 279 additions.
Methodology and day-by-day breakdown is in comments.

This is a baseline for a new week.

Have worked here for the past 8 years. Employee moral has been way down since the death of one of our colleagues. This Friday it continued when they abruptly laid off 4 of the most senior employees. Tariffs and incredibly poor management hitting us hard. The TRUMP economy in action!

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/conocophillips-deep-layoffs-highlight-need-capital-discipline-analysts-say-2025-09-08/

Source below...

Oracle has quietly eliminated more than 3K jobs across the US, India, the Philippines, and Canada, marking one of the largest workforce reductions in its recent history. The cuts took place between August and September 2025, but the company has made no public announcement. Instead, the layoffs were revealed through legally required WARN filings in the United States and similar notices abroad.

The timeline

• August 13, 2025: Bloomberg reported that Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure teams were hit first. No company statement was released.
• September 2, 2025: WARN filings in Washington State showed 101 layoffs effective November 3, 2025. Kansas City operations were also affected.
• September 3, 2025: California filings revealed 254 jobs cut across three sites, including 187 in Redwood City.
• September 4-5, 2025: Another 101 layoffs in Seattle were disclosed.
• Ongoing through September: More reductions followed in India, the Philippines, Canada, and Europe, often announced through “business update” meetings.

Where the layoffs happened

• United States: 262 jobs in Seattle, 254 in California, plus additional cuts in Kansas City, targeting former Cerner employees.
• India: Around 10% of Oracle’s workforce, or 2,800 to 3,000 staff, lost jobs across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Noida, and Kolkata.
• Philippines: Entire teams in Advanced Customer Services and the NetSuite Global Business Unit were eliminated.

Who was affected

• Oracle Health (formerly Cerner): Consulting, implementation, and care delivery roles took the hardest hit. Kansas City has now lost more than 5,000 Oracle jobs since the $28.3 billion Cerner acquisition in 2022.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): Cuts hit Enterprise Engineering, Fusion ERP, data center technicians, and even AI/ML project managers. This came as Oracle announced major AI investments.

Why it happened

The layoffs came just weeks after CEO Larry Ellison met with President Trump and unveiled a $30 billion AI infrastructure deal with OpenAI. Despite strong financial results—$57.4 billion in revenue for fiscal 2024, up 8% year-over-year—Oracle is cutting traditional roles to fund AI expansion.

These are not recession-driven cuts, but deliberate restructuring aimed at shifting resources toward artificial intelligence.

The human impact

Oracle has remained silent publicly, leaving WARN filings and brief internal meetings as the only communication. Many long-serving employees, some with over 20 years at the company, were informed of their termination during short virtual meetings.

One employee shared on LinkedIn that the layoffs highlight a growing reality: companies will eliminate jobs to fund AI, even when profits are strong. Experience and loyalty no longer guarantee security.

https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/oracle-laid-off-over-3000-staff-worldwide-through-warn-filings-2025

All New Product Development and lab personnel in Novi, Michigan have been given their walking papers.

Thoughts and prayers to Lal, whose compensation was 20MM in 2024 (up from 18MM in 23 and 15MM in 22).

Maybe we can get a gofundme started for him to avoid more layoffs?

Will there be more layoffs in the US and Canada before the end of the year?

My good friend, a RN at Southern Hills Hospital, Las Vegas just got her layoff notice effective 10/3. It’s too bad, she would’ve been vested with the company the following month. (6 years). It’s too bad company’s treat their employees this way. Their focus is on profit, not patient care. I guess now they’ll dump more patients on the limited amount of staff there, but of course, CEO’s will still maintain their pay. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians! They could easily maintain adequate staff by just cutting a few from the top, and keeping the worker bees.

Looking at internal jobs and they are hiring for current roles at a grade lower with lower pay then what we are paid now for these roles. Are we being set up to be laid off or fired so they can replace us at lower pay? Are they gonna lay us off and make us apply for these roles to pay us less? Will any of us that make it through layoffs getting a bonus or raise?

Not because I’m crazy about this job or the company, but because it’s really bad out there. My wife lost her job six months ago and still hasn’t found anything even remotely decent or in her field. I’m terrified of becoming jobless too. Honestly, the IT job market seems even worse than her industry. I hate what’s happening to all of us.

Utica University sent notices this week to 23 academic departments, notifying them that 31 full-time faculty and librarians could be laid off. The notices come at a time when the institution is looking at cutting degrees and has been dealing with financial difficulties.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/09/university-in-northeast-lays-groundwork-for-31-layoffs-amid-financial-concerns.html

Heard from multiple reliable sources who make the calls......This will be the biggest one the company has ever had.....it is confirmed. Nobody knows about "when". It will include everyone from every department, every project, no matter the seniority. Even VPs won't be spared. Junior or Senior, it doesn't matter. Could be as soon as mid September or it could be 2 months from now. Stop the work and start looking for a new job RIGHT NOW. Good luck everyone.

I know our direct managers are not the ones making the decision on who's going to be laid off, but is there a chance they know already? My manager is a good guy, but he's been acting a bit weird lately, standoffish, and with this announcement, I'm now getting paranoid.

Is this going to lead to any layoffs at RaceTrac?

Super excited to report that CS will lead the cross functional offense.
APLA will cease operations shortly and be folded into other geos. Those with APLA jobs now will NOT be laid off they will be transferred to other geos. Cheers all

I can confirm three people left our asset in the US yesterday with a possible fourth waiting to be confirmed. There are speculations that six more will be leaving in the next few weeks. Any updates from elsewhere?

Has anyone else noticed that silent layoffs of directors and senior directors?

Not all our projects are that stable.. Not sure what is happening.

ibm canada laid me off in ottawa after 9 years, and just weeks later they labeled me a low performer... i got an email saying this, even though my last review was positive. i asked my manager in toronto why it happened, and he said his director in austin told him to do it, adding that he never thought i'd find out. ibm does this so they can backfill the role with someone else... pure evil!!!

i think the ceo and senior executives are slowly ki-ling ibm because revenue is not really growing. every year they lay off thousands in north america, europe, and canada, then move jobs to india to cut labor costs by 80%. they make revenue look fine each quarter, but it's a scam cheating the shareholders.

Are laid off employees still eligible for internal jobs? If theyhave been selected for the loop interview prior to layoff?

Why? So many great jobs that have none of this BS. I got laid off a year ago. It was the best thing that could happen to me. Landed a job six weeks later with better pay, benefits and truly unlimited PTO. You’re better than this. Go!

While workers were getting laid off and RIF’ed thos gratuitous butt kissing session was happening literally almost at the same time:

https://youtube.com/shorts/8XPy0R5SClQ?si=5NXfh94XazCheN57

Laid off employees were compensated for signing a NDA disguised as a severance agreement. Former employees have to waive free speech, the ability to sue or join class action lawsuits, agree not to testify in lawsuits unless subpoena but notify them. They are restricted on where they can seek future employment (no competitors). There are stories of people being laid off less than 2 years from lifetime retirement benefits. Lay-offs camouflage the loss of earning as the company is plummeting because quality and qualified employees are replaced by cheaper overseas labor. Loyalty is expected but not given.

What's up with moving the Temps to MNOP and moving the MNOP's to Floaters? I've heard that with Amphenol coming they are trying to get rid of the higher pay people just to have the lower pay since they only start out at $16hr

• US employers are hiring fewer workers, and some are looking to get rid of existing ones.
• Business leaders cited RTO mandates as one way they're able to reduce headcount without layoffs.
• The acknowledgment confirms a piece of what some observers have long suspected about the RTO push.

https://www.businessinsider.com/rto-mandates-driving-workers-quit-helping-employers-avoid-layoffs-2025-9

I’ve been putting all the energy and time I can into making sure I’ve got other options and some savings. I don’t expect things to get better, quite the opposite. More frequent, bigger layoffs are likely, because there’s no turning this ship around in this economy. It’ll get worse before it gets better, and who knows how far off that “better” really is. Save your energy, look out for yourself, and make sure you’ve at least got the basics to bridge the gap.

IT is a given. Easiest to offshore. They’ll probably go after the hardworking, skilled, and experienced people too. Wouldn’t want efficiency or knowledge getting in the way.

They want us to quit with the mandatory shift bid! so they don't have to lay us off!

Over the last three years, it is estimated that at least 30,000 people have lost their jobs in the gaming industry, with 4,400 of those cuts taking place in 2025 alone. Most recently, it was announced that Microsoft had made company-wide reductions affecting several of its gaming studios, including Rare, The Initiative, and King, with the cancellation of Perfect Dark's reboot eventually leading to layoffs at Crystal Dynamics.

https://hitmarker.net/news/over-50-of-layoffs-in-the-gaming-industry-have-taken-place-in-california-expert-says-1513194

I know, more layoffs, that much is a given. But does anyone have any actual details?

Any credible news about IGIU-GBU layoffs in JAPAC today? P6,Unifier and Aconex?

During a town hall El Jefe let the cat out of the bag – NCRV is making less money than it is spending so the reduction last week was necessary. He did say he was looking forward with excitement – most likely because he knows there are thousands more that can be cut if necessary!!

Something else that he said was important, he encouraged everyone to go to your doctor appointments and take care of your sick children.

It is what he did not say that is really important here – the fact that they are tracking the number of days in the office and amount of time that you are in the office – so he should have also added that since they are tracking everyone’s time - make sure you are in the office the required number of hours or you will be placed on the next CUT list…

Some friendly advice - to be careful you might want to take a sick day or vacation day when you have to take care of yourself and your family!!

Something else they don’t advertise – you can also take time off without pay. This is useful if you have run out of vacation or sick days and it is obviously not the most desired path but it may just help you keep your job….especially next year when the 5 days / week…8 hours per day requirement kicks in.

My advice is to take your vacation without pay and then save your vacation days for when life happens…I am being sarcastic of course..

To paraphrase El Jefe – if you don’t want to be here 5 days a week 8 hours per day then they don’t want you!! In my opinion that includes just about everyone..

Yearend self evals are usually due early October.

I found outlast week (5 years after outsource), that our outsource was planned for 6 months prior to our layoffs. I was a field Tech in the stores. All of the area Managers knew. They thought they were keeping their jobs! ( Big surprise, they were all let go). Several Analysts in the field knew, they were showing NCR around the stores, after hours when we were off.

The reason for this post, warning to the stores. Planned layoffs are being cemented now before Q3. Watch your back. Not that you can stop the process.....be prepared. Get your resume dusted off and updated. Pull any docs you need off of your personal drive now. Do not trust your supervisor to tell you the truth if you question your job security with the company. Trust noone! Good luck!

Ironic to see the awesome company results get posted for Q3 at the same time so many are being fired. My entire group never spoke to an HPE representative yet I’m sure we’re getting fired. Sure seems like uneducated decisions alongside corporate greed.