Any word on the teams affected?
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@ew
It's not really being fair...it's them trying to mitigate lawsuits.
Cutting commissions and pay for everyone and making backbone train thier overseas replacements for NDA and severence check.... BUT they'll fire tenured people and be fair with severance lol ...might be on par with other companies doing the same thing BUT I guess CDW is just like other companies now.
@bz that’s really sad, I’m sorry!
@cc I believe its based on how long you’ve been with the company. Surprisingly they actually seem to give more weeks based on how long you were there, which seems fair.
@cz No. Manager only, reading a script.
I'm truly sorry to those affected who wanted to stay. Especially long-time co-workers, many of whom have never held a corporate job outside of CDW. Now is not the time for fear. That comes later. Every state in the United States is an at-will employment state, with the exception of Montana. Godspeed to all and God Bless this American company.
@cz CWS was in mine. But a manager I talked to who had to let some of his folks go was told to do them solo. CWS was never planning on being there.
Was CWS in on yalls meetings? My CWS rep didn't show and it was just my manager reading a statement
This was caused by a failure to execute by management. Best of luck to everyone involved. Stay positive and move on. Don't freeze up. Hustle and find another job fast.
@cs Presidio is hiring like crazy right now. traleigh@presidio.com
@cn Hey, sorry you are going through this. Reach out to us at Presidio and we can try to help. traleigh@presidio.com
@cr I am a recruiter at presidio....... traleigh@presidio.com
I'm one of them that was a part of layoff today, can someone please guide what should be severance package one should expect, I'm a immigrant and i need to uproot the entire family back.. i have been with CDW for 11+ years and came in through a CDW acquisition. Any guidance would be really helpful and i cannot afford to hire a attorney.
I hope the reps take their customers with them to new places. Paragon, In Balance, and SHI all would hire reps with experience. Go work for a manufacturer.
Presidio is hiring!! Get in touch. We are hiring across all orgs. Spread the word to your coworkers! https://www.presidio.com/careers/
@OP Get in touch with us....pass it around. We are currently hiring across all orgs. https://www.presidio.com/careers/
@cn I’m sorry. What dept were you in if you’re comfortable saying?
Our team was gutted, more than half of us are gone and both manager and skip level. Included several folks with tenures of 10+ yrs.
@c4 how long were you at the company? I’ve had 7 years but don’t know what that equates to in years?
@cg
I was CE...all good. I agree with you.
I left on my own but feel bad for the good people I left behind and just trying to add my knowledge here since I knew way more than I should've on the inner workings.
You sound sincere. I feel bad for sincere good coworkers as well as some customers.
One thing...customers coming on here should learn that we got pressure from both ends but tried to shield them from this.
Hoping you weren't effected. This site is so needed because people can't or are afraid of posting thier real thoughts and feelings on LinkedIn.
Just checked LinkedIn out and all positivity after losing thier jobs. You really need to put on an act to get by now as opposed to your work speaking for itself.
Wishing everyone well and hoping everyone earns enough to be free of this drama.
Why didn't the email come from Chris? Seems odd right?
So if you’ve would 7 years what does that equate to in weeks?
@ce
You are twisting the intent of the original message and mine - I'm simply saying that using thelayoff.com is not the appropriate place to hash out account coverage... let alone name an actual person who is or isn't with the organization anymore. That's it. The customer can be curious and wondering... no problem. Using an anonymous forum to get into actual details? Not something that should happen.
2 on my team are gone
@c6
Customers are concerned because they allow CDW coworkers to have the jobs they have.
They're left with the scraps as the tenured/experienced people are fired or are leaving on thier own.
CDW doesn't even care about damage control. Today's layoffs aren't in the news but we're publicly traded. Customer will find out via a new AM intro email/call and they aren't d-mb (they can tell who is tenured). The remaining tenured AM's can only handle so much more since our systems are going backwards and slowing everything down instead of allowing AM's to finish requests and move to new ones.
I left on my own because I saw all this coming and I'm not the one to do 50-100% more work for the same or 50% less. They really think we're all d-mb since we don't have a VP or C level title.
To leadership...everyone is just a # including customers.
I literally have real hate for some individuals still at CDW and hope the absolute worst things in the world for them as they deserve it and more.
@c7 I suggest you talk to an attorney and write a reply email asking for what you think is fair. You can run the calcs and just say - “I am requesting x more weeks of severance and x weeks of COBRA” based on my tenure of X years at “the other acquired company.” You should not sign the severance agreement until you speak to someone. Once you sign your leverage is gone. You won’t get anything if you don’t ask. And you may get more.
@c9 It was reported to me by one person that they got 12 weeks of severance pay. HURRY and get another job ASAP and pocket that cash!!!
@bj 100% agreed. I got let go and I think it was because I questioned the great and powerful cdw
@c4 Could you please give a rough rule of thumb for what the severance was? Number of weeks per year of tenure, etc? Benefits?
@c7 contact a labor attorney. don't sign anything.
@c4 What was solid about your severance? Mine didn't count my tenure from before-acquisition, which was used for PTO and other policies in the past. I'd heard to expect 2 weeks per year of tenure, and mine wasn't even that. Plus 'prorated bonus', but from my calculation, they paid only for CDW years, and 0 for bonus. So unless there was a math error in mine, I wouldn't call it solid.
@c3
What are you even talking about? You think 'the layoff' is the right place for customers to ask about their specific account coverage? Are you crazy? What are they going to name their account managers and we are going to hash it out here? Get a clue
I left earlier this year after spending 5 years dedicated to my craft. Customer first was always the most important thing to me, but lately the writing was on the wall. Compensation for sales hasn’t changed in 15years so if you were affected there is so much more out there where you will be greatly appreciated!
When I received my offer for my new position I almost had a Stockholm syndrome response like “you want to give me HOW MUCH?”. Having CDW on your resume will get you places and provide opportunities no doubt. So be confident.
I feel for the people affected by this and there has never been a bigger disconnect between leadership and their frontline workers than before. Every business decision is to check a box but without a purpose (women in leadership, salesforce, AI, etc.)
I can only hope people like Chris Leahy are on the hot seat.
The severance package was solid, so they handled that part well. My manager had no idea it was coming, was completely blindsided, and had absolutely no input in the decision. I feel for all the people left untouched and the additional work they will be required to absorb. In the end, we were just numbers and salaries on a spreadsheet...that's all.
@bs what are you even saying? This is to help people. If you don’t have anything constructive, maybe shush. DONT LISTEN TO THIS PERSON. So sorry to those who’ve been affected today.
Procurement was gutted of their best talent.
@OP I am an ex CDW employee and my former manager as well as the field manager for my team were let go.
My former manager made sense. The entire team hated him and he was a terrible manager.
The field manager not so much. I thought he was good, but he also wasn’t my direct manager.
@bd The only one on my team who got cut submitted an honest, but negative review of our manager. They were the MVP of our team so retaliation is the only reasonable explanation. Our manager claimed they had no involvement or pre-knowledge of coming layoffs.
@bj This is true because one of my coworkers who submitted an honest, but negative survey response was the only one on my team who go cut after 10+ years.
@bs What a ridiculous thing to say, people who are getting laid off are going to process and discuss however they please.
@bw I had my meeting first thing this morning and still haven’t received the email with any further details, like severance. The CWS lady said it would come by EOD, which is extra sh---y. I’m over 50 and have never heard of the OWBPA, so thanks for the heads up!