I Challenged LR and Won

I'm no longer at Cisco but will share my story after a ex-colleague phoned me up and told me about the upcoming LR.

I was axed during the Sept 2017 layoff as a result of Spark being a PoS. I was a low grade at the time. My boss told me that my position was simply being eliminated as a cost saving measure.

After I got LRd I came to learn from friends on my old team that my position was converted to a higher grade position and filled with someone that the my manager wanted to save who also got LRd from their original team.

Upon learning this I went and got an attorney and filed suit for wrongful termination. Never was I given a performance review, never was I on a PIP, and if my job was terminated why was my position converted and backfilled plus a few other things.

Started off with a meeting with my attorney and corporate HR that led to a meeting with a corporate attorney and HR.

Settled in arbitration after a few weeks. End result was I got to keep my job but demanded to be moved to a different team. Success.

Didn't stick around long. By spring 2018 I had moved over to Netflix and loving every minute.

Not saying this will work for everyone but it worked for me.

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Sounds very improbable this happened

When I got laid off, it was the last time I allowed a job to interfere with life. No longer was I going to become a slave to a master. I lost so much important family time working all of those extra hours, weekend call outs, late night meetings, canceling vacations with the promise they will make it right. It never happened. Appraisals and reviews were always high. All that any company cares about is how much are they paying you, can they get 80% of the work while paying 60% of your salary to someone else, and what type of bad publicity do they get (which is extremely minimal in all cases).

Like you with Netflix, I am with a much better employer. About 3 months in a project was behind schedule a little. My manager came to me instead of me coming to his office. His first comment is that he was sorry for having to do this. He said he needed me to move to another project for a week to see where I can help close some gaps. It would require 10 hours of over time. Yes, 10 hours of over time was all and he apologized for before even asking me. Because of how the operate and to control any types of favoritism or unfair practices, all hours worked have to be counted. Either they pay you for the overtime (I am salaried) or they give comp time. I had an extra 1.25 days added to my vacation total for the year.

It's a success because Netflix would not have interviewed an unemployed applicant.

I don't see this a success unless you stayed longer than the early 2018, due to your package already lasted that long if you ever take it.. however, I see courage.. what was bad to be which I see from this Cisco lay entire team off and secretly open positions and let the selected few apply and pick them. what I know is that they already hand picked them to form the new team even before the lay off.. .. very very bad way of managing ..

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