Are managers trained to handle layoff.? Do all the managers sit together and learn the process.? Or HR works with each manager to guide them through the process. Genuinely curious how it is handled.?
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Hello, manager here. I strongly advise to never manage people at Wells Fargo for your own health and sanity. Take care!
My manager put herself on camera.
I never had any prior training when my directs were displaced.
Managers get trained by HR a week before the layoff. For many, that's the first they hear that their employee is impacted. The manager is required to reach the employee whether actively at work, on vacation , or on a leave. If the manager is also getting let go, the manager's manager handles the notice to both the employee and the manager and the manager is then clueless as to what's happening.
They have to go through a training class, have a script that they have to follow and have a workflow of HR items that they have to follow after they cut someone loose.
My manager put herself on camera to lay us off.
Every man for himself like squid games.
I know of a manger that laid off their employee who was on their required absence out of the country. Done over the phone amongst the neighborhood seating. Script or not, very unprofessional.
Our manager laid off someone over the phone instead of walking 15 min to the person’s building. Then she sent a coworker to make sure the woman getting laid off had left. I never understood why she did that instead of having the courtesy of doing it in person
And I guess you're born to work at the call center
Managers are born nasty.
I know they follow a script. The manager who laid me off was laid off from Wells and returned. He was following a script (which we veered from cause I am a nice guy and wanted to be as pleasant as possible)