If you were laid off, what was the title of the calendar invite for the layoff meeting?
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I recieved an email invite from my managers manager. It was sent to me on a Friday at 4pm for Tuesday morning at 8 am (Monday was a holiday). The title of the meeting was "catch up".
Reasons I knew it was for laying me off. 1) I never got an invite from that manager before, especially without some notice from my direct manager. 2) Way too early in the morning for a regular "catch up" meeting, even if it was a real meeting. 3) If the manager wanted to catch up with me, they could have done it Friday.
But like others have said, they can do it in different ways.
“Update” or “touch base” at 8:30 AM in the morning.
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I knew in June at the beginning of the month he said I’d be affected at the end of the month and gave me the meeting date so I said what the heck I took a few days vacation came back went to the meeting. He said your layoff dates gonna be next Tuesday I said OK what the heck took a few more days vacation came back Tuesday 8 AM was told the following blah blah blah blah 60 day working notice lots of severance. I’m glad the weight is over. I’ve been living Tuesday to every other Tuesday for over a year. They told me over a year ago that I had been let go so it finally happened and I’m really enjoying my summer now. Good luck to Everybody
meeting the week before rescheduled to following Tuesday.
As soon as I signed in on Tuesday morning after pay week I had an outlook meeting scheduled at 9:00 am titled: Organizational Structure Update.
I got an IM from my manager asking if I was free to talk for a few minutes - I thought she had a question on something I was working on. It was my notice.
@aj same here - logged in and got the request to meet on teams
I logged in and 5 or ten minutes later, my manager pinged me on teams asking if I had 5 minutes. I knew it.
“Touchbase” scheduled for 9 am.
You just won the lottery.
1:1 shift to early AM on Tuesday after payday is high probability it's a layoff. Unfortunately it won't happen until the last minute. Some seem to just get a random call with no meeting invite.
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Regular one-on-one that was rescheduled from the usual slot to Tuesday morning. My manager was nice and said the decision had come from HR. Bunch of us in non-hub office got laid off. I have missed my team and the manager, who was a good leader and competent doer, who made things happen.
i doubt they will have "layoff" anywhere in the subject. Most likely something like touch base, or 1:1. Also wouldn't surprise me if there are plenty where no invite is sent all, just a quick IM asking if you have a minute to chat.
I received a meeting invite from my 2 up manager. Normally he sends meeting topics of things to consider. This time there was nothing. It was scheduled for the Tuesday after payday. I knew what it was. My direct manager played d-mb, but he knew too.
I’m not mad at them, just the cr-ppy way it was handled. I’m glad I’m gone though, it’s hard to work somewhere when you are just waiting for the inevitable.