I don’t know why I am even anxious about layoffs. It’s not as if any of us are going to have a career here. If I am not laid off next week or next month, it will happen in the near future anyway. The workforce became just a resource to throw around. If all has been temporary and for the sake of true efficiency, development and growth, it would still be painful but it would at least make some sense. No, it’s for abnormal salaries and bonuses for C-suite and payouts to shareholders. We, the workers, allowed ourselves to become nothing of value.
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If you are tired of all the stuff going on here, no one is holding you back from leaving. You just don’t want to leave the paycheck or you say you want a severance package and when you get one you complain about that. Just stand up and do the hard work of finding something new that is not a mental drain on you. It may pay less but you may be happier. What is most important, the pay or your sanity? You won’t find both.
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Agree! For all their talk of having "strategy", being "deliberate", and their "thoughtful" approach to anything from hiring senior leaders, re-orgs, layoffs and location strategies, it looks like they're throwing employees' names on a wall and keeping the names that stick.
There doesn't seem to be any deeper thought than dismantling and shipping jobs to India, Philippines and UK. I've seen so many great employees be unceremoniously displaced, while management hires ridiculously unqualified senior leaders. Upside down world!
At this point I wouldn't recommend anyone work OR bank here.
There current situation is really draining people’s enthusiasm and well being. But, we all have the ability to drive our own lives and careers. There are plenty of opportunities out there. It is not easy, but chart your own course straight out of here to something different.
That's a part of the problem though. You think you don't have a choice, but you do. You can find another job. That's the market that's been created for us. The only way to move up is to move out.
We did not “allow”, we had no choice