#employeerelations

There is one KY manager that is incredibly toxic. They bully their employees by grill them about their decisions, one ups them, and makes them second guess themselves. If I wanted the college studying and "exam" 1:1 life, I'd go back to college. This person is just plain mean and seems to get their jollies off of making employees flustered during 1:1s. I want to report them but am afraid that I would be found out and fired instead. So as of now, we are all just waiting for the hub strategy to mitigate "the problem". I'm tempted by "fight or flight" response to either "lay into them about their bad behavior on their last day" or conveniently "call in sick". That person is a human piece of trash and the second choice may be my best choice.

In addition, I'm very sorry that you all got laid off. You didn't deserve it and I hope you all get better jobs than your previous ones.

A new CEOWORLD magazine study surveyed 125,000 full-time U.S. employees. Most employees believe return-to-office mandates are "stealth layoffs." 72% suspect these policies aim to cut headcount without severance. Many workers engage in "coffee badging" or seek new jobs from the office. Strict monitoring correlates with lower trust, especially among Gen Z.

https://ceoworld.biz/2026/03/18/report-stealth-layoffs-and-coffee-badging-what-125000-u-s-employees-reveal-about-rto-mandates/

Does anyone know if bosses can essentially block an associate from transferring to another internal job? No known freezes or limits within the department on transfers.

Was told by a designer tech 4 that all DT4’s were told they would no longer get double time for working Sundays, can anyone confirm?

I was laid off in October. I have interviewed with a dozen or so companies over the past 4 months, including a contract position in WF technology for about 15% less than I was making before. Much less when you factor in the loss of benefits.

Last month I ended up with 4 seperate offers (including the WF tech one) in the span of about 2 weeks. Three were with financial institutions and one was with an aerospace company.

Let me tell you how GOOD it felt to call and decline the WF position.

The position I accepted pays 30% more than what I was previously making at WF AND it's full time remote. I've been in the job for almost a month and the culture difference is night and day. This company is excited to have me and I feel valued.

Wells Fargo: Thanks for providing some of leverage needed to negotiate with the better company. You can take the position you so desperately need to fill and shove it. Maybe you shouldnt have laid off the people you clearly still need. There are other companies out there who value my professional experience more than you ever did.

For those of you still drowning in that toxic cesspool: just know there are better places to work. Don't let Wells Fargo devalue your true worth, because it is probably way more than you realize.

Advertised as having great culture, decent pay, work-life balance. Then you get on board and it's everything but. To make it all worse, frequent layoffs keep you on your toes constantly. I fell for the cr-p hook, line and sinker three years ago. I've been trying to wiggle out for a year now, except opportunities are fewer every day. Now I wish I'd gone with any other company.

Good luck to everyone. I'm kinda numb at this point, but I know I'll freak out if I'm laid off.

Has anyone been affected by this while making an external or internal move. I spoke with a coworker of mine who was supposed to leave to another department but they are still here months after they were scheduled to leave. They said thier offer is frozen with no end date insight...is that normal?

Looks like leaders are being walked out today...

Checked Workday this morning for this Friday’s paycheck, March 20th. No Discretionary Bonus on my Check. Marvin’s email says we would receive it March 20, 2026! Anyone else get the Bonus?

In previous companies I've worked at, the direct mgr does the layoff but from what I see in OT it's the VP who does the lay off ?

Are direct managers in the loop at all ?

When will invites go out , Friday ?

Are they still actively looking for those who worked less than 6 hours at the office? Or did they catch everyone? Asking for a friend…

Does molina ever move some employees to a different plan when layoffs are occurring?

I hope I just get laid off in these next rounds. A layoff is a band-aid ripped off with severance. PIP is torture. You still try, because some stupid part of your brain thinks you can beat it. So you exhaust yourself 'improving,' only to get fired anyway, just without the severance. What other tricks do they have planned?

An Ohio Ford employee is dead after being trapped and crushed by a malfunctioning industrial machine at a company plant this week. The incident unfolded around 9:45 a.m. on Monday, when authorities were called to Ford’s Sharonville plant on E. Sharon Road regarding reports of an industrial accident, according to FOX 19. Upon arriving at the plant, authorities reportedly encountered a press machine that was undergoing routine maintenance when it malfunctioned, causing it to turn on and pin the worker.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/employee-crushed-death-horror-industrial-accident-after-press-machine-unexpectedly-turns

I’m not being paid on accounts I work because I’m being told I wasn’t coded to the account. I asked if they could skate invoices and was told no.

layoffs taking place today 3/17/26. Myself along with 2 others I know were laid off effective today!! GBD business

17 being made redundant across the UK and more expected in the next 90 days. Great reward for constantly hitting our targets.

I never thought I would be writing something like this.

I’m 45 years old, and I’ve spent the last 18 years at Ansys, working remotely and affiliated to the Pune office in India. Like many others, I joined when the company was known for its stability, long-term vision, and the way it treated its employees. For nearly two decades, it felt like a place where you could build a career with trust and security.

Yesterday, that changed.

In a short meeting with HR, I was informed that I’ve been laid off. Our team, based out of India, USA and Spain is being cut by nearly 80%. Just like that.

I have a housing loan (EMI), daily expenses to manage, and a 2-year-old daughter depending on me. My wife is working, and she can support us for now, but I don’t want to put the entire burden on her shoulders. Living on a single income, especially in today’s world, isn’t sustainable for long.

What makes this harder is not just the job loss itself, but the feeling that something fundamentally changed. For years, Ansys was seen as a stable and dependable company. Many of us built our lives around that belief. The recent acquisition has shaken that trust. It feels like decades of stability and goodwill have been undone in a very short time.

It’s difficult not to feel that employees have become secondary to financial goals. Decisions like these make it seem like people are just numbers on a spreadsheet.

Right now, I’m trying to process everything and figure out the next steps for my family. I just had to vent since I never really expected I’d see this happen. I was naive. Anyway, good luck to you folks around the world, I hope things go well.

My manager informed me that I will be under Steer program where HR will try to connect with me in detail. Anyone has any idea?

Edgewell Personal Care announced the closure of its Schick razor manufacturing facility. This plant is located in Milford, Connecticut. The closure will result in 293 permanent layoffs. Employee terminations are expected to begin in March 2026. The facility is slated to close permanently by the end of 2027.

30 day PIP process, based on DAPR numbers not CCRS. Takes one month of lackluster results, and 90 days to get off. Even if you hit the quarterly number, a single monthly miss puts you on a written. Have fun trying to take vacation or any time off.

R2B moving out of stores, managing the biggest demographic, and outnumbering Mid Markets 2:1. Open reqs for Mid Markets continually closing and reopening, no new hires.

Full calendars of nothing but blitz calls and zero focus on anything but "growth" via new logos and phone adds. Calendar filled up for 10hr, and being told by Sr Managers and Directors that we need to "sacrifice" to hit the number.

It has been a fun ride. Hopefully it ends in some severance packages and not just managing everyone out with asinine policies.

Our leader, Jeremy (Give Me Some) Legg announced a fews weeks ago while here in Bothell, that we would be moving from 7 & 8, to some other location. This was proceeded a couple months earlier with a survey asking if we would like to have an office closer to amenities and a would be willing to drive extra for it.

Now we are faced with moving to a new location , possibly 30+ minutes further away. This might be ok for some but not for those who live close by or west of Bothell.

The bigger question is: why would at&t do this? The NTC is in the same complex as 7 & 8, we own the buildings, and we have plenty of desk space (newly upgraded). The parking su-ks if you arrive after 10 am but food options are not that far away if you like to eat out every day. We recently got out of all the leased building in Bothell and Redmond and moved everyone here.

So, when they move us out to a new leased building, what happens to 7 & 8? Do they get sold or leased to another company?

In the mean time, ~2000 Bothell employees get displaced and moved to a leased (temporary) location. It is only a matter of time we are told that since we don't have a permanent office space, our jobs have moved to Dallas. Bye bye Washington employees.

Let’s rolled out a plan that generates no money and reps just adding a line to the second IMEI just to get a line with no usage.

I’ve been at IBM since 2013. Since that time I’ve seen most of the coworkers I counted as friends get laid off. (Why do we have to say “RA” just because the terms “lay off” and “laid off” cause IBM heartburn?) Given my age and my tenure at IBM, I can’t help but feel a bullseye forming on my back. Still, I’m more at peace with this idea as time goes on. Much of that is because I have yet to talk to any former IBM employee who wishes they were still with Big Blue.

United Natural Foods Inc. will close its Sturtevant facility. This closure impacts 443 workers. The company announced this on March 16. Layoffs are scheduled from June 20 to August 1. The company is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sturtevant, Wisconsin

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2026/03/17/united-natural-foods-to-layoff-443-workers-in-sturtevant/89192527007/

Voluntary/targeted severance.

The old guard is ready to leave and just cashing checks at this point.

MGRs are disengaged over the ridiculous demands, broken equipment, increased micromanaging, and 25% individual store bonus multiplier...getting worse daily.

Sycamore would be wise to move quickly on this.

Happened today, couple people disappeared after 10am. Confirmed with one of them.

This layoff round is taking a large amount of causalities. US/CA/UK/EMEA/India

Good luck to all

2025 executive pay was just published in Cigna’s annual proxy report. Here’s how much the visionary leaders who are running the company into the ground are making - while your pay doesn’t even keep up with inflation and thousands of us are being laid off or replaced by workers in India at HIH.

David Cordani- $22.9 million
And no doubt he’ll also be getting a huge retirement package when he steps down as CEO in July.

Brian Evanko- $10 million
And he’s poised to make a LOT more as CEO.

Nicole Jones- $6 million
She’s Cordani’s right hand person so that’s not surprising. Will she survive the Evanko era though?

Ann Dennison (CFO)- $4.7 million
She’ll probably make a lot more this year depending on how fast Cigna can get rid of dedicated employees

Everett Neville- $4.1 million
How does this guy make that much?? He doesn’t run any businesses or operations and seems to just be a talking head. His title is “EVP, Strategy and Business Development” but we don’t even have a real strategy and the last few business development deals have been total disasters - MDLIVE or VillageMD anyone?? Cigna lost between $1.5 and $1.8 BILLION on VillageMD alone. How does that justify being paid more than $4 million??

Curious if anyone laid off is trying to secure another role within UHC or Optum? If yes, any success with getting interviews or re-hired? How long did it take you to get rehired?

I heard from my manager they are in the process of setting up IP tracking to determine how many hours a week you are in the office - presumably with end goal to have dashboard like 11 RTO days but now including how many hours your IP showed you in office.

Anyone have further details on IP or any other in office tracking being implemented?

I'm hoping this goes the same way as their development of badge in/badge out tracking which they were too incompetent to implement successfully, which is why we only have the badge in system now.

Current Understanding on Tracking
FTE - Badge swipe ins per month / 11
Contractors - Sapience Micromanagement Software

so despite all receiving a welcome message from our top people person stating there will be a review it seems the UK has been cancelled.
You have not and will not hear this from your UK leader, youll be told there has been a review and it was not affordable, usual rubbish.
your bottom level manager who was not included in the review despite how hard they may work, how low they may be paid or even if they received a top rating in their PDR will have this extra stress added to them and will have to break this news to you.
I am nearing retirement after spending my many years having done the most i can do to look after people in this supposedly people first company and this is the worst i have known it to be and i feel i have been left with no choice for the sake of the wonderful people i work with some of which have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet.
I have my monthly meet with my customer next week and I will be sharing this news and I invite you all to join me in sharing this with yours too.

they need to know before they sign any further projects.
it may just make them think twice about who they give their money to and with any luck move some of their business in house or to somewhere that actually cares about people

Layoff and RTO fatigue. The beatings will continue until morale improves or people quit.

She's already pulled back from involvement in the company. This just formalizes it. Gone within 12 months.

I just got let go today It’s happening

Of those laid off last week, did you receive a severance package? Are you eligible for rehire?