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With the split and not technically working for att will there be a new forum for forged?

What I find comical is when someone tries to give people the heads up on this board and its often met with heckling and jeering. When the day comes shortly thereafter…..it gets all serious. The hecklers disappear and can’t be found, most undoubtedly combing the emails, group chats and personal texts to see if “it” is coming their way.

This forum will get very busy in Q2 - just get ready.

Like the song by Calvin Harris ft. Ne-Yo - "Let's Go"

Please see these 4 posts and quotes from other threads.

From the Washington Post (April 2, 2023): “Feel free to spill the beans, ex-employees. Your former boss can’t stop you.”
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgea4gzm

From the NLRB (Feb 21, 23): "Board Rules that Employers May Not Offer Severance Agreements Requiring Employees to Broadly Waive Labor Law Rights
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgeacnt5

From the NLRB about "Concerted Activity"
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgeakdsm

From the NLRB about "Social media"
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgeb10b8

Quotes:

March 6, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnq61rxs
"Unethical conduct needs to be exposed
BNY is force ranking long tenured employees with PM or BE and depriving them from the Severance, it so disgraceful towards people who have given so much to the company none of the past reviews matter. We should report this in social media if we do in number that will speak for itself…. When we don’t have NDA what are we loosing?"

June 9, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwysz9hk
"time for managers to take a stand. Bullsh-t that good employees now being called underperformers to not pay severance. UNETECHAL.

COMPANY NEEDS TO PAY OR GET CALLED OUT"

June 11, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwysz9hk
"Until we band together as a large group nothing is going to change. And I don't see enough people with a backbone willing to to this. Too many sheeple afraid of losing their jobs. Well most of us are probably going to lose them anyway so might as well fight for it instead of lay down."

June 27, 205
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jygkgb3m
"We need to get together and start a forum to keep in step with their plan of “reduce staff with minimal expense” (don’t pay severance)
Power in numbers .
Could someone set it up ?Or should I ? Is there interest???"

September 3, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k47t0dan
"This place is toxic

They’re trying to break us so we leave and they dont have to pay severance. We have all experienced it or witnessed the behaviors. , U.S staff treated like 2nd class citizens, wrongful terminations, intentional forced ratings etc. The list goes on and on. Its not going to stop until we all come together and try to do something. We need to report them to your states EEOC . Get An investigation going."

September 25, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k60fr4h8
"Contact your local senate office for the district you live in. Bring as much light to this as you can because if he has his way all americans will be out of a job soon. All he cares about is India and now Manchester his homeland."

October 17, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7rjbb40
"mgmt does push back and literally gets told its not optional by upper mgmt. if lower level dont make changes which we havent, upper does it regardless. Everyone needs to report the company or it wont stop. We all have local leaders and each state has EEOC plus put it on record with ethics. Mgmt knows there are forced rankings can testify too the bullsh-t as well. Stay silent this sh-t continues while we get let go and india makes out taking our jobs"

December 4, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbjgv9en
"We need to band together as mgrs on this sh-t. Screenshot any emails or teams messages that show these are forced as proof"

December 6, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbk9pt5n
"absolutely and every single person here should contact the media to raise enough eyebrows about the topic. They have an email for topic suggestions
cwc-news@interactive.wsj.com. Make sure the subject mentions BNY financial institutions firing US employees and falsifying performance ratings to help do so. We have to get media attention"

December 17, 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcq1468q
"You can turn it in to your states EEOC. As a mgr i can 💯 confirm they forced ratings and changed them after we entered them to hit their reduction %. People have challenged this and the attempt to not give severance and noted on this site they have won. Others noted journalists or lawyers looking into this and wanting details. Check out the “fight them” post"

If you don't have any experience with pseudo anonymous forums online, just know that it's incredibly easy for literally one person to pose as multiple people to steer the narrative in any direction.

There are no IDs tied to individual posters or IP addresses here, so you don't even need to use different devices or a vpn to completely spam this forum.

People can and do pretend to be other people all the time, not just to troll but to try and warp reality to their perspective. Just something to keep in mind when you read posts here.

This site is supposed to be updates, gossip, word on the street etc etc and the latest post was weeks ago. Either no railroader is posting or their being deleted. Anyone being laid off? Hard to believe that’s not the case. How about critical rules? People quit getting wrote up or what? Come on we need some creditable gossip on here!!!!!!

1st post - I’ve checked in here for a while on and off occasionally and my sentiment is largely the same. Full disclosure - I left a while ago.

What if this forum could coordinate our frustrations and impact (even small positive) change? Yeah, I know - doubters, I hear you already and don’t disagree. If the board has not fired him already, chances are slim if not zero.

You know, there are several thousand views to each post on this forum. This means people take time to read what is here and, I want to believe that frustrated or not, it’s because people care. I am sure some are bots and some are random, but I do believe most are not. (Maybe that’s too optimistic?)

RTO silliness - really sad - just the latest example of clueless leadership - I’m sorry (sincerely).

But, what if?

Give your feedback and hit the arrows to the post up or down (like or not). If there are more downs then ups, this is my only post. Maybe this is just a healthy outlet for frustration - if so, OK! (I know it’s needed)

But if this larger group wants to rally, and feels the promise of Truist pre-merger and the actual failure of achievement of potential due to poor leadership cannot be fulfilled, maybe there are a few constructive (non-violent of course) actions that can be pursued. Whether you were hBBT or hST or even new since then, How do you feel? Don’t worry about comments, just hit the arrow up or down. Let’s see how this forum feels about this post.

If you have work friends that you can trust, invite them to check in here from time to time. Whether a real movement and strategies emerge or not who knows but growing the audience matters.

As Teammates, former or current, known or not……..in Both the Frustration and the Truth, I am yours truly, ___(me)

I remember the bad days with ALL THE LAYoffs 2014 onwards when this site was very active. I guess with all the senior employees leaving for a better life/job, or with the thousands of layoffs. Those that remain are new employees, the WORST left over employees, or ones waiting for retirement. Well from what I hear from my friends, contractors, management nothing has changed,  I am so sad to see such a great company de-evolve into what it is today. I am so happy that I got the option to leave years ago to a new better life. For those that remain, I wish a better life at Enbridge, but unfortunately I do not see this ever returning to Enbridge.

Scroll a lil. Someone might have posted the thing you were just about to.

Take a look at the Goldman Sachs site on The Layoff. There is barely one post per month. Yet look at all of us over here at BNY… it really says something. I’ve heard they’re just as bad, but it’s something to think about.

I never realized how evil this company was but I just spent all morning reading this board and it all makes sense

Why all the silence on here lately?! There is stuff happening under the MHI umbrella. Share it. Speak up. We Need to stay informed.

This is literally the description on the Layoff.com portal

Let’s that sink in!!!!!!!

We are now 85k barely. We have lost close to 100k employees.

This is a effing TITANIC I say. Jump while you can. Indian future CEO is already interviewing. Trust me!!!!

This is going to become a very popular site tomorrow with all the folks from Verizon posting.

You keep playing with this sh-t, and I will start using AdNauseam. Others too. We will see who wins when this whole stupid obnoxious ads economy collapses.

You have to understand. I’d love to support you. But these ads are not just supporting you - they are destroying my privacy. Do you not understand how absurd and lopsided this idea of tracking pixels is on a website built for anonymous users?

I think it would be helpful if more of us participated here so we could all benefit from more information.

I see that new threads get 300+ views within a couple of hours, which is great, but I do not feel we have reached critical mass yet.

I would share this internally, but I am worried I might get in trouble if someone were to report me.

I have mentioned it verbally to my team, but that is only about 10 people.

I could post about it on Facebook using a random name, but I doubt that would actually reach anyone useful.

Any ideas or suggestions on how to spread the word safely and effectively?

i think it'd be good if more of us participate here, we'd have access to more info.

i see that new threads get 300+ views within a couple of hours which is good, but i do not think we have critical mass here.

i'd share internally but i am afraid that i'll get in trouble if someone reports me.

i did verbally let my team know, but that's only about 10 folks.

i can post on facebook using a random name but i dont think it would reach anyone...

thoughts?

Be cautious of what you take from this forum -- there is a bias. People paranoid, with a negative mindset, or disgruntled are more likely to be on here -- that should be obvious.
Additionally anyone can post on here -- and if a Chinese group went through the trouble hack into the company, then this is low hanging fruit for any country that wants to cause chaos in the US economy. Just pop on an anonymous forum, and spew off rumors about upcoming layoffs -- incredibly easy way to manipulate the stock market.

Yes, there were many Senior Directors Cut today. That's a fact. Our org has been impacted by the news today. Called some of my coworkers in different states. Same story.

Why are you downvoting the facts? Because it doesn't line up with your bullsh-t timeline?
Ya'll don't know jack sh-t and keep posting the same cr-p over and over again.

Dan go you running around scared shitless.

So many new unnecessary threads. Impossible to read them all. We went from 1 or 2 a day to 10 an hour. This is ridiculous!!!!!

Everybody, yall keep posting the same article from different websites and freaking out. It is literally just saying the same thing and taking stuff from this website. It’s actually quite hysterical.

Keep reposting this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trump-obamacare

If/when the government eliminates ACA, how will it impact layoffs at Optum?

Not like anyone would know if you did lol

https://www.thelayoff.com/arista-networks

This post here from last year was interesting……

https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@OP+1vi699Sw

BD's trendin'

https://x.com/TheLayoff/status/1978945558980022482

But hey, poor shareholders….

What do all think of this forum?

Anything good?

Any IT folks here?
How do i ensure i am anonimous.

Serious question - what are the top actionable items folks on this forum would like to see from AT&T Leadership? We know they read this stuff so maybe use this as another opportunity to communicate to them in a constructive way and originated by employees.

Suggestions:

1. Maybe leave off the obvious hot divisive ones that has gotten so much air play here and have such conflicting views (RTO vs WFH, DEI, etc) so the discussion doesn’t devolve to name calling.

2. Would be interesting if replies could be tagged as Union vs Mgmt since they may differ materially.

3. Be serious and try to refrain from mudslinging (I.e., - don’t reply if you’re not game).

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@OP+1k6bbvkjx
@OP+1k6b0az1v
@OP+1k6az858z

Now we know who the real trolls were.

I've been following the discussions here closely and noticed some concerning comments about moderators, allegedly connected to Citi removing truthful posts from this site. If these claims are true, it's a serious attempt to suppress the truth.
My advice is to protect yourself and the information you're sharing. Take screenshots of your posts before they potentially disappear. Save everything as evidence.
If you're comfortable, consider taking further action. Anonymously send these screenshots to a major news reporter or investigative journalist. Exposing this kind of alleged corruption publicly could hold Citi accountable for their actions and reveal the truth about what's really happening.

Several of you confirmed the 3:00 MDT Employee Forum invites went out. Can anyone who attended share what was actually said in the meeting and what the outcome was?

All Imperial employees invited to a 3pm forum.

I see that it’s now the Client Conference and it’s in Vegas. Is this the first time in Vegas? Doesn’t matter. It’s never coming back.

Have observed they delete comments or posts that present the ugly truth. Then the question becomes is this a paid board to spy on current and or former employees? Why delete the post/comments that highlight the truth.

The Optum board is always busier than UHC. Most of OT is outsourced, too, but is thelayoff . com geofenced for UHC contractors in India/Philippines?