#shrinkingteam

Makes you wonder if the goal is just to burn the place down. Specialists, veterans, people with actual skills, the ones who held teams together - they're all getting cut. Any leadership that cared about the future would be doing everything to keep them.

How they always manage to target the very people the team depends on is beyond me.

What the he-l are we supposed to do now?

Four people, all in their 50s and above. I'll be honest, I have no idea how we're supposed to continue without them, especially since we were stretched thin as it is.

We lost more than half people in the last two years. Is there any chance we can consider ourselves safe?

Then put some corporate lackey in charge who added endless rules and rewarded toxic people. And now those few of us left are desperately looking for a way out. I'm honestly not sure how is this a net positive for FIS.

And it'll be a miracle if anything is still functioning in the near future. Some teams have been almost completely destroyed by the recent moves. What's the actual end game here?

Over 8000 people in India and only 12 job openings

Are Opentext shrinking India ? If so, why

We need some help in the field we have been cut down to a skeleton crew and my manager is non-existent.

What happens in a situation like this? When it's literally impossible to get everything done with the remaining number of people?

AK made clear on feb office hours that 15-70-15 here to stay. Also said 20-60-20 next year. Clear mission to shrink the company. Get out on your is if you can. Only people ready to retire and waiting on a package should be complacent.

It's been barely manageable as-is for a while now. My team has been gutted several times already, and nobody paid attention or followed up. My manager isn't as bad as some, but you can only do so much with the little you have left.

The majority of the team is gone, and only a few people remain. I genuinely do not know whether being laid off or being left behind is the worse outcome.

My team has been shrinking for two years straight, and none of the key roles were ever backfilled. At this point, I can’t even remember the last time I left at the official end of the day. The only thing keeping us going is that my teammates are solid. We’ve been carrying the load together, since our manager isn’t exactly helping.

We’ve pushed ourselves because the job market is rough and we’re all trying to hold on to what we have. But we’re getting to a point where the workload just isn’t realistic anymore, and the exhaustion is hitting hard. It makes you wonder what the point is. Fighting so hard for a paycheck every day, when the whole thing could be sent offshore at any moment.

They’ve been he-l-bent on cutting people and gutting the teams that actually know what they’re doing and get things done.

Lol what is happening

In 2017, a tax bill cut a key incentive starting in 2022 to look revenue neutral. The bill was still a massive tax cut overall.

The cut removed the writeoff for R&D…

That change made it more expensive to hire people in R&D. This included developers not essential to daily business and most scientists. Big cos were hit hardest since they run more R&D at any given time.

For customer service cuts, not affecting us much tho, the reason for shrinkin workforce is different. Companies just do not care. Phone trees, powerless outsourced reps, and broken websites have annoyed people for decades. But firms do not compete on good service, just price…

Investors like hearing about AI replacing this work. Companies cut more staff and service quality drops. There is little pushback from markets or regulators. That means cos face no real pressure to stop making service worse.

It will get worse before it gets better - at 66 it will be late for me.