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All of my team, including my manager, were laid off. I emailed who I think is our VP a few times but they appear to be out of office on extended leave. My contract is up at the end of this month so I need to let someone in HR know and need instructions on how to return my laptop. Does anyone have the HR phone number? Thanks in advance.

Are people actually going to JDI day or do some people use it as a day off? I really don’t have that much interest in going, and I think my team is kinda doing whatever. Wondering if it’s abnormal to not partake or how people approach JDI day especially considering where the company is at. I’d rather have saved the money of JDI day and split the cost up as a bonus between everyone lol

Please provide what was discussed. Not all Wellmed folks were invited . Managers are nowhere to be found and my whole team is having computer issues.

Anyone else feel we are completely dead in the water with no direction? I didn't hear any sort of solid recovery plan or pivot in the several allhands I attended post 5/20. The stock continues to tank as well. Many teammates I know have shared in confidence they feel the same and are actively posting for external jobs.

Any thoughts on the town hall yesterday? Lots of teamwork and buckle up talk but nothing of substance.

This afternoon, received an incoming Teams calls from a colleague that there was no pending work with. It was a surprise, so but answered the call. The screen populated with every team member, manager and director. "It tolls for thee," was the reaction. As everyone realized that everyone was there except the colleague who made the call. Surprise registered, especially with the director. They said, "What are we doing here? I didn't place this call." Relief washed over the crowd. Several offered comments about these short notice meetings not being good news. Everyone laughed nervously. It appeared that the colleague had accidently placed that call. In this environment, there was an immediate response to arrive. Sheesh! There was more laughing as everyone logged off, with an undercurrent of, WHEW!

The reason for putting more sellers, SEs and leaders on the front lines is due to the fact that the existing portfolio leaders, sellers and SEs have failed significantly.

Someone please help me understand why there are so many highly paid people with only two or three reports???? It seems like there are at least three more middle layers than needed.

The culture that we are getting into right now with teams, and these group pings is absurd. They say it takes 20 minutes to refocus after you’ve been distracted… these silly group pins and constant teams alerts on pinging are so unproductive and frustrating. Just send us an email! Not to mention things keep getting lost in different variations of group groups that are pinging so I literally can’t keep up.

I’m so over teams and all the obnoxious features that come with it that destroy my productivity.

As we spent the last decade offshoring and laying off our vteam family, I was energized and excited to learn how AI unlocked is how we scale our most important investment - our people! This is such impactful work. Because when the Vteam thrives, Verizon thrives - together!

There is no question AI is changing how we work, but emotional intelligence will always shape the why. The future belongs to organizations that value both. AI is the how. EI is the why. And nobody cares about people like Verizon. I am very grateful to be part of this best in class culture OS! Let’s go team!

Can someone explain to me how this makes sense? The team is on the verge of a meltdown from being overworked and more projects pop up with an urgency that is ridiculous and we are drowning, just to prove we are worth keeping? I don’t want to be kept if they think this type of workload should be the norm.

For anyone who has had this happen, how hard is it to get to another department/team? How long did it take? Was reorged today and not thrilled with where they put me.

Currently in prod support, WLB is not there and looking to pivot. Which is better? Or is it all bad?

ton let it slip that the company is exploring the idea of squeezing engineering teams down to 4, with the rest of the team being suplimented with ai

if you are in a team of size 5 or more, your head is likely on the block

What happens to teams that get so decimated over several rounds to the point where they realistically can't do anything anymore? Do the remaining folks get reassigned to other teams? Do they keep existing in limbo until more people are hired (which would completely defeat the purpose of layoffs)? Or something else?

A friend of mine just got and email title "Strategy Change" from their Sr. Dir. (she is a GL 28) There are no invitees, it's a BCC: It's for 10AM CDT

Any Director/ AD in this form please say. On what basis you are laying off individuals in a team.

If you manufacture watches... or honestly ANYTHING that runs on batteries or any kind of fuel... why on earth would you photograph your product sitting on a pile of lemons?
You do realize lemons are basically the universal symbol for something defective, broken, disappointing, unreliable, and headed straight back to customer service, right?
Really unfortunate creative direction, guys. Somewhere there was a meeting where a whole team approved this. Yes. That turnaround of the company should be happening any day now.

Any Omni/operations leads finding themselves being the mod more than STL's?

I love how my project team is in Houston India Manila and BA. How the F are we supposed to accomplish anything.

Overnight decision to move then out of the sla-ghter house currently known as Tech moves under Nish. Do we really need a chief privacy officer in that model and do we need over twenty people in a second line role where all of their functions were first line centric ? If we think of efficiencies and what matters for members this is pretty easy. This groups previous leadership fought tooth and nail when anyone dared to mention they belong in second line. (Judy and her leadership team) time to clean house I guess this is a no brainer. Any bets on what happens to a 25 person first line team moving into second line ?

Can you imagine inheriting a team, firing or bullying them all out, hiring a new team by yourself and have them all fired or leave within 18 months?
There has to be a trend and it can't be the fault of the 11 people fired or left under her

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

I wouldn't have minded taking a severance package. Could have saved one of my teammates who I know couldn't afford to lose his job, and he did. I'll never understand why a voluntary round isn't always offered before an involuntary one. Wouldn't that be a win/win?

Getting a free ice cream one day definitely makes up for commuting 156 days annually to take teams calls from a noisy cubicle

My team just had that dreaded meeting today, and it was absolutely infuriating. They called everyone together just to announce that layoffs are coming, then hit us with the useless line, “Sorry, I don’t have any other information to share right now.” What the actual he-l is the point of these meetings? Why drag us all in just to dump that anxiety on us when you have zero details to give? It just piles on even more stress for no reason whatsoever.

How much of a lack of character, conscience and morals do you have to be a leader at Chevron? The way it seems you cant have any and only care about yourself. MW and team see all the hardship, chaos and stress they are putting this company through and they still do it. They are affecting people's health and dont care. Must be a terrible upbringing. They DO NOT HAVE TO give everything to rhe shareholders. No law that says they have to. They can have some human decency but choose to have none! Don't put in an ounce of extra effort for these sc-m bags!

It's a mixed bag in my team. There are a couple who contribute fairly. I've stopped checking their work because they've proven reliable and knowledgeable. The rest just create more work for me. Everything they do needs to be reviewed and often redone. I can't shake the feeling that many of them aren't as invested in keeping their jobs. Which is counterintuitive, but still.

Top of the leaderboard again. Year after year:

https://x.com/TheLayoff/status/2055330545052381473

2 teammates are impacted through

Make of that what you will, but it’s getting harder not to notice certain patterns.

I have no idea how we're supposed to get anything done.

So what are the core hours you are supposed to be in the office? Execs have a tantrum if it just so happens people are in a meeting in another room or they are walking in at 8:30 and no one is in yet. What is the expectation?

Congratulations to the team all over LinkedIn, we are so proud of each other. So exciting.

invites go out today/tonight in the US. Unless you already had a scheduled 1:1 this week with your notifying manager, in which case they should have moved your 1:1 to tomorrow, and you will be notified then.

So danger zone if:
You get a 15-30 minute invite for a 1:1 with your manager or your skip for early tomorrow local time.
You had a 1:1 with your manager this week and they moved it to Thursday with no explanation.
Your skip level (or their boss) schedules a team-wide call (your entire team and possibly your manager is impacted)

Americas notifications are to be wrapped up by COB Thursday. If you don’t hear anything by Thursday COB you are likely safe.

OP is @a7+1krhpzg3b, bumping it for great info.

Favoritism galore.

USD10.6B outflows in April alone. What the helly!

Do you think lazy RM teams marked those client accounts as vulnerable?

Better than I expected. DR did a great job.