Ally Financial had layoffs today, impacting about 2% of employees as part of workforce consolidation and process optimization (oh, this sounds so official). Ally is shifting teams and focus... it's reorganizing its structure let's say they are seeking "efficiencies". The comms are out - I know some in Charlotte were among those affected.
The cuts are mostly concentrated in upper and middle management w/managers + above most impacted, they hammered folks with no dir reports (or low # of dir reports). Some folks claim that that some groups began seeing cuts on Halloween Friday, but that has not been confirm and most folks did not hear about it...
Last Friday someone spilled the beans ahead of time, see @OP+1k8x5qazb and pretty much was 100% on target.
This round of layoffs is now over, you can go to your cube and relax until the next layoff event which is certainly almost behind the corner.
Good luck all.