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L3 Harris technologies layoffs.

This post is for current L3 Harris employees. Please share experiences with job reductions or furloughs within L3 Harris technologies. Please include your location and dates if possible without revealing your identity or any information that might expose yourself. Your privacy should be protected. If you are not part of L3 harris, there is no reason to be posting here.


MW and friends are desperate and out of ideas

Chevron will continue to decline as long as the current crop of executive leaders are at the helm. They are simply out of ideas. The stock price has been moving sideways for years despite buybacks, cost cutting, acquisitions and divestitures, and layoffs. Our reserves impress nobody. Our projects still run over budget and over schedule. Exxon is eating our lunch.

The executives are desperate and all they can think to do is desperately flail at changing the window dressings and offshoring more work to cut costs, quality be damned and forget about increasing reserves or investing in exploration. They talk about AI hoping to ride some of that wave in the market but it’s just lip service at this point.

They forgot we’re an oil and gas company and now all of us peons have to pay the price for their lack of competent leadership and dereliction of duty. It’s going to get worse before it gets better - and it’s never going back to what it was. If you’ve got more than 5 years left in your career and have a decent alternative employment opportunity I’d highly recommend taking it.


Remote promotions

I’m curious with the changes to remote if I would still be eligible to move up in my role to the next job grade. As of 2025 I was able to. I know a new position all together would be hub only.

Also, can a remote employee still earn an extraordinary performance?

Any managers or HR here that can share insights please?


CVS Misunderstanding Clarification - NOT RELATED TO PRESCRIPTIONS

For the avoidance of doubt:

  • “CVS” refers exclusively to Connected Vehicle Services, a division responsible for vehicle connectivity systems, diagnostics, software interoperability, and associated service delivery.
  • Discussions or references to external pharmacy entities (including retail pharmacy terminology) are *not applicable in this context and should not be used in professional communication, documentation, or reporting.

Yes, it’s confusing. No, we won’t change the name.

Recently, there has been an increase in informal commentary including eye‑rolling, sarcasm, impulsive sighing, repeated references to color associations (notably orange hues), and metaphorical language around unexpected operational incidents.

To maintain clarity of communication and alignment with organizational values, employees are encouraged to refrain from directing questions to unrelated external entities and projectiles (e.g., inquiries about over‑the‑air "balloons" or pharmacy analogies regarding connectivity issues). This is to ensure our products are released by 2030 as part of our vision to increase diversification economically, socially, and culturally through Model e.


Manager constantly making false promises

I’m exhausted from hearing the same promises over and over again about backfilling positions that never actually get filled. We’re overloaded, the work keeps piling up, and every month we’re told help is coming, but it never does. Add in the empty promotion talk, and it’s getting harder to stay quiet.


The layoff process makes no sense

I can't understand the logic the leadership is using to choose who stays and who goes. They've let some really skilled people go recently for no clear reason. Some newer folks as well, who joined maybe a year or so ago. Their decisions just seem completely random.


It’s good ol’ boy and gal networks not DEI

I keep seeing these comments blaming being laid off and the sorry state of the company on DEI. That wasn’t the case in my experience. In my case there were good ol’ boy networks that took care of their own. You didn’t need to be white or to be a man to be part of the network but it helped. Some individuals were so good at playing this game that they were part of more than one network. They managed to be part of whatever network was ascendant.

Diversity and inclusion was just pretend where I was. Almost everything was just pretend. It would be comical like a parody if it weren’t for the consequences.

With nearly 100,000 employees in many locations, it’s possible that others had a different experience than mine.


Years of DEI is catching up to Target

Target tech and product is cooked.

If fidelky thinks he’s going to get anything out his tech team, he’s stoned out of his mind. (I spelled his name wrong - it’s not worth the time spelling it right)

This is the most reactionary/pedestrian group of senior leaders ever assembled. And if you add to that the layer of DEI VPs over the last 8 years, you will get leaders who monitor sprint metrics while the place burns down around them.

Glad that I landed a new job outside Target -staying at target is worse than getting laid off. It’s a complete clown show funded by a bunch of ignorant stock holders and board. good luck all - use Christmas to reassess your career.


The core problem with Citi is the MD gremlins.

Gremlins that instead of fostering an environment of positive growth in such a way that you WANT to be here and others from the outside WANT to be part of Citi……

You have gremlin MDs that rely on desperate people that NEED to be here. These are people who are easy to bully, manipulate and whip into servitude and long hours and sacrifice of personal time.

You can’t do that to those that are not desperate. I’ve seen quite a few already financially sound people on solid ground take a look around and “Yeah, no, this is not happening, there’s nothing here of any substance” and leave.

This in itself speaks volumes. The constant pumping out of notice after notice of “tough decisions” , “tough growth”, “hard messages”, “difficult changes” etc… is enough to deter anyone from hiring on to Citi. How do you draw in AND retain truly top talent from the outside given this environment. Sure, Citi can draw in the top talent but retaining them is another thing.


$1000 “Bonus”

I bet they shared this news when they did so they could get rid of a wave of rage-quitters before they hand out their “ever-so-gracious” 1k bonus in January. I know at the end of the year it’ll all even out, but it’s still such cr-p that our paychecks will be shorter on that first check, even with the bridge advance, due to the higher supplemental taxes.


New hire anxieties

I joined Cigna just a few months ago, and I have learned that layoffs are a constant and there’s a new round always looming. I am worried that being one of the newest people puts me at the top of the list. Hoping someone can explain if this is the case or if I might actually be safe.


RTO/ lay off impact

I am being laid off as a direct result of the company’s return-to-office policy. I do not live near an office and relocating without financial support is not feasible. Despite being a top performer, there has been no acknowledgment, appreciation, or even basic empathy from leadership regarding the impact this decision has on me or several of my teammates. And to add icing to this cake, we will not be given severance and we will not be given our annual bonus.This “business decision“ impacts livelihoods- kids, tuitions, rent/ mortgage, etc! So who’s getting richer off of this? RV is.

For anyone considering joining the company, it’s important to understand that people are treated as numbers, valued only for what they contribute to the stock until they no longer fit the model.


Looking for some info on layoffs

I am only a few months into my time here, and it is already sinking in that layoffs might be part of the landscape here, which has me more on edge than I expected to be so early into a new role. I am trying to get a sense of whether this is something people constantly brace for or if it is one of those things that happens in waves and then quiets down for a long stretch. I would like to know whether I should settle in and feel secure or keep my guard up because of the way things have been going lately.


Do better, with less, and less, and less

Every year they remove support services. Every year they want more. Next year we will be fixing our own computers. It will be literally diy everything (hr services, it, travel, hse, visa) oh and don’t work from home you get a roaming cube with no locker. At least it’s equitable, psg21-27. Would blow my mind being a 27 and using weeks of your annual time doing it, hr, admin services. Time value or money!


Too dangerous to RTO in the Northeast

We received 9 inches of snow yesterday and the streets and walkways are full of ice.

There will be many falls, injuries, and lawsuits as a result.

A responsible and reasonable corporation would have advised their employees to stay safe and work from home.

At least I punched the clock!


Gaslighting

Signs that you are being gaslit. Every item below happened to me. Finally left a few years ago because I got sick of the abuse, the bait-and-switch, burn-out, and out right theft of my work. Don’t let this happen to you.

  1. Expectations that keep changing
    ↳ Goals get reset halfway
    ↳ Promotions dangled, then vanish
    ↳ Yesterday’s "great job" becomes today's "not enough"

  2. Work that feels meaningless
    ↳ Endless decks no one reads
    ↳ Projects with no impact
    ↳ Work hard, feel… empty

  3. Leaders who disappear when it matters
    ↳ Present for wins, silent during chaos
    ↳ Emotional distance dressed as "professionalism"
    ↳ Absent in moments that count

  4. No space for real conversations
    ↳ Feedback feels like formality
    ↳ Honest talks are risky
    ↳ Everyone smiles. No one speaks truth.

  5. Invisible efforts, visible mistakes
    ↳ Wins are "team effort"
    ↳ Mistakes? That’s on you
    ↳ Your hard work becomes someone else's highlight.

  6. Leaders who fear strong voices
    ↳ Challenge is mistaken for conflict
    ↳ Assertiveness punished as “tone”
    ↳ Quiet compliance gets rewarded

  7. Promises made in hiring... quietly broken later
    ↳ Career growth, autonomy, flexibility
    ↳ Turns out: deadlines, control, and burnout
    ↳ No one explains the switch

  8. Recognition becomes transactional
    ↳ One-size-fits-none awards
    ↳ “Thank you” only in slides
    ↳ Praise wrapped in KPIs

  9. Wellness preached, burnout rewarded
    ↳ Meditation app, but no boundaries
    ↳ Rest is guilted
    ↳ Stillness is seen as slacking

  10. No one asks: ‘What do you need?’
    ↳ Assumptions > curiosity
    ↳ Fix the task, not the tension
    ↳ Support feels like a script

Great people don’t leave because they’re weak.
They leave because they’re wise.
They leave when staying means self-betrayal.


Friends

I worked in Silicon Valley for years and years. What I found was that most people I worked with, who I thought of as friends, were actually not.

After I left work, I found that the people who I thought were my friends, were actually just people who had lunch with you to keep you as a contact. As soon as you are no longer in the workforce you are no longer worth their time.

Perhaps some of that is my own fault. Perhaps I should have spent more time cultivating friendships with different people... maybe not tech people? Not sure.

I suspect that outside of Silicon Valley things are a bit different. I have relatives that worked in tech and lived in other cities and did not seem to have the obsession with money and the next thing that would bring them more money. They were more focused on family.

The only thing that matters is the family around me. Their safety is pretty much the most important thing. There is nothing else that matters more.

It's very important for me to ensure their safety.


No surprises here

The regular drumbeat of cuts has had a damaging impact on morale as staff become accustomed to the ever-present threat of losing their jobs, sources said. Co-workers regularly vanished from Slack without much, if any, explanation, sources said, with staff often only finding out when former colleagues post about being let go on LinkedIn. Shopify did not respond to a request for comment.

https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-layoffs-morale/


The New Verizon - putting pieces together

Here's what I've gleaned so far and I'm certainly hoping the new year will shed some.real light on things. Please feel free to add anything I may have forgotten or missed.

So Dan comes in and touts himself many things, including an authority on AI, even so much as smackin coffee lips about it at the white house.

He's uber excited for this "new Verizon" that will be scappy and non-bureaucratic, with inital claims that no other carrier will be able to easily replicate what we're going to do.

To accomplish this mastery of his mind, we obviously must have massive cuts to fund the multi-billion dollar mystery venture.

And how amazing it will be that we will be willing to miss paychecks and/or bonuses with a smile on our faces because when it's all done, it'll be the single greatest moment of our careers that we'll remember for all of time

And so far, this has consisted of a mega layoff, a declaration laden in hypocrisy that our culture must shift to starting meetings on time so we are no longer sloppy, and a story about a cancer patient who was allowed to break contract, implying that delighting our customers mean we will now be more giving to all who want/need special cost-related provisions.

I fail to see the connection. In fact, as I typed it out, I felt an overwhelming sense of nausea come over one me. Something doesn't feel right.


Pay for Travel

So I am one of the people who was home based before and I guess I have to go to the office now until I find something else. Am I going to make more money? Being HBA means I don't have to pay for gas, daycare expenses for two under 5, even food since I can cook at home. Some companies are paying people in the office more money. Is Jones going to do that? I don't get how this benefits me if not. Still having 60% of the office at home but forcing us to come in makes no sense unless there is a financial benefit.