#jobsafety

Get ready! Plan ahead talks of big cuts coming this fall. Mostly to mechanical shop jobs.

90% of us will be replaced by AI by 2031. I'm retiring in 2030, but what about everyone else who is under 50? What's your plan??

Can someone explain how these layoffs actually get determined? I feel like it’s just purely cost, but based on how pointless and anti productive it has ended up being I’m not sure if they actually give it any thought. Manager has been giving us the standard BS. (Saying a lot without actually saying anything) lol.

How can you lay off 1400 people and not lay off a single VP in the process. I think that exposes the true purpose of this layoff more than anything else.

If we all banded together and we could see the names, sees and ages you better believe there is clear evidence of racism in these layoffs.

I have now entered the point where Sunday comes and I feel sick to my stomach. I used to love my job.

All discover employees are safe

I was recalled from vacation last week to notify employees they were being terminated. Then I was personally impacted. These layoffs are real — they accelerate tomorrow (03/31). This playbook is painfully familiar: make a risky bet, prop up the books, shift risk to employees, and then cut the people who built the product. History repeats — Enron, Lehman, FTX, WeWork — different names, same patterns. Sacrifice institutional knowledge and experience for short-term optics and a gamble on leadership’s vision. And too often the cuts disproportionately hit those who are older, outspoken, politically out-of-step, or who challenged the direction.

The result is predictable: silence expertise, reward conformity, and chase mediocrity while pretending it’s decisive leadership. If you care about accountability, transparency, or the future of good work, don’t accept this quietly. Demand clarity on the rationale, fairness in selection criteria, and real support for those pushed out. Lives and livelihoods are on the line — this shouldn’t be swept under the rug.

Managers stack rank their teams. There is obviously bias if you have a strong relationship with your direct or skip. But if you have not performed and can’t justify your salary, then you are likely gone. It’s not a charity, and they have to cut jobs somewhere to fund AI. Sales is still bloated at Oracle.

Speaking for sales, if you look at your team and you think there’s a chance you’re bottom 3, you’re likely gone. The March 31st layoffs are no joke. And co primes are in serious trouble.

Not trying to be cynical, just being honest. There are too many people who collect $150-200k year salaries and haven’t sold anything of significance or shown value, and a good relationship with your manager can only buy you so much time.

If folks think otherwise, please let me know. But we are about to see the most significant cuts in Oracle history.

We have co primes who are double paid on deals that they seldom have direct involvement with. Inside sales reps who push paper less effectively than AI could or field sellers. We are still bloated.

They will cut big time and the One Oracle and AI selling models will be figured out come June 1.

All companies have problems. What are the problems specific to Waters.

Low hikes, off-shoring ….what else ?

How bad are the layoffs?
Is management any good?

FIS strategy has shifted to AI-first, instead of people matters. No matter if AI is just an excuse for cost reduction or not, if you're safe today, don't get comfortable, prepare your Plan B or Plan C. We as a tech company, as long as your job is working on your laptop, you are in danger of getting replaced by AI or cheaper labor.

Maybe you will think, okay, I'm an SME and I have unique domain knowledge, and I'm the 'valued retained team members". No, the messages you sent on Teams, the documents you saved on SharePoint and laptop, any work you do, are all training material for AI within this company (within any company having AI)

FIS keeps you today, not because of you being valuable, it's ONLY because of replacing you is A BIT MORE EXPENSIVE 'at this moment'. Please take a breath, give yourself a break, but don't get comfortable. Polish your resume, start networking, and look for a better job somewhere else.

It appears that a significant wave of layoffs is underway here in Serbia. I know several people who were let go in the last couple of days. There are rumors that it will continue to happen throughout the next couple of months. I am on the Voyix side of the fence, things here are looking as bleak as it's possible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/waterloo/s/kCzKpt5XEI

3 things are guaranteed in Waterloo region.

Potholes
Geese
OpenText layoffs

I am so grateful I still have a job, but rumors are this is the first of many more layoffs to come. It's so depressing at work. I have such high anxiety now and I feel so guilty for having my job.

Forced Ai training. And soon to be forced to use Ai. While my director and mangers openly joke and laugh about how Ai is so great and will eventually take will our jobs. Great morale boost while they actively talk about wanting to boost morale.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Just know it’s a normal thing here at OT, nothing you did wrong.

Onwards and upwards

This job has been just a paycheck for me for the longest time, and I don't like it at all. But I need that damn paycheck. The job market is terrible.

Trim Ryan posted about it. Others have mentioned it. If your role is even remotely tagged to Transformation and/or CO - find a new job asap. You WILL get Rif'd. It's not a question of if but a question of when. Save yourselves the mental agony of getting access cut off in a matter of less than an hour. The ignominy....get out. LIterally...to anywhere else.

Best piece of advice that I can give. Do yourself and your mental health a favor - don't wait till the last minute.

Just saying Q4 is too vague. I can’t handle feeling unsafe for 3 months.

When mass promotions of 6700 people in CX happened all of us in CX understood that the margins would get affected in a few quarters when its in effecti in all regions and there would be consequences but LC & CX leaders defended it then and tried to be heros. Now on leaders call it was specifically called out that CX revenue & margins are both down. CX business needs to pick up. DUH. Would rather like to keep our jobs than get a promotion with others thinking we don’t deserve it or worse - lose the job thanks. Typical of Cisco for leaders to make horrible decisions and ICs to lose jobs.

Any upcoming layoffs In Texas?

Were you in a hub or nonhub?

I’ve heard information suggesting that Chevron may have contacted my new company with requests that could limit my project scope and raised questions about my past achievements. I’m trying to verify the facts and understand my options. Has anyone else experienced something similar after leaving their Chevron? I left it in 2020 and still been followed.

Good luck to everyone who’s been affected.

Having worked here for a number of years we've all heard of the "restructuring" BS that has people in a constant wave of panic. Even though I am upset at how I was laid off, ultimately I'm glad and think this can help me in the future. Useless MD/D & SVPS that run the boat into the storm and never seem to face any repercussions for their actions. After a fairly tough year getting bad ratings seems to be the reason I loss my job but who can even tell. They claim my role has been eliminated, so here I am at home waiting to hear a call from HR. On another note I cannot reach out to HR it seems like this was a planned move on their part; giving managers a script to read to workers and absolutely no answers I feel like a sitting duck. And to any of the managers reading this that knew their workers were going to get cut but decided to tell them the day of the actual cuts. I hope you enjoy he**.

Are we safe for a month? Two months? The rest of the year?

I’ll admit that I have been very unmotivated to do any work the last few weeks. The rest of my year will probably be the same if I make past tomorrow.

This is exactly what the plan has always been since AI came along.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-knowledge-capture-employees-a69a0e1c

It isn’t whether artificial intelligence is going to replace them. It’s who will control the knowledge that companies capture from their employees.

By: Matthew Call
Feb. 15, 2026 12:00 pm ET

Walk into any corporate office, and you’ll hear the same anxious conversation: Will AI eliminate white-collar jobs?

The optimists insist that new jobs will emerge to replace the ones we lose—after all, it has happened in previous tech revolutions. Pragmatists argue the workforce will simply become more productive with artificial intelligence, creating more value with minimal job cuts. And the pessimists fear entry-level knowledge workers will become obsolete altogether.

But this debate misses a crucial dynamic. Right now, workers are potentially training AI how to make them obsolete. And they often don’t realize it.

The kind of AI used by companies, called an enterprise AI system, can capture everything you do at work and use that information to train itself. These systems can record your interactions within the platform—the prompts you write, the documents you create, the queries you run.

In other words, the company can potentially track—and claim ownership of—every keystroke you make within the system, every idea you document there, every tool you build using that platform. It can identify what approaches worked best, what email language got responses and how you approached those clients. And all that knowledge can become part of the company AI, so it may eventually know, down to increasingly fine details, how you do your job.

Then comes the dangerous part for employees: The AI can pass that information along to anybody else who does your job, or in some cases just do the job itself. Over time, you could become a lot less valuable to your employer—and a lot more replaceable.

This dynamic may fundamentally change the relationship between employer and employee. The stakes are so high and so urgent that both sides are rushing to position (or protect) themselves. Executives are rapidly implementing enterprise AI systems, seeking productivity gains and competitive advantage—and they often aren’t disclosing the implications for job security and privacy. Meanwhile, at least some employees are secretly adopting personal AI tools, sometimes violating corporate policies, so that their employers can’t capture everything they know and do.

Capturing the essence

To understand what’s coming, you need to understand what enterprise AI systems actually are. These are different from the interfaces you use at home. Enterprise AI systems are platforms that integrate directly into corporate workflows—think of Microsoft Copilot embedded in Word, Excel and Outlook, or Salesforce’s Einstein AI woven into customer-relationship management. These systems sit inside the tools where you already work. And they can potentially capture much of your work within the platform, learning from many interactions, and embedding that knowledge into company-owned infrastructure.

What once lived only in employees’ heads, built through years of experience and hard-won expertise, is increasingly being institutionalized in real time. When you leave, at least some of your knowledge stays behind, embedded in systems that will be used by the AI and by your replacement (if a replacement is needed at all).

Imagine that you’re a senior software engineer debugging a system crash. You run a bunch of tests to figure out the problem, and when you discover the solution isn’t in the documentation, you develop a novel workaround. You share the solution with the company, obviously, but the expertise and techniques that you brought to the problem were all yours, in a fundamental way. You figured out the workaround because of what you know and how you work.

That is the way things used to be, anyway. When you do your work through enterprise AI, though, the system doesn’t just record your solution. It can capture your problem-solving approach: which questions you asked first, how you refined the search when initial attempts failed, potentially even the logical steps that led you from symptom to cause. The next time junior engineers face a similar crash, the system may be able to guide them through elements of the methodology you used.

You haven’t lost your expertise. But now the employer also has access to key aspects of that expertise, in a form it controls and can deploy to other employees without you. It has a partial blueprint for how you think, and some of the knowledge that once made you indispensable is now a reproducible company asset.

Making it personal

These revolutionary changes seem to put workers in a tight spot. But I believe employees have an alternative—one that isn’t easy, but could help move the power dynamic back in their favor. Specifically: Employees should consider avoiding their company AI systems when possible and use personal AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot or dozens of others.

These tools operate on completely different terms than enterprise AI. You access them directly. You own your prompts, your workflows, your customizations. The knowledge you create stays with you. Most critically, when you walk out the door, your AI-enhanced capabilities walk with you.

Maybe you’re required to use your company’s enterprise AI for client work. But all the strategic thinking you do before engaging with clients? Develop that using personal AI tools.

I spoke with a regional vice president at an energy company who does exactly that: He uses his firm’s enterprise system for required compliance and documentation, but develops new analytical approaches and tests complex decisions in personal AI tools. The novel insights stay his.

What can be done?

Using personal AI tools is just the first step employees should take, however. To really change the power dynamic, they can act on other fronts.

• Negotiate upfront. When joining a company, people should treat access to AI tools like intellectual-property ownership. Most employment agreements cover IP created on the job, but employees should dig further into a company’s policies before signing on: What gets captured through enterprise AI? How long is that data retained? Can you use personal AI tools for skill development? Can you request deletion of your contributions if you leave?

Most companies haven’t thought through these questions yet, which means there is room to establish reasonable boundaries before you’re locked in.

• Support collective action. Individual opt-out of AI is often impossible, so unions and professional associations need to pay attention. With collective bargaining, workers could demand transparency about the use of enterprise AI and demand fair compensation for the knowledge it gathers. Without collective power, individual employees will keep clicking “accept” on agreements that restructure their jobs simply because they have no alternative.

Concerted employee action may start to change the AI calculus. Employers may find that enterprise AI systems do capture knowledge, but at a steep cost: They may drive away the most talented employees, ones who realize they can build more valuable, portable capabilities with personal tools.

AI is breaking the traditional model of employment in real time faster than anyone realizes. The companies and employees who understand these dynamics will position themselves to capture AI’s benefits. Those who don’t may find themselves on the losing side of the biggest workplace shift in a generation.

{Matthew Call is an associate professor in the department of management at Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School.}

Are they safe?

I would really like to have a weekend or two without dreading the next week. Why not just tell us, ffs? This scrambling for scraps of information is its own kind of torture.

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2026/02/new-exclusive-golf-course-could-open-southwest-of-ann-arbor.html

Start job hunting, no matter what Saks or Neiman Marcus store you are working at. it’s over, total liquidation in every store sooner or later. It’s over.

Are they scared of losing their job? It is just horrific these days. Grow a spine and tell the truth and take ownership instead of blaming others.

It's brutally hard to find another job. I've been trying for a while and can attest to that. With most of us constantly on the brink of financial ruin and costs only rising, the fear is real. But this time, I'm not anxious about losing my job. I'm just exhausted and completely burnt out. It's probably time to move on, and if they cut the cord, it would almost make it easier.

We lost people who were each worth two. Meanwhile, there are a couple of remaining cases who need two people each just to cover for their incompetence. Where’s the logic in that?

When will we come together to stop outsourcing and H1b?

Well I come from a competitor of Qualcomm , where there everything looks like a mess ( layoffs and reorg with no sense)
Qualcomm looks really stable with RF , and ADAS/AUTO portfolio

Those in the know - are Micro AEs still on the chopping block or are we safe.. (for now)?

GL to everyone this week.

Like surely the company wouldn't allow us to hire someone, and then immediately tell us we need to lay people off... right?

Is hiring for roles at the corporate office on some sort of a freeze? I was supposed to be a finalist for a position but am now being told the process is being paused. Any insight is greatly appreciated