#layoffs

What do you expect to happen?

I can confirm random dismissals without consideration of overall performance or necessity for the company. More than 100 employees are on the final list across all departments.

Goodbye growth! I think that, regardless of the consequences, the wrong horse is being backed here and core competencies are being neglected in the long term.

What happened to the Wellmed IT leadership, did they all go back to Optum? I was laid off from Wellmed two months ago and I am happy to be moving on. The WM leadership face planted that business in to the ground!

Hearing the next round is that date. Massive layoff affecting retail, business sales, Frontier and network

Supposedly there's a letter floating around on Only at Lowes facebook supposedly from Mcfarland talking about every store losing an ASM. Anyone seen it or heard anything?

First Brands Group is closing its distribution facility in Patterson, California, resulting in 98 layoffs, with the majority occurring on April 4, 2026, and the remainder on April 30, 2026. This closure follows the company's September 2025 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and federal fraud indictments against executives, contributing to over 2,500 nationwide layoffs. Read the full story at KCRA: https://www.kcra.com/article/stanislaus-county-layoff-first-brands-group-closes-facility-patterson/70563533

Does anyone know if Kroger plans to do another round of lay offs for office staff any time soon?

Hearing the next round is that date. Massive layoff affecting retail, business sales, Frontier and network

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So who else got the email and who got the call ???

I wish I could share more but connect with your colleagues.

I can't handle anything else right now. I'm already stretched so thin that losing my job this week would genuinely wreck me.

Dates for March?

The people they chose to cut never made any sense. Now we can't do parts of the job at all, and we're buried in the rest. It feels like they want us to fail.

I got a sparq notification that I was assigned a BSL. I checked all my other team in sparq profiles/org chart and no one else has this person listed. could this be bad news?

Run. Hide. Fight. Kiss your a@@ goodbye.

Want effiency in corp risk? Keep the workers, get rid of 75% of the managing directors. Most are just su-king time, doing as little as possible until retirement, causing inordinate amounts of unnecessary paperwork.

I saw here that union folks might get the option. If Verizon's planning another big round of cuts, even if mostly retail, wouldn't it make sense to start with VSP and then reassess? That way, people who really need to stay have a better shot, while plenty of people I know would jump at a voluntary package. I know I would.

Today Us Bank Home Mortgage gave 216 employees on the call a 45 days left notice!! It’s beginning

What’s the scoop?

So good news I hear pretty good things coming but sounds like a big package to get associates off payroll which means unfortunately a lot more managers are gonna get the rif soon

interested to see reactions from some of these points, Dell is doing great these last few days in terms of stock, but is it short lived? I keep thinking about SMCi and they just seem to have the right blueprint.

consider my thought process:

​SMCI is strategically absorbing short-term gross margin compression (6.4%) to aggressively secure physical data center footprints. Once the bare-metal hardware is deployed, this establishes a captive base to upsell high-margin, proprietary Data Center Building Block Solutions and cooling maintenance. SMCi is leading Dell in this technology.

​AI-Driven Service Transformation: The traditional, human-intensive IT service model is being commoditized. AI automation is reducing the need for massive, global break-fix support teams, neutralizing the historical scale advantage of legacy hardware providers. Dell has not shown an interest to unleash their sw devs with Ai. they buy vs invent, well, overnight the world can invent more quickly and Dell isn't investing right

​Expansion into AI-RAN and Edge Telecom: By writing lean, specialized software stacks for distributed environments, SMCI is capturing the emerging Artificial Intelligence Radio Access Network, and Sovereign AI edge markets before slower legacy systems like Dell can adapt. this is far bigger than most know.

​Zero-Touch, Self-Healing Infrastructure: Integrating agentic AI into Baseboard Management Controllers and orchestration software enables autonomous power routing, predictive failure analysis, and real-time cooling adjustments, drastically cutting the operational overhead of rack maintenance. think, more self healing, less armies of physical technical support staff needed

​Direct Liquid Cooling & Next-Gen Silicon: The thermal physics of upcoming architectures—specifically the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and HGX Rubin NVL8—mandate advanced liquid cooling. SMCI's in-house DLC engineering and rapid time-to-market provide a structural lead in deploying these dense, 100kW+ AI racks.

​Financial Disconnect & Valuation Asymmetry: Despite exceptional top-line revenue growth (recent quarters posting >120% YoY growth to over $12.6B), SMCI trades at highly compressed multiples (trailing P/E ~24x, P/S ~0.4x). The stock is structurally mispriced relative to its market share expansion in AI hardware volume. dell is now in hold territory, smci might be a huge opportunity.

​Legacy Over-Reliance on Bloated Ecosystems: Incumbent behemoths are institutionally bound to massive enterprise sales forces and heavy management software suites. These legacy structures create internal friction and require high-margin subsidization, making them vulnerable to agile, pure-play engineering firms. Dell is competing against the true lean mavericks (see what I did there). many sales folks on this, you're the champions keeping Dell going, kudos, but... change happens

​Rapid Obsolescence of Traditional Software: The democratization of code via AI is collapsing the moat of legacy IT management software, this is the real place Dell is able to macgyver the numbers. Historically a competitive advantage for Dell, but now Leaner competitors utilizing AI-assisted development can now quickly replicate and streamline orchestration layers, bypassing the traditional software lock-in of these legacy giants.

interesting time to watch... I'm long on both, but I feel smci is better suited for the long haul, I'll be getting out from Dell, selling, later this year, but not just yet.

oh and I think more layoffs are coming, so it's not too off topic

Does anyone know the cost for Cobra insurance for myself just in case a lay-off comes,then I know what to expect.

A significant layoff is expected soon on the retail side. I’ve heard from a source that leadership plans to convert up to 90% of corporate locations to indirect locations by the end of the summer.

Additional layoffs are expected in June for the retail workforce, and more stores are being converted to indirect locations.

No hikes in near future. AI assisted coding but results in work extension. Where is motivation, everyone has limit. But I feel they will put on track with structured layoffs.
Don't know when, hearing ratings gathered, restructuring in progress. Anytime soon in couple of months

Plan is coming down the line. Regardless of contract extension or not. À la ups style

$5000 per year of service to leave the company. No restrictions . 5 years or 50 years. Major downsizing is wanted by the company. No ipp offer. Across the board. They will back fill and train if needed for some job titles.

Six Wisconsin companies filed layoff notices in February. These notices affected a total of 418 workers across the state. Cargill Meat Solutions announced the largest reduction, eliminating 221 jobs. The company will close its Milwaukee meat processing plant by May. Other firms like Ahlstrom Mosinee and TJ Hale also reported significant job cuts.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2026/03/02/cargill-fanduel-other-wisconsin-firms-filed-february-layoff-notices/88876843007/

It seems the rolling layoffs have no end in sight, who else thinks they’ll reference AI as a reason for downsizing this year?

Verizon laid off 1,319 employees in New Jersey. These layoffs took effect on February 20, 2026. They are part of 13,000 worldwide cuts announced in November. Several other large companies also announced New Jersey job reductions. Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Target are among those affected.

https://wpst.com/ixp/385/p/new-jersey-job-cuts/

First Brands Group announced a plant closure. This closure will result in approximately 275 layoffs. The facility is located in Greenville. A bankruptcy filing caused the plant closure. Alleged fraud and money laundering led to the bankruptcy.

https://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2026/03/02/greenville-fram-facility-closure-275-layoffs-warn.html

Hundreds of layoffs are coming to Walgreens. The Deerfield-based company called this a difficult decision. The company aims to simplify its organization and improve service. Reports indicate 469 jobs will be eliminated in Illinois. Another 159 positions will be cut in Texas.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/deerfield-based-walgreens-to-layoff-hundreds-in-difficult-decision-report/3902007/

The Soquel Union Elementary School District board will consider a layoff proposal. This plan involves eliminating nearly 17 full-time equivalent positions. The decision follows an impasse in contract negotiations with the teachers union. District officials cite declining enrollment and a yearslong budget deficit. The union seeks a 3% wage increase and increased health benefits.

https://lookouexample.com/soquel-union-elementary-board-to-consider-layoffs-as-teachers-district-reach-impasse/story

There are senior leadership firings that are not making sense. Talented people that go above and beyond with a lot of seniority or experience. They must be getting fired bc they just earn more. This is another huge blow to morale, why would I want to move up in a company like that?

Executive level leadership is woefully unqualified and terrible messaging.

Does anyone have numbers of how many we let go? and what groups

Record high profits
Lousy stip-
Disgruntled employees percentage soaring

Solution???
Offer vwo-
Watch mass exit

Can someone clarify whether or not we are getting stock grants? I want to know whether to start applying elsewhere or not

I don’t know how Macy’s “reclassifying” some people’s positions affects store employees, but everyone who was hired as a “flex position” for corporate side of things has to return to office 4 days a week. They’re doing construction of the office floors at Herald Square in NYC, but what are they changing exactly? They’re adding assigned desks and taking away conference rooms. Have a meeting you need to attend and there’s no meeting rooms available? Their advice was to just go walk through the store and take your meeting.
They’re offering 0 incentive for employees that can completely do their jobs remotely to return to the office 8 hours a day 4 days a week. They want us to “cowork in a creative environment” while being surrounded by beige walls, desks/cubes with no privacy, fighting over meeting rooms just so they can justify having all of that space and its cost.
Snacks? Better coffee? Maybe some other colors than red and beige and white and black? Nope! But come into the office because we are watching you!
They also do not consider the amount of employees they have working there that do not live within NYC. Have wages raised? No, but the cost of transportation sure has from the Long Island railroad to NJ transit to the MTA subway and bus fares.
I don’t know that this company is gonna last much longer. They really only have the 100th year of the parade this year going for them.

Hope its just a small one