#layoffs

I’ve been looking on this site for the past week and what I have gathered is nobody actually knows anything. Only thing I have seen is a lot of speculation. If you actually know something bring the proof. Also, does anybody think that maybe the acquisition of Frontier and once the acquisition goes through that will be the actual layoffs? Wouldn’t they just layoff the people that worked for Frontier if the jobs are already taken at Verizon? From what I’ve read Verizon will layoff 4,000-5,000+ people from Frontier once the acquisition is completed. I may be wrong but this makes sense.

As I mentioned Value CMO(VP) is gone as of yesterday. All moved to DK or KL. Very odd.

Regarding layoffs specifically in November 2025, Cisco is preparing to eliminate approximately 2,000 to 3,000 jobs by early November as part of a cost-saving effort aimed at achieving $2 billion in annual savings. However, the exact dates for these November layoffs have not been specified beyond the general timing in early November.

Super sad to see what TR is becoming and just corporate in general. I can’t say who or how I know due to confidentiality but I found out some managers goals are to reduce people on their team by implementing AI/automation. It is literally apart of their performance review. I was sad to find this out. My morale is shot.

Do we have enough 60+ people in Oxy that will be enough not to trigger an involuntary layoffs? I don’t know what percentage of people they are looking at reducing if it will come down to letting more people go in the coming months. What’s your take on this?

https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/Corporate_Media_That_Fails_to_Report_Cocaine_at_EPO_is_Totally_.shtml

Look at the stock price that all the RTO defenders pointed to. We’re back to the January levels, headed for sub-$20, bet.

Where are these RTO defenders now? Hope all you id--ts sold lmao.

By the way you also won’t be getting a bonus due to the increased operating costs RTO has imposed on the business. RTO is working!!!

EQT people will rejoice while Zayo people will start to jump ship!

This website is now blocked internally. The last time this happened was August 2023. Know what I mean jellybean?

Read a bunch of the recent threads and something doesn't add up because the earnings looks fine? Stock jumped nearly 40% and it isn't even lunch yet.

Spill if you hear any juicy information.
Layoffs, reorganization, realignment.
Maybe JRC is selling us...

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We’ve reached out to every news station, letting them know what’s really going on with Chevron. It’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out.
Chevron has spent millions on advertising, painting themselves as the heroes of our community. You’ve seen it: the feel-good commercials, the Facebook and Instagram posts, the Nextdoor updates showing their “volunteer work.” They want everyone to believe they’re here to support Northern Colorado.
But behind the scenes, they’ve quietly pushed out the very people who built this industry. They’ve replaced local, hardworking men and women—many with decades of experience—with workers brought in from out of state or out of the country. Families who once had stable, good-paying jobs are now struggling, while Chevron counts record profits.
Call it capitalism if you want. I call it what it really is—a monopoly and absolute bullsh-t.
Another billion-dollar corporation swoops in, buys out smaller companies, and leaves local workers in the dust. It’s not about community. It’s not about sustainability. It’s about control and profit, and it’s time people start seeing it for what it is.
The truth always comes out. And it’s only a matter of time before Chevron’s shiny PR mask starts to crack.

A lot of group chapter leads, platform leads are up for significant role shake up.

This won't be without impacts to associates at level 4,5,6.

We are looking at complete restructuring of middler tier managers which includes delivery leads, platform leads, chapter leads and group chapter leads.

There's a chatter of no more squad model, lot of squad leads, group squad lead roles are up for a shake up as well

While the consensus is "no impacts to associates", we all know that's a lie.

Some will be communicated the decision middle of November, giving associates 2 months to find new role.

Others would have until end of Q1 2026 to find new role.

I found out I was already near the top of the pay range for my level, and that probably sealed my fate. There are plenty of people making less, so keeping them was the easier call. Just putting that out there for anyone wondering how they decided who to let go.

• Corporate giants Amazon, UPS and Target each announced layoffs in recent weeks totaling more than 60,000 jobs cut this year.
• In the absence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report, the layoff announcements have raised questions about the strength of the labor market and if it’s the start of an AI-driven, white-collar recession.
• While some companies investing in AI are looking to cut costs elsewhere, the layoffs more likely signal concerns about the economy and a slowdown in consumer spending, according to experts.
  https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/white-collar-layoffs-ai-cost-cutting-tariffs.html

Talk about being a naive id--t.

We just lost some of the best people on our team, and it finally hit me that no matter how hard you work or how good you are, the people at the top still see you as replaceable. From now on, I’m done putting work before my family just to feel secure. No more missed birthdays, no more late nights trying to prove something that doesn’t matter in the end. I'm done.

It’s like someone holding you hostage, making you denounce your religion to be spared, and then they still ki-l you. Don’t trust the enemies of what we know is the way forward, working from home. These are the same guys that show up at the office to talk at the proverbial water cooler for 4+ hours a day. It is the ultimate act of deflection when these blowhards are projecting their disdain for “laziness” (a quality they have mastered) on WFH who simply don’t want CHAD blabbing about his Halloween party bleeding over into my fu--ing conference bridge.

Confirmed, have a meeting on the calendar. Off cycle due to holiday next week!

Keep seeing articles about banks and holding companies selling TI stock

The MEG “improved offer” announcement should make a few folks inside CVE uncomfortable. The question investors should be asking isn’t whether the Vawn assets are material to Cenovus, it’s whether the side-deal Strathcona received treats all other MEG shareholders fairly. Because if a private buyer gets a sweetheart deal on sold assets, that’s a transfer of value - plain and simple - and it raises serious questions about compliance with securities-law principles of fair and equal treatment. It’s also striking how the MEG board hides behind its advisors (BMO, RBC) instead of defending its own judgment. “Our advisors told us it was fine” isn’t a fiduciary defense - it’s an abdication of duty. If this ever gets real regulatory attention from the ASC - or even the SEC - the paper trail around valuation assumptions, fairness opinions, and board communications will matter. Until then, rank-and-file CVE employees get to watch leadership pretend the assets were sold at fair value while staff job cuts hang in the balance.

Does Dan realize that the real problem in verizon is the over paid huge management hierarchy.I mean come on the amount of money and red tape spent on Managers is unbelievable.Every manager has a higher paid manager above them that does even less.That worked in the ma bell monopoly of endless cash not now!!!The only real value in verizon anymore is the only people that actually know or do anything.That group is the associates union and nonunion on wireless & wireline side.All jokes aside most managers are really clueless.Some where hired from pizza delivery places because their daddy was a executive somewhere in verizon.How about we get rid of the timesheet signers who only job is to bother associates over meaningless things instead of focusing on the customer.The people who matter need to start being cherished more and listened to more .Time to squash the Management pyramid of Verizon and focus on moving forward

Hearing rumors of a change in corporate domicile from UK to USA. How will this move affect jobs in both countries

Necessary follow-up emails are even being halted. Critical meetings - on hold. I've talked to several friends across the company, various departments and the sentiment is the same - uncertainty and "waiting to hear if we have jobs."

It's not healthy and makes me wonder Dan's long term "culture" strategy that he claims is a priority, when the short term has gone south so quickly.

I genuinely thought the environment couldn't get worse than what H created, but it def has, in a quick way :-/

I don't trust them anymore when they say it's over.

These people gave each other the leg up and none know what the other is doing! I was impacted and frankly I’m relieved! I know the workforce is hard and we all need our jobs but a couple of months paid to figure it out sounds better then the BS Ive been dealing with! I wish you all the best and my prayers go out to all impacted! But since this new leadership has taken over over it’s been a disaster and the ones who laugh at the ones impacted, the ones who were kept, undeserving if based on metrics and performance, your time will come! You survived not for being a leader but for kissing the right butts!

What’s the point of these celebrations when the very people that made this happen are let go? No meaningful strategy when it comes to these layoffs. Those at the top are coasting while those who do the actual work are treated like cr-p. Trust, confidence and motivation to drive is lost and they really expect us to be excited about these “celebrations”?

good luck folks

Because it 100% was not performance. We lost two teammates who were among the best, and we have a few who could/should have been laid off instead and are still here. It really su-ks knowing that hard work will not protect you in situations like this. What's even the point then?

https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/IBM_s_CEO_Already_Has_the_Excuse_for_the_Latest_Wave_of_Mass_La.shtml

Do the VPs and directors get those special packages in their contracts, so they don’t have to worry at all after the merger while everyone else feels uncertain?

long gone is the morally, ethically right culture of Transunion. Say hello to layoffs for thanksgiving.

Pearson continues to decline year after year, I’m shocked they are still hiring people. Every 8-12 months it’s time to layoff a group of people and start over again next year. I spent 7 years watching this disaster before finally leaving. The lack of leadership and pi-s poor planning in this company is ridiculous!

TLDR: me, another person on this site, ranting about Fidelity’s agile, and my potentially useless prediction.

If they’re cutting agile roles, then I hate to say it but they’re cutting in the right place. Frankly, they should have laid them off last year.

I used to want to position myself into an agile role myself. Frankly, as a tech person, I was lazy, and decided to try to weasel my way into an easier role. Eventually, I fell in love with the art of software engineering, so I’m not gonna transfer into Agile. Plus, I’ve met (countless) scrum masters and agile coaches in and out of Fidelity who told me that it’s not a good time to be in the craft.

Frankly, Agile just isn’t done right in so many roles. There’s not enough actually good scrum masters out there. Fidelity is also not a good place for agilists to grow. The way Fidelity is set up, there are many non scrum masters that play as the scrum master. You have scrum masters in Fidelity who glorify things like “it’s a made up job”, and “I just do this to get the easiest way into management”. That culture is rampant especially in FI. You don’t need a scrum master unless the scrum master is damn good at their job, and we’re gonna need those that operate about higher than Fidelity’s EP standards.

It’s just the way Fidelity is. Fidelity isn’t doing agile. They’re doing their Fidelity Fragile. Which, hasn’t worked. Fidelity in 2025 is about networking to the top. Scrum masters are a program dedicated to networking to the top. Respectfully, the way Fidelity does scrum is to have the scrum masters be the ones that the upper management blame and speak with when things go awry. The scrum masters report to those higher up people. They’re viewed by Fidelity as Fidelity figure heads. It’s disrespectful to those who are actually good at their jobs.

My prediction is that a good chunk of scrum masters will definitely be laid off. Potentially, 1/3. I don’t have someone high in ranking “in the know” like many anonymous people on this website claim they have. I just have my experience in tech and my experience with how Fidelity mucks things up. I could be wrong. I hope I am wrong.

This is the rest of my prediction. A few months after the layoff, remaining scrum masters will be reorganized to manage more teams. Usually, they manage up to 2 teams. That’s just how it’s supposed to be in agile anywhere. But knowing Fidelity, they might try to extend that to 3 or 4. Upper management will realize that many don’t really have any real functionality outside of hanging out all day (not an agile fault, it’s a Fidelity fault), so they’ll pile more teams on the surviving agilists to manage. Job opportunities for agility is scarce, so the remaining scrum masters will stay at Fidelity. The good 1% (not even the good 5%) will leave for better opportunity elsewhere. The remaining will probably not have much hope outside of Fidelity. Unless they want to uproot their lives. Many have been in tech as software engineers in the past, but once you cross that bridge from software engineer to Scrum, you ain’t going back. Which is a shame since some are passionate about code.

I don’t know if I’d be happy to be proven right or wrong by this. If you’re gonna lay off the scrum masters, I mean… majority of them deserve it, many are lazy, have no motive other than themselves, and capitalize off Fidelity. Those scrum masters should be out, rather than other positions that don’t obviously offer no value. But then, you could lay off the good scrum masters that make people realize why they’re useful. And that would be sad. But then again, that’s Fidelity’s culture anyway. And Fidelity will still survive since the company is a historic cash cow.

I’m genuinely sorry to passionate scrum masters at Fidelity that you’re in this position. None of this was meant to disrespect YOU. You don’t deserve to be dealing with these other people who do not appreciate you. When I was researching becoming a scrum master for the wrong reasons, I talked with 10 scrum masters/agile coaches. There were only 2 that were actually passionate about agile. That’s just my personal experience, but you may see something different. As for the scrum masters that don’t add ANY value and are only jaded to get a paycheck, please just add some value. They probably won’t take my request seriously. They’ll sit around being like “hi team, look at this chart I made of your guys work, it has a squiggly line that shows how many stories you finish, so now I can make money, derp”.

Thank you for reading. I’d be happily proven wrong, and like to hear back from other people. Especially people who have seen how agile unfolded at Fidelity over the years, and (good) agilists at Fidelity themselves.

How gullible is everyone. AI is not yet close to replacing all the job layoffs that everyone is talking about. AI is being used as a great propaganda line for companies to get rid of workers and lean down their work force. We are in a recession and nobody wants to admit it.

Hearing a lot of rumors and basically no department is safe, no position is safe. November 20 is the date I’m seeing and hearing, But I am hearing more than anything that SMB is really on the chopping block. What do we think is going to happen to SMB and B2B? Restructure or just completely cut the channels out and have store reps and managers take care of business?

If you see some headline about Microsoft's CEO making claims about hirings, look away

https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/A_Lot_of_Fake_News_About_Microsoft_Headcount_Also_Microsoft_s_D.shtml

So, I've been holding on to my Shel shares waiting for them to announce the move to the US. I figure that's the last rabbit to pull out of the old hat, and then the show is over. Honestly, shares have been on a rise lately and its been a decade since they've been this high and there is no discernible reason for the price to be this high. I've sold some just in case this is the highest they get. But I am speculating that the price jumps when Shell moves to the US. I mean its not value, its not growth potential, its not the buy-backs, its not the leadership and their vision. We're all waiting and hoping for the announcement that makes the shares jump so we can sell. Shows over soon I hope.

It looks like the CSBBO closures are part of the bank’s location strategy, focusing on consolidating some sites while expanding others.

What stands out is that for the past three days they have been sending messages like this:

Overtime available today, November 2, 2025. Overtime is available for Everyday Banking English and Spanish Bankers for the rest of today and tomorrow. Please log in, and your leader will report your worked hours to Resource Planning for processing.

If sites are closing, why push overtime right now? It almost seems like they are trying to meet short term goals before more news comes out.

Has anyone else heard which sites are next?