#layoffs

The stress and anxiety are getting worse, and the constant waiting is unbearable. I don’t know how anyone’s expected to focus or be productive with all of this going on.

Our team just lost one of its best to these layoffs. I honestly thought anyone else would have been let go before him. He-l, I thought I’d be gone before he was. None of this makes any sense. Why would any company choose to let go of some of its best people? Where’s the logic in that?

10/23 notification date

Many organizations impacted

Good luck to all .

They are looking at redundant groups. Watch Management!

Especially the useless top gear Dir/VPs being thrown out?

bad stock performance and poor earnings are driving the layoffs. 10-15% cut.

Any news on whether this will be a part of the 2025 Houston holiday line up? This tradition has been in place for 56 years, would the company dare to stop doing this due to current environmental? Or are they just waiting until after the layoffs to save some space at Jones Hall?

Asking for a friend

Is it going to be calm for the rest of the year?

Layoff today at Mobile Alabama UOP plant.

How do we confirm?

Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz said Wednesday morning that nearly a hundred support staff, faculty and academic staff and executive management were laid off as a result of university-wide budget cuts.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/10/22/michigan-state-msu-number-jobs-eliminated-university-cuts-president-guskiewicz/86833813007/

• Meta will lay off roughly 600 employees within its artificial intelligence unit, a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.
• The cuts come as Meta has poured billions of dollars into AI to keep pace with rivals like Google and OpenAI.
• Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, announced the layoffs in a memo to staff.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/meta-layoffs-ai.html

At the global town hall held on October 22, a very courageous employee rose to ask the first question. Stating that he "was not a VP yet," he proceeded to ask Bryan Hanson to explain the rationale behind adding additional layers to the ranks of senior executives while engaging in yet another round of Q4 layoffs.

By my recollection, counting our pre-spin days, we had layoffs in 2019, received US government pay during the pandemic to avoid layoffs in 2020, and then followed with layoffs in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Now in 2025, we are sacrificing more people upon the altar of growth, while making room for more executives to augment the ranks of our C-suite. That makes the question particularly timely —Hanson fashions himself as a leader, and historically, leaders who can both speak and demonstrate shared sacrifices tend to earn followers. Hanson says a lot of the right things, but his actions indicate otherwise.

His answer was supremely unsatisfying. He provided corporate doublespeak about how we will continuously evolve, and occasionally, that evolution will cause his leadership team to eliminate jobs. That answer is the standard boilerplate C-suite talk that those folks have been spewing for many decades now. But it did not answer the question. In fact, it did not come close.

As a leader who came in claiming he wanted to flatten the hierarchy, he has significantly thickened it. The tie that binds Hanson to his clique is that they all worked with Bryan in years past. Hanson justifies his decisions by explaining that he needs people who have experienced spin-offs before. This argument, however, begs the question. Are Medtronic and Covidian alums the only people who fit that bill? At what point does this become cronyism masquerading as a meritocracy? And given the huge severance packages (Barry, for whatever personal struggles he is facing, likely earned a two-year severance package when his good old buddy Bryan figured out how to eliminate his position instead of accepting his resignation. No bad for declining a job offer.)

Despite all his flash and polish, it is hard not to wonder if Hanson is simply a pirate, out to pillage as much as he can while throwing some bo--y to his inexhaustible supply of friends. It is hard not to conclude they are feeding off what will eventually become the carcass of 3M's health care business group. And no amount of slide editing at 11 pm can paper that over.

If you need a better job or are waiting to keep this one my advice as a manager is take advantage of all these perks they go on about giving to employees. Take all the d-mb linked in courses and have them on your profile, have the company help pay for certifications or college or CE courses and bulk up your resume and work your a-s off, by 2027 there’s going to be a major shift and US workers will be a skeleton crew unless the laws change: Employee relations are staring to hire overseas workers who can’t u destined English and HR is non existent. They will keep piling on more ludicrous procedures for QA across all departments and doc you over the most insignificant thing so when they do lay you off it’s because you’re performance was bad and you failed to maintain quality and productivity. Start looking for other jobs now. Re write your resume and good luck.

Flagstone Foods announced that it will downsize its El Paso facility and that will result in laying off of more than 200 employees, the company said Monday, Oct. 20.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/flagstone-foods-downsize-el-paso-230105152.html

I haven’t heard anything lately, and the Q3 report is fast approaching.

We’re all worried, and for good reasons. Everyone’s throwing around random numbers and dates, and it’s making things worse. Being snarky because someone’s anxious about their job isn’t helping anyone. Most of us are in the same boat - stressed about debt, bills, and the worrying lack of opportunities out there.

Yesterday afternoon, facilities put a large stack of moving boxes, tape, and markers outside of every floor at Anchorage ATO. 3 weeks before layoffs start lol.

Good thing class isn't a spirit value

There is some rumblings going on anyone have information

Those who avoid being laid off might be considered lucky, but think about it. These layoffs will be huge. Teams will be losing multiple people. Who'll be doing the work they used to do going forward, since it certainly not going to disappear? People are about to have their workloads double and their pay remain the same.

Following the purchase of HVAC business Johnson Controls this summer, the Bosch Group confirmed “a workforce reduction of around 200 jobs” in Wichita happened on Tuesday.

https://www.kwch.com/2025/10/22/bosch-group-confirms-200-wichita-layoffs-following-johnson-controls-purchase/

For the past five years at least it's been one bad thing after another. Why can't something good happen, for once? Why is it always layoffs and lost benefits and other similar cr-p? I really, really hate this place.

I'm thinking if it was happening today, we'd have heard something about it by now, right?

History doesn't repeat, but it does have echoes: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/10/target-layoffs

Good luck to all who wish to keep their jobs (and to those who hope to get laid off to get some paid time to search for something else).

HP/Poly is undergoing a significant restructuring, resulting in extensive layoffs that notably affect senior and higher-compensated roles. This strategic shift carries a substantial risk of eroding trust with key customers, partners, and channel stakeholders, potentially impacting Poly's market position and service delivery.

Let’s continue to pay for extra directors, extra seniors to work from home.

Then let’s talk about layoffs for the people who actually run the company.

Does anyone know if we are done with the current round of layoffs or should we expect more notifications coming in the following days? When we will know if we are safe or not until the next round?

Obviously if you got this "error" email, you are on the layoff list.
If you got the email before 8am CST then get your resume polished. If you got it after, then you are probably ok. They sent some extra ones out to throw us off the scent. HR is putting all their braincells together to cover this up.
It went to your personal email.

I’m greatly disappointment in this company for sending an email encouraging employees to sign up for their annual benefits knowing most won’t be here in 2026. It feels incredibly insensitive and tone deaf. I understand that this is business, but we are also human and that should come with some sort of empathy.

did layoffs happen in Oct?! In September I had so many people I knew get laid off but last week when I thought we were going to have layoffs, I heard nothing!

The Comcast bloodbath has begun; knowledgeable and tenured employees are being slashed with no plan to capture or transition their knowledge. Many jobs are being cut, then re-posted with lower salaries and greater demands, or being moved to offshore sites. Severance packages are demonstrably stingier than in the past. Thanks to the "Big Beautiful Bill", Comcast has a windfall in tax breaks. Kudos to all the fools who still believe in "trickle down" economics. I wonder who Comcast. Amazon, Meta, etc. will sell to when the American working class is eliminated entirely?

Trying to ease the anxiety over here - good to know what's down the road for us. No way Deerfield can handle the OPO overflow. Parking lot is full most days. Earlier someone posted expected layoffs of 400 in January. Does anyone have any updates on this. Still January, or sooner/later? And first week of January, or later in the month? What's the pattern with previous layoff timing?

If you think we are a telecom company, think again.
BlackRock owns ~75% of T, VZ, and TMUS.
How is it possible Stankey is still CEO after the historic TMUS, DTV, and TWD blunders?
Because Stankey doesn’t work for T, he works for BlackRock (“the board”).
When Stankey fu---d the TMUS acquisition, T was looking to acquire them for ~40B.
Today, they are worth ~260B, you read that right.
From 2011 to 2025, TMUS shares gained 650% while T gained 20% in the same period.
Do you think still think Stankey works for T?
2025, AI is the hot thing. We are still not a telecom company, but an employment company.
T is MSFT’s bi--h, and what does MSFT want more than anything? T to embrace their massive OpenAI investment as MSFT’s customer.
As we know T execs don’t innovate if it was the last thing they do, so why would we do this?
The execs know that we have too many employees, and that they can backfill any “AI cost savings” by simply firing employees at any time because they know we have too many.

We’re not a telecom company, we’re a firing company.
We are a legacy asset like much of the F100 that only can be more profitable via layoffs, growth at T is dead and Stankey ki-led it

Coworkers open to work, saying they are let go. Was there another round of layoffs?

They tell lies to us through official channels. Remove Corwin and Donley.

I’ve been hearing a mixture of things in the forums around who gets laid off. This is what I’ve gathered:

Outside consultants, Accenture, came in to decide which parts of the business we are reducing head count in.

For legal reasons, Target can’t use some sort of metric to determine who in each part of the business specifically will get cut.

High performers aren’t safe either, but I also heard a contradictory claim that past performance reviews will be used to decide who gets laid off.

Direct managers won’t be involved in deciding which of their direct reports are laid off, since those decisions are being made at a much higher level.

They will target high paying jobs L6 and above, but at the same time they can’t seem as if they are doing age discrimination.

Tech seems to be “safe” because of attrition.

Merch org will get hit hard due to ?. No one really said why.

Anyone hear anything I haven’t mentioned?

Will there be more cuts?