#layoffs

I have been looking for a way out and VZ finally gave it to me. I spent a little over 10 years here, thinking that I could be successful. That was a delusion.
While I am not happy that it was on their terms and not mine, I do have a positive spin. My daughter told me I am going to be a grandpa.
I have some hobbies that I can now pursue as employment, as I am pretty handy and did construction before this. Not that I want to do the backbreaking stuff again but I will do what I need to.
To all those I worked with that are still with VZ, and to those that have left for good or nefarious reasons, just know we can all do better than what the VZ culture has become.
Today is Mother's Day. I will spend time with my family.
Tomorrow I will start the process to get my contractor license and everything else needed to be a handyman. Then I will start promoting myself. 50 is not bad to start over.

Too much fat around that desperately needs to be cut. Sadly, I doubt they'll ever be asked to leave. Most of them are too good at a-s-kissing to worry about their jobs. But a guy can dream, right?

It doesn’t matter to who are already let go, but it matters a lot to who are there absorbing heavy workload and on call’s. Leadership can take some more stupid decision on AI data center expansion and betting on OpenAI. As you all know OCI is outdated and old fashioned cloud it can never win cloud race.
Oracle will again do layoffs for employees who has RSU vesting in upcoming quarter. Please create public pressure and sign petition and change RSU vesting to quarterly.

This is how I am understanding it:

• much larger teams with fewer leaders
• mgrs w/ more direct reports
• Scrum master, Agile coach, program, project, and squad-lead roles being reduced
• More expectation that engineers and ICs manage execution themselves
• Fewer meetings & ceremonies (well, @ least in theory)
• More pressure on us remaining, we'll need to deliver w/ less support
• Reorgs is masked with fake terms like "efficiency," "simplification," "flattening," or "new op model"
• the layoff goes beyond cost cutting (they are trying to change how work gets done)
  Am I missing anything or something here?

over crowded tech job seeker market -large scale let go of seniors in India (40+age) started(forced to resign) - target 20000 heads. Many techies abandoning tech career path altogether to start something more predictable and worth learning

Meta will notify employees who are being laid off on May 20, 2026.

Whoever said it was the 15th is full of cornfeed lol. The 18th is when it's supposed to go down hard, "apparently."

CSG is gonna be hit fairly hard but sales is supposedly on the chopping block

It seems that multi year restructuring is done,there still may be some layoff here and there but not like huge

Layoff AI secret agent has detected a collaboration visit at Intel Oregon fab between King of layoff Muxsh and King of stocks LBT to plan out more layoffs by replacing your jobs with robots to bump up the stocks again. Get ready to block him enter all the toilets before your jobs are gone.

You hear it first here !

You can run, you can hide, but you cannot escape ... AI will first eat Software Engineer or QA Engineer roles.

Next year RIF target will be Software Engineers especially order taking coders without business domain expertise. Grade 3,4,5 would be let go after Git-hub Copilot Adoption.

@bc There is a docu-sign package with multiple pdfs where associate who is impacted have to sign. This is an agreement terms and conditions to get the severance pay and benefits. Like I will keep things confidential, I won't go to media, court etc etc.

Unless associate electronically sign the agreement they wont get severance benefits ( like 6 months of pay, 401k vesting, prorated bonus etc. )

This docu-sign pdfs has one file which they have to give list of people ( not names or a#, but title, role, level etc. ) who were part of RIF and their ages. It is a legal document to comply with the law that firm did not do layoff of people due to their age, this is becase of equal opportunity employer law. That list is the only real place you can find number of associates impacted.

Be warned

Someone told me that Cognizant did not hire him as his salary was too high.
FIS wanted to transfer him. So ultimately he got riffed.

Is there a top limit cognizant is hiring FIS employees?

In Aug 2025 it was told by leadership that due to performance we did layoffs.

They talk big and contribute nothing.
Dressed sharp, empty inside, opportunistic and self centered.
I'd bet big money that nobody would notice if we were to cut that layer in half.

Meraki is going to be hit bad in May?

More than 200 additional layoffs were announced in Massachusetts. These cuts affect Dover Saddlery, Christianbook, and Cardinal Health. Dover Saddlery will eliminate 112 jobs in Littleton. Christianbook plans 50 job cuts in Peabody. Cardinal Health intends to make 58 cuts in Tewksbury.

Massachusetts

https://patch.com/massachusetts/across-ma/another-200-plus-jobs-will-go-away-soon-ma

Layoffs in Corporate Information Technology Visa executives should be ashamed of how they handled these layoffs. Just weeks after celebrating record earnings and profits, they sat behind scripted talking points and treated people like disposable line items in a revolving door operation. While bringing in the largest intern groups in the matter of a week. There was no humanity, no accountability, and no meaningful acknowledgment of the impact on employees and families.

What’s even more concerning is the false narrative being pushed that AI will somehow absorb the workload of the people they eliminated. That simply is not reality. Visa has not implemented mature, effective AI capabilities capable of replacing the operational knowledge, leadership, and technical expertise that walked out the door. The result will be the same pattern seen in many corporations: fewer people doing double the work while executives protect margins and shareholders applaud temporary cost cuts.

What makes this even worse is the culture that remains behind. Fear-based leadership, outdated management practices, and forced “NS/NS” (Needs Strengthening) labels used to create paper trails and justify targeted exits. It’s an old-school corporate playbook disguised as performance management. Simply put…Bad Bosses.

The remaining employees will now carry significantly heavier workloads while operating under executives driven by ego, hierarchy, and optics rather than modern leadership principles. Instead of building psychologically safe, high-performing teams, the environment rewards politics, pressure, and survival mode.

Companies talk endlessly about innovation, AI Transformation, Psychological Saftey yet many leaders still manage people like it’s 1998.

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Greenfield Community College faces a significant budget deficit of $2.86 million. Unions attribute this gap to high administrative costs and mismanagement. They predict more than a dozen support staff jobs will be cut this summer. College President Michelle Schutt disputes the idea of a top-heavy payroll. Despite recent enrollment increases, the college still plans salary and benefit cuts.

Greenfield, Massachusetts

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mass-community-college-enrollment-rebounding-174917184.html

The way this round went down, I'm guessing we're looking at rolling layoffs. Small batches, all the time. And all the usual attrition tactics on top. All to make sure we never get a moment's peace.

Lansing School District recently cut 50 staff positions. This action follows the end of federal pandemic relief money. Superintendent Jessica Benavides confirmed the cuts. Federal pandemic funding has now ended. Many Michigan K-12 schools face similar budget shortfalls.

Lansing, Michigan

https://www.wilx.com/2026/05/08/tight-budgets-force-lansing-school-district-layoffs-federal-relief-money-runs-dry-across-michigan/

Any info about possible dates or any other useful information?

If we do not accept pip?

Is it less than the layoffs from February?

Meta got sued for age discrimination. See https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/called-them-dinosaurs-lawsuits-began-ai-bias-hiring-more-vanderburg-wff9c.

The data cited in the lawsuit is stark:

Employees over 40 were 1.5x more likely to be laid off than employees under 40.
Employees over 50 were 2.5x more likely to be terminated than their younger colleagues.

The workforce reductions last December appeared to disproportionately affect employees with older ages. Is there any public data support my observation?

Considering that the sales year is ending in June?

At Chevron for employees its a race to the bottom with MW and his terrible team running this S Show. What is the next soul crushing move for this leadership team? Will we take turns cleaning the bathroom? Work a mandatory 6 days a week? No AC in the office? Bring your own TP in? Anyone have any idea as its been a couple months since they made things worse!

The stock fell 44% in a year. 33% in the last 6 months. This company is going down or getting sold in the near future.

Been nixed here.
They are so much into push push push never fast enough do more do more have less time to breathe. It’s awful lately
I had great expectations for this career and each year gets more grueling and demoralizing.
Add the RTO FT and even the layoffs small in number are devastating. I don’t think I can keep up this pace.

Are we next?

Heard there were a lot of layoffs in Tulsa. Anyone know which teams?

Layoffs happening soon. Affecting the Care Management team.

I can survive wave after wave of layoffs, RTOs, and offshoring to India as long as they let me rip darts on the front steps again

EM trading must su-k to lose this much money when all others are creaming. TGs leadership of Trading is equally bad to her leadership of HR where she systematically f’d the company for the long term. BP, Shell and the trading houses are all claiming industry high earnings and we lost a boat load of cash. Amazing. TG and DWW should be NSId out of the business and not golden parachuted

LinkedIn is on fire for employees leaving EM. It’s not the 5year employees but the ‘after 20years I’ve decided to make the move’ employees. People who are vested in the betterment of EM but have had enough of the constant beatings, low morale and drive to the bottom. Imperial have had more than 300 people resign / leave and now are operating at minimum safe staffing, Australia is on its a@se, people are leaving us here at campus and not being replaced. Until the headline hits the bottom line, EM won’t care but safety will be impacted.

Software engineer laid off some years ago from the firm. I know what it’s like to be laid off, and have interest in offering help to people in my field. I would like to volunteer my contact info for anyone impacted. For obvious reasons, I feel uncomfortable putting my contact info on this forum. Is there a way I can reach out to Fidelity HR to let them know I would be willing to be contacted by software engineers recently impacted by the layoff, so they can send my contact to people impacted?

Thank you.

The layoffs are always happening. The changes never stop. The goals are made up. Nothing makes sense. I've never seen a place so consistently designed to make people miserable. I think they want us to quit.

Around 350 workers lost their jobs at Ticketmaster on Wednesday in a restructuring that swept through engineering, product, and design teams spanning 25 countries — a reduction representing 8% of the company's total global headcount. Contractors were also let go as part of the effort.

https://qz.com/ticketmaster-layoffs-350-jobs-engineering-design-050726

What needs to happen to prevent layoffs if good results won't do it? Do they really think AI will be able to replace human knowhow and experience? Why don't we get rid of the CEO and other leadership and replace them with AI? That would certainly save a lot of money.

Lately almost every conversation turns into someone talking about applying elsewhere, and a lot of them are willing to make less money if it means escaping this place. That says more about what working here has become than any employee survey ever could.