#lifeisshort

I joined this company as a young blood years ago. Worked hard, built successful products aimed to grow and still doing the best I can. However I got busy with life, siloed to a Specific area where I am unable to land another job even after 3 years of search.

Now in my mid life, I am facing relocation to Dallas, which my mind is constantly rejecting. The move would be a very big change for our family with some positives and negatives of spousal job loss and transition for children. I am not sure if anybody faced this scenario but if you did, how did you convince yourself to move and restart life? I am feeling lost with no home settlement and don’t know what to do except to comply.

I am so tired of it all. No joy left in life.

30% TTC increase, fully remote. And a place thats investing in its workforce rather than gutting the talent.

Fvck that dysfunctional cesspool. Sorry for you all still stuck there. there are better options, just need to plan for much longer hiring cycle times.

I don't know if it's just me or my department. Morale is low and stress levels are maxed out. More and more duties added to an already busy day. Customers relentlessly wanting everything for free, rude, and entitled. Constant fear of being fired even if you make all of your metrics and bonus every quarter. I have worked for Wayfair for 5 years and have not one time have I ever not bonused. Trying to wrap my head around if you fall below one metric for one month you still get a ROD, but I digress.
My mental health wishes AI would just do the damn thing- or a morning layoff email.
Is the stress level climbing in all departments? I know frontline and MC has been getting beat up for months, sadly. How is everyone else holding up?

Do not contact me after hours because there is a fire drill and do not expect me to work even one minute past quitting time. I’ll also put in very minimal effort. That’s what you get when you don’t give raises and you don’t respect employees.

Just need to vent. My personal life has fallen apart and I’m dealing with diagnosed PTSD. I’m overwhelmed by the pressure I’m under at the office, especially being on a team responsible for responding to global emergencies. I can’t take time away from work. And it’s PDS season. Under so much pressure. Going to therapy. Doing everything I can to stay afloat. But I’m just crumbling and feel I can’t function in my managerial capacity. So much pressure.

Life is too short to be miserable at work. If you're not happy here, leave when you can. If you can't leave right now, accept that it might be rough for a while, but make a plan. Use the time to invest in yourself. Take some classes, build your skills. Make yourself valuable somewhere else. Then when the time comes, vote with your feet.

Ex Nike here. I was at campus to meet a friend and the energy and people faces show the stress of the mismanagement company.

So glad I quit last year. My friend encouraged me to share on here for others life is better after Nike.

Looking on LinkedIn there is loads of Broadcom / VMW jobs coming up. I left as a Senior Technical Support Engineer and I am thinking of applying to go back in.

Genuine question, how's life inside now? Would it be worth going back in

Been a victim of a layoff. Been a survivor of layoff. Please if you take anything out of this situation is understand that your life is important and work is simply exchange of time for money. Business say that are not a charity. Why would you donate extra time and sweat? What ever extra pittance they may or may not give in severance is always cents on the dollar of the extra effort. Business will lay you off regardless whether

• Sick/Dying -> so make sure to take sick days, paid time off and prioritize your own well being
• Maternity/Parental/Holiday -> so make sure you take your time off without any guilt - your little ones are little for only so long - enjoy that time and any time you are off
• Even if you worked after hours, weekends -> make sure you do work for time paid, professionally, nothing extra without immediate compensation
• To save money -> so fight for every raise and hype any little thing you to get compensation - not stupid stickers/certificates of appreciation - they don't pay for sh-t

Only worry about yourself. Your coworkers are your coworkers, nothing more. Very rarely you have friendships that last after your leave the company. No one on their death bed wishes they spent time

• Working more
• Got a bigger job title
• Praise/criticism related to job activities

Business is not charity. Treat it as such, don't donate any of yourself to it.

TS so stressful

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.

It's been three weeks since I walked out with zero notice and zero backup. People thought I was crazy. Maybe I am, who knows. But you know what? I sleep now. I don't wake up with that dread feeling. That place was destroying me and leaving with nothing was still better than staying one more day. I'll figure the rest out later.

I go above and beyond I’ve always gotten exceptional but not today. Today I got a 3 and 90 percent. I am in dis belief I’m hurt this really is hard constantly overlooked and underpaid.

Friday tomorrow, you know what that means. I show up at 5AM with my YETI Cup filled up 3/4 Jack Daniels, 1/4 coffee. Get me my hidden back corner desk and throw on Netflix to catch up on my shows. Around 7 I’ll head over to the bathroom to take a half hour dump before people start showing up. Then I walk around and check in with some of the friendlies, say hi, get my FaceTime in, and complain about the company. Now it’s 10 and I need a refill. Back out to the truck to refill my yeti with a Jack N Coke, then have a little parking lot siesta. It is Friday after all. At 11 I clear out my inbox and send a few emails out. Next thing you know it’s 1PM and I did my 8, so the work day is over. Time to head over to the club for 9 holes and a few beers with the boys before heading to my daughter’s basketball game. Man I love Fridays.

Sitting in your corner office you believe you've climbed the mountain but yet it don't feel like it .another mountain appears.bought the house bought the car provided for your family yet your miserable and sad is this it. 50 years gone and im still chasing the someday ill have earned my freedom and sit back.that someday never comes.what was it all for,money can't fix it ,achievement can't fix it. only you inside can fix yourself and wake up and just be a humanbeing nothing else matters.no fear of anything!

I can't deal with going to work in Dell tomorrow morning. So depressed.

I’ve been an employee for a long time. I honestly felt that I have been treated well and fairly throughout my career. I felt like management cared about me as a person. Having the flexibility and working in the office three days a week helped me to get a little more sleep as I wasn’t commuting every day. It helped me to balance doctors appointments for me and my family. I was able to take care of a chronically, ill family member. It made me happy to go above and beyond because I felt Pnc was going above and beyond with the work/life balance.

With the announcement today, I just can’t understand what is happening at PNC. With other employees around me being on calls all day long, I’m not sure what type of interaction they expect me to get. I can sit at my desk all day and not one person talks to me because they are on conference calls. I have nothing in common with any of them. We don’t do the same job. Not even close. The only thing that this is doing for me is costing me more money. Money that I don’t have. I don’t have the luxury of having paid parking downtown and although I appreciate the discount in the northside, it adds an additional 40 minutes onto my commute daily. (20 minutes each way, not to mention I’m getting up way earlier to come into the office to begin with.) I can’t afford to park downtown every day like some of the higher paid employees at the bank. I can’t afford to pay for someone to help a chronically ill family member. Through a program that is offered to us, It would cost me $125 a week. The chronically ill family member did not have an illness prior to Covid so I didn’t have to worry about this. Wtf 2 days a week helped me tend to their needs on my lunch time, and after work, but now I’m not able to do that as i’ll be downtown all day and will be getting home significantly later in the evening due to all the traffic for my commute home.

I’m honestly hurt by this decision and cannot believe we are not being given some flexibility for our families. We only have one life to live and we are just passing by on this earth. My family will always be my priority. Nothing will come before my family.

I wish we could all spend at least a little relaxed time with family, but anxiety seems to overshadow everything these days. I’m trying hard to switch off for a couple of days. Try to do the same, for the sake of your mental well-being.

Getting laid off from IBM ended up being a lot more freeing than I expected. At first it stung, but once the dust settled, I realized I’d been stuck in a place that was going nowhere. Constant reorganizations, shifting priorities, and leadership that never seemed to agree on a direction made every day feel unstable. It was exhausting trying to stay motivated when the ground kept moving under your feet.
Looking back, getting pushed out forced me to step back and see how unhealthy the situation really was. The stress, the uncertainty, and the endless talk with very little action had become normal, and that’s not a great place to be. I was able to focus on finding something more stable and rewarding, instead of clinging to a job that was slowly burning me out.

To all,

Enjoy the holidays, love the time with family and friends, feel th peace of today. The New Year will be - changes, what you want it to be , exciting new opportunities or cr-ppy same ole. Don’t put your energy on tomorrow, instead embrace today and your peace.

Treat yourself to something you truly enjoy, cherish time with family and friends, and do everything you can to forget about work for a day or two. It does wonders to not let this place monopolize your time and mind. It’s not worth it. We can’t control what’s coming next, and more often than not, things sort themselves out with a bit of luck and effort.

I make under $100,000 a year. The job is categorized at 40 hours. Yet, me and my coworkers often work close to 60 hours per week. When the company fired 250 employees, where did their workloads go ? To me and everyone else. Are the corporate executives making $700,000 feeling our pain in anyway ? When will receive additional support ? Never ? More gets lumped on each day w/no end in sight. The only option is to quit and that is exactly what i will be doing. Woe is me. Good riddance.

Y'all. Optum/UHG/UHC whatever you want to
call the entity is a giant joke. Utilize your benefits and get a new job lined up. Do not sacrifice a relationship with your spouse
or children or friends for some weirdos across the country or world behind a computer. I promise the grass is greener.

I’m sick to my stomach with this bullsh!t

I was making $135,000 as a Project Manager at Fiserv and will be starting my new job on Monday for a competitor making $150,000 to do THE SAME JOB! It's no secret that Fiserv sc--ws you with their below-market merit increases and bonuses but they also pay well below scale. It's VERY hard to find something at this time of year but I anticipate the job market will open back up by mid-January so start looking now.

I’m done. Why should I work like crazy for weeks after being told I’m out? I’ll be fair and do the bare minimum, which is already more courtesy than this company showed me. Laid off and they still think I should be invested in the outcomes? That’s actually laughable.

Getting laid off feels lousy. But on the upside, I don’t have to dread work tomorrow. Usually on Sunday evenings, I feel a spike of cortisol in anticipation of the coming work week. I’m checking my work calendar to see what meetings I have, making my task list, deciding if I need to commute into the office, etc.

Tomorrow I will sleep late and there’s no need to check the calendar. Like many of you, I have to pound the pavement and look for a new job. There’s work to do in updating my resume and searching the job boards, but I’m also going to make it a point to relax a bit and enjoy the down time. I hope you’re able to do the same.

As I realize that many people will struggle following the recent layoff round, I can honestly say getting that call was a godsend for me. Im no longer feeling the pressure of unrealistic goals and endless meetings. Fortunately for me, securing a sound financial plan over the past 24 years has made it possible for me to make the best of this RIF. God Bless all of those affected and hopes for a brighter future Post Verizon…

Remember this feeling of being Discarded, remember the betrayal that had NOTHING to do with your performance or metrics. Remember how easily they threw you to the trash can once it became expedient— remember it before you sacrifice yourself again climbing the corporate ladder and neglect your family, health and pursuing your own dreams for the sake of giving more to the Company. In the end they don’t give a DAMMMN about you, it’s all about the shareholders, Execs and appeasing Wall Street. The rest of us are easily discarded like used toilet paper once they have finished wiping their ŠŠŠ with you.

• it did not matter to them: - so many long hours - so many weekends lost for the family, because of deadlines or projects. So musmch stress, trying to give them my best, and in a day - it NO longer mattered. That is the most learning lesson: devotion to a job - it does not matter - we need to protect our priorities over all. In my case, 27.5 years here - and it did not matter to them. So for those who stay, control your wfforts and your hours, because to them, it wont matter.

I feel for everyone going through the RIF right now. I was there, high performer for the company, bled for the company, and there I was dismissed.

If they offer it, take the enhanced severance package. This package gives you 50% more but means you can never work at Verizon again. I asked where I could sign instantly when presented with the this option.

I found another job that pays me 25% more than when I worked at VZW, and I was a high performing leader. Honestly, VZW is a sinking ship. If you aren’t RIF’d this go round, start looking for something better. The grass is greener on the other side.

The sun will shine again, and brighter once you are out of the VZW shadow.

A lot of unstable employees out there.
The fear and anxiety has really affected people in such a negative way.
Keep an eye on your peers… be a friend!

I don’t care that the workload has gotten so heavy I can’t get it done. I’m no longer skipping a midday break and no longer working long hours. I’m done. Working through lunches and working 2-3 hours extra a night is not doing any dents in any of the work anyways. All it’s doing is stressing me out, making me bitter with my life and family. And at the end of the day, this just isn’t worth it. I will get another job if I get laid off. This isn’t the end. I just realized this tonight and I’m letting all this burden they placed on me go. I can only be responsible for what I’m capable of doing. And so are you. Nothing more. Work your 8 hours and leave for the day. Let it go.

Random, but is anyone else’s hair falling out? It feels like I’ve been living under constant stress ever since the relocation strategy was introduced with zero details.

I left SF about a month ago but stayed in the industry. I learned that SF was 10x more toxic than I thought… They underpay you, trap you in roles that make it harder to be competitive outside the company, and ruin your physical and mental health.
Senior leadership at SF has turned into a complete joke. I no longer feel embarrassed when asked where I work.
I hope you all actually take the leap and rebuild your lives by leaving that he-l hole.

I know this post will hurt some feelings but be practical. Think about your future and your dependents future and start looking out first a job before you and your team gets layed off.

I worked at Gartner for several years. These layoffs come to no surprise to me, especially as free AI websites become better and more robust. Gartner hires new sales people in waiting for others to quit, get fired, or leave for other roles(inside or outside the company). They literally hire you to sit on the "bench". I worked within the startup sales division, 1-50 Employees, Gartner can help them grow, that is no doubt, however, when I was there, startup funding was in the sh----r. I achieved quota my first year but after that, my territory got taken and the new territory I was given, 2/3 of it was in the Artic Circle... Working with startups, they have incredibly small budgets, we had to sell at the same price that our medium to large sales teams sold at, tell me how that makes sense... That being said, we were not allowed to sell 1 year contracts, unless management liked you. I provided 9 verbal and written commitments to my manager for 1 year contracts with significantly higher than base price asking and was denied. Base was 57,300, I was selling them in the 70s... guess their money isn't green enough(BTW avg deal size was 61k). Gartner really only sold on their name, they are just a consulting firm, nothing else. I knew that the small business division was dying. The first manager I had, was essentially worthless, their onboarding and training is also worthless, and many, many people will agree.
Even with the 9 written commitments, they tried to PIP me twice and I clearly beat it, until the 3rd time, they found out my wife was to have a baby in the middle of the 60 window, that they guarantee you have, and they fired me, obviously I was going to take my full paternity leave. I couldn't be better off at my company now.
The company is garbage, the consultants, while extremely educated aren't as hands on as they claim to be. Gartner says you have unlimited access to them... no you don't. They let you read research notes, thats pretty much it. Management is so out of touch with reality and what sales people are going through, they should be RIFFED.

Lay me off or don’t, I don’t give a damn. I’ve been stressing so much and finally realized I’m destroying my health and for what? A company that’s happy to betray not just us but everything we used to stand for. I’m done with that. Yeah, losing my job wouldn’t be great without something lined up, but you know what? Others have been through it over the past few years, and every single one of them ended up doing perfectly fine after a while. So I just don’t give a damn anymore. I do my job, nothing more, nothing less, and that’s it.