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I’ve heard about a pumpkin spice edition F-150 being released. My wife would love one. When does the ordering period open, and will it be available in an electric version?

If I were on a team that truly needed face to face collaboration, real whiteboarding, real in person meetings, then fine. That’s not the reality for most teams here.

Even if everyone were in the same building, the tech work has been largely offshored and US developers were laid off years ago. There are no face to face meetings to be had. You’re still on Teams calls all day, just now from a noisy office instead of a quiet home.

It makes no sense. It’s expensive. It’s bad for the environment. It destroys work life balance. It worsens traffic. It exhausts people. And for what?

Where are the metrics showing any positive impact on the bottom line? Where is the productivity data? Where is the retention improvement? No one can produce any of it. Because it doesn’t exist or shows the contrary to what they want you to believe.

If anything, this policy is costing the company money while actively making employees’ lives worse and driving new hires out. That’s not leadership. That’s stubbornness disguised as strategy.

Anyone think landmark will make it to March? Or will the market close before the blue cross contract is set end?

Will Store Managers find out if their location is closing on Jan 8th? Or sooner?

Did anyone else receive a termination notice from Kaiser Permanente (as of 1/4/2026)? I should have benes through Oct 2026!

Anyone have details on WFH positions being eliminated via a RTO policy coming down from on high?

Donation paid off?

There was a big meeting aboud new practice for delivery combining all SM, SL , RTE and STE across BNy in to one practice...have anyone heard latest on it.

So here we are, the third year of the Kobayashi Regime is about to begin. The faux post-COVID “growth” has all but withered up and, if the trend continues, a nose dive should be expected in 2026.

In late 2022, Ogawa proclaimed that the company MUST return to 2019 levels in 2023. That certainly did not happen. Sammy was then installed to be the disruptor, mover & shaker. Hundreds of employees were forced to retire or were laid off in mid-2024. This move has greatly backfired, leading to terrible morale and disgruntled employees nationwide. 2025 was supposed to be the rise of the great “One Canon” strategy. Things are more disjointed now than before the restructuring and merger of CSA & CUSA.

So what will 2026 bring? 2024 = layoffs. 2025 = restructuring. Sammy is down to his last strike in the bottom of the 9th, and he’s no Shohei Ohtani, so expect a huge swing and a miss in 2026.

Layoff season is upon us - larger layoff season anyways - so who do we have bets on this round? ISG/CSG again? IT? Tech Support? Sales?

Realistically it's never "all" departments unless you count 1 or maybe 2 people...

Started working here during the pandemic. I remember the huge layoff back in 2024. Not really familiar with how Fidelity does layoffs.

That being said, there’s (a lot of) talk about certain positions getting laid off. There’s been a few layoffs, but not to the extent of 2024. With all the talk going on, why hasn’t there been a cataclysmic layoff yet, like this website seems to predict?

Take what I say with a grain of salt, but I just expected Abby to execute a bloodbath again this year. Everyone seems to have a hunch that another big one is coming, which has a bunch of people on edge. How are people gonna perform well when they’re on edge? Why doesn’t Abby just do the layoff already to let people know where things lie, and then have the safe ones be able to work?

I’m not sure how many people quit this past year because of the increase in remote work, or their position getting moved to another office. Still, what needs to fall into place before yet another huge layoff occurs?

I know this is a sensitive topic, so whoever reads this, please just take care of yourself.

For those recently displaced, how long did it take for you to be eligible to rollover your 401K from empower after your end date? As i understand it in your empower profile you have to be switched from "active" in terms of WF employment?

What does that mean? What can I expect? New to Citi and workday

Can we still use a 1/2 day PTO to count as an 8 hour day in the office? Or do we have to go in for 4 hours? I am not complaining, asking a genuine question since my direct doesn’t know the answer.

If so, how??

Has anyone heard anything about finally moving back to hybrid? Surely they've made enough people quit by now...

Newsweek posted this
https://www.newsweek.com/list-companies-layoffs-employees-january-11293493

As a nosey laid-off PRS, I want to know how the “new” PRS group is doing. Anyone from the field or ROC, feel free to chime in. I know the quality has to be atrocious, unless they REALLY reeled it in. How are the panelists responding to not having “their normal” PRS to speak with anymore, or do they not even notice the complete change?

With the target being so high did anyone make a decent check?

For anyone who’s been let go, did your final paycheck and accrued PTO come in as one deposit or two separate ones? Just trying to get an idea for planning.

Thanks in advance.

Hi I’m currently at a company with higher pay but toxic manager. Thinking to return back to company with same title and pay when I left. Is it worth the switch?

• Last year they flattened the mid management and forced most managers into a PM role, which made all of us be under some random new manager.

• They implemented a 5 day RTO policy and are treating us like children by monitoring badge swipes

• They started their super SUPER "secret" NDA project - or was that in 2024, i dont remember now... - either way, it aint gonna be ready in May LMFAO

So what do we think their plans are this year?

If I have to guess,

• the RTO will be scaled back to 3 days/week and/or not being monitored anymore (I genuinely do believe this too)
• The NDA project won't go "live" when JC wants it to (May) and will be pushed back again and he throws a fit... Maybe even gets fired for it! - hopeful thinking.
• Promotions will be MIA again
• A lot of Directors will quit because who tf wants to manage 20+ people?
• They start laying off the FULL remote employees who aren't near an office and refuse to move near one.

Any other guesses?

IS it true? https://patch.com/maryland/across-md/multiple-md-retailers-planning-2026-closures-see-list They say the Towson store is for 2026 closing.... ??? Is it true? Hope not

Can anyone confirm when?

It is no longer a question of if, it is a question of when.

Shorting OTEX will be profitable if timing is correct.

So, when will OTEX die?

According to Yahoo finance, no "analysts" have rated sell.

Does anyone know when we will get our severance?

Number of people dying from bad management decisions. Both companies have deaths associated with managers ignoring senior technical personnel and violating company and industry safety standards. VP of drilling never drilled a well. VP of completions never completed a well. What could possibly go wrong with this logic? Hire more VPs and fire more engineers. Bankrupt the company using the CEO's playbook that has been finely tuned to make executive management rich. Life is karma. You can't keep this up forever.

I know this may not be the ideal place to ask, but I haven’t been able to find much information on Sparq or through my communications with HR, and was hoping this group might be able to share any relevant experience.

I’ve been with Optum Health for several years as a U.S.-based remote employee. Recently, I’ve been exploring the possibility of relocating to Canada. I’m a Canadian citizen, and through my own research I’ve seen that Optum has a few business segments in Canada, with many employees working remotely.

I’m wondering whether anyone has experience with, or insight into, transferring from a U.S. role to the Canadian entity while continuing to support the same U.S. team. I recognize this is a fairly niche scenario, but I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through something similar or knows how this has been handled in the past.

Thanks in advance!

Will they wait for May-June when the first carve out is announced?

I was unfortunately forced out of the company before the current CEO took over. I no longer follow Boeing so don’t even know the CEO guys name. I feel that it was a blessing in disguise that I was forced out. The toxicology of the group I worked in was a 5 out of 5. There was so much backstabbing or blaming people behind their backs I was surprised that any work actually got done in this group. This was under Dave Calhoun regime.

I was also shocked, not really though to lean a person would be smart to join the Federal Witness Protection Program beforehand if they decide to become a Whistleblower at Boeing.
I’m glad to be out of the Boeing Mental Institution. Life’s been great since.

I honestly wonder why there hasn’t been any serious effort to organize tech employees in the U.S. to push back against offshoring. Comcast has already offshored more than 5,000 tech jobs to Chennai, India, and there hasn’t been a single negative article in the mainstream media about it (NBC probably makes sure of that). I also haven’t heard of any union even attempting to organize tech workers here. Shouldn’t we be coming together and saying: enough is enough?

This company makes its money in the United States. Its customers are in the United States. Its revenue comes from the United States. Yet more and more of the technology is being built in India, and more of the business is being operated from offshore. Why?

I understand that the company isn’t performing at the top of the market and is trying to cut costs. But let’s be real. The company is still making something like $30B in profit. Offshoring doesn’t save nearly as much as leadership claims, and we can do a better job onshore. On top of that, it’s simply immoral to lay off U.S. employees only to hire thousands of people overseas.

I have nothing against India. This isn’t about that. This is a U.S. company, serving U.S. customers, operating almost entirely in the U.S. Yes, there’s Sky and NBC with real operations in Europe, so it makes sense that some work is done there. But there is no comparable business presence in India, and no justification for having 5,000–6,000 tech employees there—on top of significant customer service offshoring to India and the Philippines.

I don’t know much about unions, but call me and I’ll sign up immediately. Why isn’t anyone trying to organize at Comcast? We have to stop this madness.

Hey. Does FirstEnergy still do or have they done any free ticket deals for the Monsters or Charge that were posted on the portal? If so. If it's coming up, can I have the code? :o)

Heard a rumor retirement packages may be offered next quarter along with a possible rift targeting MS in dmos5. Anyone heard anything?

Are you able to work during severance?... And bonus question can you receive severance and state unemployment at the same time ?

I know it can be a stressful time with all the changes happening with Medicare and Medicaid at the end of the month. I've been hearing some concerns about potential reorganizations, and I understand how unsettling that can be. If anyone has any insights on which areas might be affected and when, it would be really helpful to share that information. We're all in this together, and any guidance would be appreciated.

What’s everyone’s best guess on what will happen with the company in the coming year? Good, bad or ugly

Kind of a relief actually. In RMC for those curious. My last day is 1/30…does that mean I will get a normal paycheck on 2/6?

Seems that there's a lot of happy engineers here, are y'all actually happy? Or is there a troll here

Is it better to stay working at Nike during these challenging times or would it be better to consider a Career change?
What other careers could Nike associates with our experience enter?

As for me, I'm on the fence because I can't stand living in Oregon. I'd like to move but have no idea yet what other careers to research.