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Question for those of you who were RIF'd and already rec'd your final paycheck

By 'final paycheck', I mean the check that comes a few weeks after your termination date and includes reimbursement for accrued unused vacation time (or, in the case of over 65s, all unused vacation days til the end of the year). Were any medical or 401k deductions taken out of the vacation pay?


More coming…

More rounds of RIFs are coming at FIS, because that’s leadership’s answer to everything. Don’t fix anything at the top, just keep eliminating positions while our stock tanks and employees live in constant fear of losing their jobs. When are the CEO, CFO and other senior leaders going to be held accountable for the absolutely abysmal state of the business?


Lots of shady actions posted recently - why are you putting up with it

Haven't been here for awhile and looking at the postings I am shocked that people are putting up with this mess.

Managers/Directors openly disrespecting staff, threatening them in front of witnesses, making up jobs/roles but not compensating them appropriately, scolding them for not asking about pronouns to members who likely are clueless or will loose their mind at the question, insane micromanagement. and people are just putting up with it.

My Goodness!!! Use your power and the power of the policies posted in Workday for this and start calling it out. Being afraid of being Rifed is turning people into doormats. Stand up for yourself!!!


Ominous Stock Buybacks

Canon global is artificially propping up the stock value with huge buybacks at the end of May and throughout June. They did the exact same in the 2 months right before the RIF bloodbath in early July 2024.

If CUSA leadership is planning another wave of consolidations—particularly targeting specialized or manual internal roles to make way for the automated, U.S.-based remanufacturing model, the post-July 4th window (specifically between July 6 and July 20, 2026) is the exact historical and operational sweet spot.

If you're trying to gauge the temperature in your department over the next few weeks, watch for mid-June invites to "organizational alignment" meetings, sudden, quiet audits of your division’s specific workflow volumes, or any mentions from direct managers of "proof of life" for your department to rationalize its value.


Layoffs still happening...

Well so much for the change in posture with new "leadershits" as folks are still randomly getting tagged and Rif'd. No news, no word, just the same old quiet layoffs to help bolster someone's 10 Mil stock target as a reality and not a bad dream. Exit while you can.


Bell Textron Amarillo Cuts Jobs

Bell Textron Inc. announced layoffs at its Amarillo facility. Approximately 30 employees were affected by this reduction in force. Company officials stated these actions align the business with market realities. They described the staffing decisions as difficult. These steps are necessary for the company's long-term success.

Amarillo, Texas

https://www.myhighplains.com/news/local-news/amarillos-bell-textron-inc-facility-reports-layoffs/amp/


Operation North Star

PFNA has been running an extended behind the scenes reduction in force for several months now. They call it North Star. They are using 2019 headcount numbers as their target for work force reductions. It has resulted in thousands of position reductions. This year they have severance packages if needed to get to targets. There are interim milestone targets they are working against. But the "ZBB" group is going around the country totaling up reduction targets for all sites that will be then be enforced. This is hourly and salaried. Targets for salaried focused on a salaried/hourly ratio of 13:1 or higher; cross checked with the 2019 headcount. It's a top- down, arbitrary number. SOOOO much has changed since 2019. To try and hit that number is ignorant and will result in substantial performance outages. You may as well have targeted 1971! the logic is just as valid. Classic Pepsico compression productivity. you don't need real strategic business plans, just place arbitrary, impossible targets on your field and gut your capability. Indra perfected this predatory leadership. Her protégés don't know how to do anything else. Pepsico has always believed in cooking the golden goose. How Ramon, Steven and others made deliberate business decisions that cost thousands their jobs yet they continue in position is a damning indictment of the board. Where's the accountability? I guess it's the fault of the frontline? Couldn't be the C-suite's responsible? nah, right?


Mid-year Request from AVP

How concerned would you be about RIF of your role, if your team received a request from your AVP for individual mid-year accomplishments to be sent to them in a doc, 2-3 weeks before the official Mid-Year Accomplishments submission portal is open?
To me, it signals more of a 'why should we keep you' than an official performance appraisal, but maybe I'm paranoid.


Synergies

In a response to a question during the investor call concerning the large number of job listings in the face of RIF's, the CFO says that the current efforts concerning identifying "synergies" should be done as soon as possible by the end of FY26. The remainder should be complete in FY27.


Useless Work

Many people post on here about where is all the work going to go with layoffs? None of this has been addressed since VSP 1.0.. We were wasting so much money of useless “projects”, meetings, reviews, slide decks, paralysis by analysis, that the thousands and thousands of people RIF’d have made no significant impact to progress. VZ is changing and those useless projects will all cease once the gutting is done. It’s unnecessary work and those doing to work will not be replaced. The end of VZ as we knew it is happening in front of us, daily. Su-ks, but that’s reality when you are up to your eyeballs in debt and only answer to analysts and shareholders.


Big layoffs on Wednesday this week

The 25% reduction in headcount from the BD acquisition is coming. Wednesday is going to be brutal. Expect across all functions, all segments, but especially ADx. R&D likely to be hit especially hard. Lawyer/HR was onsite in Sparks for a reason - upper leadership has been discussing the reorg all this past week at the Sparks location. Anyone with direct subordinates being let go were informed this past week as well. Waters is not BD - they are breezing through letting people go for cause as well as layoffs. If your leadership team does not like you, expect to be let go sooner rather than later. Happy holiday weekend, everyone!


My Career Story

Rumor has it that leadership and HR are pushing for people to have the Career Story section filled out in MyGPS.
Given very recent RIFs and restructured, this feels very unsettling. Anyone here experiencing this and/or have an insight to why this is?


Useless company to work for. FIS vs META

Meta management was so professional in reducing workforce.

Direct RIFs. No Cognizant kind of gimmicks.

Immediate termination. No KT required.

FIS management is playing games with employees.. some given severance, some transferred to Cognizant to be eventually riffed.


Realizing that a lot of management considered employees are so clueless self removerd

Besides people in positions considered management are very clueless.I mean this is contractor type ,engineering type,Actual managers.First all you need to see on here is employees who barely go to office or interact with anyone asking if there’s gonna be a strike still.Then you go in asking actually direct managers at all levels questions but they cannot answer anything.Then there is the group that won’t answer or make any decisions at all because they are either clueless or scared.My God company is such a disaster.Bad cell coverage losing customers left and right in all lines of business.I am glad I am at the end of it all ,I am also glad that I was never management as bad as the Union contracts may get over the years at least I can say as associates we have a clue starting to think the people in field are only ones floating the company anymore.Just rif all nonunion employees at this point let AI be my managers