#stress

We can assume some of the layoff rumors are true. But it would be a huge relief just to know the timeline. Stressing constantly, expecting every week to be the week, is too much. If the job market were better right now, fewer of us would be worried out of our minds. But as things stand, losing this job could quickly become a personal catastrophe.

Can we stop these micro layoffs and just do a big one and call it a day? The anxiety of the impending due does not help morale.

I’ve learned the hard way over my career that stressing over a job takes a devastating toll on your health and well-being. We also know performance has little to no impact on who gets laid off. Believing you can curry favor by working yourself raw, only to feel guilty later for not doing enough, helps no one. Do the bare minimum professionally, but don’t go the extra mile. Always be on the lookout for other opportunities. Don’t take anything personally, and stop stressing about office politics or the next potential layoff. Be good to yourself.

About this time on Sundays is when I start dreading going to work at dell. This will be my last year at dell one way or the other

Curious about how many associates have their home loans with the bank Walmart owns and how that's going? So when you get laid off and cannot pay your home loan what do you tell your bank who is also another branch of the company you work for.

They're trying to stress us into resigning. My strategy is quiet quitting. I'll do just enough not to get fired outright. If they want me out, they'll have to pay for the privilege.

Now I can't even properly relax on a Saturday due to Monday-related anxiety. What they're doing is destroying us, and they couldn't care less.

I ignored the signs for too long and now my health is paying the price. I wish I had listened to my gut and started job hunting the moment I felt the constant pressure. This job isn't worth your wellbeing.

Nothing has changed. Every year, at the same time, the horrid feeling of what’s to come. Here’s my 2 cents:
It’s only getting worse in tech.
Corporate doesn’t care about you.
HR doesn’t care about you.
Yes, HR is ‘secretly’ invited to the meetings - they want to make sure you show up and you may not if you know it’s a goodbye call.
Again,
Corporate doesn’t care about you.
HR doesn’t care about you.
Get out if you can and stop the stress.
I left before they had their way with me, and it was the best thing I ever did. I thought about waiting for severance, but then they would’ve really won wouldn’t they have?
Find a better way. It’s not worth it.
You are better than them. They might not care about you, but you have others who do.

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Of this job, where I have to make decisions I don't agree with every day, each one taking a small piece of my soul. Of my manager, who seems to care more about pitting us against each other than the substance of the work, thinking it’ll somehow earn them a prize. Of some teammates, who always take the bait. And of the constant fear of losing this job - a job that makes me feel like a worse person than I am.

Starting the year with a big round of layoffs doesn't exactly inspire confidence. It makes you wonder if they've got this planned as a recurring event. The thought of going through this stress every few months is really depressing.

So far no cuts this year. Is it safe to think our jobs are okay for this quarter? I want to stop stressing and make some plans, but I don't want to get blindsided.

Between problematic bosses and the constant fear of job cuts, coming to work has become a source of genuine dread for me. I've noticed that rumors change daily, and it doesn't help there's no clear communication to settle anyone's nerves. My team is paralyzed, we're all afraid to make a wrong move. The stress is now affecting my sleep and my ability to concentrate on anything else. I'm rapidly approaching my limit for coping with this sustained uncertainty.

Holy he'll how has this place kept together? No one knows anything, no direction, no purpose, all leaders are clueless and at the same time thinking they will do the same as last year. Silos out the a**. It has only been a week and I am looking for the exit. This is going to be a 5 year minimum turnaround and it will be a bloodbath and stress factory for anyone who stays. God bless you verizon folks, it can be so much better elsewhere.

Anyone else's manager losing their mind and creating insane and unclear and unreasonable expectations they cant even explain? Its like there is absolute no accountability for these middle managers running amuck reeking havok and creating chaos.

My manager pulled me into a last minute meeting with zero context and kept a straight face the whole time. It turned out to be small talk, but my nerves were shot for hours after. Do they not realize how on edge all of us are?

I used to be the calm one, and this job’s slowly beaten that out of me. The pressure never lets up, and it shows in how short I’ve become and how checked out I feel. I hate that work’s turning me into someone I don’t recognize, but there's not much I can do about it.

The non-stop layoff drama has led to my complete emotional detachment. I don't want to lose my job, but I also can't bring myself to feel the stress I used to. It's not normal, but it's a strange kind of relief.

Currently in the process of getting managed out. I was told that there are 150 people that have all been put on performance plans. Meet a certain % of plan by end of Q or be put on an official. I would take any package if offered. Every day is like an episode of a reality show. Some made up loss that needs to be made up for. High stress, no money.

If I'm spending my weekend stressed about Monday, this job isn't worth it. I'm getting my resume ready and leaving as soon as I find the right opportunity.

Just wondering if I'm the only one who started therapy recently because of this job. Almost all of my stress is from work. I was even thinking about medication because of it.

There’s no way to maintain mental health when layoffs happen back to back with no breathing room. We can’t relax or focus on our work because we know it’s never over, and more cuts are always coming in a few weeks. This is mental torture, plain and simple.

Got a smart watch and I am logging my manager induced stress
That will sit nice in front of the judge at the end, next to my records showing pressure and various tactics meant to side track me.
I am just waiting for them to make the move

Zuckerberg paid 1 hire $1.5 BILLION.

Then laid off 600 long-term employees.

The hire? Andrew Tulloch from Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research monster.

This just reinforces the obvious:
Companies do what’s best for them.

Here's what I noticed when working at Nokia Networks:

You’re a cell in a spreadsheet with a dollar value attached.

They highlight your row, hit delete, and you’re gone.
A state of constant stress and instabilility.

The worst part?
The leadership team enjoyed it:

During headcount meetings I heard a VP utter:
"cool they'll work harder with the news"

So do what’s best for you.
Build something you own.

It went from being a top place to work to feeling like they're actively trying to stress us out. The change over the last few years has been unbelievable.

I keep waiting for the constant stress here to ease up, but it never does. How did we all accept that a job should make us feel this unwell? It feels like a standard part of the workday now and it's not right.

I wish it was already Friday and this was over. Even if I'm on the list. I don't think I'll be able to get any sleep tonight.

I dont know what is wrong with me. I feel like I will go crazy because of anxiety. I dont have family and I can only rely on myself. I am so worried I wont be able to find another job. And staying home all day is driving me crazy. I dont know what to do. I apply everyday but no interview so far.

So they basically got rid of a support layer because tmobile is fu--ing stupid. We didnt have enough support to begin with and the support we did have was also fu--ing stupid cause they dont read half the sh-t you put in the chat. Now we have the same exact protocol for help with less of it. Customers are about to suffer. I will say Team Managers didnt do much sh-t and didnt pull much weight. Now they are the actual coaches. They got rid of the coach position. So now we have one manager everyone reports to and an assistant manager to each team that is there to help and support. We use to have two support individuals for night shift for example. Now it will be one. Help will take longer to get and our call rate time will sky rocket and the whole time we will get yelled at to keep it down. Typical Toxic tmobile fu-kery. Managers already refuse to follow policy if it gets them put on a list. No one wants to be on a list they have to answer to, so customers rarely get helped anymore. Tmobile only cares about metrics. The next time you see the white T with a pink background on the coaches headset at the super bowl game, remember they laid off thousands of employees to pay for that and made it take longer for you to get help when you call with extra stress on the experts you speak with.

I'm in one of those bad stretches in life when problems just pile up - family issues, aging parents, health stuff. Everything's breaking down all at once, and the bills keep piling up. I'd probably handle the job uncertainty better if everything else wasn't falling apart. As it is, I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop and make it complete.

how long will Medicaid D snip member services still be on shore? Does anybody know? Is it safer for me to jump over to the provider service aside the constant bloom of when the firing is gonna come it’s just stressing me out to the end. Is there a position that’s not for me transferred on unsure to another country

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

I've whipped myself into a frenzy anticipating layoffs next week. You'd think that by now we'd all be numb to this and learn to deal with it better. But every time the threat looms, which has become an increasingly frequent occurrence, I seem to have a harder time with it. This past week, I barely managed to focus on anything, or switch off for a moment once I'm back home. How do you cope?

I expect it to be worse than what we've already been through. Being under this much stress for so long doesn't help with what's coming. I truly hope that whatever happens, things work out in the end for each and every one of us. And don't forget that being laid off or kept on has nothing to do with your worth, potential, or hard work.

I was just checking out the Layoff board for UHC, and their last comment was like a month ago! Are Optum employees the only ones living with this whirlwind of layoffs? If so, I'll jump off of this nightmare cruise and head over there! Waiting to be laid off is so stressful...

Many of us would just like to be done with CA. The constant layoffs create undue stress on the employees. The stress and the health effects are not worth a couple of dollars extra.
But I wanted the severance as many of us do. Afterall in the world of layoffs why should we get the severance when we leave.
So, this is how I did it.
1) Quietly back off on the work you do. Be less productive but not to the point where HR takes notice.
2) Throw in a couple of mistakes here and there.
3) This is key. Casually let your boss know that you are thinking about retiring or leaving the company. Nothing official and absolutely nothing in writing. Provide no solid date.
a. If you do this well, they will start planning for your departure.
4) Never quit. Just mention is casually here and there. Eventually they will plan for your departure but when you do not leave, they will be forced into a layoff.
There! Several is not many thousands of dollars in your pocket.

Everyone is on edge, wringing their hands hoping that all will be well in regards to their employment.

Lots of naysayers out there. Lots off people who desperately try to sell that its not use to look for jobs elsewhere. Lots of people who try to tell you that if someone got let go “it must be because they got a deserved 4 rating”.

While both can be true, neither is exclusively always true.

The one thing that I know for sure 100% is that you are guaranteed to NEVER find a job outside of Citi if you don’t start looking. Many don’t want to take the leap out of fear of starting over and having to prove themselves. Ok, then all the stress you get from Citi going forward will be forever shackled to you. If you don’t like your world then change your world. Easy, no. Quick, usually not. Impossible, absolutely not. Worth it, for piece of mind, oh you bet it is.

As one other poster mentioned, many people NEED to believe that if someone got let go its because they were a sustained 4 in all areas for an extended amount of time. They have to believe that so that they can take themselves out of that bucket that it could happen to them. They need to believe that if they do all the right things, they are safe.
The actual truth is much uglier than what they can handle.

Work hard, keep your head down, sharpen your skills. Search externally for jobs and apply. Rinse, repeat until you find something and move on. Keep in mind that Citi wants you to move on. They are taking measures to encourage you to leave. If you survive this round, then congratulations, you get to take up the slack for everyone else. You get more work and with most assuredly shortened deadlines with a higher expectations to never make a mistake. Keep in mind all the while with no increase in pay. Its ok though because it’ll be summed up with “don’t forget about your work life balance” speech. To Citi “work life balance” is that your family needs to be ok with you working all the time.

Wealth and brokerage have been struggling with their strategy for better part of last 2 years.

Every couple months there's an org update email followed by period of radio silence and generic "We will get through this together" bs during AAM

Recent colocation posts have reignited the debate on how the new HR wants to proceed.

My takeaway is, if you're a executive CIO reading this post, what pleasure do you get in associates going through stress, anxiety throughout the year???

Why can't you let someone be who just wants to keep their head down and work?????

I am sure most, if not all of you, are stressed and anxious. The truth is nobody here has the answer for what is going to happen. Nobody who does know would risk their job to post something here. I’m nervous alongside many of you. I just wanted to wish all of you the best as we approach uncertainty and hope you can find some time to get rest.

Knowing I have to go to the dell office tomorrow in Round Rock