#workload

Those who avoid being laid off might be considered lucky, but think about it. These layoffs will be huge. Teams will be losing multiple people. Who'll be doing the work they used to do going forward, since it certainly not going to disappear? People are about to have their workloads double and their pay remain the same.

This "RPM" announcement sure if making me feel in Good Hands and like Allstate really cares for my well-being and work life balance!

I love being expected to babysit shops on top of investigating liability, handling claimant rental, and just all the other joys of my job!

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The New Centralized UM leadership is out of touch with the employees ! It is chaos, disastrous and not doable. Huge stress and unbearable!!!

Considering cancel this meetings for my office day. It’s hard to be in office by 7am and stay until 8pm to take those calls.

Is this another way of quietly reducing the number of employees? We’ve had several positions sitting open for months, one since April, and nothing’s happening. All of us are taking on extra work we shouldn’t have to do just to cover for it, and at this point, I’ve got a feeling it’s going to stay that way.

I really wish they’d just tell us what’s going to happen and when. We’re working ourselves into a frenzy here. Jobs are scarce, bills are high, and being laid off in times like this is pure panic fuel. It would be nice if they at least handled this professionally and with a bit of basic consideration.

Since the onset of COVID-19, Dell has undergone significant changes that have made it an increasingly difficult place to work. Leadership appears indifferent to the strain and exhaustion employees are experiencing. The ongoing rounds of redundancies have created a sense of instability and mental fatigue, while the workload remains relentless. Employees receive little recognition or appreciation for their hard work or the personal sacrifices they continue to make.

The implementation of upcoming projects next year is expected to result in further reductions to the workforce, exacerbating an already challenging environment. This is no longer the company I once joined with pride; it has become an organization that seems to have lost its regard for the well-being of its employees
Are other sectors just as bad ?!

Someone quits and months go by before they backfill the role, leaving the rest of us to drown in extra work. Do they think people can just do two jobs forever?

They keep pushing to replace us with cheaper, outside teams who clearly don't know our systems. Now it takes three of them to do one job, and everything is still falling behind. I am so frustrated that management thinks this is a real solution. All it does is create more mess for us to fix later.

Can someone in IT who's been here a long time explain what the problem really is in your opinion and if there's a way out of our current problematic situation or is it a lost cause. I'm genuinely curious. I've heard some takes but looking for a more convincing answer.

1. Salaried employees who stroll into the office over a half hour after everyone has arrived and leaves exactly at 5:00. They know their boss doesn’t keep track of their whereabouts, so they come and go as they please. I know for a fact that particular ones are not putting in hours online in the evening and weekends to make up for this time.

2. Untrained or lazy employees who forward an email to random people / departments looking for help, and the subject matter has nothing to do with what our department handles. They CC others on the email to make it look like they are doing something, then the CC people bombard us with angry replies because we haven’t responded. So, it’s our problem to deal with since the original sender decided to punt the ball over to us.

this email capture bs is sooooo annoying!!! no one wants to give me their email when they are buying a .10 cent scantron or a candy bar, no matter how many times I ask! pushing us to do more work with no incentive once again!

After half our team got cut, things have been brutal. We’re all doing twice the work for the same pay and pretending it’s normal. No new hires, no plan, just endless burnout and silence from management. I'm not sure anymore who got lucky, us or those who were let go.

Please share.

My manager favors some employees while constantly giving others a nightmare workload. It's literally become unbearable. I’ve caught myself hoping for a layoff just to escape the daily toxicity more than once - and I can't afford to be laid off right now!

Any current SWE's having any luck finding other opportunities outside this place? I know this is a layoff board but with how my department is going, me quitting this place is looking more and more likely each day. The job market isn't too great which isn't fun, but morale is low with my current department and leadership here loves to act like everything is fine when it really is not. More work than ever and less competent employees than ever. Constantly having to take over work from offshore since they cannot complete simple tasks. Is there a light for the good workers at the end of the tunnel?

So many teams have been reduced to bare bones that we can barely manage, if at all. Layoffs have disproportionately targeted people in critical roles, those with real experience and skills. My team is missing several people whose shoes the rest of us can’t fill even if we wanted to. And to make it worse, the workload is the same or even bigger, but there are far fewer people to handle it. I’m basically falling off my feet, just like everyone else.

So... imagine a team that's been cut, cut, cut. In half. Down to the bone. There's a hiring freeze. Alas, the manager has an employee who's a poor performer but can't do anything because a) the person can't be replaced (hiring freeze) and b) a layoff is coming and there needs to be a lamb to go.

Meanwhile, those who remain must work even harder to accomplish their tasks. Otherwise, those in charge crack the whip and say, "Why can't you deliver 'on time' to the arbitrary delivery date we dreamed up?"

What's really messed up is the leadership that thinks this makes any sort of sense. Ultimately, at the rate this company is going, the train will run off the cliff and crash at the bottom of the canyon because the only ones that remain either don't care or don't know how to put on the brakes.

Due to the fire at el segundo and the move from San ramon, does it look like we will be shutdown? MW seems to be wanting to sell assets. Is Richmond and El Segundo for sale? After the waves it feels like a lot of folks lost their jobs in manufacturing. Are we doomed? Should I look for other work? The workload we’re about to have looks incredibly high thanks to the bs McKinsey id--ts .

Getting laid off is probably the best thing to happen to someone. You get a paid vacation for whatever your severance covers. You don’t have to work. All of your work is just dumped on some poor soul who was chosen to stay. You can do whatever you want. If I stay, I’ll be jealous of everyone who goes.

I have three roles shoved onto my plate and at this point I'm just trying to keep the lights on. Some weeks I survive on coffee and sheer stubbornness, but to say it's burning me out would be an understatement. The whole arrangement feels temporary and unfair to anyone with a life outside work.

It really feels like they’re trying to push people to quit instead of laying them off outright. The pressure constantly keeps building, workloads keep piling up, and eventually you just can’t take it anymore. As far as strategies go, I have to give them credit. This is the cheapest way of getting rid of us.

The work the laid off people were doing didn't disappear. It'll still need to be done. And guess who'll be doing it? Certainly not the ones who made the decision to lay people off and certainly not new people, because they're not going to hire any replacements. Which means, those of us still in IT are sc--wed.

Especially knowing that a bunch of my co-workers in the same orgs were silently laid off a couple of months ago for "business decisions". Exemplary leadership making people at the bottom rungs of the ladder do double the work now so we can pay for the leader's promotions.

the dog and pony show visits are back
starting soon for Holiday2025

prep store for walk with extra hours, only to get hours slashed a week later.

hire! hire! hire! with NO HOURS!

Anyone know?

1) Does the 8 hours count working with offshore at night? If no, I'll ignore them till next morning

2) Does putting in extra hours on weekends help?

3) Is 5-6 hours + 2-3 hours office + home acceptable? Bridgets email does indicate so.

Anyone feel they are being pushed out or that the work load is unreasonable after this last CPM round? Management doesn’t seem to care. Maybe too scared to care?

Critical roles are gone, and it’s a mystery how we’re supposed to get anything done.

Has there ever been a bigger cr@pshow?

The systems, the process, and the endless disconnectedness. Non stop dysfunction. Will it ever stop?

What a huge mess. No one is ever accountable. We experience tons of effort to produce the most valueless work.

Get your 8 hours in, get your badge ins but please don’t add value. Anything but that.

I love my job. The pay is good, the work feels good. But, it’s become overwhelming. The workload is bigger and there are less people. What now?

Some lost more than half of their teams. What are they supposed to do now?

They arrive at 8am and leave around 2:30 for daycare pickup but never see them back online or available for any meetings later in day. How do people get away with this!? My workload would not allow that.

It's total nonsense. My manager reviewed my workload yesterday, and I've received 40 percent more work since we lost five members of our team. But he indicated I need to close my SR faster since we are under more secruinite and my metric doesn't match his standard. Wtf

I don’t see the point in working harder to improve our team metrics just so my manager can look better to his director.

I’m not putting in extra effort; where’s my pay raise? What’s the point when this company is laying off people? I’m just here to collect a paycheck until I find a new job.

My friends were let go despite being high performers, and I have no desire to go above and beyond for this organization. It really feels like a terrible company. Is the moral low in other team?

I told my manager I can only do what I can and there is nothing else for me to improve. He was not happy but who caresssss…

Even for people who don’t get cut offshoring adds to my workload so it essentially lowers mu salary. How? Because I now have to coach and fix the mistakes these new “equal partners” make every day. Add that to my regular job. H1B Visas are changing and hopefully offshoring will get hit too.

And my manager is trying to intimidate me using the presence report. What can I do or say to get them off my back?

Fidelity is really piling on the workload for people in advisory services. In the IMC space the workload is doubling & of course without any substantial pay upgrades to match.

What I am witnessing is a major culture shift where Fidelity is embracing the Wells Fargo culture of sales at the cost of employee burnout and turnover which I would not be surprised to start seeing more unethical behaviors while the standards of care is being preached. I personally feel there should be those that go out and gather the assets and there are those that maintain and retain the assets. When companies start forcing everyone to be in a high pressure sales role then you can kiss standards of care & company loyalty out the window.

Heard a rumor that CAS is not doing layoffs but rather not re-filling positions putting double the work on their existing team. Any truth?

The reward for doing good work is getting to do more work. Can I get a witness!

Unlike most folks here, I liked working at Chevron. Good people, good pay, interesting work… I’m considered a high performer…but I’m so burnt out I don’t know what to do. I’ve been working basically 2 jobs for the last 3 years. I’ve reached the point where I dread coming in, looking at emails, getting IMs. My bosses have agreed it’s unsustainable, but I’ve cycled through 3 bosses in this period, with no continuity to make changes.

And, it’s clear post reorg this will all get worse. Less competent bosses with less time.

The only solutions I see are quitting or a leave of absence. Taking vacation is pointless, as I end up working 20-40% of the time anyway.

Stress is everywhere, causing good people to leave in droves. The management is offering zero support through it all, and only makes things worse in the majority of cases. Some days it feels like just surviving the day is all you can do - and that's really not what a job should feel like.