I haven’t heard many rumors about layoffs lately. When it’s quiet, I panic more because I think a storm is brewing. Perhaps I'm overreacting because on this forum layoffs haven't been mentioned much lately. Does anyone have any insight about possible layoffs and what's happening behind the curtain?
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@3wrg+1a6weyUj is probably one of those lovely "co-workers" or "team" members as they like to call it now... that did people in with made up scenarios to get to where they are. I believe
@3wrg+1a6weyUj is the one who should to quote them with their own words "get a life" and might I add open your eyes, learn to achieve things on your own laurels and gain a little common sense and confidence if you can.
@3wrg+1a6weyUj If anyone’s a fraud it’s Fossil! Hanging onto the customers money and not issuing refunds for months!!!...read the consumer reports! If that’s how Fossil is lining their pockets then it’s pretty pathetic and sad!
Duuuuuude. We get it. Your history with the company doesn’t go back much farther than the pandemic, so you think we’re a bunch of whiny brats who complain the minute things get hard. You haven’t been here long enough to know that prior to covid we were already reaping the super really awesome benefits of having stuck our collective heads in the managerial sand since at least 2015.
Seriously, do yourself a favor and go read the responses in other threads that dig into Fossil’s history and make COE recommendations. You know, the ones you enthusiastically down vote to defend the fair maiden. You might just learn something. Like, how there seem to be a lot of knowledgeable people calling out prior BS and trying to inspire mgmt to do better by...gosh... listening to employees who are gifted in strategic thinking and stepping out of the yes-man echo chamber.
“grit” “mvo” “nwf”
applying and getting call backs, i’m out of here.
how many years of no bonuses, no raises, and the paycut can you take.
You can be reassured that it is not anyone for HR...get a life instead of crying constantly and wishing for the demise of the company that feeds you. I am stating the obvious, last year was extremely rough, now the economy and our business is slowly recovering and lay-offs should be moderate, rather there may be some hiring. Or maybe you wish to get fired because you know you are a fraud?
@1bkq+1a6weyUj is probably HR chiming in to keep people from looking and leaving!
That certainly wasn’t true of the layoffs in June last year. I wouldn’t try to look for a pattern that people can rely on in thinking they are safe. Before the pandemic Fossil was already notoriously short-sighted in terms of decision making and made layoff calls as they learned they needed to shore up the balance sheet. It’s painfully reactionary at best. Trying to give someone an algorithm to determine their safety seems like the kind thing to do if only it weren’t so naive.
Fossil will simply conduct layoffs the next time they realize they need to. You do not know if you are safe. Advising people to take a pragmatic approach is in their best interests.
The pattern I have noticed at Fossil over the years is if there are scheduled layoffs in the first months of the year they usually carry them out before reviews are given out, as face it, why bother giving you a review if they know you are out.
If you are given a review I would say you are probably safe till the next year unless they have layoffs planned for the later part of the year - which I would not rule out in this economic/retail environment and Fossil's ongoing outsourcing initiatives!
ww will lull you into a false sense of comfort. It takes a long time to right what was a huge ship. Even without adverse external conditions like a pandemic. You can pretty much count on this whole process taking longer because of it.
We turned the corner, with the economy reopening the next way is up imho. There will be some departures but nothing out of the ordinary.