Thread regarding CDW layoffs

@1ha I am in the same boat. Since I am almost 50 and a minority, it has been extra difficult for me to find a job. So we sold our home and the family had to move in with my parents since we burned through our savings while looking for a job. I knew it was a possibility but I had great sales numbers so I didn’t worry about being laid off. I was over performing. I had a chance to go to other companies but was loyal and stayed. The only advise I can give you is start applying now, just in case and take an offer if you get one. It is really hard sometimes to get a job when you have been laid off because they think something may be wrong with you. It is always easier to find a job when you are employed. I wish I had listened to my own advise back then. Watch out for your family and kids now.

@1ha
Sorry you're dealing with all that.
The people overseas are nice but I think they set them up to fail as well since it doesn't seem like a 1 for 1 replacement.
Hoping thing's get better.
Without backbone coworkers...I wouldn't be able to get my work finished for customers daily.

Can't manage a marriage but can manage to run a Fortune 500 company.
Marriage is 50/50...regardless of what he did...she chose him.
Bad judgement...or things change...but in the end failure.
The role isn't in something that failure results in just bad things for the person who failed....in this case...track records of failure impact 15,000 plus people.
And as I see layoffs occur and tenured coworkers voluntarily leave...I also see lots of LinkedIn posts with new hires excited to join a big company (fresh faces that will change in time). Layoffs to save $ but hiring and training newbies straight from college...what a waste of $

She has ruined so many of our lives, our family members too. I used to be with cdw and never recovered from how meanly me and some of my coworkers were laid off to move jobs to contractors overseas. I understand it is business but how meanly and cold they didn’t to us was like if all of our years working at CDW didn’t matter. She could have insisted on being kind to us but it happened the same way to some of my former coworkers a year later. I have tried everything but haven’t financially recovered and lost my home a month ago. I’ve worked two jobs at minimum wage but I couldn’t pay the bills. So while everyone caress about her feelings, there are many of ours that were dashed. I lost my wife too to cancer and had to pay cobra to help get us through that. That put us in a financial hole I am still trying to dig out of as a single father with 3 kids. But I am sure the contractors in India appreciate the job they were given when I lost mine.

The address of the California house is 30 Tide Watch new port beach California and it is worth about 18 million. It was a discussion point in her divorce but she kept that house that is one of the two she owns. I would not go there but if you want to send her a letter to express your feelings or give advise, that is the way to make sure she receives it. Keep them professional.

@1dk let’s not assume anything. Maybe he had been violent and she had to make a difficult decision. Let’s not go into personal life. She may be a failure in her family life but that is her business. The results of her leadership at CDW are clear. Failure. That is what matters to me but let’s take it easy on her personal life without having all of the facts.

@1dk
Wow...
No one has all the facts but I remember also reading posts about a ocean front mansion in CA that was $10+ million. Not sure during Covid but during the divorce drama.
Would be nice if the everyday coworker could just splurge like that.

@1dj you are so right, from what I saw on his social media, he was trying to save his family and that sent him declining even worse. He did appear to love her dearly. If the situation was reversed and she was losing her mind and acting radically, he seems to be the kind of man who would have never left her and. Just gone through it together. Let’s hope he didn’t harm homself because he lost his family. What an evils person we have in that office if he did. You’re right. She quit on him because of things he did or said cuz of illness . Please do the same and quit on us. Read these sites. You have made us a sick company and we are reaching out and saying things like he did. Be selfish and leave us too. Didn’t they have kids? They must be feeling over this and will show signs of mental health problems when they become adults. What a terrible wife, mom, and CEO.

@1cv interesting. She must feel at fault and that must cloud her thinking even more. On social media, he appeared to have a mental health issue but seemed to really love her. She must have known he was odd when she married him so she abandoned a sick person which makes it even worse. Well we are a sick company. Why doesn’t she abandon us in our greatest time of need. She is a terrible human being. A person is dead because she promised to marry him and abandoned him once she became a CEO. When things are tough is when family should come together. She has his blood on her hands. Nice job Chris. I hope you are proud of yourself.

Let’s take the holiday weekend to relax and not post and return on Tuesday and respect each other. We work for the same company and should be united. You know what happens if they divide and conquer. Please consider taking the time to spend time with your families and be happy our as--s aren’t out on the streets. Then we can get back to posting on Tuesday and respect each other, without name calling or accusing anyone of anything, and work together. Happy weekend to all of you. You are all family.

@19t don’t get in the mud like him. When they go low, you go high. Do not let them bring you down to his level. It is one person who enjoys coming on here and making accusations. Just ignore him. If he thought this site were useless lies, he wouldn’t be looking at them every day and commenting so he knows. Just stay above the classless line.

@19r to educate you one more time, her or his post was before Thursday when they said it wouldn’t happen on Thursday and it didn’t. See how easy it is to correct someone that isn’t smart enough to be here at cdw?

Layoffs are next week.

Isn't great I can say that and not be held accountable?
And if they aren't next week... it is because "they" moved the date.
See how easy it is to claim I know what I am talking about when I don't.

@18v
Definitely not ready. Plus I believe she was in a messy divorce while taking the helm (maybe divorce is still ongoing). Lots of people deal with personal issues outside of work without letting that baggage affect the 9-5 but I wouldn't in this case.
Also, what made people think it'd be a good idea to suddenly place a lawyer as CEO of a Fortune 250 tech VAR. Maybe she shadowed Richards during the last IPO. In essence, we're a sales company built around the circle of service with customer at the center and they're CDW AM...everything was built on that.
Notice a lot of the legacy isn't mentioned...either forgotten or purposely set aside/ignored in favor of this new regimes initiatives.

@185 is it just me or does anyone see any 50 plus down votes on this thread? Math was certainly lacking in your past if you think the number of votes ion any post are excessive. We have thousands of coworkers and 50 or 100 is not even a percent of our coworker population. Please vacate our thread and spend sometime on Sesame Street reruns to aid in your math skills. When you complete that, take a class in analytics . Both are desperately needed.

@18s this is the post of the year! It is Very insightful and completely accurate. She was a great general counsel but just not quite ready for the big chair and the general counsel she put in her place is inept, and an egomaniac, and has destroyed the comradely that once existed in our department before she left.

Remember there used to be none of this drama with layoffs before the lawyer they turned into a CEO took over.
Also the quality of coworkers isn't what it used to be years ago.
Customer is no longer #1
Leaders prioritize going to social events and happy hours. Favoritism and backstabbing are still the way to get ahead rather than being rewarded for hard work.
My customers rewarded me with loyalty and THEY paid my checks...not CDW.
In my decades of work...I advanced my $ in spite of CDW as they actually actively held me back while rewarding their favorites that quit shortly after.
I don't blame "CDW"...I blame the current leadership in charge including unqualified middle management from VP's to Directors that don't deserve thier titles or the $ that comes with it.
Some of these cr-ppy people are on this site having issues with what others post...too bad they don't have that same energy during working hours.

It seems to me the only thing that was wrong was the Thursday day so far. If that was true, they would have moved the date. The communications teams monitor these and share them with people like my boss . I never heard of a Thursday. That would have not been enough time for everyone to do what we have to do. I am on board with the previous poster who says the insults and accusations need to stop. There are many rumors flying around and they are coming on here for us to talk and see what we have heard.

@185 you sound like someone who is receiving the down votes. Most of us don’t like people that come on here and insult others. There are classier ways to behave. We can disagree without the insults and incorrect analytics.

Cycle is:
Loser posts something made up to feel important.
Somebody else calls them out for their BS.
Loser logs in multiple time to upvote their own posts and downvote the posts that call them out.

If you ever want a clue: Look at the # of up and down votes. No real post on here gets more than about 20 up or down votes. When it is 50+ votes it is never real. It is two id--ts playing "tug of war" with up and down votes.

That's the problem with this site. The people who actually know any type of layoff plan are not actually on here posting. Some people at lower levels maybe hear a part of the plan and post what they know to try to be helpful on here. And then others just make assumptions or guesses and like to do cosplay and state things to scare others. It, makes them feel important for a second. So they pretend to be somebody in the know and post fake information.

I agree that : @ww+1krpm43h1 was just making stuff up and did not know what they were talking about.

The day is over and like I said some days ago. You heard the right plan but said it would not happen on Thursday and like I said in my other post, not even this month. I don’t know why people said it would happen on Thursday but it won’t even be a Thursday. You have a few short weeks and then the shoe will drop. Use this time wisely.

You guys don't play the daily 6:30 AM game of "Let's check my email to see if I still have a job?" like I do?

Emails and meetings usually start really early. I would say Thursday is wrong. Sounds like some people like to make things up and post it here.

@13h I have to listen to all sides and make my own determination. Much of what has been posted on the posts have been correct and some wrong. If nothing happens today as the coworkers that you said are making up things, that will be positive and add some belief to what they are saying. I will keep my own ears open and not call anyone out without seeing the results. So far, they are right. Let’s see what happens but I hope they are right. My efforts to find something else have not worked and I need as much time as I can. For those of you that said Thursday, I will listen and not call you out but I hope you were wrong .

Anything yet on layoffs or what he right?

I agree bro. Can we just stick to facts?
Giving a bunch of mis-information just to scare other people is not productive.

I do hate it when people come on and pretend to be an important person at CDW and make things up. This site is supposed to help Coworkers learn about potential layoffs and instead it gets flooded with internet warriors trying to act cool and play pretend.

@zh Just ignore those that come on here and criticize those speaking their minds. It’s not worth it. I know a little bit about the upcoming move and it is not happening tomorrow. I think some of it is beginning to leak but I am not sure where the Thursday came from. The real date isn’t even on a Thursday and not this month. But as things begin the get out, I would get ready and yes, time off to take a vacation or applaud for jobs or spend time with family may be just what the doctor ordered. It’s sound advise.

@x6 it was said so that we could use them and get paid. After we are gone, they are gone. Back up and see the entire forest and not just one side. And I only made the vacation comment post not three. Stop pretending you know who is posting what.

Does it make you feel good to make a fake post and act like you know what you are talking about?
My favorite was " use your vacations now. As much as you can". How do you not know we have unlimited PTO? Coworkers talk about it on this site all the time.

Let me help all of you since I don’t have much time left here. We receive a list of names about 30 days before the layoffs. We will look at the names and see if any of they might give us security problems. Then boss man meets with comms & law & the bosses of the coworkers getting off and some other leads. Then they plan where and when the coworkers will be laid off. So here is how to get ready. Save all of your contacts snd messages because IT will wipe them out while you are in your term meeting. Forward important emails to your personal phone because they will have all of them. Even the ones you delete we can get. Gather your customer sh-t now and save it. In case you don’t get a chance to grab your sh-t from your desk, take your important personall sh-t home now. Record conversations starting now in case you have to negotiate a bigger separation. Keep your contacts from your coworkers to find out if they laid off older coworkers or women or minorities. That will help with your severance since they don’t want to go to court. Remember that security knows where you live so don’t do any dum--ss sh-t or say any scary sh-t. Some Coworkers did learn where their bosses parked or what they drove or lived in case they wanted to talk to them later or send them a letter at home because they won’t take your calls after your gone. And start applying for jobs now. They will take your badge and turn it off so you can’t get back in. Some coworkers keep theirs at home until the layoffs are over but they will be turned off. And use your vacations now. As much as you can. I hope this helps all of you. This message is one of my good deeds for those of you that will no longer be here.

@m2 you are right sir. Or miss. There are people talking but Thursday is NOT the day.

He or she probably can’t say more or it would get his or her friend in security in trouble. At least we know it is a very small group. I would relax. If you are concerned, keep looking for a job. Uncertainty is a sign of the need to apply elsewhere. If you don’t, you can explain to your wife and kids why you sat around and hoped all would be good instead of taking action to protect them. How ever uncomfortable that may be.

@hx can you elaborate please? the uncertainty doesn't help folks. we'd appreciate it.

Haven’t heard anything about a layoff but wouldn’t be surprised

It is still going down but not a big list and not Thursday. That comes straight from a friend in security. I survived.

@ed
1.8 million in GP is actually great at CDW.
That's good $ after tax and 10-20 yrs of that production and good $ management...you don't even need to work anymore.
They brainwash people that make $100-400k that they aren't good but the books that produce those #'s are the sweet spot for CDW. Everyone downtown sell $50-100 million + a year.
Good for you for leaving and that's a solid human you have for a customer being loyal to the person who actually cared for thier business (we know leadership doesn't).

@e3 I left for the same reasons. I wasn’t a top seller but I make a good living. I managed easily to take my 1.8m gp with me. How? My main customer just switched with me to my new company and nobody ever called them.