Does anyone have any idea on who they are deciding to let go? Is it time with the company, cost of employee, performance, random? Scary times..
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@4rcu+1tGwFANs Very interesting to hear your account. I guess my manager told the remaining team it was all performance based - which really bothered me to hear (obviously secondhand, from old teammates), but I was also the newest member of the team and in training, so could have just been that "low hanging fruit.
Either way, my confidence is back. I've ended up in a much better job, making significantly more money, and that old manager just got kicked to the curb themselves.
That makes a lot of sense on how they did the first round of layoffs. I was laid off in October, I had an altercation with a VP who had a bullet pointed at my head for a couple of months before the layoff. The VP would ping me several times a day every 5 or 10 minutes with questions about something. By the time I would have the answer, this person would already know it. After a month of this behavior, I snapped and had a major melt down. I couldn't handle it anymore. That explains exactly why I was first on the list. I hope Karma comes back to bite this person in the behind. It was a blessing in disguise.
The first round happened this way: about a few weeks before the layoff the directors went to the managers and asked them to rate their employees “tell me who is the best of the best. I hate to say it, but tell me who is the “low hanging fruit” the ones that need more help or might not be performing the best”. It was entirely subjective and not supported by performance reviews or anything other than the manager. They manipulated the managers and had I have known, I would never have rated my team. It broke my heart, and I wish that I would have refused. I genuinely thought we were going to invest in retraining as that was always the process we went though with “under performers”. I listed only 1 but they added more, and I’m assuming based on tenure at that point. So the assumption that this was performance based is completely speculation, as I was a previous manager with this company. The managers are told to have their employees “walk through fire for them”, and insist on micromanaging and always assume ill intent. It’s completely opposite of what they preached, and that was back in October. Hearing from people now, it sounds like they finally unmasked and are showing their true colors. There is no family, this is strictly business and profit margins. No one is safe, everyone is being used until they are no longer of use. Find a new job before the job market is even more saturated with travel nursing staff.
I was one of the ones let go right after a raise. I’m talking Friday get a raise by that Wednesday laid off.
As long as the work got done in a timely manner and you were able to be reached and answered when called it shouldn't have mattered if you were home or in a coffee shop. Everyone found a system that worked best for them. None of that should have come into play when letting people go, as really no one knew who was doing what throughout the day or where they were set up for that day. But they wouldn't have truly known who was doing what to make that determination. It's completely at random now at this point.
It's now at random. Its known that people daily are cheating the company. Mouse shakers, space bars in word documents, going places and acting like they are home with managers having zero clue whats going on because they pay zero attention to the team. There were days nobody would even know I was at work if I had not spoken as there is zero communication at times with the team. It's absolutely ridiculous how they choose people. It's always the good ones they let go. Proof that upper management has ZERO clue who they are letting go and keeping. Very irresponsible company and sad it's come to this!
Ya, my cousin works with Aya and that’s how it is there. I’m sure it’s the same here. First round was performance based, then random, and then some have been let go based on Predictive Index testing they do to get hired there and not having a future with the brand. Lots of small batches since January though to keep the noise down
Most likely they are just doing it at random. There hasn't really been a system/pattern of who they are letting go and when. From my knowledge, the Oct 2023 layoff many speculated that the first batch of layoffs was performance based (this wasn't ever confirmed). After that round and beyond, it has been at complete random. People who did there jobs extremely well, never got into any issues/trouble, etc. If they were basing it off money they would be cutting people higher up that make more than people lower on the totem pole. That is what makes me believe it isn't money based on who makes what or performance based. It's completely random. A few coworkers I worked with before they were let go earlier this year during the first batch of layoffs was given a raise at the yearly performance eval and then let go a week or two later after that raise. If that tells you anything.