Thread regarding Northwestern Mutual layoffs

@cd found the brown noser

The entire product area of ICS could be eliminated. It is all redundant to what vendors provide already. Zero value, all waste.

icax has a bharat born merican sme who is sabotaging customer bills.

@dp - Perhaps you are right. I have heard that ICS is filled with incompetent people who don’t have real work. They either blow or shine to stay employed.

@cd You would think. I worked with someone in ICS. This person was a master of their craft. But, being single, no kids, and not much of a family to speak of, got that HR surprise visit during a one on one. This was a hard decision, many things factored into it, so on, and so forth.

Doing the best job you can means nothing to NM anymore. It's not what you know, it's who you blow these days. Want proof? Check Slack. So many work hours spent playing on there.

There are ways companies can get around this and several large companies in Milwaukee have used them to hide layoffs. Part of which is announcing a layoff but staggering departure dates so they technically do not meet the WARN threshold.

If you focused on your job, you wouldn’t be worried about layoffs.

so they don’t report it and they get fined.

meh.

@OP so the threshold for reporting would be about about 8% of the workforcefor northwestern mutual. I doubt they'd layoff that many people.