My question is with all these layoffs - they always know it’s going to happen and have the lists so early. Why does management and execs always wait till a certain day to make the cuts? Why not just do it as soon as possible to avoid all this stress and anxiety for everyone with a date looming over? It really pi---s me off I’ve been through this so many times and it’s really like we’re all numbers on a sheet or a dollar amount not people with lives and families to take care of
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@ap True. On the one hand getting a heads up gives one a chance to get resume ready and do interview prep. Either way you slice it, it's stressful and unpleasant.
I dunno, for every person who says “why do we have to wait” there’s another who says “why can’t they give us advance warning so we have time to prepare”. I just think layoffs are awful no matter how they’re done ….but people always like to criticize the WAY they’re carried out. Damned if I know a “nice” way of taking away someone’s livelihood.
@OP They need to do a legal review for each person, and it takes time.
@a1 I remember some rounds back at MTV Networks that NOBODY saw coming, just a very dark morning of H.R. doing rapid fire dismissals.
Don't believe for a moment that the lists are already finalized; these clowns are bumbling through every step, from failed actor nepo baby poorly playing the part of corporate CEO, to most of the 'leadership' that he's cobbled together without really giving much thought to their abilities or to their understanding of the teams (and duties) they are now overseeing, to the already underperforming lackeys that those people have brought in and installed in newly-created positions above people with vastly more knowledge and experience than them.
They are still scrambling to figure out what voids might need filling after the opt-in, to learn about the actual business that is being done by the teams they're supposedly managing, and how to keep the ship afloat while making deep cuts which will probably include entire departments. There's still a lot of "What if we keep this person, but get rid of those two?," especially on teams whose leaders have abruptly left in the past weeks.
In the long run, they're going to end up hiring a whole lot of contractors, analysts, consultants, and vendors who will cost four times as much as staff -- and they'll pat themselves on the back for their genius at creating inefficiencies and installing incompetents.
They like to watch you in pain. It’s a power thing. It gets them off.
productivity....everyone left early before knowing, the factory would have chaos...
@OP The only reason we know the date it is happening is because someone has leaked it. Management has never said the day it's happening. All the times you have been thru it before, you have never formally known it was happening until you got that email in the morning that started with "hey team"
I know it is very frustrating and concerning, but we are only concerned because someone has leaked the date.