I get the feeling that whoever’s making these layoff decisions is just incredibly lazy. Cutting by numbers without any deeper thought, let alone real strategy. My team hasn’t had some roles backfilled since forever, and you can definitely feel it in our performance and workload. I think the company loses far more than it gains by letting people go. Layoffs have turned into nothing more than a performative exercise to prop up the stock.
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What happens when you had a reorganization and your team is now a 1/3 of the size? Team just got hit with 3 people gone. We couldn’t get the work done in time before now we really really can’t. I feel like there may be more layoffs to get rid of the team to replace with offshore or something. I feel doom over my head.
@af They funny part is we go burned by the worst hack ever by not doing enough due dilligence on Changes' servers.
It's all 'move fast and break things (but if you actually break something you are toast)'.
Yeah, lost contracts, no business, just keep them on for feels. Cause feels pays the bills.
They keep reducing the on shore, increasing off shore but when there’s a war room it always on shore called in to fix it.
@a1 zero nuance to anything we're doing. no strategy other than move 100x speed. Yes, break things when the system isn't working or is too slow, but the way it's currently applied here is at random like a carpet b0mb rather than a sn1per r1fle.
if it makes you feel better, HR got hit too
It's all a spreadsheet exercise with HR and exec leadership. Makes no sense. Budget cuts being communicated down the chain for leaders to react to is one thing - cherry picking resources that meet obscure and arbitrary parameters in a spreadsheet is how you death spiral a company because you never reprioritize projects and just bleed them drier and drier until they fail. It's cowardly leadership, plain and simple, and the product of "human capital" dimwits who see all of us as cattle that need to be culled rather than assets critical to their business.