I volunteered and got picked - must have been easy for the directors to say yes as they got to save their own butts
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Surprised only if basing it on my performance, especially relative to some of the id--ts on my team. Not surprised if basing it on the rudderless ship that Verizon has become over recent years.
The article that the troll, @e9 directs you to is unhelpful, AI generated and definitely TLDR.
It may actually ki-l brain cells.
Extremely toxic work environment. Wasn’t surprised at all about being selected for the RIF. I was absolutely “delighted” to leave.
They fixed my review and put on impossible project no surprise 😳 either side. Only surprise was they expected some reaction which they didn’t get. Karma will take more than what I can imagine for them. Their spouses and family has to bear the creepy man. Act will be itched on their soul and corporate fate.
For anyone impacted here's something I found on this site that was helpful to me.
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6yqhnz?source=follow&n=1
Best with your job search!
I was the newest in the team. Plus I feel the work environment is too political. I also work with indians who tried to steal my projects and they support each other. They dont know how to stay in their lane.
@af sounds like Hachet Man wanted to cut SO MANY heads that many high performers had to be let go
Based on work history, awards, and working on highly visible projects it was very shocking. I hope there is some plan because it looks completely broken right now.
@a7 this is such an odd response. In what way is OP being a troll?
Not surprised. Got hired for 1yr but was already mentally aware of the consistent layoffs they were having for years before. Ever since S. Sampath has come in in 2012 the layoffs came in hot and heavy every single 6 to 12 months. As soon as I accepted the position I was mentally saying "expect a layoff at any time in your career" ...low and behold it happened, would thought I had a few more years... But jeez Grandpa Dan came in and smoked us EAs and Chief of Staffs as if we never contributed or did anything for the company. I honestly thought being a starter so low in pay would have avoided me some layoffs, but Papa PayPal did many great folks dirty. I was told many times he was a Board member that was asking many questions and learning about the company for years, whenever leaders would present to him and the rest of the board. So uncle Dan must see something or know something that he feels he must do. (tho I don't believe there is too much tactical thought behind the layoff except appeasing shareholders)
They cleared 13,500 to still have to absorb 14,000 more when they finalize the merger with Frontier. Crazy logic and ironic with the layoffs too... But u would think they need all of us to handle a much larger footprint we are going to absorb. So I'd expect most folks to come back as soon as they see openings and they start restructuring who needs to go where to handle the larger fiber footprint.
But once again if ur not surprised and U have no assets to lose in the long run after a layoff, U can rest a bit more easy. I feel for the long timers who still have mortgages, cars, kids to look out for, college expenses to pay and savings accounts that are going to burn on account of this layoff. Chin up and keep on truckin!
@OP - "Were you surprised when you got RIFFed"
@TROLL ALERT!!!!