Thread regarding Fiserv Inc. layoffs

Fiserv might seem to be an outlier, but they're not as much of an island as you might hope...

This is NSFW: https://youtu.be/b2gg4_4GIEg
It's a video about similarities between cults and corps.

That being said, point 2 was not a statement suggesting that leaving wasn't a good idea. The halls of fiserv should be on a march to emptiness at this point. Unless, of course, things start changing drastically and immediatly.

The point of that statement was that even under the best of circumstances, changing a job is incredibly disruptive and impacting to your life, and often your family and friend's lives too. That doesn't mean it's not worth doing, it just means it shouldn't be treated as a trivial and flippant, "if you're unhappy just change job!" type of statement.

Sorry to say, but don't be the OP. Fiserv is just a company. This is just a job. Do your time and leave. Don't ever sacrifice anything to a company that is waiting to stab you in the back. There is no loyalty. There is no guarantee. If you burn yourself out, you don't get a guarantee and you don't get a reward.

I vehemently disagree with point #2 of the previous post. Fiserv is the exception, not the rule. I've known a lot of people, including myself, who have left. None regret it. They all without fail will tell you that the environments they moved on to were far better than Fiserv. Sure it's a low bar and no job is perfect. But if you stay because you think other places will be just as bad, that's doing yourself a tremendous disservice.

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Except for the fact that in the US your health "benefits" are tied to your job, your ability to pay for your families needs is tied to your job. This company (and almost all others) amp up the fear and threat of your life falling apart to achieve THEIR goals at the cost of yours.

"Change your job", you say? Well it currently takes an average of 24 weeks and multiple rounds of interviews to land a new job today (According to Brian at A Life After Layoff on YT). How do you take off all that time to interview with a company that has a 50/50 chance of ghosting you several weeks into the process? Also, how do you deal with the high likelihood of not having insurance for the first 3-6 months after starting a new job (the new average)?

So how are those "choices" working out so far?

1. Stay and be abused by your company
2. Leave and suffer through the turmoil caused by landing a new job that in all likelihood will be the same as your last job. At best, over a year or two tenure, at worst you discover this on day one of the new gig.

The "choices" argument is an exceptionally shallow, vapid, and short-sighted one, especially in light of how our economy and social structure are run in this country.

The company didn’t do this to you. You did this to yourself. Everyone has choices. Good grief.