And notices may continue being sent out throughout the week? Can anyone shed a bit of light? What’s the scope, who is affected the most, how long will this drama continue? Is this way of conducting layoffs a tactic to make us even more miserable than we already are? I’m sick of this sh-t. Most of us are not in the situation to be played around with our livelihoods.
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Sheesh! Fascinating how privileged people with 6 figure incomes talk about livelihoods being played around.
This is standard business - why are you taking it personally. It's a business in the end. Your job is to write code or test code, someone else's job is to make more profit. None of this is charity at the end of the day. 15-20 years from now you might be in the other side of the equation.
Noone enjoys this or wants to do this.
I understand being on work visas can be tricky but anyone worth their worth will find work. And many in hindsight are glad that they got out of their inertia and are in better places.
My advice - Read a book called Who moved my cheese. Quick read.
QC is going downhill fast. Not the same place it was even 2 years ago. So glad I got out in June!
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Fair point but you missed one very important part: employees don't have the luxury or privilege of keeping the management in the lurch. You put your papers in, serve your notice and leave. You don't have any possibility of playing with your manager. I think OP wouldn't mind if he/she knew with certainty and in time whether he/she got impacted. OP's rant is with the slow poison method of the company. I totally agree with you that opportunism prevails on both the sides. But there is no need to play. The management could be more upfront.
@jfe when there's a hiring bubble many a Q employee and his dog jumps ship without any loyalty to Q. When there's an economic slowdown, Q lays off.
The company has no sense of respect or loyalty. We are treated like pawns… expendable when a quarterly target has to be achieved. I am tired of being treated like dirt.
Maybe it's time to form a union
It will have a deeper round next year but, for this round, notifications are done
My guess is this will continue, but I don't know. Doing the RIF in multiple pieces is likely a strategy to encourage people to leave voluntarily, so Q doesn't have to cough up as many severance packages. It also makes the wind-down more manageable. RIF's also free up money for acquisitions to open up other business areas that might help offset the loss of major customers. Just a guess. I liked Qualcomm while I was there, but I'm not so confident about its future.