I heard they were layoffs in operations this month. Anyone have any information?
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@qc I miss the days when you came into work to do your job and not think about when layoffs will happen lurking in your head. That the people in charge did their job to prevent loss in revenue that is the reason for "redundancy" in positions. They do their jobs poorly and us down in the org chart take the fall for it. I secretly believe that those pulse sureys they send out...are who they are targeting for layoffs. If you leave a true honest review speaking in earnest, even if it is a low grade, it put you on their radar. I can't prove it. But I suspect it. Either way I'm going to let them know the lack of trust with executive leadership and the org's direction is :
Detached: They make high level decisions without understanding the day-to-day reality of the people executing them.
Unaccountable: They are the first to take credit for a win and the first to point fingers at a "systemic failure" (or a specific department) when things go south.
Opaque: Information is treated like a currency. If you’re constantly wondering why a decision was made, it’s because transparency isn’t in their vocabulary.
Reactive: Instead of steering the ship with a strategy, they just lurch toward the loudest problem of the hour, leaving the team in a constant state of pivot fatigue.
Inconsistent: One day the goal is "Quality," the next it’s "Volume at all costs" (for example) This lack of a north star ki-ls morale and momentum.
@q1 they must know because some of these areas do reorgs and layoffs at the same time every year. Most people I know in ETX spend the end of year holidays worried that they're going to come back in January to a reorg/layoff since it happens every year. And then there's usually another one around the spring/summer and sometimes another in the fall.
That many reorgs year after year is a sign of bad leadership trying to hide its failures.
@pm
i wonder if the executive level people realize anytime there are reorgs, it makes everyone nervous and it signals layoffs however small the number. That no one working here at mm are foolish enough to not see this pattern.
ETX had some big reorgs recently, but I'm not sure if there were any layoffs as part of that. Some SLT and other managers quit this month too, so I don't know if that was a sign of them knowing about the changes coming or just coincidence
@e3 Operations is its own org. JR is the ELT member
Operations in which org? ETX?
@OP I know that 3 people were laid off in MMSD, but haven't heard anything else.