It's not hard to find a new job if you aren't some Gainwell lifer and you actually maintained a skill set instead of coasting by for decades.
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@16r I found one. I searched and found one. I left Gainwell for so many reasons.
The one sure thing is that you can’t find a new job if you don’t look.
@15d You ask "why do you stay" as if it's so easy to find a new job.
Gainwell has rolling layoffs every month.
If you are worried about your job why do you stay?
Many replies, but no actual news of WFR's. Anyone have some info?
@14z OMG! Sad but funny. Probably because of some end of life software on the server that never got replaced back in the day. I'd also guess there's some sort of "exception" involved when it comes to audit time.
30 years of maintaining the same batch jobs that run on the same server against the same tables, triggering a job abend every night.
It’s true.
@vw Trump changed the H1B policy in 2017 and corporate America responded by sending hundred of thousands of jobs to India and the Philippines (as opposed to importing talent who also paid US taxes). So he isn’t the savior you all think he is. He is going to protect the 1% by anyone means necessary and that’s it.
Medicaid is kind of the last outpost for American IT jobs, every place else has shipped their work over there years ago. Some companies assumed it wouldn't happen and got complacent. Now they're scrambling but it's too late for a great many of them and they can't retire yet. I don't blame the Indian workers, they need jobs too. It's the big money at the top pulling the strings. The employees fates are in Veritas's hands now and all the mid-level leaders (good and bad) who thought they were set for life are in a whole new boat. Hang on for a turbulent ride.
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So you’re calling the “lifers” India replacements monkeys? Nice! Now that sounds a bit racists. We need actual communication and not vile remarks. Grow up. Making jokes about people’s life work is not a joke. It’s offensive. This company was thriving and growing until Veritas and what you reference as Monkeys took over. Monkey see Monkey do
Gainwell lifers crying til the very end that Sandeep is taking their job that a monkey can do from them
Every corporation is the same. If you do work you enjoy and your immediate workers and boss are decent, do the work get the check and stfu. Or get another job. The obsession w “lifers” and raci$t comments about folks trying to support themselves and their families is boring. Your king and his tech bro billionaire pals aren’t gonna save you. No one cares about the few people who post the unhelpful information here
If you look at Veritas track record with purchasing companies. They buy company x then strip it down to make it look more profitable than it is and then sells to the next su---r. Next su---r sees those giant govt checks and greed takes over ignoring giant red flags. Maybe the next owners will know how to successfully run a company without it being run into the ground. Veritas keeps the original employees and tries to get numbers up before quickly stripping it down and making it look like it’s more profitable than it is. It’s not illegal even if it does appear unethical. Is this the future of all corporations moving forward? My guess would be yes. Fortunately it appears their modus operandi has been identified. When we leave this company we will recognize this behavior earlier in the process next time. Lessons not learned will be lessons repeated. Not personal just business says the Godfather.
Yeah who would think that 30 years of loyalty and hard work deserves any consideration? They are clueless and are still under the expectation that if they do their job the company will keep them. Gainwell sees them only as a number and after 30 years that number has grown and makes them a target. Thought it funny that a specific manager was hired to start making cuts and then found herself out of a job after she fired/layed off so many. She was probably confused since she did what they asked. Numbers people it is never personal. Do your job and sacrifice your life and it equates to zero to them. Do what you must and not a bit more for your number is being considered and working harder will do nothing to keep your job.
Whoever posted this crazy comment below. I was just thinking the other day how during Trumps first term he stopped the h1b visa workers from coming to us so jobs would stay in citizens hands. Guess this time he is going another route to keep jobs for Americans? I can definitely see him doing this as a nationalist. We will see I guess. Gainwell doesn’t seem like it will survive the leadership without giant govt subsidies. We can’t help but be sc--wed. We get to keep our jobs but taxes will go up. Too bad it doesn’t seem like Gainwell leadership knows how to balance books.
Good luck telling this lifers that have drawn a check for 30 years that. They're convinced they are entitled to a job.
With US ramping up tensions in Iran the Trump administration is going to be tightening us security. The federal government is going to start pressuring the states not to allow foreign access. That means that work will be pulled back and subsidized further by the federal government to us workers . After all of this change and work to secure a cheaper labor force. India folks working offshore for any vendor that supplies government agency support say bye bye to your job. Your neighbor is too volatile and we don’t trust security of our citizens data to be any greater compromised. Crazy world we live in.
Gainwell is only about 4 years old.
Expecting any severance greater than 4-5 weeks is unreasonable.
12-15 years?! Some folks have been around for triple that.
Max 12 weeks of severance. Those lifers who have been around for 12-15+ yrs will continue to float around until kicked out. It is hard to find another job once anyone is 55+.
Don't know about any layoffs but there's excess capacity on the team I'm on (individuals waiting for new DDIs) while contractors & some full time employees are being hired, mainly from off-shore. If that's not the writing on the wall indicating all the work will move overseas, I don't know what is.
Can anyone provide details on a typical severance package - as in 1 week's pay for every year of service up to a maximum of x years?
Or any time soon?