Good luck all, we'll need it!
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After 14 years, I was given notice today.
F— this sh–, no one has been laid off only VRS for old people
Email said Exempt employees, farewell to those 2,000 salary folks that will not be staying with Cummins come Q1 of 2020
I got retrenched in q4 2019
It is all over the news now. I can tell from past experience that rating and ranking from the previous year is typically used unless they have the latest data from this year ready before the layoffs. They will generally cut people rated 3s or low 2s. If your manager thinks you are leaving their team you are at risk. If you recently left your old team and have not been rated and ranked by your new team you are also at risk. Don’t change positions right now within the company. Don’t let anyone know you are even thinking about it. Wait until the layoffs are done to look at moving within the company. If you were rated a 3 last year get your resume ready and get a head start on finding a new job. If you were a 2- don’t be surprised if they walk you out.
What level gives input on who is cut? And does the manager know when their direct report is cut?
The information is very reliable. Also your correct, managers become buddy buddy with other managers including the execs and they don't truly go and talk to hourly employees and find out what is truly going on. And let me tell you managers hate any type of skip level meeting (especially if it goes multiple levels) because they fear that their bosses are going to hear something that is totally wrong with what they told them months ago. That is why their skip level meetings seem to be you as an employee or group have to ask for it instead of the higher level managers actually having them and then finding out information on their managers below them.
If any executive reads this please use the SLT to your advantage, don't become buddy-buddy with other managers, and listen to employees who actually w/in the system. Treat your employees well and the company will thrive - that's not what's happening now. Also, we cannot have layoffs every year, people are anxious, only Cummins is doing this - do a big cut and then stop cutting for long time - it's not that hard. Plan it out.
My dad was laid off in 2015, after 20 years with the company. This company has no heart and there is a lot of greed among executives.
How reliable is this info?