Talked to my mentor over the weekend and it turns out that people are pre-selected for being laid off (just in case) at each performance review session. When your immediate supervisor stops looking you in the eye, stops speaking to you, and starts assigning you useless projects after the calibration sessions—that’s when you know you’re on that list.
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The "first line supervisor" comment here is FOS. You knew dmn well who was being laid off in your group well before it happened b/c YOU set them up for it. You may not have known that the company was going to actually have lay offs (which I doubt as well), but you knew who was going to be let go in the event of a lay off. So save that BS for someone else.
Another sign — every group project involves only one discipline amongst a multidisciplinary team.
Congratulations — your discipline is being reduced and unless you're an a– kisser or have less than 10 years experience... its you!
If you glance around the table and can’t spot the s—er, it probably means you are the s—er.
The OP forgot to mention “when your boss leaves you clueless as to what projects the ‘group’ is involved in”—that runs rampant in certain assets! Only the good ol boys know what the group is involved in.
Managers and HR make staffing decisions—that’s no secret.
I’m calling fake news on the “front line supervisor”. Such a person wouldn’t be hanging out on a lay-off website, let alone commenting from a “front line supervisors” perspective.
Fake news. First line supervisor here and I can promise you that those conversations didn't happen at my level. I received an email from HR about 9am on the day layoffs happened letting my know which members of my team would be impacted. That's the extent of supervisor's knowledge ahead of time. From conversations after the fact, it does appear that directors new some, but not all of the changes.
Honestly, I wish I had been more involved in the layoff discussion because there were people let go that were doing critical jobs, rated as T2s, good comments in the YE write-up, etc. I have no clue what the rationale was for letting them go so abruptly. Makes me wonder who is making staffing decisions?