Thread regarding Bose layoffs

I agree with you, I got laid off in 2018 after 25 years with the company. I was 60 and was told my position was "no longer needed". The reality was my manager was incompetent and was covering her incompetence by targeting people and getting rid of them to tell HER boss she located the problem. Prior to me she had gotten rid of two people. Anyway, it turned out to be the best thing for me, my severance was very generous and they paid for unused vacation plus what I would have accrued in 6 months, that turned out to be over $10K in itself. I found a new job within three weeks with a company that miraculously didn't age discriminate and in two years I have moved further up the ladder with this company than I did in my last 20 years at Bose. My old boss? She began targeting a co-worker who saw what happened to me and others, he quit which made her panic because at the next layoff she had no-one to toss under the bus and she was let go. For the record - I have no ill feelings towards Bose, it was a GREAT place to work up until Dr. B passed on. Once he passed the company changed for the worse.

Don't let the mob of managers, leaders and program managers ruin your life by forcing a layoff on you because of their incompetence.

Better to find something before layoff. When management is not proactive in their roles for winning in the market employees need to be proactive for them.