How will Layoff notices on Feb 15th go? Do they hand out envelopes? Do you get an email? Do people find out at different times during the day? Can any Conoco veterans give us some insight?
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Notification comes when your boss comes and says “It’s time.”
For the next two weeks, you might as well just watch YouTube videos and take looonnng coffee breaks.
So we’re just supposed to sit and wait for the 15th if we haven’t heard anything. Do you get any heads up before?
Alaska employees are still working at home....how will they lay us off?
On the day of your layoff you will be summoned to a meeting room by your supervisor and an HR representative. The supervisor will say a couple of cold vacant words to you, then leave you to the HR representative, who will take your badge and phone and give you a white envelope and briefly go over the terms of your layoff. You have a certain time to sign and return. If they consider you a threat, a security guard will be there outside to walk you to your car and watch you leave the premises. This happens every 30 minutes. When it starts you will know.
Some org charts are already being shown to supervisors who are sharing sketches with their teams. This will be a fundamental restructure that should have been done in 2019. Next week supervisors will have sensitivity training. For those that haven’t been through this, it will take all week to get through the process (lots of layoffs) It will not be virtual as you will need to sign papers. Last time you were offered to go get your box that you had packed if you wanted, or they would mail it to you. First the supervisor will lay you off, then they will find out if they have a job. Their will be less supervisors left this round. Once all the notices are given, the new org charts will be sent and teams will have meetings. For the next several weeks they will discuss the restock and then you will move offices. Bad news is the this will reoccur in October to “Right Size” and consolidate.
Newby,
No. You will learn of transfer after the layoffs are done. At least that’s how it went in the past. When all the layoffs are done, your supervisor will come around and usually have a team meeting to address questions and concerns. At some point after that, prior to any organizational announcements, you’ll find out if you’re transferring.
Grab a beverage, throw your feet up on your desk, and settle in for a real sh—-storm.
Heard this will be done virtually and you won't be walked out
Good luck everyone. Just remember, if you survive this round. Be ready for the next round of layoff with this company. If you get layoff this month, it hurts but you will thanks latter on! Take the package and go!
It sounds like a torturous process. If you are getting transferred to a different group/job, will you to "summoned" to the conference room to learn about that?
In the past, (when everyone was in the office), conference rooms would be booked for entire days. You would typically know which day your group might be affected because either your boss will say something or people will start seeing the HR rep around. You'd receive a phone call to come to the conference room and that's when you'd be let go. Depending on the office, you may be able to collect your things and say goodbye, although I think that depends on the office as well. I'm not sure how it will work for folks that are still doing remote work, but for anyone in an open office (Houston for example), that's how it will be. If you don't receive a phone call, you still have a job.
It won’t be on the 15th either. Multiple days as in the past. It’ll be a long, slow, painful week.
Conference rooms will be booked all day.