Thread regarding MetLife Inc. layoffs

And now covid will spread like crazy as son as they open... Just watch come mid march

"The CDC is relaxing indoor mask guidelines and shaking up how it measures COVID risk."

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/cdc-eases-mask-guidelines-schools-other-indoor-places-here-s-ncna1289964

OP here.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say:

1. No tests.
2. No masks. (I don't wear them to Lowes or the grocery store).
3. No vaccines required and certainly no booster. Pushing this could get ML sued.

They should be able to choose.
It is no longer a question of whether work can be accomplished. It is now a choice of move forward and embrace the future state of work from anywhere, or fall behind because of an old management model.

What’s going to happen once people start to say-they don’t feel comfortable returning to work? How are they going to deal with that? People just want to stay home and I’m sure that will be brought up a lot.

Here's some data for you. Maybe one of the actuaries in the peanut gallery will chime in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/21/covid-cardiac-issues-longterm/

@2gcp+1foAYwdP

Don't ask for data, people like you don't trust science and doctors anyway. We all see it with our own eyes. The unvaxed and unmasked were the ones clogging up the hospitals.

I agree leadership has been horrible though, be it at metlife or at the federal level, and that includes Trump and Biden.

We'll never know...

You keep pitching your speculative BS. I'll keep sipping my Pina Colada.

@@2gor+1foAYwdP But did all those things really reduce the likelihood of bad results? Really, did they? You don’t know for sure. Where is the data on it? The handling of this was a colossal failure. Thank those in charge. I’m soooo scared to RTO! The company is making me be back in the office and I know I’m going DIE from Covid because they are making me RTO. Boo hoo

Omicron BA2 has entered the chat... Good luck folks!

Omi BA2:

• Evades vaccine immunity
• Evades Wild / Delta / Omi BA1 immunity
• 30% More transmissable than Omi BA1
• Growing indications of severe disease similar to Delta

Me: Ex MET, Laughs in 'full remote' from an isolated beach...

@@2gor+1foAYwdP - Clearly you didn't learn a thing. Your ignorance and the ignorance of people like you is the reason this pandemic wasn't nipped in the bud sooner. Nothing eliminates risk 100% but the masks, vaccines, and social distancing greatly reduced the odds of having a bad result. Grow a brain, and spare me the lazy pointless "you are a sheep" type retort you are lustfully drooling over getting to type right now.

What have we learned about this pandemic and virus over the last 2 years?

1. Vaccines should have only been given to the most vulnerable. There was existing medications to treat those not vulnerable. But Pharma and US agencies pushed vaccines for profit.

2. Masks don’t prevent the spread of virus

3. Natural immunity best. Vaccine only works for approx 3 months hence booster shots $ profit Pharma

4. Separating unvaccinated from vax makes no scientific sense.

5. Covid tests are not reliable.

RTO and do what you think/feel is the safest for you. Self test and self disclose, wear a mask, wear rubber gloves, sit the furthest away from everyone etc

I find it amusing, they have outsourced jobs and functions all they way to India. But North American employees must RTO full time or hybrid. I’m outsourcing my job to my home in NJ. Same dif.

@More contagious version

Bad news for the anti-vaxx and anti-mask crowd. They will continue to pile up in hospitals and limit resources for those who actually care about heir health and need attention.

More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/21/1081810074/omicron-ba2-variant-spread

Management has compared the NYC kn--e-wielding engagement scores to those of our peers in Chicago*, Detroit and San Francisco and found that NYC scores consistently above it's peers. So, we feel pretty good about that. Plus, the NYC kn--e-wielding engagement score went up a pico-point since the last survey, so management feels that it is moving in the right direction.

*Chicago had very good scores among the kn--e wielding transit population. That's because that population is zero. In Chicago, everyone uses g-ns.

New RTO rule:

• Since there were only 6 people stabbed on NYC mass transportation this weekend (its a fact, not even joking), each employee returning to the office must survey anyone with a kn--e to understand their concerns and why they would stab someone. Useless ppt to be created once results are obtained, management will do nothing with it as per usual.

Everyone just wfh
The end

This company makes us work tomorrow on Presidents' Day. This tells you all you need to know about how much they care about their wonderful employees. Had we been back in the office, commutes would be on a Holiday Schedule and nearly impossible to travel on time. THEY DO NOT CARE!

Yeah my mistake GCSO, not india.

Really not fair though.

Wait, I thought it was GCSO, Global Customer Service Organization, not GOSC, Global Operations? Service Center (aka India) that was given full WFH.

Can someone clarify? Jen? Susan?

RTO Rule #1 - If you are in GOSC we like you and you can WFH, everyone else fu-k you, come to the office.

Totally makes sense. /s

@zka+1foAYwdP

100% agree. I think this is executive-level feudalism at its finest.

I’m kinda mad I gave them a copy of my vaccine card....
And no explanation of why some units are fully remote. Especially cause it seems the most troubled units for that gift!

Still pi---d that one entire group gets to remain working from home permanently but the rest of us are required to be in the office.

If it makes sense for one group to it makes sense for all.

You sound like one of those rat-lickers on Yammer.

If the vaccinated want to work in an office then they should have a choice to either virtually or an office. The unvaccinated should just continue to work virtually.
Problem solved. There is no debate anymore. A virtual workforce is effective and efficient.

Testing does not work. It does not detect variants, and according to the CDC they are sharing your DNA. So our information is not private afterall. Some of us were right.
The obsessive and compulsory testing was a DNA harvesting operation.
If you took a COVID-19 PCR test, there's a chance your swab may have been sent to scientists around the globe for genomic sequencing analysis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

In a tweet, the CDC said five to 10 percent of COVID PCR tests are sent to labs for mapping "genomic sequencing." Genomic sequencing is a process used to analyze the genetic makeup of viruses.

The vaxxed cannot be mingled with the unvaxxed... Puts too many at risk

RTO should be totally scrapped and the company should move to fully remote for most employees.

Either met does it now like their peers or fall so far behind in the coming months that it will effect the company as top talent leaves for companies who have embraced the new model.

I speak for the whole company when I say we need a hard 6 month lockdown, none of this essential work or exercise cr-p from last time. Masks to be worn at all times, even at home. Strictly enforced. We can then begin a gradual easing by letting folks out a year after booster! LOL

You said.. Tell us what you think.