As others have pointed out, it’s so hard to see the big picture, or to really know what to expect in one’s neck of the woods.
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OP I think it all depends on what department you are laid off from. Everyone sees the world from their own perspective. The cuts are the worst in the department each person is laid off from.
@hf+1k3e2xbky
Do you know the song, “burning down the house” by the band, The Talking Heads?
Well it is burning down in the IT world, 4 major incidents in the last 7 days.
Les you need to get a handle on the critical incidents
I bet most ppl think IT is just google.com and it all lives in the cloud. They will find out the hard way how it supports every inch of the business…
@ar+1k3e2xbky
Well said, but I will add some IT teams were cut100% and there are only "advisor roles" with a short horizon 1-2 years available for them until the next layoff, which I forecast will be in 2027 for IT.
@ar I’m in IT I can say that everything IT will su-k way more than it su-ked before until MW and LC leave and get their bonuses and then the new people bring it all back from India and then get more big bonuses. Then repeat
@a2 Ummm, dude, do you even work at Chevron??? Of course Finance has already started. Have you not looked at the jobs tool and noticed all that is missing or has been downgraded? Perhaps it it you who is slow. 🤷🏼♀️
IT is a shell of its former self at the 25 and below levels. Most US teams got cut well over 50% that I’ve talked with, and entire teams in other high cost locations are gone entirely.
The 26+ so called “leaders” didn’t get cut very much though so they managed to take care of their own.
IT absolutely has taken a beating with massive cuts.
Finance hasn't started..are you a new hire or just slow?