A year passed by after bitter memories of early morning email followed by a mechanical layoff meeting with the VP and HR. There was no appreciation what you have done. The interesting part was I was very active with multiple projects at that time!
It took few months to get back into working. Feeling good 😊
Good luck to all who are working hard out there!
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I was part of that group on 10/2. I woke up early for some reason and my phone had two emails. One about the layoff and one was the dreaded meeting inviting to me to my corporate execution. I just looked over at my spouse and told them: "Honey, I think I am about to be laid off." In some ways I still struggle to process that I was simply a number on a spreadsheet that some finance or HR person looked over. I wonder if that HR or finance person actually had to see the name they picked out. Or was it someone in upper ITS management that had to decide I was redundant. I, and a few colleages, were simply too expensive relative to other talen in the company. We had always produced and I knew a few people that I out produced who are still at CDW now. I just happened to be the lucky winner of having my life uprooted for the next several months. I remember telling someone that part of me wondered if it was fate's way of telling me what I had been suspecting for awhile: It was time for me to leave the CDW nest. My manager when she talked to me that morning had only found out late the night before that I was going to be part of the mass layoff and they warned me to expect ZERO empathy or sympathy from the VP since was being a cold numbers first person. That's generally not the CDW I worked at for most of the time I was there. Of my 20+ years I would say all but two years were great and I could probably count on one hand the people I disliked working with in 20+ years. Things went to he-l when they started doing so many acquisitions when they couldn't get a services practice organically built. The process of getting SOW's generated was messy at best. Once Sirius was bought, I remember how chaotic the merging of the two companies was. I remember Jehad and Conor kept emphasizing "One CDW" but it never really seemed like they ever got that figured out. I remember asking the VP from the Sirius side who was reading from the script if I had done something wrong and he simply replied, "no, this is strictly due to the numbers." That's what I got for putting 20+ years into CDW. Now I am back on my feet and simply waiting for the CDW stock to recover so that I can be permanently free of CDW. I figure CDW is going to do another mass execution since that seems to be their MO now and I feel sorry for the poor folks who are about to endure having their lives turned upside down.