If there was a simple way to volunteer without risking being fired as a result for some manufactured reason, I would do it without thinking. I'm honestly worried that we're moving toward potential layoffs without severance, so I'd be happy to grab one while I still can.
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They'll just pressure you enough to push you out in between cycles. I knew 2 long term SNEs who were hoping to get laid off. No, they just pushed them out. One was making a high salary and phoning it in though used to be a stellar and hard worker back in the day. Please just go if that's your attitude. Had >$1m in the 401(k), a paid off home. Why are you still here? Retire and enjoy it. Why wait for a few ten thousand dollars?
@d4 that's probably what management wants - more work, more burnout, more resignations, better margins + no need to pay severance.
we already were famous with high workloads, and now there's even more. i'm looking elsewhere.
I got impacted by layoff on September 25th. I was the same way, just waiting to getting laid off. I didn't want to stay at TI considering the amount of workload that we had and imagining getting worse with reduced team size. It is stressful interviewing now, but not as stressful as working at TI and living with uncertainty everyday.
They used to push folks into early retirement if they needed to cut staff. If you're not early staff you can just become kind of invisible? It helps.
I just want to get laid. Smiles around, I say.
@OP same here, for the right package I'd leave with a smile 😃 Plus it could be a win-win of sorts if it helps someone else that desperately needs their job to keep it... Yes, how to bring this idea forward is the challenge...