I’ve learned the hard way over my career that stressing over a job takes a devastating toll on your health and well-being. We also know performance has little to no impact on who gets laid off. Believing you can curry favor by working yourself raw, only to feel guilty later for not doing enough, helps no one. Do the bare minimum professionally, but don’t go the extra mile. Always be on the lookout for other opportunities. Don’t take anything personally, and stop stressing about office politics or the next potential layoff. Be good to yourself.
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@b6 Not always the case, sometimes they skip over the manager to have HR just deliver the news by surprise.
@b1 If you get laid off and they stay, then they knew and lied.
If you both get laid off, they were honest.
My manager says they know 'nothing' so who is lying?
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@a3 You'll see less of those types of dense posts, now that the reality and truth are out about the nature of these layoffs this year.
Amazon did the same exactly thing on the same day. You can find the types of people laid off there. Brilliant and mind numbingly top talent.
This post. They see you as a number, see them as a number too.
I’m waiting for the barrage of “don't listen, Imma shine” posts that ignore the reality of what layoffs are doing to us. There was a more “actively slowing” things post full of a lot of nonsense replies, but shared core message as you OP. Cigna don’t care about you if you aren’t in Hyderabad, so put your well being first.