I wish they gave us more notice before this layoff, maybe 6 months. That would give us time to get our affairs in order and enough time to prove our worth to our respective VPs.
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correct, it's a rolling 6 month layoff routine, instead of doing a block style where they dump "a block" of employees all at once, say 40%, the swoosh is going for the same effect, but incrementally over years. Likely because they can't handle the chaos or organize something that large scale, whatever the reasons, the end result is the same
so do you want to stay here with the high swoosh salary and live in this atmosphere and always wondering, or jump ship and be somewhere that actually communicates with employees
If you survive this next layoff, I would consider that your 6 month (to 2 year) notice.
Then repeat after the next layoff and the one after that, and the one after that….
with the state of affairs, and the state of the job market in IT in general, if you had a job offer for a similar salary, less but close, less benefits, hard to match the swoosh, would you take it, or hold out at the swoosh for the 'promise' of long term employment for the extra 20k+ per year, maybe 30k if staying, but of course high risk.
that might be a d-mb question, I think anyone reading this just laughed?
Six months would be very cruel. Four months was awful for everyone. It doesn’t motivate people, it depresses them. It is very hard to get work done.
6 months!!? Are you out of your mind, buddy?!? Are you sure you are working in the right place?!?
OP is Nike blue pill
6 months of anticipation and demotivation? That what you want? OP, wake up, you are part of the problem
CFO MF should get one day notice before getting kicked out
You should be "proving your worth" all the time by doing things that are meaningful to the business. Why do you need to get 6 months notice to begin showing value?
There’s this thing called “At Will Employment”. It’s an HR policy that is downplayed or not even mentioned. I recommend all Nike FTEs to get familiar with that policy. Just search the HR site. The sooner you accept that policy the better off your career will be.
You should have been looking. D-mb in your part to wait for notice. You can’t just hang out at Bike and pretend things are ok.
I want Nike to fail and be a textbook case study