Asked my manager straight if I am part of the layoffs. He seemed to be unaware and pretended that he didn’t know much. Either he’s on the chopping block with me or is playing d-mb. I do see a 15 min slot booked on his caleder tomorrow at 9:30. 😂
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@OP nice try. They would never show their hand before the prescribed time. I had a manager warn me the night before via a phone call that something was going down the next day but I wasn't impacted. She wanted to ease my mind as my husbands company was doing rifs the same week. Very stressful. That's the only time I ever was told ahead of time. All other managers I had at Fido played dummy - whether it was about rifs, upcoming vbos or org changes
My manager did the same! Said they haven’t been made aware of anything and doesn’t know what to expect as far as communications tomorrow. Made me think they are a damn good liar or also impacted. God speed
i keep noticing how fast a workplace rumor stops being a rumor and starts feeling like weather... like something in the air everybody is breathing whether they believe it or not. one anonymous post says layoffs are coming Tuesday, another says Thursday, somebody else says mid-May, June, end of May, this week, next week, who even knows anymore?? and people say dont panic, dont treat forum posts as fact, dont amplify anonymous claims... but the panic is already in the room by then. its already under the door. its already sitting in peoples calendars and stomachs and group chats.
Notifying managers cannot say anything about the RIF - they are following the policies and instructions given by HR.
If you manager is not a “notifying manager” that means that they don’t know anything and are most likely part of the RIF and their manager will be the one doing the notifications (to your manager and their directs).
It truly stinks being in the position of having to deliver these messages in the first place, but being put in the position of having to lie to “do their job” is one of the worst parts of this - and believe me most managers are tearing themselves up over all of this.