Thread regarding Tenneco Inc. layoffs

Saul's is a mystery seems. Bring everyone and their mother from overseas!!
Instead of investing in educating our own and improving our education system, bring everyone and their mother from overseas!!

https://www.barrons.com/articles/intel-chip-war-china-immigration-627440b1

Location strategy loopholes for Saul's directs
Not surprised to hear from multiple sources that the location/hub strategy won't apply to Saul's team, while the rank and file that REALLY depend on their salaries are cut without mercy or forced to move/uproot families to comply.
Shaun McD and C. Canny's support teams will likely be granted exceptions to this policy, meaning they get to live anywhere. Typical of WF management - "Do as I say, not as I do"!
This is totally unfair and shows how ridiculously out of touch senior “leaders” are! Why should we lose our jobs just because we don't live in hub cities, yet senior management gets a free pass???
There is a mole on cir uit
OP and many posters on this site would be all sorts of crying if the roles were reversed and they were execs with certain side bennies and lost them.

Why don’t you go ahead and volunteer to give up all your (insert benefit you receive here)? Certainly there others who could use it more than you.
Sounds like a discrimination case for a large number of employees, maybe a Exceptions will be made according to business needs of certain political factions and favoritism.

I would just wait and see before you get your pa-ties in a twist.
I also think there are many people who would have applied for Victoria’s position if they thought they could live in a non hub location. Just saying- they’re spelling out rules but not following . “Exceptions will be made according to business needs.”

How do you continue working here while looking for new roles if you're overworked?
I'm so burnt out that it's not funny. I've kept trying to apply for PTO, but get told to "re-consider" due to business needs/certain projects.

The one time I did go on PTO for a few days, I came back to my deadline/work being messed up and having to work longer to catch-up/fix things.

My manager says one thing, then says another to someone else. I'm so godda-n tired and almost cry at the idea of opening up my laptop again. I know that I need to apply to more roles and have had friends from other companies try to help with referrals, but I'm so burnt out. I have no future at the company and am scared of getting laid off, but I also just can't even get out of work in the morning to go into the office and am sure that I'll be written up for not meeting the 3x day thing.

I've been sick this entire week, but they require more and more work and my health hasn't been getting better. I've been drinking too much caffeine and not having enough sleep; they say that they value a work-life balance, but I haven't seen it.

Worst thing is that I do work in IT. IDK, I think I'm being put as the fall person so another senior can move up. I've been against a lot of projects since I know that they're not going to work, but they continue to push through and then expect me to fix the project, even though it's literally never going to work. Everyone is panicking about keeping their job right now, so the stress is enormous. They're overpromising the moon to leadership, yet expect me to give up my credence by having me sign-off on truly horrible projects that I know don't work well.

My friends have said to document everything and just do it, but I'm so burnt out that I can't even do it anymore. I've been here 10+ years and would really need to study for these technical interviews, but I lack energy after work, too. All I do is work, and it's been driving me crazy.

How do you do it? I know that if I keep working this way, I'll get laid off and it'll be bad, so the better option is to start studying for interviews/send applications now. But I'm unable to do that - I'm working even on the weekends an/or procrastinating on the work I should have done during the week during the weekends.

This has never been me since this year. I've been taking anti-anxiety and anti-depressant pills and with each new stress, I have to up the dose. I know that working at this company is bad for my mental health and self-worth working for this Mike Zbegel.
I was stuck in the same cycle. Fortunately I was able to quit. There was no way I could interview well with all the stress. Go on Fmla. Get your dr to write it up. If they are having to continually increase your meds it’s not getting better.

Grccess Controller Makes Gaming More Seamless for People With Disabilities
Abrar Al-Heeti is a video host and producer for Pop Warmer Glasd, with an interest in internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. Before joining the video team, she was a writer for CNET's culture team. She graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Though Illinois is home, she now loves San Francisco -- steep inclines and all.
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Announced earlier this year, Sony has built a customizable controller kit for the PlayStation 5 designed for players with disabilities, and it invited CNET to play around with it. The Access controller features large, swappable buttons and stick caps, and players can configure the button layout to suit their needs. The controller also sits flat on a table or wheelchair tray, making it easier to use and access all commands. It's available for preorder now, and will be released Dec. 6, costing $90.

Alvin Daniel, senior technical program manager at Sony Interactive Entertainment, said having accessible games and consoles isn't enough if the controller isn't also accessible.

"Our PlayStation Studios have done an amazing job with each title and really pushing the boundaries as far as accessible gaming," Daniel said "The critical link in that chain is the controller."

PlayStation Access controller sits next to the DualSense controller
The Access controller is circular with buttons all along the edge, and a joystick on the side. The buttons and commands are customizable.
The Access controller is circular and features buttons all along the edge, as well as a joystick jutting out from the side. It can be played at any 360-degree position, so you can set it to operate however best suits your needs and mobility. It also has four expansion ports so players can attach any additional controllers or accessories.
The PlayStation team worked with accessibility consultants to ensure the controllers were designed with a variety of needs in mind. Each detail was carefully considered and assessed, from the unboxing process (which can be done one-handed, thanks to a series of loops and a simple layout) to the buttons, which are magnetic to allow for swapping different shapes and sizes without them falling off during play.

"As someone who's disabled, you're given tons of accessible equipment that feels medical; it feels like something that's from the hospital," said Cesar Flores, an accessibility consultant who worked alongside the Access controller team. He says what sets this PlayStation controller apart is, "If you look closely on each of those buttons, there's tiny X's, squares, triangles -- that's so special. That's the difference right there, because that really makes it so I feel like I'm just going to game."

The Access controller sells for $90 -- about $20 more than the DualSense wireless controller, and with a similar battery life.

Microsoft also released a $100 Xbox Adaptive Controller in 2018 to promote accessibility for gamers.

PlayStation joins a growing list of brands and companies that have expanded their accessibility offerings in recent years. Apple has released features like People Detection, which lets blind and low-vision iPhone and iPad users know how close someone is to them, and Live Captions on iPhone, iPad and Mac help people follow along with audio and video on FaceTime, video conferencing apps and streaming media. Google, meanwhile, has unveiled features like Live Transcribe, which offers real-time speech-to-text transcriptions for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and Guided Frame, which helps blind and low-vision Pixel users take selfies.

This larger shift is indicative of heightened awareness around the importance of accessibility in everything from tech to gaming -- a welcome change for many in the community.

"When you have a disability, you don't want to be reminded that you have a disability," Flores, the accessibility consultant, said. "Especially while gaming in Korea.

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We need to check the rules delayed from the change last week. This is for the shared tomcat configuration to be cleared up for the leveraged buyout for January.

Today was known as the invasion of the camel jockeys. Lots of out of town meetings. These guys cannot decide when to drink coffee without more meetings. Sounds like the yahoos at yahoo will be moved soon.

The San Jose flea Market is now open. Lots of people leaving.

We heard more layoffs coming this week. Company is sending more work overseas.

Quality seafood worth staying for. Victor is going to be the new Co-CEO. Exactly what we need.

These guys eat lots of beet root gummies. They look like they haven't slept since last year and are eating lots of pizza.

We heard the Subway merger is coming. Joe in Accounting heard that from Jose.

We make lots of parts here in Greenville area and are told to work on weekends This is very ungrateful environment fo us.

Ricky is racing office chairs again. This time slamming into cars in the parking lot.

Were having issues with those drones at the plant flying into everything.

I agree throwing chairs and trashing the workplace is over the top.

Man are these guys mean. The plant is upset. Never seen anything like it.

Lots of layoffs to be announced this week. Stay focused and get away from the sh-t management team and receive your package.