I can’t help but notice a majority who were let go haven’t been seen in their cube for weeks or even years in some cases. After we were all told to come to work 5 days a week unless remote is approved. Did you think they wouldn’t notice or did you just not care if laid off. Just curious.
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Bias is a big part of leadership decision making. Experience bias, affinity bias, and recency bias are the most popular choices.
It really is amazing to see the Management Apologists who come on here and seem to be upset with employees venting honest frustrations. What is broken inside a person that you would be a Seagate Homer at this point. Some folks are just Koolaid drinkers I guess or maybe need a little time with a Psychiatrist. If you are a Homer please explain to the rest of us how we got it all wrong about Seagate’s pitiful state of affairs brought on by horrible management decisions! Way too many overpaid underworked managers at Seagate with even less reports, seems fine what could be bad about that.
A few months age I saw results of a survey I maybe wasn’t supposed to see. Employee dissatisfaction with company was approaching a historic high. One of the leading complaints was the back to office push, another was all the ways IT is restricting laptops.
It was implied that senior management was going to back down, that the above, plus the wildly unpopular 40 hr requirement, plus bonuses being cancelled, plus the impending action, was all too much.
Yeah I volunteered to my manager like a month ago. Manager came back a week later saying "sorry can't get your name on the list this round." WTF do I need to do to get laid off LOL
I was laid off by a boss that has been retired on the job for over 10 years. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one.
To "Only in it for the severance": If you want to get laid off, and would consider that "lucky," then volunteer to get laid off. Tell your boss and give your boss the option to get rid of you instead of someone else in order to meet his required layoff "quota."
Then, you'll get the stupid severance package you so desperately want, and someone who doesn't want to get laid off (and may suffer serious financial consequences because of a layoff) will be spared that trauma.
There's someone who needs their job but is getting laid off for some immaterial "bean-counter" reason (too young, too old, too new, salary a bit over some arbitrary line...), and if you'd volunteered because you actually want to be laid off, they could have kept their job.
So many people who are "only in it for the severance" are a big part of the problem these days. It's sad and pathetic. What happened to work ethic--doing a good job because it's the right thing to do, doing a good job because that makes you a better person (not just a better employee)...? If you're unhappy at a job and not putting in the work, then leave, and let someone who wants/needs the job and will DO the job take your place.
this is a great 'old man yells at cloud' post, whether it was meant as satire or not
I really didn't care.
Working @ sgate during the pandemic was a cursed blessing.
The fever dream is over.
Some managers pushed return to office, but others said nothing.
There is no evidence for a connection between who was laid off and who was working remote. There is also zero connection between remote work and current financial issues.
I was hoping it would cause them to let me go. Didn't work. Still at home, crushing it. Oh well. Maybe I'll get lucky in the next round coming up.