Thread regarding Nielsen layoffs

I'm in for $100, and just give me the date.

It's funny seeing people on the news locked arm to arm across a highway to bring attention to something ... throwing paint on historic paintings ... outside a corporate headquarters protesting being treated unfairly, but ...

We at Nielsen, 5000+ US workers strong could take 1 simple action ... to not show up to work in say XX amount of days while refusing to train offshore workers ... while also banding together to contribute $$$ into a pot to get a top tier workers compensation law firm on retainer ... to then see client deliverable start to be affected, and real change starting to (quickly) happen.

Current and released colleagues would all pitch in and benefit. Hedge fund owners and Nielsen are betting on that not happening though.

Not taking down corporate America, but we have more power over the situation than you think, and it all starts with one simple action = not showing up and not training anyone, and watching it unravel.

No, just keep laying down time after time and the problem will correct itself … while arguing with anyone online that disagrees with you.

That will most indeed create change. Champ.

Again, mad at the wrong side and doing what your owners want you to do - keeping the focus off of them and hating on your own.

Maybe get a set one day and start turning the ship. Otherwise keep taking your beatdowns, and accepting of these situations. No-one said this was going to be easy or comfortable, but requires sacrifice from all involved.

Yeah we’re gonna take down capitalist America by walking out of Nielsen. Get real. You’re just a self righteous di-k who wants to make people feel worse in an already sh---y situation.

Yeah … because being shafted by big corporations and “moving on” to be comfortable and stress free is your answer, so therefore you put up no resistance and take what your owners think you deserve, and tell your colleagues they should be doing the same?

That by itself is the definition of being a sheep, and the reason why American workers are treated in this fashion. You’re more a part of the problem than the answer, and deserving of what you end up losing.

“The best way to get back at Nielsen at this point is to get another job, work both and ride it out.”

Exactly. Thank you. Regardless of how much OP slings the word sheep around, it’s clear that at this point a walkout would solve nothing. Put yourself first and milk this company for all you can then get out. No need to add even more stress to your life.

Of course that's legal, there is literally space on the W4 for it.

The best way to get back at Nielsen at this point is to get another job, work both and ride it out.

Is that legal? Can you have two full time jobs legally?

The best way to get back at Nielsen at this point is to get another job, work both and ride it out.

We are WAY past the point of a walkout fixing anything. Nielsen is done, sweetheart. It will NEVER be back to how it was for the US employees, anyways.

Don’t do anything any Nielsen except clock in or acknowledge you’re “there” but don’t get anything done. Or the bare minimum. It’s practically impossible to get fired at Nielsen. Or at least it takes months.

Get your LinkedIn ready. Work with your team to set up connections and write each other recommendations on there. Write each other letters of recommendations on a document with Nielsen letterhead (search the drive for this, it’s available for anyone).

Utilize chat GPT for this and helping write your LinkedIn descriptions. Spruce up your job title that you had at Nielsen (within reason). Change your status to looking for work. Don’t underestimate LinkedIn!

Be willing to start at another company at a lower level if need-be and work your way up (look at job site reviews to see what people say about being promoted or see how the interview feels when talking about the path forward to promotions) while in this transition phase of “working” both jobs.

While earning two paychecks, pay off your monthly expenses (car payment, large credit card payments, etc.) if possible.

If you get stuck at a lower level position at the new company and then get laid off at Nielsen, hopefully the lower salary will be ok with the lower monthly bills you now have + severance.

At least you have already set yourself up though with a new job and you can give yourself some peace of mind.

A walkout will only be successful if it has a negative impact on client deliverables; as long as enough sheep stay around to make sure the works gets done, it will have no impact.

I'm not sure that a walkout or other form of mass protest would actually achieve anything except cause the participants (or ringleaders at least) to be put on a ”Fire these fokkers immediately" list.

If the board, the owners, management, and C-suite were actually human instead of all being reeking sacks of undigested smelly brown stuff, it might have had the hoped-for effect. But as things stand right now, they're not going to give a cowf@rt. Without at least someone high-up being sympathetic to the protesters, my opinion - for what it's worth - is that such actions are at best useless and at worst actively harmful to those protesting.

Ditto for the media; I'm sure that the section of the media that covers the tech industry is well aware of what's going on, but they don't give a cowf@rt either. If they did, at the very least we'd be reading/hearing more about Nelsen's sneaky method of bypassing the WARN Act by doing the layoffs in tranches small enough to avoid triggering its provisions. Instead, the deafening silence is indictment enough.

Finally, I'll point out that in general, techies protesting things doesn't ultimately achieve much and in fact does lead to firings - cases in point being the Googlers fired over the years for taking part in various protests (there have been more than one or two). And of course the firings won't happen for taking part in a protest, but for bad performance or misconduct or violation of some bullcr@p policy or other - they can make up many plausible reasons for firing someone without being sued.

Yeah this isn’t a tv show. Good luck with that

"People aren’t sheep they’re just smart enough to know this would be a waste of their time."

I hardly call those walking away (sorry, being axed from their jobs while training their replacements) while happily accepting half of what they're entitled to for giving the company so many years of dedicated service as being "smart enough" in anything other than giving up.

Call it what you want as I'm not the enemy here ... your hedge fund owners are, and owning you they are at the moment - although asking for people to have a spine makes you the unpopular one too.

Good luck either way.

People aren’t sheep they’re just smart enough to know this would be a waste of their time.

Then by all means spend that energy on finding a new job ... while also standing up for yourself where you currently are. Why is that so hard to comprehend?

If you're ok with giving half your severance back to a hedge fund with billions then by all means go for that. 25 years with the company? I'd be fighting for every dollar that you've rightfully earned.

No-one is stopping anyone from being comfortable with giving up and walking away with whatever the company decided you were worth. Just don't expect everyone to be that kind of quitter.

Re: “lets now use humor and ignorance to address the more serious issue of not standing up for yourself or your colleagues”

Then stop continuing to use the analogy/calling people sheep?

Pick a lane, are people sheep for working together?

Or are they sheep for for being “cowardly” (though I’m confused on what you think is cowardly, supporting each other, or posting hostile comments anonymously online)

Not sure if you know where you are, but this anonymous website is a tool for workers to share information AKA ORGANIZE, if you want to “save your energy” then maybe stop getting mad?

Why would anyone waste their time? These jobs are barely paying us enough to support ourselves. Nielsen is a dead end company as it is. Why exhaust all that energy on a failing company? I’d rather spend the energy looking for another job while I wait for my severance.

"Lots of animals flock together .... blah blah blah"

Cute (Christine, Sujit?) so lets now use humor and ignorance to address the more serious issue of not standing up for yourself or your colleagues. Sorry, but there's just nothing cute to be said with that.

The real loss is only your job then half of your severance as of January, so feel free to stand on the sidelines while real leaders do their thing. The flock is expecting your return.

Lots of animals flock together, not just sheep. Finish the analogy, what are you? A lion? A wolf? Even they work together in a group. This is because billions of years have proven there is safety in numbers. In places where it’s legal, collective bargaining WORKS, that’s why some people try very hard to prevent it. A walkout could put peoples jobs and severance immediately at risk in places where workers aren’t protected, but solidarity in any form is powerful. Also leave sheep alone, as one of the first domesticated animals, society owes a lot to them.

A walkout will get a bunch of people fired without any severance and the owners/c-suite will take that as a win and pat themselves on the back. Spend your energy on searching for a new job.

Herd mentality with sheep always being true to what they are. Sheep.

Great working around such blah, uninspired people with no ba**s whatsoever.

If layoffs are what you expect … then expect to get what you wish.

But you should also then stop complaining about your situation, as you do absolutely nothing to try and change it.

Just give it up, people are just waiting to be told that they have been laid off. No one is going on strike. No one cares what the employees think. Nielsen will continue and everyone on this board needs to just move on.

Give it up. Back in 2007 even when outsourcing was less accepted as it is today by our society, folks "protesting" at Nielsen had zero impact. In fact Fox News and other cable outlets briefly reported on all the jobs going to Indians in Oldsmar after the Tata deal was completed by that low life Habib, yet it had no effect in hindering the outsourcing nor did it bring any shame to mgt. Here we are 16 years later and our culture just accepts this now as common corporate tactics, so not worth your time. Move on. Life after Nielsen is good.

The time to do this was at least 2 years ago.

Rumor say that Jimmy Hoffa make plan to reappear with jar of gypsy tears to organize union… WAWAWEEWA!!!! HIGH FIVE!!!!

‘GREAT SUCCESS!’ After being fired for job abandonment & being handily replaced, my landlord forces me into a ‘walkout’ of my apt., and the only ‘negotiating’ I’m then involved in relates to top bunk vs bottom bunk at the homeless shelter….’KING IN THE CASTLE, KING IN THE CASTLE’…

LOL. U mad bro?

Totally agree. They’re expecting us to live in fear and do nothing while they exploit us to benefit their corporate greed. But the reality is that we have them by the ba--s if we all come together.

Let’s organize, get numbers behind us and forward this thread and our stories to the media outlets. As the Olympics approach, let’s all take a month off and start negotiations.