Why should I work now for people who have been fired this round? It’s not like this place has a future and me in it. All I can expect after years of hard work and dedication is to be laid off on a dime, like many other talented and good people we’ve been watching being let go day after day. I’m not motivated and I’m not ashamed of it. Bare minimum for the company from now on, and max effort into looking for other job opportunities.
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When I see multiple people with 10, 15, 20, 25, and even a few with 29 years with the org laid off it is obvious they don't care. 29 years in a dales role that still pulled in above the set metrics and she was dumped like dirt. 4 months from retirement. Due to the layoff, she lost the last stock option vest. Ot was obvious these layoffs was a money layoff, not a talent one. If it was talent then more people that only cost the org money that do nothing 30 to 40 percent of their day would have been laid off. Enterprise Security, I'm looking right at you... A CISO that is lazy, a Compliance manager that Mico manages and spins work in circles to give the appearance she is doing something, a threat manager that has no security background leading a SOC and truly walks around chatting with people all day (she spends more time gossiping than working, and her work is meetings to tell people what to do only), a security manager that does keyboard access all day that any other admin can do for 1/3 of the salary, a physical security manager that you can never see online, and half the SOC Analysts spend their days watching YouTube videos. How about cleaning that group up?
Gen z and Millennials figured this out a long time ago
The acquiring company may value you a great deal, hang tight.
A lot of companies act in the shareholders' interest, but this company's inept leadership keeps making one poor decision after another. It won't get better until there are major changes at the Director levels and up that know what they're doing. Until then shareholder value will continue to evaporate.
Well, I reckon there ain’t much else to say but Godspeed. Time to spruce up that resume and start huntin’ for another gig. Gotta get used to it, partner—companies these days are all about keepin’ the shareholders happy, not so much lookin’ out for the folks doin’ the work. Hang in there!