Instead, what I've been noticing are ongoing small layoffs that are likely to continue. A person here and there, this team getting trimmed this month, a project getting canceled the next... Stuff like that. Ask around if you haven't noticed this happening already.
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I see some people in org chart has on leave right next to their name. Does anyone know if they are in forced leave or layoff ?
They layoff people and bury others with the back log of work... While they take away admin rights from server engineers, build engineers, and all the other people responsible for getting applications and servers built and keeping them running... While keeping administrator rights for "special" security/IT teams that have no clue how the systems work; so they can knock them offline by not knowing what they're doing.
I still don't know how they think servers get built and applications are brought online if no one ever has admin rights to any of the servers. Or how do they think applications stay online, if no one is allowed to be an administrator of them, or the systems they run on.
If people can't develop automation because they can't have rights to dev servers, or rights to their own machine to create it... And absolutely no one can have rights to access a console anymore to do the work... Then who builds the servers and apps, and how? Do they even know what the "tech" in Fintech stands for?
It's only a matter of time before customer facing apps start falling offline, and then corporate apps. Eventually the C-suite gets an "invitation" to talk to congress, after taking a chunk out of the US economy or decimating a banking customer or two.
Whatever mind altering substances they're using are the best money can buy. Since I know they're not spending that money on tech or people who know how to run it.
Are the walking paths at the Polaris office heavily utilized
Right...we have development with local admin rights to production servers.
Not just that, but there are teams taking on work from other teams that shouldn't have this level of access.
March 2025
March 2025? What happened to Dec? Did we run out of our severance budget?
How do you know India is next with 10%?
Wrong. India is going to get hit next. 10%.
March 2025.
My division has a LOT of remotes. It's been over a year and after they declined to move there has been no update. So, I wonder if they will be touched this year.
Winter is coming
Because there aren’t masses of remotes left to lay off.
Why do you feel there will not be mass layoff of remote employees as all the rumors indicate ?
Small layoffs have been occurring since FB took over First Data and continued after the merger. It’s the way this regime prefers to operate. The end result is the same but by doing it this way they avoid having to notify state and local governments as well as avoiding a negative write-up in the local paper.