I was laid off mid April due to “lack of work/downsizing” and have been gone maybe 3 months. I received a call asking if I would like to come back. Has this happened to anyone else?
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What?!? I am not judging here but holy cr-p. If you laid me off then came back to me 2 weeks later saying “oops we messed up and laid off too many of you come on back” I would literally tell them to go f-themselves. How dare you toss me like trash and now when it suits you ask me for a favor? The sheer stress and anxiety you caused in my life tells me to toss you like a bad habit. Not to mention the fact that if I made the list once and escaped— I am for sure on the next list to go. No thanks. Prolonging my pain is not what I’m about
no u didnt lol
I was RIFd in July, I was offered my job back 2 weeks later, saying they laid off too many people. Waiting for the axe to drop in October again, but collecting the paycheck and 401k match until then.
If you go back, only go back with 25% increase on your previous salary
It happened to our department but almost 2 years out
Everything is based off of business needs in every sector. I understand that we employees are the driving force of what makes this company run but at the same time this company is so needy to the point your needs and life doesn't matter. They need better organization and management. If they have to call people back, schedule mandatory overtime on regular schedules and days off in any sector, then they should reconsider layoffs. I mean they contacted you back within three months. How disorganized can a company be? I'm hoping secure something a lot better but there's really no perfect job.
Ok, so Optum acquired our company. In less than a year, so as to avoid paying options, many senior employees with institutional knowledge were let go, before Optum understood the contractual requirements which called for this team. Well, they are now hiring for those roles, paying substantially more. Members of the RIFed team are split where most feel betrayed by the prior layoff and won’t go back and then others who actually need the job and $ and or have non competes. If you do go back, you know what you’re getting into and should take appropriate defensive steps to work at this place again.
As for me, not on your life as it’s like going back to a lover who repeatedly cheated on you. A definite nope.
Yes, lots of directors layoff older / more tenured employees intentionally as they have the institutional knowledge and push back better at bad steps.
We’ve seen many times other leaders then try to hire them back.
Lot's of people, especially in the more specialized parts of the business. I got requested to interview for a role ~ 6 months after getting cut. Found out later I was the only person requested, and that I had the job default, as long as I didn't hurl slurs at the interviewer or something. 40% pay increase over my old job was enough to get me to agree to come back.
There have been a LOT of cuts in the last year where Finance was swinging the axe based on the person's tenure and title, and not by the actual work they were doing and areas of actual responsibility. This has lead to a lot of cases where they ended up cutting people who were the single point of contact for critical operations or the sole remaining holder of some important piece of institutional knowledge. Results in either re-on boarding or replacing these people have been decidedly mixed.
"Lack of work" is a BS excuse in this org, there is so much stuff that just isn't getting done/worked due to lack of resources