My colleague was part of RIF on Friday and during the call he was told he was not allowed to say anything to anyone. Why is that? Its been now almost a week that this person is "gone" and no one on the team mentioned that he was part of the wave. Seems sketchy. colleague mentioned that they did get a package so wasn't "fired", so my next question is that a req was opened on Friday and will close tomorrow and its very similar to their job that they did. I am so confused.
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I was laid-off 2020 centralization. I was forced to work for a month before my last day. I was told under no circumstances was I to tell my colleagues I was laid off. My LD did not give me a reason as to why I couldn't tell anyone. The most she would reveal is that she had to layoff two reports and I was one out of two She basically put the fear into me not to say sh-t until I was out of there. I never signed a NDA . The day it happened, I noticed her calendar had two appointments for 1:1 meetings. I was one of those meetings and I saw who the other one was with. Put two and two together and bingo. The other person figured it out too and contacted me right after her meeting to tell me (cell text). She basically had the same story. We didn't say sh-t to anyone else and just supported each other for a month.
Besides the Indio fear of losing my servance I also didn't say anything because I did not want to burn bridges because I had every intention to come back. It's in your best interest with and without an NDA if your boss tells you to keep your layoff status to yourself, you do it. Wait until your severance runs out then find something like this site to vent.
We are in a small industry here folks. Don't burn bridges and keep yourself open to networking.
We all have generic titles. This post makes no sense.
Possiblely they su-k or they have a high salary and HR can get that position at a lower base.
Layoffs is about scaling back $$.
From the original anon poster: well from the req, the hiring manager is the colleagues old manager and its an internal posting only. So if they were riffed, why would a similar job be open under his manager with the riffed employees title and very similar job description. Like is there anyway to question why someone is laid off and a new person is hired to do what seems like the same job? Is the team just using this layoff opportunity to get rid of people they personally don't like? Just curious since it sounds so fishy.
Well if you are a real current employee why haven't you taken the req code into your cvs internal jobs to locate the hiring manager and job code?
I am calling catfish on this thread. The tolls on this website is outstanding.
Are you saying that they are replacing him with someone else?
Fishy. Sounds like he told u!