Pretty sad you had 900 questions and you couldn’t even have the meeting for the entire hour, instead you choose to end early with the thought “if you decide to leave now, just wait, those other companies lay people off too”
That was …. interesting
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The chief information officer said “after doing what we just did to expect people to do the same work with less people would be a failure “ well guess what that’s what we are now doing !! More work because we don’t even know who is gone
There are so many “ gaps “ that they unknowingly created , making consultant driven decisions without even looking at how work gets done . We got rid of the very best people , not the low producers.
Decisions that made NO sense made by one or two people that never knew who did what - good luck getting back a “ people first” culture.
The Fortune 100 Ag Company across town hasn't done any mass layoffs. The only layoffs they've really done are at the VP level (maybe 7?). Just sayin'.
I also admired how he started the call with "you're the one ones who had been asking for a more simplified company anyway"
So really it's our fault 🙄
Some other leader just called this company a "multi generational family wealth preservation tool" - ha I thought we were here to nourish the world??? Nourish some pockets more like it 💸
“We had 900+ questions. But here are the 8 we had pre written to serve our own storyline. We will share only these 8, then leave early, even though we booked 1 hour for all 160,000, sorry, 152,000 employees.”
To hear about the town hall this morning just made me enraged. To brag about accomplishing this goal in 36 hours and then to threaten your employees with “other companies do layoffs too” sick individuals.
I enjoyed the reluctant acknowledgement that they'd been blatantly ignoring the death of an employee
That's like the typical line an abuser sneers at their victim, within an abusive relationship, "Don't even THINK of leaving! You'll NEVER find anyone as good as ME!"
Then they proceed to give another smackdown resulting in more heartbreak and a black eye.
“if you decide to leave now, just wait, those other companies lay people off too”
The biggest joke is , I am a laid off employee and my calendar had this meeting invite sent, plus my teams is still active and got a notification to join. So if they are talking about handling this greatly, I am sorry did they expect me to be there to hear their bs, and talk about how their is no good time for layoffs so we chose the right before Christmas.
Not highlighting the fact that professionally is the worst time to be laid off as no resume are going to be looked at or interviews are going to be scheduled until after the new years . All that for speed and agility.
Wait, someone actually said something about other companies laying people off too? That's unbelievable.
Hahaha....WOW... I'm a layed off person....just here for the comments... Cargill employees drinking the Kool aid and putting heavy lipstick on in the mirror...
"Yep....everything is fine...yep...all ok"
I can't imagine what kind of jackwagonism is going to be had at the end of the year reviews... Two levels of my bosses were canned too.
Telling people to “go google” other companies about layoffs if they are thinking of leaving was diabolical. Then ending early. Nah.
Is that serious what was said in the townhall? "If you decide to leave just wait, other companies are laying off too"??? I did not attend the TH, as a surviving employee I am pretty much checked out and plan to not stay a Cargill employee for too long.
Oh and be glad that we are family owned, I know Brian your job was at risk at before this and they are watching you, so you need to do this stunt, sorry but I am not grateful of being in a family owned company.
I hope comms or the executive team is doing a checkin on this board after today.
Sorry guys and gals, it didn’t go well. You say you need our help (without any concrete idea on what that even means) yet you left 98% of the company in the dark about your terrible plans. Gotcha, no thanks.
They were all over the place. They went from “We are doing this so we don’t have to do it again in the future” to “We hope to never have to do it again at this scale” to “This is really just a part of modernizing”. One person said it wasn’t driven by consultants while another said they had an external review and benchmarking that told them this was the path forward. I for one will absolutely be looking elsewhere
He really ended the meeting with what sounded like a threat, I’m speechless.
It’s a basic tactic of scaring people to look for a life outside of Cargill, they know they need us. Secondly the companies who do layoff also pay top dollar when the profits are soaring unlike internally where unrealistic targets are set .