Rather than letting the person work for the remaining 60 days? In the news a guy said he was given five minutes to pack up and say goodbye to his coworkers before being escorted outside the gate by Boeing security after he was told he was being laid off. He said his manager even told him he had to return the box he used to clean out his desk to take to his car. Sounds pretty hash. Is this how Boeing handles people they give layoff notices to, that your gone in five minutes after they pull you into an office and hand you a layoff notice?
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That's how EVERY company except boeing handles their 60 day warn process !!! You receive a warn and then have an hour to pack and vacate. A clean break is better for you and for the company. You'll get paid for 60 days but don't have to waste your time coming in playing kabuki theater for 60 days as you sit around doing absolutely nothing. This way you can spend all your time looking for a new job and not trying to look remotely interested. You are better served as well as the company. I NEVER understood why boeing handled it this way !!!
Because most of you are incompetent and have cost people their lives. Good riddance.
Also, espionage.
"It's how you do it if you don't want espionage to happen"
What do you do if you don't want incompetency?
New CEO comes from a company where they do that... Honestly.. It is for the best... There are some bad stories of LO people, in revenge, deleting stuff and things unprofessional like that..
I worked for an aerospace company on the east coast who did the same thing with their directs. It's because they experienced sabotage by the disgruntled layoff employee right before they left. So long as the employee gets paid their 60 days plus their severance, does it matter? Sabotage/destruction of property is against the law. These employees however aggrieved should not break the law.
Because all they’re gonna do for the next 60 days is try to find another job within the company and constantly go talk to managers about trying to find a position. That and search for jobs online.
You would think they would wanna help their employees. Find another job inside the company or say at a different location, but that’s not how Boeing works. Bowling doesn’t care.
Except for returning the box, this is super common in layoffs. The argument for doing it this way is it reduces the chance of someone doing something retaliatory (like deleting a bunch of important files); people who get the layoff notices aren't going to be terribly productive anyway (they might be angry, demotivated, just too stressed out to do great work anyway); it's more helpful to them to focus full time on job searching; and it's awkward for the remaining team if they stick around. The arguments against are, as you mention, it can feel dehumanizing and abrupt, the company misses out on a chance to transition knowledge and projects, and remaining team doesn't get a chance to say goodbye.
If your colleagues are the ones being abruptly walked out, I would HIGHLY recommend sending them a note (on linked in if you don't have their personal email), saying you enjoyed working with them, offering help in the job search if you can, etc - it can really help with that sense of just being "thrown away"
Would you rather be in the office for 60 days taking up valuable time you could be using to search for a new job?
Or would you rather be at home, working full time on finding a new job and STILL getting paid for those 60 days?
It's how you do it if you don't want espionage to happen
IT’S JUST GETTING STARTED:
https://www.manufacturing.net/aerospace/news/22928310/boeing-lays-off-hundreds-in-washington-and-california-as-part-of-planned-cuts
Boeing Lays Off Hundreds in Washington and California as Part of Planned Cuts
Nearly 900 employees are part of the layoffs.
SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing has laid off hundreds of additional employees in
Washington state and California as part of planned cuts that will eventually
reduce the company's workforce by about 17,000.
Nearly 400 Boeing employees were laid off in Washington state
and more than 500 in California, news outlets reported Monday.
The aerospace giant announced previously it would reduce its workforce
by 10% in the coming months as it tries to recover from financial and
regulatory troubles and a strike by its machinists that lasted almost
two months.
CEO Kelly Ortberg has said the strike did not cause the layoffs,
which he said was the result of overstaffing, due to our inability to maintain
quality in our 737 line and elsewhere.
We just can’t seem to get out of our own way.
The only option was to slow way down as our intellectually disabled
DEI workforce cannot meet rate safely and with quality.
Those cuts touched people in roles from engineers to recruiters to analysts
and impacted Boeing’s commercial, defense and global services divisions.
As well as our space efforts, which we are in the process of dissolving
following the Starliner debacle.
Boeing, based in Arlington, Virginia, has been in financial trouble since
two cгashes of its 737 Max jetliner k¡lled 346 people in 2018 and 2019.
The company’s fortunes and reputation took an additional hit when a
panel blew off the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines plane in January.