Do you think your supervisor has control on who gets dismissed ? Or does it come as a surprise to him/her on the day of the layoff ? What is criteria ? Assuming you had a good review, of course.
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Supervisors had no say at all. I was a supervisor - now I am not. In my group there were better workers let go that made less money and we were forced to keep some that made more money that are not good workers. A little insight from people on the ground level should have been taken into account before these decisions were made.
No i do not think that my supervisor had any say in the decision. I think it was more a manager/VP level thing.
No they did not. Management took reviews, salary, age and who knows whatever other info they used (it certainly was personal knowledge) and handed down their decisions. Supervisors were just as worried and insecure as all the rest of us.
A vice-president who voluntarily left "nominated" almost 70% of the people under him including one manager who flagrantly brown nosed him. The company kept that manager.
The few workers left will be micromanaged by a manager that can't give decide what he wants then has the employees redo the project because of his indecision and inability to give directions in the first place. Considering the management and their increased workloads the remaining employees are already beginning to believe the ones laid off are lucky.
Of course they did. They where asked to rank their employees.
Managers only.
I was a Supervisor who got cut. I had no idea who in my group was going to stay or go.
Yes. Absolute yes. My sup hated the ones cut and manager didn't even know them.
My supervisor did not know until the day before....managers made the decision in my group.
Only the manager decides
I saw several supervisors handed white envelopes the day before the non-management level layoffs. I heard from multiple sources that these contained the identities of the employees chosen for the layoffs. From what I can tell, the decisions were made by managers and above, not by the supervisors.
From what I understand, supervisor has no hand in the decision. They didn't find out the day of layoffs, but it wasn't long before they happened.