Worked on State of Georgia account for 9 years.
I made it though Many rounds of cuts same story as about used abused and lied to.
Saw many many coworkers go very talented seasoned people 40's and 50's so if your not 25 get out now - we were cored. And forced to take on extra work unreasonable deadlines and dropped form 40 folks supporting the entire state computer systems down to 4. Yes 4. And thought we as our highly skilled team of 4 on call every other week - no overtime pay and no time to take flex.
And unwritten rule to work some weekends and holidays when outages occur. Then they pulled 2 of our cards of the 4. March 2. I wasted no time didn't muck with the right management garbage paid by IBM and hit the streets full bore and found my new job in 4 weeks - I never looked back - now get paid on call and paid OT work and yes I'm exempt status salaried It's just how it should have been and ibm broke who knows how many laws making us work like that - I learned a lot worked with very knowledgeable people.
But god bless and help the last 2 that aRe there now - your cards coming as soon as they get columbia Missouri kids up to speed on what we do/ did. So all that to say. Start working on your resume now don't mess around and when your ibm boss pings ya in same time and says can I call you for a minute.
Your ready willing and have a plan - hit the ground running don't look back and use every waking moment applying for the Job YOU want and not waiting on one to roll around when the dust settles and sun sets you will be very happy