Recieved an invite to a meeting with an operations manager in about a week or so - meeting invite has no information as to what it is. About 40-45 of us from various departments. It's gonna be some RA thing right? I assumed it would be done 1:1 but maybe this I just quicker for them haha.
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This is definitely a precursor checkpoint to something big. If you know in your gut that you will be axed (third quarter results will be reported in a few months) I would definitely start looking elsewhere like outside or if remotely possible another flourishing division within (if this even exists, all employees are on pins and needles these day)
All the best
typical of IBM, all so pathetic
Can you say what day the meeting is scheduled for? The RA is probably the same day, so that would be useful for the rest of us.
@1odu is right
You likely survived
As far as I know, RA's are given 1:1. If you're being called into a meeting out of the blue like that, I expect that you've survived this round, and that the meetiing will be to announce to all of those that have "survived" that RA's have occurred in your team. The standard line goes like this: "There have been RA's on our team. If you're on this call/in this meeting you still have a job. We cannot tell you who received an RA, only that there is more than one on this team that was given out." ...they will not provide much more detail than that. I believe the intent of doing it this way is to maximize retention. Not telling you who was cut kind of helps to keep all of you who survived a little more in denial about the fact of what just happened. So rather than having a conscious visceral reaction, you have a more muted general sense of unease that nags at you, but is hopefully not quite enough to run you off.