For a skilled senior manager within BofA, firing someone is a pretty straightforward exercise. It just takes a bit of patience and an ability to game the system of documenting alleged shortcomings by the chosen employee. I witnessed a well-orchestrated hit on a Band 3 work to perfection starting with a coordinated assault using the 360 review process followed up by interim reviews with negative business partner input (pre-arranged) that led to a DNM on the How. Follow that up with an impossible to meet Corrective Action Plan, and your decision to fire can be bullet proof. In an environment like we have today where managers have every incentive to cut staff, the task gets easier. You just need to force rank someone as a weak "Meets/Meets" and when the next round of layoffs arrives you have his/her head on a platter. This is not and never has been about fairness or doing the right thing. It is realpolitik BofAML style.
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they can let us go from their miserable company but they can not control our destiny, it was a blessing in disguise to be laid off....
This is exactly how it works! Get your resumes ready and start looking ahead of the performance reviews. This will allow you to be mentally prepared to deal with the BOGUS "did not meets" that you may get! The game here is control; they want to control you down to the exact action as to when they say jump, you jump. How good or productive you are is not important, what is important is that you jump when they say you jump. Was watching a good show about Joseph Stalin last night and it seems that the political wranglings and brutality that is going on here would be in line with his ideals.
Little children do not want the new readers to be reminded of previous posts. Sounds like human resources trying to cover up. We need to stop the same boring re-posts of what building are lying off over and over, every day to create panic. Let’s hear about real experience on the tormented games to help everyone out. It is called staying ahead of the game. How are they eliminating you!!!.
my position was not eliminated, they simply stated that me being laid off is based on my performance eventhough i was number one on the reports and doing great but my previous review did not reflect that no matter how much i tried my manager put me as do not meet expectation. i truly believe that it was intentional
Actually you're making it way more complicated than it is. They just tell you your position has been eliminated and that's it. No need to over think it or over engineer the process.
Stop re-posting your same posts as new posts and in response to other posts.
Yeah, read that earlier-same post updated, I guess.