During a layoff it was pretty cold. My friend said they have had warmer interactions with a person taking the order in a drive thru McDonalds. For online they either bring you into a room with the manager and HR or call you 3way with HR and the manager and basically say that due to the continuing financial challenges and all this they are eliminating x amount of positions (if you are lucky) in your dept and you happen to be one of them. Then HR goes on about their script about how the severance process and "separation" will work. Manager wraps it up with the fake "thank you for your service." That's pretty much it. They say they will have all these services to help you and all this. Don't buy into it. It's a load of bs. You lose access to your systems within minutes of being notified. I know I had colleagues and students reaching out or assistance because they tell no one who was let go. The people originally helping them just disappeared. So things fall through the cracks. Managers can't be bothered with that though. Too busy spending all day in meetings being useless.
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The process is just as impersonal for managers getting the ax. I have stayed in contact with my former boss, a dean at the time he was laid off, and he said the way they notified him was cold and abrupt. They showed no appreciation for his decades of service, his unwavering loyalty to DVU, his excellent reputation on campus, or all the sacrifices he made. I'm glad he told me this because it shows what kind of company we work for and sets the expectation for what we will all experience some day soon. Hopefully very soon.
I think HR has a script for managers when they lay people off and there is little variation from that script. I wonder if a manager gets the ax if it is also so impersonal.
This company has let go half of its staff in the last few years and they are still losing money. I think DVU days are numbered.
I never believed those employee engagement survey scores for a second. I don't know of anyone who rated them decently yet they would say oh we got pretty good scores. Yeah right.
Severance was mediocre. Don't expect to last long on it while looking for a new job. And don't expect them to be helpful in finding a new job. Once they cut you, you are dropped like a bad habit.
Severance package was a joke. Benefits ended immediately and the offer of Right Management as a transition firm for one month didn't help find new jobs. It just helped to keep those laid off from suing. You know, a false statement of we care about you. The only thing upper management cares about is Employee Engagement, because they receive bonuses based upon the scores their departments receive, not because they care about the workers. If they truly cared about delivering quality services to the students and employees, they would spend some of their billions of dollars on those services rather than touting that they are a debt-free company, Spend some of that money to address all of the issues that are wrong with the company. Students calls, chats, and emails aren't handled in a timely manner because there aren't enough employees to handle the work load. So, keep cutting the workers instead of the executives, and you'll continue to run the place into the ground. DeVry Brasil is the main strategic concentration right now, so they might as well have that be their new name. It'll save them changing it in another three years when all the jobs have been moved there.
I am friends with one of those laid off. What is crazy is that they were told not required to sign back onto their email but their email is still active. No one was told who was laid off. So these people are still getting emails about cases and questions from all over and they are getting no answers. Another genius idea probably by another useless manager.
Not even face to face? That's pretty sad. And a little cowardly.
They called the ones that were remote
Most of these colleagues work remote most days of the week now. How did they lay them off? Make them come in, or like by email or phone or something?
dv rs lost a dozen or so from what I heard. i don't know if anyone can confirm for sure.
they need to cut some mgmt, that is where a lot of the wasteful spending (and bad decisions leading up to wasteful spending) is coming from.
Student finance lost the most. I heard a handful from chamberlain reg. Not sure about other teams
Everyone who has been let go are the lucky ones. They can now get a job at a healthy company or a real school. You know, a place that has not been investigated for shady practices. What this place used to be before it became an overpriced diploma mill.
As if we weren't understaffed enough, we lose more. A couple more have quit, they leave TL spots unfilled, and yet we are covering more services for more institutions. Are they just pushing us to the point we quit because of stress? I am really tired of hearing this "we care about our colleagues" bs. Obviously not as their words do not match their actions.
And not 1 word from the president, nothing. I found my work friend posted it on Facebook, is how I found out. What a scuzzy company
It's a sinking ship.