People who are not used to Williams dropping layoffs on us when we least expected are either new to the company or have really bad memory.
We've been having sudden layoffs for years now, no announcement, no prior talk about it, nothing...
Whenever the company wants to save some money, it gets rid of some employees and transfers their work to those of us left. None of those positions get filled again.
So basically, if you work at Williams, you never know if tomorrow is the day. The threat of layoffs is omnipresent.