Just wondering, is our new business strategy to go out of business?
That's certainly what it looks like to me, with the latest moves and layoffs.
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Not everyone is wishing for a total failure of ADP, especially those that have friends and colleagues still left there. They know about the fatal mistakes that management made as stewards of this company, yet it is the former employees that better watch out and not have anything negative to say about ADP, and don't dare dream of its demise. Management seems to be exempt from such criticism, yet it is they who screwed up and are completely responsible for this fiasco. They were the ones that laid their employees off, but they are exempt from criticism since business is business and we can lay off anyone we want to. Right? Unfortunately, by upper management's ineptitude, the demise of ADP is no longer a dream but reality.
For everyone wishing for the total failure of ADP, shame on you. Granted it is unfortunate that you weren't able to stay, clearly, you would have if you were given the option. The remaining 56k or so employees still have jobs, families, homes, lives...wishing the company failure is wishing misfortune upon them. Consider your karma.
The best analogy I can use to describe the disaster that ADP has become is as follows:
Assume you have a publicly traded healthcare company. Well, being that it's a healthcare company you have various doctors on staff, including of course surgeons.
And the brilliant CEO decides he needs to cut costs and because surgeons make a lot of money he decides to lay them off.
The other people who actually know what the hell they are doing try to explain to the idiot CEO that you cannot lay off surgeons, that they are highly skilled professionals and have knowledge that a lot of other people do not have.
You further go on to describe in more detail that a surgeon is required to use a knife to cut people and they need to be very precise where they're making these incisions and they need to really know what they're doing and be extremely careful.
You Continue explaining to the moron CEO that even though there are other highly skilled doctors on staff, they do not have this particular skill and ability to cut people with a knife.
The CEO of course knows best however, and replies that yes we can still afford to let go of the surgeons because he happens to know that there are other people who work at the hospital who are good with a knife.
The CEO then explains to you with a straight face that he has seen three employees in the cafeteria cutting tomatoes and they appear to be able to use a knife with great efficiency.
End result:
The surgeons are fired and the three cafeteria employees are promoted to surgeons and their salaries are raised from $9 an hour to $10 an hour.
I was laid off from ADP this year and I am so much happier now that I no longer work in that depressing place.
My words of advice to others - there is life after ADP. I am more relaxed now and I think that upper management will realize at year end this year what a terrible mistake it was to let go of TENURED talent. There is a reason for paying higher wages - you retain better talent.
Have fun at year end ADP with your cheap labor. Don’t come crying to any of us that you laid off.
You do not get any sympathy from me. I only feel bad for the good employees lives that you have ruined.
ADP - you will reap what you sow.
Carlos is too arrogant too admit he hired all the wrong people at senior exec level. Crash and burn ADP. Crash and burn.
Crash and Burn. ADP
It is a strategy to go out of business. It is not meant to be such a strategy, but it is due to inept top management making fatal mistakes.