With an all utility meeting on Jan 29 the layoffs must be coming before then. They can’t be that callous & tonedeaf to do it after that
I actually think this is a good point. Which means that we all need to prepare for a layoffs announcement either today or sometime next week.
A few people in the US were laid off last week.
I will refuse the taxi and demand only a limo !!
When I got laid off, they wanted me to take a taxi and leave my car because they thought I might be so distraught that I might crash or something.
I know they were just following protocol but I thought this idea was ridiculous and drove home in my own car. It was literally the only thing in my control that awful morning and I wasn't going to give that up.
Probably good to be prepared regardless because whether it happens today, tomorrow or two months from now, it's coming...but I don't think we'll see many layoffs before the CH townhall. If anything, I think the townhall is meant to be BEFORE the layoffs. I think we'll start seeing layoffs the first week of February, and throughout the Feb-April period, with departments generally going one at a time. I don't think they can do every layoff company-wide in one day unless they layoff rooms of 10+ us at a time - i mean think about it... I am kind of guessing here, but would they have enough HR people and security guards to do more than a couple dozen layoffs a day at 50 Keil? Keep in mind they already laid-off a lot of HR people. I think for practical reasons, it will happen over a period of weeks.
If I'm wrong and they intend to do it next week, their plans will probably be foiled by the weather, so that pleases me on some level. Oh, and for anyone carpooling, it sounds like they send you home in a cab if you get laid-off, as they obviously don't want you to go home with your carpool group. I know for me, I don't want to have a cab driver see me cry all the way back to London, so if that would bother you as well, I would suggest driving by yourself until the sh-- show is over. Or, if you want your parting gift to the company to be a $100+ cab ride, then do the opposite (lol).