Do we know if layoffs are done? Can we expect more today?
As somebody mentioned in another thread, this not knowing is the worst part. Why is it so hard to communicate with employees and tell us what's going on?
This constant stressful anticipation can't be good for productivity.
I was at the front line for 14 years, and in leadership for 6. I’m doing fine. And In my whole career I’ve never once been accused of s---ing up to anybody. Don’t download your personal insecurities on me.
In broadening the conversation, on the front line you’re often given more work that can be done in the time given. It is then your leader’s job to negotiate across or upwards.
In first level leadership you’re given double the work possible with the given resources and then you spend a quarter of your time justifying your failure.
At manager level - the danger zone - you have directors and VPs who don’t care about why your goals don’t get met. And that’s the most dangerous level in the company. The sickle routinely cleans house.
Your leaders shield you from an ocean of unreasonable demands. If they’re good at it, you’ll never know it. But to you it seems like they do nothing.
Listen pal, I know you are trying to do a good job in your new role, but let’s face it...you s---. You got there only because you kissed up to your boss. Now cut the whiny c-ap about how tough your job is. If you weren’t a loser with no skills or experience maybe your subordinates would respect you more. Now get back to s---ing up to your boss and quit surfing these forums on company time!
Every lay-off forum, every labour union message board, every bar near a company going through cuts, it’s always the same tired, uniformed rant. All management is incompetent, especially yours. Nobody knows what they’re doing. Everybody s---s but the front line.
It’s beyond ridiculous and speaks of complete ignorance of the complexity of running a massive enterprise with social, financial and regulatory moving parts. Without exception, a newly minted leader from the front line fails for 18 months because the job is hard. Not harder but hard in a different way. High on the list is dealing with individual contributors who feel qualified to judge your performance in a job they’ve never done and don’t understand.
You are right, It doesn’t matter that the company has gone from a friendly caring organization to the big bad sterile organization you describe. Unless of course you care about the people that work with us. The stuff that scares me is the way they are going about the cuts. If you try to do a good job they Send those people away. If you kiss up to your boss you stay. I look at my bosses and am embarrassed by how pathetic they are. Losers all around. EGD should be taken over by Union at least they seem to have some good leaders.
You’re right. Enbridge is risk averse and would prefer to stay out of court. So they compensate higher than normal across the board. But what the heck does it matter to you what the motivation is? Explain to me why it should matter if it comes from caring or legal avoidance, except that it feeds the victim hood narrative that the big bad sterile organization discards people mercilessly?
The support provided by the outplacement providers is simply to mitigate against legal claims. Don’t fool yourself, they don’t care. They just want your termination to cost as little as possible.
The idea that Enbridge doesn’t care for your prospects is demonstrably false. Why would they go to the trouble of hooking you up with career counsellors and recruiters?
Enbridge doesn't care about your future job prospects if you get laid off or giving you any sort of jump start. You have to do that on your own if you are overly concerned. Otherwise just sit and wait for the call from HR, if you're one of the unlucky ones.
Uh, really! How about telling people they will get let go so they can jumpstart a job search? Lower morale? What morale? Treat people as human and then morale will come back.
Legacy Spectra people went through this and generally the company won't tell you anything until it has to. Telling people weeks in advance they might be laid off serves no purpose other than lowering morale.
Per the note from EVP it was all done yesterday. Who knows when the other VP’s will get their groups done.
A lot of people were out of the office yesterday because of the freezing rain, at least in Chatham. Assuming they didn’t lay-off people by phone, I would guess they still have some layoffs to get through today. (Does anyone have any insight on this? Did they call people who were working from home so they could lay them off?)