#anxiety

I joined Verizon two years ago right out of college, and I can’t remember a single stretch of time when layoffs weren’t hanging over everyone’s head. Was it always like this in the past, or is this just how things are now? Is it the same everywhere? Is this what I have to look forward to for the rest of my working life?

Ok instead of having staff constantly look over their shoulder and wonder if they’ll be a RIF casualty, why not send out periodic emails to keep employees in the loop? Heck we got daily emails when COVID struck. If not they shouldn’t have mentioned 11/20 in the first place…I mean it’s good in the sense it gives us time to update our resume but it also stirs up fear and paranoia for several weeks.

Anyone else stopped receiving as much email traffic, mtg invites or tasks from your mgr?

So I guess we’re always going to be on our toes and stressed out of our minds.

Layoffs aren’t stopping (I’m not just talking about Cisco, but literally everywhere), the available jobs are dwindling, and everything is starting to look like we’re going to he-l in a handbasket. Just the thought of losing my job right now is making me hyperventilate.

Any ideas what this meeting is about?

There's so little info on what's going on and it's making me stress.

Please, somebody tell me they managed to get some offers because I'm starting to get genuinely depressed.

Now I’m anxious, depressed, and numb. Every single day I get more work with a "do this or else" attached to it. I'm starting not to care anymore. What are they going to do, fire me? By now, that seems like a better option than continuing to work here.

I keep swinging between “please, just lay me off and end this misery” and “please don’t lay me off, this job market is brutal.” It’s like an hourly cycle at this point. They’re really wrecking people’s sanity by dragging this out when there’s absolutely no reason to.

No official communication or org announcement sent out about RTO. This policy needs to be explicitly stated. Managers relaying it down the line by word of mouth is toxic. List the policy out in an official notice to not leave your employees anxious and uncertain, shame on leadership once again.

I wonder how many relationships/marriages have ended due to the last few years of chronic stress at Intel. The chronic job insecurity will take its toll.

Job and relationship loss cover 2 of the 3 types of major loss events that throw people off balance in their lives.

There’s no more talk of “Intel Family”.

With all eyes on 18a and 14a, doing employees like this is the worst thing you can literally do for the company success.

I’m almost convinced, by actions, that Intel leadership wants Intel to fail.

At what point are heads going to start rolling? It feels like it will never get any better.

Got a meeting invite at 3pm on a Friday at the end of November. Should I be worried??

Curious….has anyone who received an ISP found a job yet? This market is brutal and I feel like I’ve been blacklisted. Since early September I’ve only had one real interview and three “networking” calls. I actually had a recruiter say ‘they (Edward Jones) doesn’t do product development like everyone else’. I’m beginning to freak out with November 14th being next week.

CP laid me off this week. Since then I am feeling shock, anger, sadness, fear, guilt, and shame. Anxiety about the future leading to feelings of worthlessness. It’s like a bad dream and you keep hoping you wake up and it wasnt really, that you weren’t selected. But you were. You are going to feel anger when you find who remained and question how “they” got to stay and you didn’t. It’s going to hurt.

I wish everyone well on Wednesday.

Anyone else have an ad-hoc 1:1 with their manager?

This leader really nailed it and I think this will help everyone who is anxious about the layoffs coming in 17 days.

https://fortune.com/2023/09/25/verizon-ceo-hans-vestberg-rank-mood-leadership-advice/

Is this it? Is this how people are notified? Is there any chance this could be something else? I feel sick to my stomach.

I thought I'd feel great this weekend, make up for lost sleep. I was very much wrong. I still feel like cr-p, I still can't relax, and I still have trouble sleeping. I think this whole thing has been hanging over our heads for so long that it'll take us a while to go back to normal.

I have this feeling I’m not long for my current position anymore if that happens. I work under John Blanchards org and we just had a layoff in August. I think I’m being paranoid but since Srini is taking over soon… I just don’t know. The market is brutal now and I’m job hugging like a motherf----rI’m not ready to leave yet.

Has any C-Level exec ever been to the Atlanta office?

… during this time? Weird looks from HR, snarky comment from your boss, IT folks wandering around counting docking stations and monitors?

I'm a develop joining right before the new CEO.
I assume i will be the first one if layoff happens in my team.
All my long term plan has to be reconsidered at this point.
Relocation, housing etc.

Real advises please guys.
How long this thing would last ?
Should i start looking for new job?
Anyone i can talk to make myself feel better ?

I hope we're safe for the rest of the year, considering that the holiday season is starting. Or am I expecting too much?

Before joining this place 5 years ago I used to be told that I look 5-10 years younger than my actual age. The other day when I was looking at pictures only 6 months into working here, it was night and day compared to photos pre-ELV. The fear, anxiety and constant chaos of this environment will do it to you. Not to mention more health issues. I hope I can get some of that lightness of spirit back when I leave here.

Anyone heard of the next layoff? Confirmed please, don’t want to cause anxiety but worried about RIF before the holidays!

It seems the last couple of years the two most worrisome months of the year are October and april. We made it through another october. Maybe we can breathe easy for the next few months?

There’s been no official communication. Nothing in the media either. We’re completely stumbling in the dark. Why? Do they want to make this even more tense than it already is? Our livelihoods are on the line.

I’m pretty anxious about the upcoming layoffs. Especially if they are before the new year. My wife and I are expecting a baby soon and are heavily reliant on our insurance currently. Insert panic here.

I’ve been trying to find another job for months, but I rarely come across a posting that’s even real, let alone get an interview. All this talk about upcoming layoffs is making me extremely anxious. I’m terrified of losing my job and being out of work for a long time. How is someone supposed to support their family when they’re running out of options?

When they asked remote employees to move back were you offered moving assistance and what did that look like? Survived yesterday but still anxious about a RTO mandate

Support the BNY PAC ?? Anyone see Robin's message?
for what? To fund politicians who don't care about rule of law??

freaking ridiculous.
While we get replaced by AI??
30,000 corporate Amazon employees will be flooding the job market because of AI. Good luck competing with those people.

We're all going to need UBI soon, if not food stamps.

A point I never see get made is how frustrating it is to deal with an even worse job market just because you worked hard. Yes, I might survive the next rif, or maybe the next two, but three rifs from now there will be so many unemployed white collar workers that it would put us in a worse spot. Sc--wed if you are riffed now and even more sc--wed if you are riffed later, really demotivating stuff.
OP: @aa+1k8r4n5xw

This.

Currently on FMLA leave, am I safe? I have major issues with panic attacs, cannot drive or socialize - this does not help at all. I wish you all good luck. Love yourself no matter what.

Are we sure today will be the main day?

I love my job and the people I work with. Even the ones who are a pain are still tolerable. However, for the last year or so, I hate coming into work the Tuesday after payday wondering if I’m next…and also seeing so many of my coworkers across multiple locations being laid off for no reason other than just coming to work and doing their job.

I also work in SA and constantly worry about losing my job knowing they just opened a new campus up in Dallas.

The CEO and COO needs to get off their a-s and come clean with employees setting the expectation for how many more layoffs can we expect before they cool it.

Is anybody else really, really worried about this?