#layoffs

First, I asked my supervisor and HR and no clear answer so I am asking here as many of you got severance. Does the payment come on normal pay cycle (6th, 21st), I was surplused in November and no check yet, I got denied unemployment because Company listed I got severance but nothing yet, bad time of year to have no pay, severance would help, job searching tough. Appreciate any input

Way too many woe is me post, I never saw it coming posts and how can they do this posts.

What world do you live in where a company has your best interest at heart?
Let’s level set. Citi has never cared about their employees, its all about the bucks.
Citi never takes into account your feelings on no promotions, no raises, no bonus’s or layoffs. It’s about the number and perception. How does it look to the shareholders is all that matters.

Quit acting all shocked and surprised if you get the axe. Always assume that you WILL be let go, its just a matter of time. This puts things into perspective and helps you prepare.
It’s just a job guys. Its not a religion. Its unwise to bank (play on words) your whole future on always working here forever or I’ll always be getting a raise. Just remember, they could care less about you. You are a commodity, an asset to be used and discarded at will. By Citi’s own actions, you’d think you’d have caught on by now and have realized this.

Glad to see changes . About time we made an extreme pivot.

1. 56 percent DEI
2. Failed macro strategy of increasing price plans when post covid people has lesser disposable income.
   3.Blanket outsourcing without thinking
3. Open checkbook on failed investments without strategic direction
4. Failure of chief revenue officers to create organic revenue for the last decade . A
   Few were let go after warming seats for a decade.
5. Incapable of lobbying with FCC for negotiating on spectrum auctions resulting in paying premium that put VZ in further debt .
6. Hibernating chief strategy officer. Does anyone remember the name.

Will they shut both the fuel pad and locomotive shop or just the shop?

Spread it. Ahole toxic bully is looking to come back here.
My husband's friend works at Korn Ferry. Apparently Seth met with them. He seemed desperate to find his way back into PepsiCo.

Holy he-l. Just when you thought it can't get worse, we hear this awful rumor.

You know how they say “it’s a blessing in disguise”? That’s what a layoff at Dell is. It’s a blessing actually.
If you want actual work, growth, no-nonsense culture, it’s better to run away from Dell.
Recently I joined a new company after my layoff and I am so happy with my work now. I actually have some growth opportunity .

AI can be very helpful if used correctly. Lot of talk that it can replace human workers. That is absolute garbage.

AI helps you do your job better. I am choosing words carefully and not saying faster. Before AI, it was hard to achieve required quality in given amount of time to complete tasks. Now with AI, you have an opportunity. You can and should still take as long as you were but use AI to achieve the quality. With AI, you have to use lot of review/refinement cycles to get to desired quality. It takes time but you can achieve really good quality deliverables.

So I say layoffs based on thinking AI will replace humans will just sink the company. But the new year is on the way and talks about 50% or 70% layoffs are surfacing. I say if they don’t think it through carefully they are highly likely to sink the sinking ship faster than fixing it. The company they paid $10 billion for, may just become 3 billion with 70% layoffs.

Should I decline my svp to Dir promotion due to layoffs ? Heard large # of MDs and Ds are on the chopping block.

1) Rebrand everything else with new logos
2) Push aggressive pricing to juice short-term revenue
3) More layoffs, because Layoff.com needs traffic
4) Double down on digital investments with no payoff
5) Sell parts of the business to fund all of the above

Happy holidays!

Given the limited options and their inflated prices, a quick layoff would be ideal.

There’s been some speculation about another round of layoffs, and unfortunately that speculation is accurate. Another round is coming soon. The core issue is pretty simple: we’re losing customers and we can't increase prices any more. When revenue isn’t growing—or is actually declining—cost cuts become inevitable.

Video has been in long-term decline for a while now. Traditional cable TV isn’t coming back, and 5–10 years from now it’s likely a dead product. The uncomfortable reality is that cable TV is still Comcast’s largest revenue stream. When your biggest source of revenue is in structural decline, the downstream impact is unavoidable.

Broadband is also under pressure. DOCSIS 4.0 isn’t delivering the results that were hoped for, and customers are increasingly choosing fiber instead. DOCSIS 4 can be talked about all day, but the reality is that customers now have real alternatives—and many are choosing fiber because it’s faster and often cheaper, or FWA because it’s easier to buy and use.

Voice (landline) is obviously a dying product, and the organization supporting it is still far larger than the business justifies.

Wireless is selling, but it’s not accomplishing what it was supposed to do—namely, reducing broadband churn. It’s true that customers with wireless have lower churn, but the causality may be backwards. Customers who were unlikely to churn in the first place are the ones signing up for Xfinity Mobile. Customers who have fiber alternatives or who are unhappy with Comcast tend not to add mobile at all.

Both the Division/Regional teams and the Technology & Product organization likely need to be reduced further. The next round of layoffs will probably look similar in size to what we’ve seen over the past couple of quarters, but unless business conditions improve, a much larger restructuring—including the elimination of entire organizations—must come sometime next year.

From my own perspective, having visibility from the Finance side: despite the cuts that have already happened, there are still significant opportunities to reduce costs. We continue to have too many resources allocated to Video, Voice, and even DOCSIS 4.0. If these products are not selling or are in structural decline, it’s hard to justify continued heavy investment. Additionally, we still pay a premium for U.S.-based engineering talent, and it’s not clear why we haven’t shifted more work to CIEC, where costs are less than a quarter of comparable U.S.-based roles.

January 22 is the announcement. Lots of projects will rush in the first three weeks of the year to get done. If you're getting unusual pressure to complete projects by that deadline, it's part par for the course, part because you're out. Those in the know and sticking around are squeezing every last minute of work from USA-based teams.

It's so big I don't know how we avoid WARN, legal must have convinced themselves that WFH = each residence is a job site. Interesting to see how we avoid WARN with RTO - only way I see is future layoffs are to remote workers.

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That’s pretty much my plan for next year. This round of layoffs was highly motivating.

Trust me
Not you

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericpalmatier_%F0%9D%97%A7%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%97%B2-%F0%9D%97%9B%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%B1%F0%9D%97%B1%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%BB-%F0%9D%97%9F%F0%9D%97%AE%F0%9D%98%86%F0%9D%97%BC%F0%9D%97%B3%F0%9D%97%B3%F0%9D%98%80-when-activity-7408270868419706880-d28j

The article says the McKinsey layoffs are a warning for the whole consulting industry in the AI age. Consulting once depended on smart people and hard to find information, but AI now does much of that work faster and cheaper. Clients want firms that can use technology to actually make changes not just give advice, so traditional strategy firms must adapt or risk falling behind.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91463039/why-the-mckinsey-layoffs-are-a-warning-signal-for-consulting-in-the-ai-age-ai-layoffs-management-consulting

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/layoff-announcements-this-year-top-1point1-million-the-most-since-2020-when-pandemic-hit-challenger-says.html

https://globalbiodefense.com/2025/07/03/trump-vance-research-cuts-biotech-warning-2025/

The Tyson beef plant/facility closes on January 20, 2026 in Lexington Nebraska town of 11k. This is per AP.

Not cool. Let that sink in!

Happy holidays…not.

Don’t quit yet, mass buyouts are going to be offered immediately after merger. Buyouts will start out at 150 grand.

How Trump's 'crony capitalism' has shaken up U.S. business https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5639916/trump-crony-capitalism-free-market

Phil going to die with his company in the gutter.

Shareholders underwater.

Employees underwater.

ESPP hasn’t been relevant for 5 years given sharp decline.

Annual bonus was and will continue to be below 100%.

How embarassing.

Title says it all. Will be announced today

That’s Verizon in a nutshell. After everything that happened this year, I don’t know a single person who’s not desperately looking for a new job.

I have a job offer that pays about 10% lesser than Honeywell in a Tier 2 company. In Honeywell, the world around me is crumbling with key functions non existent, R&D dying, and daily churn in leadership. However, for me, I have been nominated to a few leadership development programs for whatever that is worth. It might mean I survive the next round of layoffs but maybe not the one after that. If I leave now, I give up my MIP. Is it time for me to leave? Will I regret leaving or staying?

Well done leadership, really good stuff, keep it up.

https://ir.nasdaq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/annual-changes-nasdaq-100-indexr-2

Is for MW to be fired!

When do employees find out? And then will they be walked out same day or 2 weeks still?

When do managers find out? Will it be same day or before their employees do?

https://apnews.com/article/dei-white-men-discrimination-andrea-lucas-eeoc-2996e71763dd0fe4b7f377eb49036fbe?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

Go to EEOC.gov and file complaint.

Was told that sperry Rotors and casing is shutting down both at the ends of December . Terrible timing but I guess they want to start 2026 with cleaner books.

Layoffs resume 1/6/26.

Final round layoffs to wrap up 2025

• Over 4,200 jobs are being cut nationwide across manufacturing, logistics, and transportation sectors, continuing a trend of industrial employment strain into 2026.
• The layoffs impact diverse areas such as EV supply chains (e.g., Ford's 1,600 job cut at a battery plant pivoting away from EV production), food processing, trailer manufacturing, and warehousing.
• These job losses are driven by structural shifts, including recalibrated EV demand, automation pullbacks, and prolonged market weakness, putting pressure on labor-intensive operations in the freight industry.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/from-factories-to-fulfillment-centers-more-layoffs-hit-u-s-supply-chains

The General Services Administration is abandoning plans for additional layoffs within its Technology Transformation Services after a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must pause any layoffs underway and rescind layoffs issued since the start of the government shutdown on Oct. 1.

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/gsa-backs-planned-layoffs-within-its-technology-team-after-court-order/410304/

A multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract awarded to FedEx coincided with a sharp rise in the company’s use of foreign workers, even as it carried out large-scale layoffs of U.S. employees across multiple states.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fedex-wins-2-2b-federal-180028951.html

I was ISP’d at the end of August as part of ER. If you’re one of us have you received your severance payment? I have not and have emailed HR Help three times and have not heard back from them.

I was talking to a Sr Director(He knew of the Nov layoff several months in advance) and he hinted that another org wide layoff is planned already and that dates are not confirmed. Could it be March 2026 like the last time?

Very fishy especially the linkedin posts from India about their annual/quarterly awards, posts about completing 6 months, 1 year, 1.5 years in TU. Seems extremely forced and artificial.

I know there was a HR level meeting when the glassdoor points dropped to 3.6 after the recent layoffs. I also heard that offer letter rejection rate is quite high recently. So, I guess the recent linkedin posts and glassdoor reviews are a damage control?