#layoffs

The company appears to be in a state of decline, with leadership frequently chasing the latest industry trends. Every few months, there’s a shift in direction and new sets of goals, often driven more by buzzwords than by long term strategy. It can be frustrating and sometimes even amusing to watch leadership make decisions based on vendor pitches, despite lacking hands-on experience themselves.

Strategic direction often changes based on which vendor a VP has a relationship with. Microsoft is currently the favored trend, but just a few months ago, it was all about "prompting." These cycles repeat, creating instability.

Benefits are decent, but be cautious getting sick can be expensive. PTO is generous, and pay can be competitive depending on your role and negotiation. However, layoffs happen regularly, roughly every six months, with many roles increasingly offshored to Allstate India, which probably accounts for over 50% of the IT staff.

The company is heavily focused on “cloud” and “AI” at the moment. Overall, I’d rate it an average workplace, it’s a place where you do your job, keep your head down, and hope to stay employed. Tenure doesn’t offer much protection. If your views don’t align with the ever changing corporate vision, you may find yourself out.

If you’re hired, my advice is: agree with leadership, reinforce their ideas, and avoid pushing back, your opinion won’t carry much weight. On the positive side, there are solid opportunities to improve your skills through a strong internal training ecosystem.

So WORTHLESS and his merry band of BOD’s are scheduled to visit Pascagoula next week. Is this where he will announce his retirement and EB named as his replacement? How much do these little trips cost the company? Doesn’t matter because they are saving so much through layoffs, EOI’s and exceptional management decisions.

Nathan Pearce worked at F5 for a number of years. Some of you might want to check out his webinar
https://www.professionalindependence.com/layoff-recovery

There needs to be an area on chemisphere, to make recommendations for cost savings. Some examples are HR, AI is here and knows the answer and policy to quote instantly. I have had several HR questions go unanswered bc they don't know, pretty frustrating. The new HR person at GTP says everything that we ask is another department, so what's your job? The second is fire specialist, why are they needed when you have a trained and certified fire team on site 24 7? I can see a chief and an asst but not a whole group of specialist. There are about 5 or 6 superintendents in the EHS group and 3 or 4 managers, same for technical group. None have more than 3 or 4 people reporting to them. Half of them refer to their previous jobs for reference and not cpchem policy when asked a question. Shift superintendents, another waste, a glorified night and weekend maintenance ticket inputs and tracker. Some will say they are incident scene commanders when something bad happens, well I say you have 3 Shift supervisors that are 24 7 that fill the same role, it's not hard and they are only in charge until management gets there which will be very quick once they make the call. There are multiple "specialist" in operations and maintenance that seem to just hang out and give opinions when asked, not necessarily good or smart opinons most of time. There are about 100 plus true project people on site su-king up space and money, why? We are damn near finished and most of stuff is handed off already. To many redundant people, everywhere not just GTP. Go to Cedar and it's the same thing. I was there for years and I would see people and ask myself, what does that person do? I ever only seen them drinking coffee, lunch or walking around aimlessly. But let's layoff people that actually work and have purpose and let's outsource jobs to foreign countries.

Well, the mrns on the 20th floor are at it again. This time sockless Jim has invited everyone to celebrate that the company has survived yet another year of inept leadership, layoffs, and falling share prices. Woohoo!!

They plan to go to NY to celebrate and to take a bunch of others with them. They will party in the city like it’s 2029 and then most likely come back and lay off another 1000 or so to help pay for it, but this makes sense because they can only cut their way to profitability anyway.

Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if they all get run over by a bus while crossing the street to the exchange.

These clowns are worse than Bill Nuti ever was, at least he had the guts to stand in person and deliver the bad news, these cr33ps send out a video or post some bs on the bridge and then hide on the freight elevators. They might take some questions at the next all hands meeting though...something to look forward to I guess.

Can’t wait to see how they spin it though, should provide a lot of laughs!! Go Team.

From what I can tell, Novo Nordisk (9,000 employees), Merck (~6,000 employees), Bayer, BMS, Novartis, and Pfizer have all announced major layoffs. Should we anticipate a similar announcement from Illumina soon, or is it more likely in Q4?

Have you been notified of your fate? Post here! My manager has been very quiet.

ELT has decided to do another [stealth] layoff this November (no doubts on this)... Do we know exactly what teams are impacted? If you have no clue, dont troll.

The largest single corporate layoff in U.S. history was IBM's reduction of its workforce by 60,000 employees in 1993.

However, the ongoing mass federal layoffs under the second Trump administration, potentially exceeding 200,000 workers and possibly reaching 300,000, could surpass this corporate record if completed. More to come in 4th Quarter 2025

Other major layoffs include Citigroup's 50,000 job cuts in 2008 and Sears' 50,000 job cuts in 1993.

Sending the we will be laying people off email before actually telling someone that they are laid off is wild…. Does anyone know what departments are going to be hit with this?

What is the latest everyone is hearing about remote employees? Will they be part of upcoming layoffs or part of Phase 2? I’m still hearing no exceptions for any department will be made even if you were hired as fully remote ( I.e. IT, Sales, etc)

As the Wave 1 and Wave 2 Layoffs is now past, rest assured Chevron USA and ABU transition team supervisors have commenced the next 2026 (Waves 3 & 4) pilgrimage to Bengaluru.

Where they encounter beautiful Akshay Sahni (President Punkah Wallah) at ‘The Bengaluru Taj Mahal’ AKA ENGINE’s RMZ Ecoworld Rd HQ.

New 2026 Focus Areas
• CTC / FE Transition Role handover
• New Phase 3 & 4 Workflows with a focus on TAR execution & delayed M&R
• Global MCP execution (with support from Wood/Worley back offices approx. 6000 ENGINEeers & no CVX site experience)
• Remove field inspections
• Remote Refinery & LNG CCR Operator training & transition (the Unions will love that!)

This is the new norm for those with a job.

All aboard MWs sinking ship!

No more cuts expected tomorrow?

Blood bath

Spirit plans to slash capacity by about 25% this fall as part of its bankruptcy restructuring, a move that will likely trigger more layoffs at the struggling ultra-low-cost carrier.

In a memo to employees, President and CEO Dave Davis said the change will make Spirit’s operations more resilient and efficient.

“A key pillar of our restructuring is redesigning and strengthening our network,” Davis wrote. “With that in mind, later this afternoon, our operational leaders will receive our preliminary November schedule. As planning begins, you will see a reduction of about 25% in capacity, year over year, as we optimize our network to focus on our strongest markets.”

https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/09/18/spirit-to-cut-capacity-by-25/

It’s not like any of this will benefit us. Layoffs will keep coming, and who knows how this will play out for Intel overall. I’m not stopping my job search, and the moment I find something even remotely acceptable, I’m pulling the plug here.

I just can’t figure out the need for it. Is it so we can all be a little more out of our minds than usual, worrying and stressing nonstop?

A month ahead of the RIF, just give everyone a heads up on which orgs will be affected. That way people can budget accordingly and the rumor mill doesn't cause worry and panic across the organization.
And, we could tamp down on false rumors that people outside of the organization are reading.

Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk has cut a U.S. sales team focused on obesity and diabetes education for healthcare providers, according to two sources close to the company and LinkedIn posts reviewed by Reuters, an early sign of the dr-gmaker's push to cut costs and regain ground on rival Eli Lilly.

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/novo-nordisk-cuts-us-obesity-education-team-layoffs-begin-say-sources-online-2025-09-18/

Until nobody’s left?

These cuts will deeply affect both staff and patients, and the last thing anyone needs right now is a decline in the quality of care. I feel for all the colleagues who will be impacted - it’s heartbreaking. And honestly, even for those of us who stay, the strain and uncertainty ahead won’t be easy to carry.

CVE is run by arrogant corporate snakes. They are making money hand over fist. They don’t need to layoff. Employees are a necessary evil until they’ve used you for what they need. Everyone is out for themselves at CVE - they don’t trust you and you can’t trust them. Laying off a bunch of hard working people and arrogantly saying you will just “do less”. I’ve never seen such id--tic things. Is this company real or a nightmare? #USW #Strike #2026

It sounds like the number could end up being pretty high. And we all know it won’t just be redundancies.

Overheard from a Cisco VP saying this in a family social.

Be ready

Do we think it's everyone from each division? That seems insane.

A director told me today that the "carnage" will mostly be at the higher levels, but I can't confirm.

It’s so difficult to catch one or two actual pieces of information among all that completely unnerving corporate fluff. Here we are, having no clue about what will happen with our jobs, and we still have to listen to inordinate amounts of meaningless words. It’s disrespectful, at minimum. How about they lay out the details like grownups, so we can start scrambling for alternatives and backup plans?

Lionsgate will be reducing 5% of its companywide staff, Deadline has learned.

Approximately 50 staff overall will exit in a move that adds to a previous trim. The earlier layoff constituted 8% of staff, which will mean Lionsgate will have lightened its head count by 13% when this round of downsizing is done.

https://deadline.com/2025/09/lionsgate-layoffs-50-staff-1236548050/

This feels like slow bleeding. Seems like it’s time to start looking hard at other options, if only to be prepared.

It’ll be months before this is resolved, and by all accounts the cuts will be massive. That means a long stretch of stress and anxiety, right when keeping your job feels existential. The job market is already a horror show and only getting worse. We’ll all lose it before this is done and over with.

WellMed has been hit hard, it seems. It’s difficult to keep track, and we are all on edge, so please share.

Another slew of mass layoffs is set to hit a logistics services company, as Texas continues to brace for job losses amid a weakening economy.

Accelore Group, LLC announced plans to eliminate 107 positions in Tarrant County and 107 positions in Dallas County, according to new reports filed under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.

The layoffs will take place at the company's Amazon Logistics locations in Fort Worth and Balch Springs.

https://www.chron.com/news/article/texas-layoffs-amazon-jobs-21054984.php

There have been few to any Chevron layoffs since announcing…is the objective to farm fear from staff? In Houston not seeing housing price decreases yet…

Spoke with an old co-worker last week, who got LR'd last year and still does not have replacement job. Really sad, great worker.

I was LR'd years ago, and moved on luckily to much greener pastures.

I was at Cisco a long time, the last two years were Psychological Warfare. Felt I would get LR'd; sure enough eventually did.

Early in career, was a "highly valued" and highly paid, who then, with time morphed into an older male. Great money. The problems indeed began when new "management" took over our BU. It took a year, but there was a dramatic "change" of "philosophies", which also brought more likeminded folks into the BU. Let me just say, languange became a definite much tougher to navigate challenge. Also, many cultural differences.

That is not a popular opinion, but it was reality. Sounds like it still may be reality. Now even more.

I am SO glad I was removed from the sullbhit and moved on. I am also glad it was years ago, and not in today's market. Times are tough. If I was still there, I do not know what I would do, the opportunites are not there.

Many people will most likely not like this post. I am supportive of all peoples, but skill and job abilities were, and appear to continue to be for the mostpart, completely ignored at Cisco.

To the upper management who sanction and condone this pile of sullbhit, I hope you feel truly proud of your accomplishments, mostly of padding your pockets while picking off other workers, and continuing to foster a culture of misery.

if you come across a better opportunity, move on. Your sanity will Thank You.

Anyone has any information about upcoming RIFs? Dates, teams etc..

If it was not for this site, I would have no idea that such a RIF was taking place and I know of no one who had been ‘let go’.
Has the organisation shown in Teams been updated? Some higher up folk have not been on line since 9/4.

I was laid off a couple weeks ago. I can still login because of my 60 days. It is a kick in the nuts to see they have already onboarded several consultants to cover our work and then see postings go out for more junior roles on my old team.

It su-ks to be at my age because it is clear they are going after us. They don’t want to pay us what we are worth anymore. Let’s hire inexperienced talent now so we don’t have to pay them.

They laid off a bunch of directors from the pilot nursing program

Hope for the best prepare for the worst. Start keeping track of everything. Bi--h supervisors. Condescending co workers. All pay stubs, all career education and training, update your resume and log everything just in case. This should be done regardless of layoffs. Over document over every task and interaction. Just in case. Be well everyone.
Jesus be with you