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Does anyone know when we will get our severance?

Number of people dying from bad management decisions. Both companies have deaths associated with managers ignoring senior technical personnel and violating company and industry safety standards. VP of drilling never drilled a well. VP of completions never completed a well. What could possibly go wrong with this logic? Hire more VPs and fire more engineers. Bankrupt the company using the CEO's playbook that has been finely tuned to make executive management rich. Life is karma. You can't keep this up forever.

I know this may not be the ideal place to ask, but I haven’t been able to find much information on Sparq or through my communications with HR, and was hoping this group might be able to share any relevant experience.

I’ve been with Optum Health for several years as a U.S.-based remote employee. Recently, I’ve been exploring the possibility of relocating to Canada. I’m a Canadian citizen, and through my own research I’ve seen that Optum has a few business segments in Canada, with many employees working remotely.

I’m wondering whether anyone has experience with, or insight into, transferring from a U.S. role to the Canadian entity while continuing to support the same U.S. team. I recognize this is a fairly niche scenario, but I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through something similar or knows how this has been handled in the past.

Thanks in advance!

Will they wait for May-June when the first carve out is announced?

I was unfortunately forced out of the company before the current CEO took over. I no longer follow Boeing so don’t even know the CEO guys name. I feel that it was a blessing in disguise that I was forced out. The toxicology of the group I worked in was a 5 out of 5. There was so much backstabbing or blaming people behind their backs I was surprised that any work actually got done in this group. This was under Dave Calhoun regime.

I was also shocked, not really though to lean a person would be smart to join the Federal Witness Protection Program beforehand if they decide to become a Whistleblower at Boeing.
I’m glad to be out of the Boeing Mental Institution. Life’s been great since.

I honestly wonder why there hasn’t been any serious effort to organize tech employees in the U.S. to push back against offshoring. Comcast has already offshored more than 5,000 tech jobs to Chennai, India, and there hasn’t been a single negative article in the mainstream media about it (NBC probably makes sure of that). I also haven’t heard of any union even attempting to organize tech workers here. Shouldn’t we be coming together and saying: enough is enough?

This company makes its money in the United States. Its customers are in the United States. Its revenue comes from the United States. Yet more and more of the technology is being built in India, and more of the business is being operated from offshore. Why?

I understand that the company isn’t performing at the top of the market and is trying to cut costs. But let’s be real. The company is still making something like $30B in profit. Offshoring doesn’t save nearly as much as leadership claims, and we can do a better job onshore. On top of that, it’s simply immoral to lay off U.S. employees only to hire thousands of people overseas.

I have nothing against India. This isn’t about that. This is a U.S. company, serving U.S. customers, operating almost entirely in the U.S. Yes, there’s Sky and NBC with real operations in Europe, so it makes sense that some work is done there. But there is no comparable business presence in India, and no justification for having 5,000–6,000 tech employees there—on top of significant customer service offshoring to India and the Philippines.

I don’t know much about unions, but call me and I’ll sign up immediately. Why isn’t anyone trying to organize at Comcast? We have to stop this madness.

Hey. Does FirstEnergy still do or have they done any free ticket deals for the Monsters or Charge that were posted on the portal? If so. If it's coming up, can I have the code? :o)

Heard a rumor retirement packages may be offered next quarter along with a possible rift targeting MS in dmos5. Anyone heard anything?

Are you able to work during severance?... And bonus question can you receive severance and state unemployment at the same time ?

I know it can be a stressful time with all the changes happening with Medicare and Medicaid at the end of the month. I've been hearing some concerns about potential reorganizations, and I understand how unsettling that can be. If anyone has any insights on which areas might be affected and when, it would be really helpful to share that information. We're all in this together, and any guidance would be appreciated.

What’s everyone’s best guess on what will happen with the company in the coming year? Good, bad or ugly

Kind of a relief actually. In RMC for those curious. My last day is 1/30…does that mean I will get a normal paycheck on 2/6?

Seems that there's a lot of happy engineers here, are y'all actually happy? Or is there a troll here

Is it better to stay working at Nike during these challenging times or would it be better to consider a Career change?
What other careers could Nike associates with our experience enter?

As for me, I'm on the fence because I can't stand living in Oregon. I'd like to move but have no idea yet what other careers to research.

Will there be cuts?

With Landmark fully sunsetting on 12/31, talk of organizational changes, and losing patients to other health plans, any word on RIF’s in this area in January?

Can I take another job if I’m in my non working notice period before lay off?

And how AI savvy are you? Do you know what the key developments in 2025 were and why AI is better positioned going in to 2026? Do you use AI for your job? I got the idea when a cousin sent an apparently popular news aggregator named Nate and I have no idea who this guy is. Of course we’re all enjoying our own caviar as Intel AI consumers…..

In coffee line waiting for barista to take my order, overheard two people behind me talking quietly about organizational changes in Q1. Has anyone heard anything about this they can share? Will it be due to layoffs?

Only counted two on Linkedin announcing the news... I'm guessing not enough old guys leaving to stop the second phase... involuntary layoffs.

Is UM preauth going offshore?

Got a real question, need clarification on something? Leave it here, no bullsh-t in this thread. Let's start something productive.

Any scuttle but from Egypt? Hearing that divestment is a possibility. It would simplify the company tremendously. Next hurdle offload the BP and Exoon North Sea Assets back to BP and Exxon…

The marketing function has become a factory for titles, acronyms, and unaccountable “strategy” that fails the only test that matters: measurable impact on claims, utilization, and outcomes. Too much work is optimized for decks, meetings, and vanity metrics—and not nearly enough is grounded in basic insurance fluency, network reality, or results you can defend in the data.

The org is so aggressively matrixed that responsibility evaporates. People “own” a narrow slice of a slice of a business, yet can’t clearly explain what they own, what the product actually is, what the acronyms mean, or how members are supposed to find in-network care. When ownership is that diluted, execution becomes guesswork and accountability becomes optional.

Meanwhile, member outreach is a chaotic pile-on. Digital sends emails. Marketing sends emails. MDLIVE sends emails. Express Scripts sends emails. There’s no single orchestrator, no shared plan, and no one accountable for the member experience end-to-end—just overlapping blasts and conflicting messages. Cigna doesn’t have a marketing organization; it has a fragmented broadcast system optimized for internal theater, not results.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-sachs-forecasts-t-t-081022634.html

Is this likely how the layoffs will go down?

Store level employees should be mostly fine. Most likely cut is BWC. High paid SMs might be a target down the line, but I think the focus will be DM and above in January.
OP: @a2+1kd6vad2r

What's your prediction for next year?

It's 12/25 and luckily unlike the past couple of yrs the MOA Corporate Grinch hasn't ruined the holidays again. But tonite I'm in California stuck in front of the TV watching the Grinch on the Peacock network.

What really pis_ses me off is the fact that very own 401K plan is so pathetic compared w/our competitors like ADP. No self directed brokerage option. No managed account option. Very few if any new funds or fund line up changes. No new educational materials. No financial planning opportunities. It's total BS how the plans lacks true fiduciary oversight.

Company gets sued over their own plan--no changes. Company freezes pension--no changes but only cut backs to 401k benefits. No enhancement. Company needs to watch it as there could be lawsuits in the works over the 401k plan.

For crying out loud it is 2026 and still no SDBA or managed options ?

No wonder clients are leaving. They see no enhancements to their plans either like we don't see any to ours. Clients see no brokerage. No new funds. No new education. No managed.

Work to Rich and the Board this Christmas night---give us the present we deserve. Give us a competitive retirement plan. Give out clients the same present wrapped in a bow. A better retirement plan. If you keep your in action up and don't improve our plan and their's either, you will find yourself out of a job in 15 more months.

Step it up Fu.ck.u

Have any of the other laid off employees been struggling to find work? I've had to start an Onlyf-ns. It isn't going great, but it is helping me buy food. If any other RIF employees also had to do this to survive let me know and maybe we could collab.

Hi all,
anyone aware of CIP payments and when they will be paid?

in my offboarding package, they mentioned I will have CIP payments which is equal to yearly bonus payout along with pay in lieu and notice period.

My last day was in dec 3rd week and received all the remaining pay. but I haven't received CIP payment. Did anyone get it or anyone has info. when they will be deposited?

Did Intel reach the target yet on Christmas and end of the year?

Vteamer here in the West area, I am currently ranked enterprise top 30 but I do not qualify as my VZ Protect rate is not at 55% heading into December

it is at 52% Can I still get it? Or is the percentage game too hard to obtain?

Has anyone ever witnessed a corporate HR department in other jobs as disconnected as Belk’s corporate HR is from stores, corporate office and WFH workers, and store associates as Belk?

Literally 1 HRBP over 100 stores
Who is out of state. Questions about FMLA, Maternity leave, Doesn’t have a clue what’s happening in store, one HRBP claiming she was a previous belk store manager, yet gives the most manufactured, out of touch answers to questions that leave the person with even more unanswered questions. It’s simply called gaslighting 101. If you need H.R. please understand you will get four different answers to the same questions!!

Didn’t get to submit it before the deadline. Can I just contact HR to get it paid out? I know it may come later but still want to be sure I get all what is owed to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/comments/1ptwzeo/vzw_att_tmo_easide_miami/

Are we suppose to get a final pay check for the last month we worked for Nov 20- Dec 20 and then our severance 3 weeks later (End of January) ?

The Christmas season is coming to an end. The Valentines Aisle is to be set in full in less than 3 weeks. Who do you think, at store level, is going to be laid off first? High paid SMs, high tier SMs, Hourly or Salary ESMs, IS or ISL, lessen the SFLs, the rest of the BCs, or RXOMs?

Anyone have an anecdotal evidence that Ansys grants a non-compete waiver? I have an offer from Ansys's customer (OEM) and they want me to get a waiver to join

Based in the USA (not in CA). Please comment if you have any insight into this.