Thread regarding Collins Aerospace layoffs

@kj Wow, you are a toxic POS

@kj
That is life at Raytheon.

Harsh and cutthroat. I even got my bosses job following that advice.

It is dog-eat-dog there. The strong survive, the weak get laid off.

Remember: HR is NOT your friend in this. I knew an HR "partner" that just loved "lay-off day". They truly enjoyed doing their job and putting people out!

The best thing to do to survive is to first realize that your work friends are not your friends. They are colleagues.

You will compete for meager raises, and you will play musical chairs when the layoffs come. Not friends but competitors! Make sure you always get a chair!

Whenever possible remind your boss about mistakes colleagues made. Undermine their good work and focus on the bad they did. When they make a mistake make sure it becomes as public as possible. If they do a great thing play it down and focus on the great things you did.

If you catch a coworker making a mistake allow it to continue on. Do not warn them. Let it move down the value chain until it becomes very expensive to fix. Never help them, let them flounder and fail quietly until it becomes a big problem. Then you can point fingers at your coworker and get the boss focused on how much that mistake cost all of us.

This is how you survive at Raytheon.

Trip and fall, demand an ambulance, medically retire after the lawsuit

As a "very experienced" person, if you really think you are a target (or just in general) my advice to you is:

1. Never have more than one grocery bag of stuff at work to take with you at any time. Keep a bag in your desk, and reduce anything you have over time until you achieve this goal. You don't have to make it obvious. Group things together in a way to pack quickly.
2. Take any personal books home and keep them together in one box or place, and be ready to take any of them in, ONLY when you need them, and take them home after you are done using them.
3. If not already cleaned out, keep up on deleting old emails, especially any which will never be useful again, and for sure, anything of a more personal nature.
4. If you achieve 1-3, then the day the reaper comes, you quickly pack your few groups of items into your bag.
5. Leave with dignity. Don't scream, cry, nor act surprised, just act indifferent and walk with them, with your bag-o-stuff.
6. After you go to your local watering hole that day, wake up late the next day and realize, you now have freedom to do anything you want to do now, and don't have to worry about what is going on at that place anymore. There are jobs out there, just maybe not in your local city (especially in CR).

Resign?