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To prep for that quantity of offboarding without anything leaking is pretty impressive.

by Neil44 7y ago

DangerousPie 7y ago
What makes you think that nothing leaked? Pretty sure these job cuts have been anticipated for a while, I was reading an article expecting 20,000 cuts last week.
- coldcode 7y ago
  When I was at Apple back before Steve came back (when they lost a billion or so) we knew there would be layoffs because the rent-a-guards were standing at the doors.
duxup 7y ago
I was part of a fairly large layoff a while back. Effectively the company made the decision and then a few folks in HR were involved in hiring an outside firm to handle everything. Even internally few in HR knew what was coming until that day. Most decisions were entirely high level based on really simple calculations "this whole group", "anyone in this group that is X" and such. Pretty easy to do if you make it easy.
- busterarm 7y ago
  Support.com did exactly that with their layoffs.
  - bsagdiyev 7y ago
    I worked there and got laid off during that one. We were all told to call in at 9:30am, they told us severance was in the mail and killed phone and chat immediately after. Super shitty way to have done it
greenshackle2 7y ago
It's not really a surprise for anyone who's been paying attention to financial news though, and especially not for the DB bankers who have been spending their time at the pub these past weeks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-01/empty-desks-and-early-beers-life-at-deutsche-bank-in-new-york https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-01/empty-des...
at-fates-hands 7y ago
I was part of a large layoff at a company when I was just out of college. Nobody knew it was coming. We had a few products that were struggling, but it felt like things were turning around. They basically had an all hands meeting for everybody in our office. We went to the main auditorium and the CEO gets up and basically says, "The company has been struggling so we're closing this office. Please hand your ID to the security people as you leave. Details will follow about how to get your personal belongings mailed back to you." And that was it. Pretty brutal to say the least. Some 400 jobs just evaporated in a few minutes. It was an eye opener for me on working for a medium sized company. You just never know when it could be your last day.

To prep for that quantity of offboarding without anything leaking is pretty impressive.

by Neil44 7y ago

To prep for that quantity of offboarding without anything leaking is pretty impressive.

What makes you think that nothing leaked? Pretty sure these job cuts have been anticipated for a while, I was reading an article expecting 20,000 cuts last week.

coldcode 7y ago
When I was at Apple back before Steve came back (when they lost a billion or so) we knew there would be layoffs because the rent-a-guards were standing at the doors.

duxup 7y ago

I was part of a fairly large layoff a while back. Effectively the company made the decision and then a few folks in HR were involved in hiring an outside firm to handle everything. Even internally few in HR knew what was coming until that day. Most decisions were entirely high level based on really simple calculations "this whole group", "anyone in this group that is X" and such. Pretty easy to do if you make it easy.

busterarm 7y ago
Support.com did exactly that with their layoffs.
- bsagdiyev 7y ago
  I worked there and got laid off during that one. We were all told to call in at 9:30am, they told us severance was in the mail and killed phone and chat immediately after. Super shitty way to have done it

greenshackle2 7y ago

It's not really a surprise for anyone who's been paying attention to financial news though, and especially not for the DB bankers who have been spending their time at the pub these past weeks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-01/empty-desks-and-early-beers-life-at-deutsche-bank-in-new-york https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-01/empty-des...

at-fates-hands 7y ago

I was part of a large layoff at a company when I was just out of college. Nobody knew it was coming. We had a few products that were struggling, but it felt like things were turning around. They basically had an all hands meeting for everybody in our office. We went to the main auditorium and the CEO gets up and basically says, "The company has been struggling so we're closing this office. Please hand your ID to the security people as you leave. Details will follow about how to get your personal belongings mailed back to you." And that was it. Pretty brutal to say the least. Some 400 jobs just evaporated in a few minutes. It was an eye opener for me on working for a medium sized company. You just never know when it could be your last day.