My company is holding an all hands meeting on Friday at 4:30 p.m. and having us go in separate rooms???

Bob Slydell: And Mr. Mike Bolton. Who’s gonna miss him?

Peter Gibbons: You’re gonna layoff Samir and Michael?

Bob Porter: Oh, yeah. We’re gonna bring in some uh, entry level graduates for us to work in Singapore, that’s the usual deal.

Bob Slydell: Well, it’s standard operating procedure.

Peter Gibbons: Do they know about this yet?

Bob Slydell: No! No, of course not. We find it’s always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there’s less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week. Anyway, Peter, what we would like to do is put you into a position to have as many as four people working right underneath you.

How long have you been there? Hope you get a good package.

Tell us if they give the stool speech.

"A company is like a stool. You have to balance three legs. There are customers, employees and shareholders. We need to treat our shareholders well too. Effective immediately, there is a pay freeze and we will have unpaid shutdown weeks. Our VP's will forgo their bonuses. No Christmas Porsche for you David!".

A few weeks later, your entire group is laid off. David gets his Porsche a year later.

White males who self-identify as same, are in 50s and who have been with company for a while will be axed in Operations Improvement Program, "their positions are being elimimated.

Can throw in a few outspoken women, too, just to make it look good.

Diversity-approved 20 somethings will be replacing them in about 60 days in Rejuvination Program.

Not making this up.

Time to work on your resumé.

sounds like the American idol breakout approach. one room gets to keep their jobs, one room gets axed, and the other room is offered reduced pay and bene's.

which group are you in?

Save all the files and emails you might need going forward. Just in case.

Like the poster said above, try and save everything and update your resume. That's usually not a good sign when they have company wide meeting in separate rooms. I place I worked for just shy of seven years, sequestered half the employees in one room for "security reasons" and told them that there were immediate layoffs taking place. The other half which was where I was, was told to either dial into a conference or show up to another room and that's when the axe dropped on us. I had a feeling it was coming though when the company had been sold to a private equity company and usually that means that massive layoffs come shortly after.

white collar man wrote:

hi, is this a red flag? Who schedules a company wide meeting on Friday at 4:30 p.m. and sends out different meeting invites to different people??

Yep. Your company is laying people off. If they AREN'T, then they are being jerks by making all of you nervous. But, yeah, a layoff is happening. Fridays are the target days for stuff like this to let people cool down over the weekend and thus hopefully preventing any violence.

Job market is good...if you are laid off, go get another one.

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Beautiful Day wrote:

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Yup. Been thru this before. Happened almost the same way except on a Thursday. Two different rooms. One room everyone kept their job. Other room everyone was let go basically immediately. Nothing more I can add other than: "hope you are in the get to stay room".

Dogbert wrote:

White males who self-identify as same, are in 50s and who have been with company for a while will be axed in Operations Improvement Program, "their positions are being elimimated.

Can throw in a few outspoken women, too, just to make it look good.

Diversity-approved 20 somethings will be replacing them in about 60 days in Rejuvination Program.

Not making this up.

Dude - we knew you weren't bright enough to be making that up. No need to tell us it was a cut-and-paste job.

OP, any update. I know the meeting isn't until 4:30, but have you gathered any clues throughout the day? You need to be keeping us posted. This thread is BS.

OP here. They actually split us up into different teams to do something called a "Ragnar Relay" in which the two losing teams get axed. I have no interest in doing this, so I'm quitting before 4:30.

My room got pink slips and 6 weeks severance pay :(

The other room got 20% raises for the next 18 months while they transfer knowledge to a team in Bangladesh

white collar man wrote:

My room got pink slips and 6 weeks severance pay :(

The other room got 20% raises for the next 18 months while they transfer knowledge to a team in Bangladesh

dayummmm. name and shame the company.

where's the schmuck who was thinking about getting into HR?

'funny' how the rhetoric changes from hiring to...

biogen wrote:

white collar man wrote:

My room got pink slips and 6 weeks severance pay :(

The other room got 20% raises for the next 18 months while they transfer knowledge to a team in Bangladesh

dayummmm. name and shame the company.

The Donald J. Trump Foundation. :-(