my father was just laid off after 26 years at his company
My father worked for a major company let’s call it….oh I don’t know, S. He devoted everything to them for 26 years of his life. For those 26 years he had been working his soul off for them..
He thought he was going to make it until retirement. He always talked about how great the company was. I tried to warn him that the company did not care and it was only a matter of time until they threw him out. But he alway denied it saying that was a millennial cop out for hard work.
Today the reaper came, every single employee was told that they would be laid off unless they all moved to their other company with a smaller capacity.
This told me they are planning to shutter everything, the call centers, the data centers, even the business offices. 60,000 employees will now be basically competing for at most 20,000 spots. the math didn’t work out for him and unfortunately he lost.
he is too old to move but also not old enough to retire. I wanted to tell him “I told you so” but I knew now wasn’t the time.
I guess the only thing I can say is be ready alot of major companies will be using this “return to office/centralize” as a way to lay anyone and everyone off.
Netizens’ comments
- Employees are just numbers. There is no loyalty to employees, so why should an employee be loyal to an employer?
- It’s not a well thought out opinion I have but I feel the stock market is to blame for a lot of ills in society. People are “Investors” so companies don’t care about their employees, don’t care about their customers, care about one thing – the bottom line for their INVESTORS. Nothing else matters. If they can axe an employee that is a year or two from retirement after devoting decades to that company, they would do it in a millisecond if it meant increased stock value for the investors.
- This has been happening to blue collar workers for decades. Now it’s affecting the many white collar workers.