Happened 3 times with me. 
  
 Most times, you know it is coming if the company isn't doing well. If you have made provisions and already been applying around, you wish you had more time. 
  
 If it's only you who is impacted, you feel shit. For more than a week. If it's a job you hate, you rather feel relieved. 
 In a job I disliked, during peak Covid lockdown, I once had a dream that we were let go. Honestly, after I woke up, I felt bad it was just a dream and hated I had to go to work.

I guess these days, so many folks around me, with good experience and background, are either choosing to be without a job or are currently without one. I guess if one's liabilities are within 40-50k per month level, this is quite practical situation to manage through

Digital Marketer

Investment Manager

I stayed without a job for 20 odd months since 2021. I heard a lot abt how it wastes you, makes you restless, idle mind, devil workshop etc etc etc. 
  
 Everything is untrue. My break was the best time of my life apart from a few days of anxiety. That anxiety  was needless.

what's your day like when you are laid off and serving notice?

what's your day like when you are laid off and serving notice?- Grapevine

Hi all, I was recently impacted by layoffs and am looking for new opportunities. I have 2 years of full-stack Java experience and rank in the top 10% on LeetCode. Any leads would be greatly appreciated🙏🙏


My resume : 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QAE6h0AqapRW2mI2xovj4i3WdAjRCyWt/view?usp=drivesdk


Thanks in advance

Got laid off 😭😭

Software Developer

Hi all, I was recently impacted by layoffs and am looking for new opportunities. I have 2 years of full-stack Java experience and rank in the top 10% on LeetCode. Any leads would be greatly appreciated🙏🙏


My resume: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QAE6h0AqapRW2mI2xovj4i3WdAjRCyWt/view?usp=drivesdk


Thanks in advance

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I am currently serving my notice period (90 days). Had decided earlier to quit and then look for a role so that I can job hunt in relative peace without worrying about job performance (high impact and demanding role). Was interviewing with a bunch of startup’s and almost every hiring manager and HR asked about why are you quitting without an offer? Same people when I was interviewing while working were concerned about the 90 day notice. 

Is this considered as a concerning behaviour? Or just a negotiation tactic. 

Also, what is a correct response to this question in your opinion? The truth seems incredulous to these folks.

What’s the obsession with negative perception of quitting without an offer?

Head Of Marketing

I am worried about my future due to ongoing layoffs in the software field everywhere … i do not have a project from few months … can anyone please let me know what to do and secure my future and to improve my career ?
I have good knowledge in html css and javascript 
and have basic knowledge in java and spring boot

Worried about future

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I am seeing lots of startups are firing these days even previous year it was happening.

Would like to know the mindset of employees who got saved. Like to know what goes inside your head. How do you deal with this situation as it can happen with who got saved somehow, etc etc

What is the morale of employees in company where layoff happens

Android Engineer

So I was laid off a couple of months back and the organization was forcing me to resign. I countered their basis of decision and was able to get my severance instead of notice. Further, they were asking me to serve a reduced notice but I opposed saying this is a layoff/termination from organization’s side and was out in a week. As a result they have deliberately put things like “his performance was average” in the experience letter. 

Can someone help me with how to deal with this situation for prospective employers? 

P.S: I do not want to go the legal route with my prev org and want to focus on the next prospects so if any HR in the network can help with some advice, that would be great.

Any HRs here who can help out with a situation concerning previous employer & negative experience letter

Product Manager

here is a question, with the current layoff situation peaking cross places, in the eventuality that a company decides to let you go, is it their benovalence that they expect you to not work in your notice period or is it that they are obligated to do so?

to add context:
1 they ask you to put in your papers
2. they also offer you to continue post notice on contract (but you are obviously bumped enough to not work there!)


 what is it that one can do to get off the work from day 1 of notice period?

look forward to your input here....

ps: I am hoping they are obligated but then on paper, they ask you to resign!

company asks you to leave, are you expected to work in the notice period?

I've had the fortune of having worked in 3 countries so far. India is by far the most exciting place to be in 2024.
But there's something about our work ethic that just concerns me. In both white and blue collar.

In most other countries, I've observed people strictly sticking to the 9 to 5, working diligently in those hours - not wasting too much time on chai sutta breaks, instagram browsing, gupshup etc.

They work for 8 hours, then leave. And think about work directly the next day.

In India, most of us spend more hours - but very obviously very few of those hours are productive. In fact, I lately feel that too many people around me are doing even 2-3 hours of work on a good day.

We end up just staying around, passing time, and then go back home. When we could have achieved so much more.

Work ethic has fallen. Work hours have gone up.

We need to be more mindful of our actions, we need to work well at work, and then do well at home.

I think it's a function of being over populated. There are 1.5-2 people doing what 1 person should be doing, hence this effect.

Needs to be fixed, it's the sign of a major problem in the workforce. Thoughts?

Disguised unemployment in India - It's all around us :/

We don't end up staying long hours because we need to. But because we have to, so that the manager doesn't feel like we leave the office by "half day".  
  Also, they have a leverage that they can shut their laptops at 5 and nobody will reach out to them. But here in India, managers do reach out for escalations, or make us attend lat evening calls because it's afternoon in Europe or morning in NA. The people sitting in Europe or NA are not made to wake up early or attend night calls to accommodate us during our actual 9-5.  
  People also chit chat etc. bcz they know for sure that they have to sit for long hours..so they need to take small breaks in the day. No one has the capacity to work 10-11 hrs without any breaks.  
  Here it would never be possible to have such a strict 9-5.

Customer Success

Corporate Strategist

The job market has not been good for the last 12-15 months, but organisations around are offering good severance to their employees and aiding them for their next steps. But UC conducts "performance reviews" twice a year, which is basically a platform for managers to wage a personal vendetta against the "low performers"(read: people who don't suck up to them). And hence, they strategically 'ask people to leave', in return of making sure that terms like 'fired', 'laid off' would not be associated with them. So, people put in their papers, and serve the one month notice without working, and get that salary as their 'severance'. 

Leadership team goes on to boast the fact that there hasn't been any layoffs in the company. Well, fair, because one needs to own the fact that they've laid people off, and funnily enough one of the UC values is 'ownership', and managers do OWN the indifference to the sudden absence of a certain team member from meetings. 

Apparently, people perform fine till the time these half yearly reviews are conducted, because there isn't any concern about their performances in the regular one-on-ones with the managers, but cometh the review, cometh the concerns with performance. Managers nit pick over employees not responding within 15 minutes to their messages. Also, there isn't a 360° view of performance, so your peers, who work much closer to you don't have a say in your performance.

UC brags a 'meritocratic' culture, and rightly so, where ones merit is their ability to show their work as 10x of what it actually is, appearing to be busy with a completely packed calendar, and always saying yes to whatever manager says, even if it means bending over backwards for them. 

<Continued in comments>

Urban Company - A spineless org with hypocrite leadership & incompetent middle management

I don't know why everyone is making a big deal out of layoffs. Even the ones who laid off are not that concerned than the ones who comment.

Laid off employees literally get free money upwards of 10 lakhs in many cases of senior developers who are laid off from top tech startups. Companies pay severance equal to 3-6 months salary of laid off employees. Some even offer other benefits as well.

I personally know a couple of Devs who got around ~9-10L in severance pay. So, yeah if there are layoffs happening in funded tech startups or leading tech companies, considering their pay range, laid off employees get handsome severance pay including employee benefits

Layoffs a big deal? Positive side of layoffs

Hope you get laid-off & get a good severance package! Will see how your job search goes.

Engineering Manager

Product Designer

My contract was terminated last month citing restructuring.
Honestly, I saw it coming but wasn't expecting it would hit like this

I tried keeping my mind distracted, but now it has started to sink

I live with parents and they aren't saying anything (they were feeding me before and still are, no change for them)

I have had thoughts of ending all this, but do not have the courage. What if it ends halfway and I am redundant my whole life?

Credit card bills are coming through now and being 42% of my ex-salary wasn't something I was prepared for. I thought I was a sane spender.

How did you tackle being laid off?

Keep looking around, apply and eventually you're bound to get a good job I promise you. Just treat it as a numbers game. Ask your parents help with the credit card bills if you don't have enough corpus, there is no shame in that. You can give the money back to them when you're in a better position. 
  
 You're a nice person from what I know of you in this platform, you got this sis! Ending it all is not a good option for the people who care about you, and you're probably gonna look back later and smile and be glad for making it through

Application Analyst

Consultant

Orchid with 200 trees, 40y old.

Will sleep, soak sun and read(bucket list) here after Layoffs.

What's your layoff scene? R u afraid 😳

Stay strong and keep a back up :D

Got a place to lay upon after layoff.

Senior Consultant

Got laid off a few days back.
Now feeling a little helpless and tensed. 

The company's HR said that they are laying me off because of poor performance and they said that despite continuous feedback sessions (which they did not even conduct nor give me any suggestions/feedback) my performance did not improve. :)

Laid off

Strategy & Operations

i work in a service based company.
evening 5pm got a message from hr .
we have to let you go 
i was mentally prepared for this though

layoff today

Software Engineer

Guys & gals, I've been put on 3 months notice. Been working from home, my company (a startup) suddenly wants me to come to the office but I can't relocate immediately due to financial & familial responsibilities, so they're laying me off.

I have 2.5 yoe with Angular, but am extremely interested in learning other tech too (React/Vue/any other frontend framework, mobile dev with React Native/Ionic, Node/Go for backend). I'm confident that I'll be able to pick stuff up quickly with a bit of time & support.

Prefer WFH but I'm open to relocation if the offer is good enough.

Would appreciate any leads 🙏 I'm the sole earner in the family and the news has shaken me up mentally. Things are tense at home because of the strained finances. Been applying from the past 2 weeks but no calls yet (early I know, but still). At this point I'll take any opportunity to keep afloat.

Laid off unexpectedly, desperate for referrals (frontend/fullstack)

Has anybody here experienced a layoff that has kept up your love for the company.

I’ve had a bad one that was done in 30 mins with a meagre severance and assets/accesses removed in 10 mins with a legal binding about a non social media disclosure 

Not mentioning which company for obvious reasons.

what's your day like when you are laid off and serving notice?

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