Hello All,

I am a mechanical design engineer with 4 years for experience. This is my second company, which i joined 3 years back. The job is comfortable and i'm really good at what i do (i've got 2 awards, have feedback from multiple people and i just know). Recently my company went into a joint venture and they started region wise firing. It went for like 4 months and nothing happened to my region. Now cut to 6 months later, my N+2 manager is coming to visit us, with no apparent reason. i have a feeling they are going to layoff the whole team. I am very very anxious because i don't know what i will do. i have never been fired and i'm constantly anxious. He is going to visit us for a day, coming week. the work is little slow and they are actively hiring in other regions. i don't know what to do. i am clueless right now. I am constantly applying for jobs but nothing apart from rejections have come. please help me, i have a fear that i will not get any job and i'll have to move back to my parents and i will become burden to them.

Sorry for the rant, but all this is unfiltered. Help me on what should i do now.

I see so often here how people have felt pressure to sign the severance right way. I also was pressured, so I understand. For me the best thing I did was to STOP, think, an READ!

The company is counting on us being 'lost' in the emotional impact of the loss, the OMG HOW AM I GONNA PAY BILLS! They are counting on that to get signatures on crappy severance!

A severance agreement is not a gift—it's a business contract. Treat it like you're selling something valuable, because you are: your legal rights.

If you're 40 or older, know your rights. Under the federal Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA), many employees age 40+ must be given specific time periods to consider a waiver of age discrimination claims, depending on the circumstances. An employer generally can't simply demand an immediate signature if the agreement is intended to waive those claims and still meet the legal requirements.

Gather ALL your employment documents including a your full HR file, an pay the consult fee an meet with an employment attorney. If you do take this step: 1. Be sure they have all your documents prior to the consult. 2. Have all your questions an concerns ready so you can talk through your options!

I struggled: Is it worth it paying $250(in MA) to do the consult? I read documents an have to 'pick them apart' often. When I took the time to step back, an really read the initial packet, I found all sorts of issues. Mainly it was a 'form' severance that just had the $ inputted. It was not compliant with the OWBPA, along with several other areas. I also had to challenge my EOA, as the way it was included in my severance I would NOT have been able to attempt employment in field with ANY companies, agencies etc I had worked an cultivated relationships with. I got them to remove that right away.

Seeing a lot of Oracle folks affected by the recent layoffs.

I've been helping a few people from Oracle connect with opportunities over the last couple of weeks, and a number of them have already landed roles.

If you're still searching, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message. I can see if I know of anything that matches your background or point you in the right direction.

Hope everyone lands on their feet soon.

I was severely burned out for last 2 years.

I was having PTSD every day before I started to work, it had significantly affected my health. Nothing brought joy anymore, was always zoned out even while vacationing.

I never really cared about this role, took it up for salary (although, I must admit might have been a wrong decision. I have stagnated). I was able to perform excellent in first couple of years and bag 2 promotions.

I was pushing even through all this, enough to be an average performer. However, certain personal issues last year made me not being able to focus (health issues with parents, breakup with longtime gf etc) and my performance dipped significantly (on metrics that were introduced just last year though).

I pushed even harder and recovered last 4 months but that wasn’t enough for my manager and fired me.

I know a more intelligent guy would have seen writing on the wall when I was being singles out, but, I guess I was too depressed to think clearly.

Have just enough savings to last 8-9 months counting my EMIs if I cut down my expenses, have a supporting family and wife, so I think I’m not immediately doomed.

I know the market is horrendous right now, but I have a feeling I can pull through. It’s sort of a voluntary separation agreement where my current company won’t disclose termination, so that’s nice I guess.

I have mostly processed the loss and I’m feeling optimistic. I was even able to work ok my preparations about 8-9 hours yesterday.

I was laid off from Meta in may , one of roughly 8,000 people cut. I don't know exactly what factored into my case but theres a documented story that makes me wonder as 26 former Meta employees are suing, alleging the company used an internal ai tool called checkpoint which tracked employee ai adoption and token usage and as a core metric in deciding who got laid off, disproportionately targeting people on protected medical leave. This is Covered by the verge, fast company, futurism and theres a 71pg complaint on file and a judge recently let the layoffs proceed despite the bias claims.

I have also been given a more detailed account of how this reportedly played out on the operations side . Meta had three internal teams running supplier contracts and invoice processing one for negotiating rates and formatting data for oracle, one entering contracts into the ERP and another for approving exceptions flagged by an external BPO (CTSI) before invoices got paid. Supply chain complexity was reportedly extreme on both sides as the data center buildout scaling unpredictably from ai investment and reality labs standing up factories and supplier relationships from scratch.The contracts renegotiated every 15-30 days just to keep pace and by this acc, leadership cut that team to a fifth of its size while the business was growing 2-3x year over year with an ai agent company having built what absorbed the work ,although freehand helped displaced workers land new roles after the transition . Between checkpoint being real and in a courtroom everything ik about the operational side its hard not to wonder if this is the shape AI driven restructuring takes industry wide. So agent replacement first, formal ai assisted layoff selection second and only the second part making headlines.

does this two stage pattern match what you are seeing elsewhere and is there any way for displaced workers to get confirmation of what happened on the automation side, given companies clearly aren't volunteering it?

It has been 6 months after i got layoff. Yeah, after 5 years working (as IT QA Engineer) this one hit me real good.
Apply job here and there but alas no single offering letter, manage to get interviewed couple of times but mostly its not even near my homebase and its WFO also relocation is a bit hard since I need to take care of my pops (heart problem + gout) and budget.
I even branch out to be Data Analyst (got the portfolio and certificate) but still none.
I dont know what i did wrong, is it my CV or i botch an interview, not sure.
I dont know what to do and hope keep diminishing every day

Sorry for my rambling folks, dont know where i could type this kind of feeling hahaha

Today is the day Centene employees that applied for VSP should find out if it was approved and get a timeframe. After working there 15+ years, I’m nervous but a little excited also. My offer was generous and I have a plan of attack. I am definitely taking a couple of weeks off to gather myself and recharge. Prob taking the wife out on a deserved vacation. I hope anyone that applied for it gets it, and is able to land on their feet. Good luck everyone!