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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by davely on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:13PM (#34248355)
My wife woke up this morning to an email sent at 3:16AM informing her that she was laid off as part of this restructuring. It's a blessing in disguise, IMHO -- the work-life boundaries expected as part of her org were non-existent (calls with India every night at 8PM or 7AM, our time in California, on top of the normal 9-5 hours).

It's definitely hard to process. Lots of feelings of anger, sadness, relief, etc.

Fortunately for her, the severance is pretty generous (paid through March, then 6 months on top). But there's also anxiety about the job market right now with so many tech workers being let go.

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by sequoia on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:20PM (#34248449)
Is this 9 months of full pay? How long was your wife's tenure if I may ask?
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by davely on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:38PM (#34248716)
Yeah, that's what it sounds like to us. She had been there about 6 years.
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by ghaff on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:20PM (#34250086)
I didn't think anyone gave that sort of severance any longer in the US even for someone who has been at a place a middling long time.
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by smarx007 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:21PM (#34248469)
Why would anyone wake up to an email at 3AM?
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by davely on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:38PM (#34248727)
Perhaps I phrased that wrong.

When we woke up at (roughly at 6:30), she saw a work email on her phone announcing the layoffs.

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by smarx007 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:13PM (#34251749)
No, it was me, didn’t read carefully enough. Thank you and hope your wife finds a balanced job soon!
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by carb on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:25PM (#34248520)
It sounds like their job was pretty toxic and pushing through their work-life boundary. (This has happened to me before).

When that happens regularly, and you get used to being woken up in the middle of the night to respond to a technical outage or needy management, the lightest phone buzz can shock you awake.

Given the described situation, I'm not surprised they woke up to an unexpected phone notification :(

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by davely on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:42PM (#34248772)
Yeah -- definitely toxic! There were really no boundaries. We have two kiddos as well. So it ended up conflicting with bedtime at night or getting ready for school in the morning. Managers were just not sympathetic at all.

To clarify, we woke up at our normal time and saw the email.

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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by rsstack on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:32PM (#34248629)
She woke up at a normal hour and saw an email from 3 AM. "Woke up to find a notification on her phone", not "woken up by a notification on her phone".
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by sokoloff on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:32PM (#34248630)
I read it as “woke up at <some arbitrary, unspecified time> to an email which was sent at 3:16AM.”
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Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructu... by Vaslo on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:24PM (#34248515)
I sometimes just wake up randomly in the middle of the night and use the restroom and check my email in the process. I know it’s dumb but I feel like punishing myself.
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