Started at a remote company based in NYC, while I live in CA (Alameda County) about three months ago. On Thursday they had about 10 of us join an “urgent meeting” separately, only to lay us off due to the outbound call program ending. They said the lay off decisions were based on metrics and tenure.
Come to realize there were people included in the lay off that worked long before me, and people who remained that worked after me. So metrics must be the main reason I assume.
The thing is I discussed reasonable accommodations and have it on record through my initial annual performance review that my metrics were to be 10-12 tickets an hour for 3-6 months and per my last 1:1 with team lead, I was ahead of schedule. I specifically called out my worry of job security in meetings and to want to know what metrics to hit to be “safe.”
The people laid off are mostly all trans, queer, BIPOC, people with disabilities.
When they laid us off, in the meeting they stripped our access from everything – so any paperwork, chats, that review, I don’t have access to. We don’t have most of eachother’s information either.
Insurance ended the same day too – which maybe is meaningless but damn – used to at least end of the month.
They want a severance agreement signed by Monday (given 5 calendar days). It’s “heavily taxed” $3120 which is four weeks pay. Of course in exchange for not going after them.
It seems like there’s mismanagement at the top and the team leads were supposedly crying at the meeting they had after when they told about the lay offs. So in my mind it SEEMS all the assurances of having accommodations for my metrics just didn’t matter or weren’t even communicated outside the department when it came time to cut people.
It also sucks because most of those if not all of those let go are direct family and friend referrals of current employees. Sounds like company morale is way down and tensions are high from who remains.
Is there any leg on which to pursue this more, get a lawyer to chat with? Or perhaps if signing is best option, negotiate the terms?
To me – being told my medical issues as they intersected with metrics were taken care of and I was good metrics wise – only to be cut for metrics / doesn’t square up!