Huge Disappointment in how Layoffs were Handled. Is this the 21st Century Pink Slip? I Certainly Hope Not. - Project Architect Cushing Terrell Employee Review

They laid off scores of people in different offices across the country in a Zoom meeting lasting just under five minutes. I wasn’t surprised since they are a firm who historically hires when busy and jettisons staff when the going gets tough. It’s their approach to the cyclic nature of the industry. I was very surprised by the impersonal purge where all were told of the realignment of workload to staffing. I realize laying people off is about the most awful task imaginable. But for a firm professing to work according to the Golden Rule this was a huge misstep. I can’t imagine anyone being able to honestly say this is how they would like to be treated. For an overall great firm where I was hoping to spend the rest of my career, this was an incredible disappointment. I truly thought they were better than this. It makes me so sad to realize they are not. Everyone I worked with there gave their all and then some; but, a five minute personal meeting or call was too much to ask of the President. It was a bitter disappointment. I expected more from a firm this good.