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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Upthread someone said RIFs were happening this week … for MITRE. Not sure if trying to return there makes sense.

The RIF is another 600 people by August 11th. One more RIF "potentially" in October.

It is Aug 11 … did the RIFs materialize?

MITRE ATT&CK, ATT&CK Evaluations, and the CTID are merging

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Upthread someone said RIFs were happening this week … for MITRE. Not sure if trying to return there makes sense.

The RIF is another 600 people by August 11th. One more RIF "potentially" in October.

It is Aug 11 … did the RIFs materialize?

Is this really accurate? There is a WARN notice for the June RIF (442 ee's) but I did not find any others for this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Upthread someone said RIFs were happening this week … for MITRE. Not sure if trying to return there makes sense.

The RIF is another 600 people by August 11th. One more RIF "potentially" in October.

It is Aug 11 … did the RIFs materialize?

Is this really accurate? There is a WARN notice for the June RIF (442 ee's) but I did not find any others for this year.

Some MITRE RIFs have/will happen this week. IDK how many.

[Anonymous]

From my experience, the CEO normally sends a somber company-wide email later in the week the RIF is implemented informing of the event and noting the number of positions eliminated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From my experience, the CEO normally sends a somber company-wide email later in the week the RIF is implemented informing of the event and noting the number of positions eliminated.

My husband works in HR and says that mid-week is when layoffs typically occur.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Upthread someone said RIFs were happening this week … for MITRE. Not sure if trying to return there makes sense.

The RIF is another 600 people by August 11th. One more RIF "potentially" in October.

It is Aug 11 … did the RIFs materialize?

Is this really accurate? There is a WARN notice for the June RIF (442 ee's) but I did not find any others for this year.

Some MITRE RIFs have/will happen this week. IDK how many.

MITRE layoffs happened today.

[Anonymous]

any news on the next round of RIFs at RAND?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Upthread someone said RIFs were happening this week … for MITRE. Not sure if trying to return there makes sense.

The RIF is another 600 people by August 11th. One more RIF "potentially" in October.

It is Aug 11 … did the RIFs materialize?

Is this really accurate? There is a WARN notice for the June RIF (442 ee's) but I did not find any others for this year.

Some MITRE RIFs have/will happen this week. IDK how many.

MITRE layoffs happened today.

Do you have personal knowledge of a RIF on 8/11? I have a family member I am concerned about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Upthread someone said RIFs were happening this week … for MITRE. Not sure if trying to return there makes sense.

The RIF is another 600 people by August 11th. One more RIF "potentially" in October.

It is Aug 11 … did the RIFs materialize?

Is this really accurate? There is a WARN notice for the June RIF (442 ee's) but I did not find any others for this year.

Some MITRE RIFs have/will happen this week. IDK how many.

MITRE layoffs happened today.

Do you have personal knowledge of a RIF on 8/11? I have a family member I am concerned about.

DP - In previous major rounds this year, MITRE rolled out the RIFs over a couple days. Each major org had a different day. HR has to be in every conversation and they only have so much capacity... As I understand it from friends, that's how this round is being conducted as well.

[Anonymous]

To MITRE's credit, so far they have been very generous with their employee separation packages and the termination process has been conducted in a very professional manner. Affected employees are treated with grace and respect and not immediately locked out of the network and escorted out of the building by security guards as if they were undesirables. (I'm not with MITRE HR or Mgt.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To MITRE's credit, so far they have been very generous with their employee separation packages and the termination process has been conducted in a very professional manner. Affected employees are treated with grace and respect and not immediately locked out of the network and escorted out of the building by security guards as if they were undesirables. (I'm not with MITRE HR or Mgt.)

I disagree with the professionalism comment. You don't float the idea of 4 RIF's in a year and then do them over multiple days. Do it once, rip off the bandage, and let everyone move one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To MITRE's credit, so far they have been very generous with their employee separation packages and the termination process has been conducted in a very professional manner. Affected employees are treated with grace and respect and not immediately locked out of the network and escorted out of the building by security guards as if they were undesirables. (I'm not with MITRE HR or Mgt.)

I disagree with the professionalism comment. You don't float the idea of 4 RIF's in a year and then do them over multiple days. Do it once, rip off the bandage, and let everyone move one.

Their contracts aren't going away all at once. Why RIF people when the work is still ongoing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Upthread someone said RIFs were happening this week … for MITRE. Not sure if trying to return there makes sense.

The RIF is another 600 people by August 11th. One more RIF "potentially" in October.

It is Aug 11 … did the RIFs materialize?

Is this really accurate? There is a WARN notice for the June RIF (442 ee's) but I did not find any others for this year.

Some MITRE RIFs have/will happen this week. IDK how many.

MITRE layoffs happened today.

Any idea on numbers or what centers?

[Anonymous]

RIFs happened today, bunch of employees planning to retire within the next three months were apparently hit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To MITRE's credit, so far they have been very generous with their employee separation packages and the termination process has been conducted in a very professional manner. Affected employees are treated with grace and respect and not immediately locked out of the network and escorted out of the building by security guards as if they were undesirables. (I'm not with MITRE HR or Mgt.)

I disagree with the professionalism comment. You don't float the idea of 4 RIF's in a year and then do them over multiple days. Do it once, rip off the bandage, and let everyone move one.

Their contracts aren't going away all at once. Why RIF people when the work is still ongoing?

Agreed. In February/March Elon was running around with his chainsaw, significant percentages of high-level Federal GS/SESers who make actual contracting decisions were taking retirement/getting RIFed, by end of May, Elon's gone, Palantir and Thiel's people have embedded themselves across the Govt and we have a FY26 Budget, and, at this point we still don't have FY26 Appropriations, ... Result is projecting staffing needs from the madness has been/is "rather difficult". Given the level of uncertainty, MITRE's mgmt. as early as mid-February, communicated with MITRE staff that they'd built a wide range of scenarios because the environment was so uncertain and would modify/execute as they had to.