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Anyone else impacted in Hercules/Pleasanton today?

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·2d ago·1 comments
So the April 11th date finally arrived. I was part of the group hit at the Hercules site this morning. Honestly, the mood leading up to this has been incredibly toxic—everyone just waiting for the other shoe to drop since the February notice. It’s wild that they kept us in limbo for two full months before pulling the trigger. The severance package is barely passable, and they’ve already locked us out of the network and internal portals. If you’re still there, watch your back. There is zero transparency from leadership about whether this is the end of the cuts or just the first wave. My manager looked like he wanted to disappear during the meeting, but corporate just pushed the canned script and cut the feed. Just trying to figure out what the next steps are for benefits. Any advice on the COBRA stuff or how they handled the vesting schedule for you guys?

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·2d ago

I was let go at the Pleasanton office this morning as well. The communication has been an absolute disaster from the start. They’ve been dangling this over our heads for weeks, creating an environment of pure anxiety rather than just ripping the bandage off. It's incredibly disrespectful to treat long-term employees like a liability to be purged the second they no longer serve a quarterly metric. Once they cut your access, you realize how little the company actually cares about the people who built their systems. Good luck to everyone out there looking for something new.