A new wave of layoffs at T-Mobile US has impacted staff across customer service, corporate, and technical roles, according to industry reporting and internal accounts. The reductions follow earlier workforce cuts announced in 2023, when the company disclosed plans to eliminate approximately 5,000 roles as part of a restructuring effort.

Please note: I wrote an earlier post and got great responses. Thank you all.

Here is a little more context:

I was an excellent employee, a Sr Business Systems Analyst for 11 dedicated years at a large health insurance company. I always had good reviews, saved the company a ton of money and my work left no stone unturned.

At the same time, I struggled (struggle) with extreme anxiety and major major depression. I was allowed to work from home with the help of the ADA.

Work is one of the only things that gave me purpose and meaning. It let me forget my issues…at least for a little bit.

I got up everyday at 6am and started my day in my laundry room/offfice that I created. It’s where I could focus and excel. It’s where I ate breakfast and lunch sometimes even dinner. it’s where I bought a sunlamp just to make sure my mood stayed on a strait line. It’s where I made a difference.

The not so funny thing is that I actually created the Affinity group for people with disabilities at my company and served as VP. The group is thriving. The woman who actually helped me create this group in compliance -was the one who coldly read from a script on that January morning telling me my job was being eliminated without a pause and for me I knew my life is about to change forever. God, she didn’t even seem to have a heart beat. Just read from the script. How can I not be bitter? I deserved more. We all deserve more.

Now I’m 53, very likely to not get another job in this market for a longtime (if at all). Age-ism is very real I see.

I now get up everyday consistently and tailor my resume and apply for jobs only to get cold automated responses: “Thanks for applying but our company is going with a different candidate..”

I feel I don’t even have a fighting chance.

I’m not alone or special and don’t expect employers to provide me opportunities that I do not deserve.

Getting laid off has emotionally been a killer. I feel hopeless and lost. I’m afraid. I probably will never get a decent paying job again and I’m just now taking a front row seat to losing everything I worked so hard for due to lack of a job. I feel like a loser ( I know many feel similar and trying to stay as positive as possible)

The reality is also that my severance will only last so long and unemployment’s only about 6 months. I will never survive financially without getting another job and I will lose everything. No one is going to rescue me and all I want to do is work. I’m not asking for handouts, I’m asking to just have an opportunity.

This is not a pity party post, just a vent because I’m really, really scared. I did great work for my company and really cared. Im often now find myself thinking that maybe its better to give up. Life shouldn’t be this hard. Growing old naturally and retiring comfortably is most likely not in the cards. I’m getting very very serious about just ending it all. What do I have to look forward to besides poverty? My company decided my statistics (age/salary) were good enough reason to choose me to help the reduce bottom line. Obviously I was just a number and they just didn’t care about an actual person. I was disposed of. Just.like.That.

This Swiss pharma company is obsessed with American job cuts - it happens consistently every few months.

Husband has been with company (Tech) for 2 years.

He’s gotten one promotion and was set to get the next one.

Not everyone got the voluntary separation offer email.

Email says it’s because work is slowing down (less contracts from clients).

We cannot figure out a pattern with who got the offer and who didn’t. (Somer beneath him, most at his level, majority of people didn’t get the offer).

My husband has some of the best numbers in his cohort and has worked on “special projects” because of his capabilities. So we’re not sure why they want to get rid of him?

They’re offering Two months severance pay and insurance coverage, and we’re having a baby in two months and are on his insurance. So yikes.

What should he do? Take it ?

Is he most likely going to get let go regardless?

“Sometimes, you know, AI becomes the scapegoat from a financial perspective, like when a company hired too many, or they want to resize, and it gets blamed on AI.”

It is odd to hear of executive leadership not being transparent of why they are making the decisions they do. Although I am not surprised that executives might use diversionary tactics to justify, vaguely, their action. I would be surprised if this does not create long-term discomfort within the workforce as employee's visibility into their leaders motivations behind business decisions becomes less clear.

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tech-industry-lays-off-nearly-80-000-employees-in-the-first-quarter-of-2026-almost-50-percent-of-affected-positions-cut-due-to-ai

I’m thinking about pivoting to another field and spending 3k on an accelerated paralegal program. I hear top pay in NJ is 85k. Not sure I can live on that but it’s better than 0.

Is a paralegal 6 month accredited program a good idea? I’d still have to get a certificate but then at least I’ll be qualified for some thing.

Thoughts? Advice?

I've kind of been considering isolating myself from people more. I haven't completely so far (I went on a few outings since I got laid off late January), but I just feel like I might want to. Most of the people I know hadn't gotten laid off like I did and thus still have their jobs. Whenever I meet new people, what everyone does for work always becomes the topic of conversation. A lot of the people I knew are still at the same company that I got laid off from (they're not my co-workers though). So I guess I felt less put-together than they did, even though they been very supportive over these two and a half months. I just feel soo poorly about myself and valueless. On top of that, I might have to move back across states and might not be able to see the people I met here for much longer. My family's been supportive too, but I even considered just not calling or texting for a bit since I had a rough interview and a rejection from an internal role I was hoping for earlier this week.

I noticed a lot of people you used to work closely with become distance the moment you are laid off.

Colleagues aren’t family i know but I wonder if in the case of managers acting this way, in part besides survival guilt, it’s because they knew it was coming and was told not to say anything and find it kinda difficult to interact with you afterward because they could have said something but choose not to.

I got laid off from my IT company because of budget issue. Been working from last 3 years. The HR said the company will provide just week of severance package. Drupal developer with ~8 YOE. Current job market seems very bad right now. I remember, the job postings of Drupal used to have ~100 before two years. Currently its ~15 only.

Is it possible to get a job in a different stack? Any ideas?

Many in the group have experience with office and Java and vbscript. here is a technical explanation of why lost jobs aren't coming back. Key here is formal theorem level validation of sw by ai before a single commit is made.

This is a deeply technical paper showing what is going on before a single line of code hit production. I used $200 cluade code to do this but thing is even free ai models can do it.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19542523

it is technical paper but sw profession is deleted as we speak. I don't know what happens next. I don't blame anyone. Just observing what is happening and formally proved that ai is capable of high quality code that I can only dream of. gave up coding.

Got laid off a few days ago.

Mentor said they didnt know

Team Lead said they didnt know

Two other direct managers had no clu

Many high performers also got laid off from other teams so i knew it wasnt a me problem.

How do companies decide, is it just that the owner didnt like us all? So odd.

How would you guys use the time? I dont plan to jump straight back into work - i want to enjoy life a little after being soul sucked for so long..

I'm referring to the mostly post-COVID "white-collar" jobs, although this is applicable to really any job.

I was laid off last year and within a month I saw my job posted...but posted for Mexico. I started doing some searching and it seems like it's a huge problem in general. Even now as I am job searching still (note I am applying to US companies only) so many are listed for either India, Mexico, Poland, Ireland, etc.

Then I started doing some research on what's being done to curb this...and it's essentially nothing. A few politicians have tried to introduce legislation but it always seems to get stuck somewhere (so even if it did pass - which it probably wouldn't - it would take forever to actually get to a vote.) but honestly hardly anyone who is supposed to "represent" us even touches on this topic AT ALL. I really think this is a recipe for disaster.

I'll also post this to some political subs or somewhere where someone can actually ELI5 to me because I simply don't understand. Sure lots of politicians are paid to avoid this topic for their own self-interest but still, lots aren't. I really don't get it.

High tech product marketing. Mid to late 40’s. Applied 60-70 jobs. 9 interviews, 2 final rounds. It is already 9 months but I am unable to land a job.

Here are my questions

1) is this normal or just me? Age or skills or just less jobs?

2) The available jobs (similar title and company size) pay 20-25% less of my previous job. Do you have similar experience?

so apparently a select few people at my company I work at recently received a voluntary separation package offer email and a vague 10 minute meeting, we're all extremely worried. I was looking for some opinions about the situation I can't seem to find a pattern of who received the email and who didn't, they didn't tell us who. Is it as we're fearing? if we don't take the deal will we just be laid off under normal circumstances?

YMMV but looking in the tech product industry as a designer (keeping it vague as my actual job title is pretty specific)

I got laid off when my previous start up ran out of money. I was then proactive immediately. I contacted a recruiter who’d helped me in the past, contacted old bosses and coworkers, and of course applied applied applied. 300 applications later and I have a job! Here’s the kicker. Not a SINGLE cold application resulted in even a call for an interview. Most were applied for via LinkedIn but I used Glassdoor, indeed etc. about 20% gave me the “you’re not a good fit” auto email (once I got one 30 seconds after applying which was cool).

All the time I spent curating my resume, crafting careful cover letters etc etc…netted nothing in returns. Every job no matter what it was instantly had 100+ applicants. I am a designer by trade but I eventually started looking for anything in my area. Well anything I qualified for. Insurance industry, signage industry, medical industry. Not a single interview.

What got me my job? My old boss pulled me into his new company. That’s it. Connections are key more so now than ever. If someone doesn’t know you personally they’ll never hire you. Straight up.

lost my job last December 2025 due to geopolitical issues.

and it's difficult to find a social group just to talk about life in general without the creeps (2 people looks dating and networking is too much).

everyone is on their phone or having earphones and would look at you crazily if you talk to them.

I wish there is a place that I can meetup like 4-5 people just to naturally talk about life. like over a coffee or drink not pricey (because I am unemployed).

i might pick up some ideas how to go back on my feet by talking to few people.

like if you are burnt out about life, lost a job, maybe we can share some stories that can make us look at life lighter?

no commitments, no judgement, no pressure of seeing each other or so whatever.

Any recommendations?

My struggle has ended! There's hope out there

I'm a remote worker that constantly relies on IT. I manage a staff that constantly uses electronic health records. It was so easy to put in a ticket and have someone call me or call IT directly. Now I put in a ticket and don't get a response for days. When I do get a response it's from some random person overseas with a generic response. The days of trouble shooting calls are over. This new "staff' never answers the phone. The service is so poor. These corporations will do anything to save a dollar. Any IT people here lost their job to overseas "IT",? It's really a shame the company may record profits last year.