"This is not about replacing people — it's about eliminating inefficiencies"
These are words from our CEO shortly after I and more than 80% of my team were placed on furlough, a fancy way to lay us all off without paying severance.
To him, we are not people. To him, we are inefficiencies.
There are members of the team who had been there for almost a decade, there are members who've stayed loyal since grad. One of us used to be in the office as early as 6AM. Many of us saw ourselves growing old with CarParts. Instead, we get this.
All of us were promised that the company was a Great Place to Work(TM). For a good, long while, that was true. The people at CarParts are kind. But then the layoffs happened, out of the blue, without even our senior manager alerted beforehand. They expect us to wait 6 months before we see a shred of severance pay. If we find other, full-time employment in the meantime, we'll likely never see it.
We are not inefficiencies. We are people. This was inhumane.
