#compensation

If anyone from management or HR is reading this, please don’t change our current WPE policy. BAC does not give compensation increases to majority of the workforce. Flexibility is the one thing keeping us going. If you want people to quit, it will be the wrong people. Seriously an employer who wants to continue to have a flexible 3 days in office schedule.

What happens to your shares if you get laid off? Do they pay you or not?

Oracle ate all the RSU’s of laid off employees, cruel employer who didn’t pay for hard work. Oracle recruiters always push for equity compensation to inflate overall total compensation.

I have one year left until I’m vested. Is it worth it though? Personally I don’t think it is, but I don’t how 65 yr old me will feel either.

Heard some G8 were force to take a pay cut and become G7 and if they didn't accept those terms. They're gone and would not even get the severance package.

If we do not accept pip?

Is it less than the layoffs from February?

Does PTO get paid out with severance?

A law firm investigates Macy's operations in Tulsa. This concerns a recent layoff of 916 employees. The firm suspects a federal WARN Act violation. This law requires 60 days' notice for mass job cuts. Employees could claim compensation and other entitlements.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://straussborrelli.com/2026/05/06/macys-fulfillment-center-tulsa-warn-act-investigation/

Not the "handout book".

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Reaching out to those who were impacted by layoffs last year, especially from non-sales roles.

I understand that employees who were let go in February received 100% of their IBP, and those impacted around September/October received about 75% of their IBP.

Can anyone confirm whether employees who were let go around the June/July timeframe received any IBP payout along with their severance?

Thanks in advance.

Does that sound like a good offer or marching orders?

https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/08/Internal_Microsoft_Communications_Confirm_Buyout_Offer_Worse_Th.shtml

Did any FTS folks get the axe?

They got rid of the mandatory furlough just a few weeks before the sh-t hit the fan. In retrospect, that feels very telling. Make the contractors work every holiday now that they canned everyone else.

And no amount of OT you can chase is ever going to make up for the $30k bonus that other dude got last year — while also getting paid vacation time and holidays with his family instead of toiling away like some bottom feeder. That’s how they see us. Disposable labor.

Don’t let them take your soul. Do whatever you can to let the contract lapse and collect unemployment if possible. Use this as a runway to get the fu-k out.

And if you’re FTS and got laid off:
How many years were you there?
Did you get any kind of package?
Or were you just completely SOL?

Because in FTS land, contractors are treated like the trash beneath the trash pile — completely disposable.

My contract is up in a few months, and I’m wondering whether they’re just going to let contracts lapse or try to force all of us into full-time RTO without any increase in pay or benefits.

They need to pay me more to be onsite full time, and their legalese is not magically going to protect them. Up until literally last week, leadership messaging was that we would never be required back full time. That was the understanding many people accepted when agreeing to these roles.

Use this moment as your runway:
Ask for more.
Push back.
Or safely get the fu-k out of this shell game.

The longer you stay in contractor land, the more years of your life you are tossing into the fire.

They will never voluntarily give you benefits, vacation time, a 401(k) match, or meaningful raises. And if, by some miracle, you finally get a conversion opportunity, they’ll often lowball you so hard that you either:

1.  Stay a contractor out of necessity, or
2.  Convert while feeling deeply resentful and underpaid.

Someone I know was there for over five years:
• Underpaid
• No vacation
• No bonus
• No 401(k) match
• No raises, not even cost-of-living increases
• Overtime never approved
• Still expected onsite the same amount as FTEs

And when they finally tried to convert, the offer was reportedly so low it felt insulting and demoralizing.

Do not get trapped in contractor land.

FTS feels like a shell game, and honestly, a lot of this starts raising real questions about worker classification and fairness. Massachusetts has strict contractor laws and the ABC test for a reason.

If people feel they are being misclassified or denied lawful compensation, they should absolutely consider speaking with an employment attorney or contacting the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Fair Labor Division to understand their rights.

Also, if contractors are truly separate workers through a staffing agency, it raises questions when internal skip-level managers are effectively controlling compensation conversations while simultaneously claiming they cannot know contractor pay details.

Like any contracting arrangement, if someone is making $50/hour and the vendor is billing dramatically more for that labor, there should be room for fair treatment, annual increases, and basic respect for long-term workers.

At some point, companies have to stop treating experienced contractors like permanently temporary people.

ProTip: In MA you can file a complaint with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Fair Labor Division, and enough people reporting similar sh-t can absolutely trigger a larger investigation into misclassification or wage violations.

And honestly? Use AI to help draft it. Why spend hours stressing over wording when you can dump your timeline into ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot and have a solid draft in 4 minutes.

File here: MA AG Workplace Complaint Form

Bottom Line - Dan will get his 30%

I know it's exactly what these knuckle-heads want from us, but I just can't tell if this RTO B.S. will come back around or not. I don't make nearly enough to be spending extra money on gas just to sit in virtual meetings! I know many of ya'll are in the same boat as me. But what about the Mgrs, any news on RTO? Its been months and all we've heard was ZIP.

Anyone know what the top out pay for this position is? Or how to tell what your top out pay is?

do guidelines on responsibilities handled by each gsr even mean anything? ive been gsr 7 for four years and my responsibility, scope, and importance of work dramatically increased but im still gr7 all the same. Exceeded on all reviews with the exception of met on my second year.

is this my direct management holding their cards close to their chest or is Ford not a place that cares about fairly compensating employees for workload

Likely those who follow any news or updates could think twice about ever working at a refinery during times of War. Companies know they will have to bump up the money to meet the rising risks in order to keep employees and have multiple quick back up plans to hire replacements. Might see early retirements.

What is the upper base salary for L4, that can put one in the layoff list?

Is it above $110,000?

What the he-l is wrong with these people? Record stock price and then you go in and reduce our commission because of "inflation"?

Fu-k off

Key Salary Information:

National CWA President: Approximately $244,771–$260,618 in total compensation.Sector/Division Presidents: Roughly $191,137.

Associate benefits:

2% raises / medical cap / no eisp

So is the firm just cleaning up the unqualified people that were promoted over being fired during the pandemic? Those are the only people I know who are overpaid. Everyone else doesn’t make what they’re worth

Does anyone know or can explain their full annual compensation?

Has anyone had success asking for a larger salary or extra bonus outside of the annual performance review? Since it's this company I'm guessing no but I figured I would ask.

My manager gets mad at me when I tell him I’m here for the income not the outcome.

1- Systemic Compensation Stagnation: A complete freeze on base salary increases for the majority of the workforce spanning the last 5–6 years, regardless of inflation or performance.

2- The "Recycled Equity" Strategy: While ICs receive small bonuses, managers and directors are tied to RSUs with 4-year vesting schedules. These serve as a "retention carrot" that disappears instantly upon layoff—allowing the company to claw back earned equity and "recycle" it to lure new hires into the same cycle.

3 - The 2025 Manager Purge (FY26 Q1): A calculated wave of terminations where managers were directed to lay off their own teams, only to be terminated themselves immediately afterward.

4- The 6:00 AM Termination Protocol: Highly impersonal exit procedures, with U.S. and Canadian staff receiving automated emails at dawn, accompanied by severance packages described by employees as "garbage" and "sub-par."

5 - Efficiency Paradox: A relentless "do more with less" mandate enforced through perpetual hiring freezes. Despite corporate messaging, internal AI tools provide minimal functional support to offset the loss of headcount.

6 - The Psychological Toll: A workplace culture defined by "survivor’s guilt" and low morale as remaining teammates are forced to absorb the workloads of their terminated colleagues.

Do you feel Verizon shifted in a better direction under the new leadership? Do you feel valued? Are you being listened to and counted? Are you being fairly compensated? Are your leaders "in it with you" or using the "Do as I say" motto? I'm just wondering?

I am a remote employee and after realizing how cr-p this company is with people more than 4 years receiving the same salary even performing, and all layoffs via cold email, I decided to have 3 jobs at the same time.
I manage them pretty well and have no issues with ANY of them, including Oracle.
If Oracle lays me off, it will impact 30% of my income and not 100%.
Do I care? As much as they care about me.
Do not be stupid. Do not put all eggs in the same basket.

3 jokers - KC, KP and DP - held a 30 min listening session and the way some questions were handled makes it look like they do not have any creds to be in that place. Especially KC's response to why the merit increase multiplier was low this year. Hilarious.

https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/oracle-layoffs-ai-tech-jobs/

They su---r employees with RSUs and then just get them back in a layoff….to be given to the next group of su-kers

New surveillance commissioner in board of directors?

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/f5-adds-anand-eswaran-board-201000022.html

SLF = ~$23M in 2025
The toohster a cool ~$5M.

I hope the board owns up and slashes their salaries equal percentages to stock drop - ~30 percent following the stock drop since Jan 1. Least they can do.

Actually when they sell company off hopefully they don’t get any severance either.

My manager skipped this conversation with me. If we didn’t get them are we getting fired?

The “first of many” associate all-hands left a bad taste in my mouth, for more reasons than I can fully articulate. The shift to the Harbor Point studio was the first jarring departure from the cozy, informal town halls we had grown used to before this latest regime change. The broadcast felt more like a morning news segment than a company conversation - cold, staged, and impersonal. One thing was abundantly clear: the C-suite is not part of “us.” They operate separately, and we’re meant to feel that distance.

What followed were prewritten speeches, read from teleprompters, filled with buzzwords but lacking substance. The central message seemed to be that TRP is poised to capitalize on the next economic opportunity - but what that opportunity actually is remains unclear. And apparently, we’re not meant to ask. If the goal was to model an “AI-first” approach by delivering generated, impersonal messaging, then mission accomplished.

The most disheartening realization, however, was the unmistakable confirmation that the legacy TRP “people-first” culture is gone. I’ve watched this erosion over the past decade, but never has leadership been so transparent in its lack of consideration for employees and clients alike.

We sat through an hour of “new strategy” with barely any discussion about improving outcomes for clients or associates. The AI-focused approach, poorly thought through, centers on doing the same work with fewer people, relying on efficiency gains that feel more aspirational than realistic. Questions raised in Meeting Pulse about costs, risks, and whether our existing infrastructure can even support this strategy were noticeably ignored.

Most striking, though, were the repeated references to our “thriving culture.” The disconnect was hard to miss. The culture is speaking loudly - through Meeting Pulse, through forums like The Layoff - and the message is clear: employees are struggling. We’re dealing with internal friction, outdated technology, and a lack of focus after years of layoffs and reorganizations. Incentives to perform have eroded.

Compensation cycles have been consistently disappointing, with market conditions and outflows cited as justification, even as executive compensation continues to rise. Investments are being funneled into a new headquarters and high-profile marketing partnerships, while associates are quietly laid off and replaced with offshore labor. This isn’t “doing more with less” it’s being asked to do less, with less, and somehow maintain the same standards of quality.

At this point, our ability to deliver meaningful work is being undermined, and the prevailing message from leadership seems to be that we should feel fortunate just to be employed.

Today’s all-hands felt disingenuous and, at times, insulting. But more importantly, it made one thing clear: what leadership values is not aligned with the people doing the work. The culture is speaking, but it stands in direct opposition to the narrative coming from the TRP ivory tower.

How’s it going in the stores without their beauty merchandisers?! Are the cosmetics associates doing the job? Visual captain?! Is stuff getting done?! Why would anyone think it was a great idea to cut them? If anything there should be a full time and a part time at every store! They’re important because they do a lot in 40 hours a week! Mind you, the pay should align better too.

In 2025 Nike’s seven highest paid executives were paid a combined $101,255,247.

If you assume the average Nike corporate employee in Beaverton makes $115,000/year, that means in 2025 those seven executives made the same amount of money as 880 Beaverton employees. Combined.

Remind me, how many Beaverton employees were or will be let go this week? Isn’t that number in the same neighborhood as 880?

Sometimes I wonder, “Why do facts like THIS never seem to garner the attention, and understandable anger, they deserve?” I mean, if those execs were simply paid half that amount they’d STILL be incredibly well-compensated and incredibly wealthy. And 440 jobs could have been kept with no net, negative outcome to Nike’s financial bottom line.

But that wasn’t a priority, was it?

Even now, those execs could voluntarily take a substantial pay cut as a gesture of good will towards those employees laid off and those who remain. But does anyone want to bet money on that happening? Yeah, I wouldn’t make that bet either.

There’s plenty to be mad about with these layoffs. Unfortunately most people will continue to ignore the gross, frankly disgusting pay inequity that - as I demonstrated above - had a direct and negative impact on hundreds of employees and the families who rely on those people.

If you aren’t fuming mad, you aren’t paying enough attention to the corporate looting that’s occurring right under your noses.

Most companies say they value their people. Yet fail to create cultures where people actually feel valued.

But here's what actually makes people stay:

✅ Paid Well – Compensation reflects their worth
✅ Heard – Their voice actually matters
✅ Respected – Not just for what they do, but who they are
✅ Challenged – Growth is encouraged, not stifled
✅ Trusted – Micromanagement doesn’t exist
✅ Supported – Through wins and setbacks
✅ Recognized – Effort is seen, not overlooked
✅ Included – A real part of the bigger picture
✅ Developed – Opportunities to learn and grow
✅ Appreciated – Beyond performance metrics
✅ Empowered – Given autonomy, not just tasks
✅ Promoted – Hard work leads somewhere

Retention isn't a strategy. It's an outcome of how you treat people every day.

Ask your team: “What’s one thing we could do better to show we value you?” Then listen.

What’s one thing you’ve done (or seen) that made people choose to stay longer?

It’s time to unionize, boycott and fight back against the parasite class that are stealing our wages and replacing the workforce with AI. The middle class is all but dead. It’s the parasite greedy one percent class and the working poor. I for one am sick of the wave theft while we are slowly being replaced and told to work harder for the same barely living wage.

Florida's teacher compensation ranks 50th among all states. The National Education Association published this annual report. The state's starting teacher pay ranks 19th. Teacher wages increased 3.3% from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026. Low compensation leads to staff layoffs and fewer students.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/27/florida-average-teacher-pay-remains-at-bottom-of-national-data-union-says/