#culture

Let me get this right, as a reward for busting your a-s off all year round, closing multi-million dollar deals and rising to the top 1% of all sales reps, you get a 4 day Hawaii 'vacation' which you spend locked up in a resort 'networking' with your corporate programmed coworkers? Sounds like a dream

Why do we keep hiring from the outside instead of promoting people who've been here for years and earned it many times over?

Yes yes look over there and ignore the shell game. Bethpage and Plano will be sold and leased back by the opposite orgs and when the planned bankruptcy stops being the worst kept secret in business, both successor orgs will default on their obligations. But make sure to bring your a-s to work to a desk you had to request with no trash can because that would be too many hours in the cleaning contract. Badge swipes above all. What is anyone even doing here anymore?

And why

...which leaders seemed connected to our reality during difficult moments - and which did not. That's the post.

Has anyone else noticed the ominous new Big Brother messaging on the PulsePoint telescreens? The message is to report other associates to the corporate authorities if they display any of several listed behaviors, including withdrawing and decreasing work performance. Creepy!

The team are trying to sell an image that doesn't exist

To XOM managers: I do not care who put you in those positions or how you got them. Just follow three basic rules, keep three zippers closed: your pocket, your mouth, your pants. Simple.

I'm sure some of us are thinking that VGS is coming back soon, and it would be a validation of sort. Maybe some newer folks can chime in that think otherwise. I'm not looking forward to big changes with the holiday coming soon.

#2 Kyndryl

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No raises for anyone and still near the top of the list. Amazing.

Coming soon to a garage near you for 35 happy v teamers!

Cant wait to hear about the collapse of bny once they are done sh-----g on wfh staff and everyone else who actually shows up for works and not only does their job but actually knows it . Never heard of a company willing to shed people who can keep you successful for a bunch of lazy ba----ds we all see being hired now who have no interest in working at all

What a joke anyone that pushed back in BCS got let go or demoted. All the yes men moved to Dallas because they can’t get a job any where else. Any ideas are from AI. Just keep saying yes. Cuts coming huge in March- yes- yes- yes

I’ve been seeing posts from various L and D team members bragging about how great this year’s MoL was.
I thought it was just the same old junk as in previous years.

Does anyone get the sense that C14s and 15s are paralyzed right now. Projects are sitting in queue, legal is not responding, compliance is absent. Nobody knows what next Wednesday is going to bring and there's no use working on something when the project, or the personnel may go away.

Are we losing our monthly Purpose Corner?

They’re deleting questions they don’t want to deal with. What’s the point of participating?

Seems SKAN is giving leadership more than just process level data. Results seem to be getting fed to leaders. Has anyone seen impacts so far or been communicated with about not being on your machine long enough etc. or personal impacts.

Post the fake job titles, Job IDs, posting start and end dates, and any relevant details. Post here and all over the social media. If naming specific hiring managers, senior managers, or HR recruiters violates privacy, please do not name them directly. Instead, use innovative, secure, or anonymous methods to expose how these teams were staffed. Job postings and advertisements are publicly accessible information. If they are fake, they should be publicly shamed.

We care about your responses but we’ll ignore your top concerns and focus on the rest

Source: K. Box

Harvard Business Review found that 58% of employees trust a complete stranger more than their own boss.

That sounds wild until you’ve worked for the wrong person.

Then you understand it immediately. A bad boss doesn’t always yell.

Sometimes it’s vague expectations.
Feedback that changes depending on the day.
Credit that disappears before it reaches your name.
Meetings you stop getting invited to.
A paper trail that somehow only includes your mistakes, not the context around them.

Then your behavior starts to change.

You over-explain.
You reread every message.
You stop asking direct questions.
You start keeping receipts because you don’t trust what will be said later.

That’s what broken trust at work does. It doesn’t just make the job harder. It makes you second-guess your own judgment.

And most people don’t leave after one big blowup.

They leave after one more meeting where the story changes.
One more rule that only seems to apply to them.
One more moment where they realize they’re documenting reality instead of doing their job.

At some point, it clicks:

You didn’t fail in that environment.

You were trying to survive it.

this is KARMA. Next is Dow Jones 30, Nike can't justify for being there after results that they put last few years.

As all the S&P100 mutual funds and pension funds that follow S&P 100 strategy have to dump Nike and buy new member that has been selected. So stock might see selling pressure in near term. Not today but but near term any increase in price might get selling pressure.

As for me, I am doing fine with my retail shoe business with comfort shoes like Brooks, Hoka and Skechers. Skechers with their shoes in $60 to $75.00 range, they are doing real well and in auto pilot. Initially, I took a big hit since Nike was 60 percent of my sale.
But if Nike approached me and said that they will reopen me, I would answer by showing a universal sign of NO, my middle finger.

So all the people in this board that has been laid off or about to, I emphasize with you.

It was rough 1 year but my life is much better now then under Nike

Source: Fuel Your Growth

The Boss Hawk
Over-Communicate. Flood their inbox with updates until they back off or tap out.

The Control Freak
Stay in control. Make them think they're in charge. Psychological jiu-jitsu.

The Endless Checker
Set firm deadlines. If they ask early, point to the schedule.

The Task Interrupter
Ask politely; "Should I delay other projects for this?" They will think twice.

The Meeting Phanatic
Push for agendas and short meetings. Treat them like speed-dating.

The Nitpicker
Ask for a style guide. Either they back off or create one.

The Ideal Thief
Document everything. CC others to protect your work.

The Trust Phobic
Rack up small wins to build trust. Start small, deliver big.

The Insecure Boss
Stroke their ego a bit. Easier to manage than fight.

The Credit Hound
Praise the team first. Beat them to the punch.

At this point, we’re basically a skeleton crew trying to keep everything moving while picking up the work left behind by the people who left.

The interesting thing is, the workload doesn’t leave when the people do. It just gets redistributed to the ones who are still here. One person takes on a little more, then a little more, and before you know it, everyone is doing two or three jobs just to keep things from falling apart.

And of course, there always seems to be plenty of movement at the top too. New responsibilities, new things to oversee, new priorities… while the people on the ground quietly keep absorbing the actual work.

If you stayed, just remember to protect your time, your energy, and your sanity. Loyalty is great, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of your well-being.

At the end of the day, I guess we’ll see how this new structure works out for everyone.

https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/2984394/tfc-still-trails-its-2019-merger-targets-can-the-new-ceo-change-that

If you went to Rock hurst and had a degree from it. You were given better treatment than others.

When all this company worries about if offshoring jobs to save a buck and push their AI (All India) initiative.

What a joke!

THIS AUTUMN…
THE WAIT IS ALMOST OVER.
THE SEARCH. THE SPECULATION. THE SUSPENSE.
WHO WILL BE THE NEXT CMO?
COMING SOON
Only at NetApp.

SPMP season draws nearer, for some Office spice have copilot generated list of random employees as low performers and selected for PIPs. Have this list printed to a random printer in the Houston and let the fun begin

Luckily, we're a united front and telling them to go fu-k themselves (in much nicer terms, of course). We were already overworked and now they want more from us? He-l no.

This place has constant layoffs and poor management. Coworkers are friendly but that's about the only positive thing. Leadership has no accountability, pay is low, raises are ridiculous no matter how long you stay, and work-life balance is non-existent. A cr-ppy company all around.

Now I have a feeling like I've put a target on my own back. Don't make the same mistake and trust HR.

the minute you stop putting expectations on our one side relationships with a company and realize this is nothing but a transaction. The growth and model and T shaped people and family talk that comes from the C suite is a way for them to get extra work for free. The other thing to watch out for is expanding your role. This is a transaction for time and labor for dollars. That's it at the end of the day we are all expendable numbers on a spreadsheet they use to extract as much value as they can from us as a resource. Protect yourself and your health. Do not stand by and middle is good enough. The threats and fear only work if you give them power and these people hiding in their corporate towers are just that nothing without their perceived power. Presence over performance will bite them on the ar-e.

Start looking for next and remember nothing is permanent.

Godspeed to everyone I hope you have a whats next or an exit planned.

Since company is going bad to worse, no matter what they do, though ppl slog 10 hours in person, no merit ,,no promotion only problem after problem, remote work is one hope, lets see

This place has been toxic for so long that the bullying is just baked into the culture now. Same people, same nonsense, year after year.

I liked working here. Now I'm always miserable. What was the turning point?

If we had layoffs later this week. For no other reason but to fu-k with us. That's how low my opinion is of this leadership. I honestly believe them capable of that.

Is this something I'll have to deal with from now on? I haven't interviewed in a while, and the first interview I got after I started looking was online with more than 20 people. Took me a while to even realize what was going on and I left before it was my turn to speak. I know it's not professional, but I was in shock. Is this really how interviews work now?

He didn't use those exact words, of course, but that was the gist of it. How do you even respond to something like that other than quitting? (Which I now fully intend to do as soon as I can find something else - and I wasn't planning on leaving any time soon.)