#employeerelations

How ya'll doing? Anyone still standing or did they entirely replace you with AI? How many roles are rolled into one now? First, it was Oracle ONLY hired law school graduates for these roles and there was a very structured (for good reason) process for O contracts with a checks and balances system.

Deal Managers who project managed large $$ value, complex deals, working with Deal Specialists who assisted with first-line draft of CPQ quotes and standard T&Cs, with SalesHelp and Deal Desk separately assisting Sales with building quotes, structuring deals, and creating DAS approvals--all with different groups for the different LOBs. Then they cut numbers and had folks do ALL LOBs.

Then they collapsed DM/DSs into one role. Then they rolled in SalesHelp and Deal Desk into that role. So, essentially four roles got rolled into one. With increasingly reduced headcount, lots of turnover, NO pay raise, incentive, or even a "thank you"; rather, it was "be grateful you didn't get the axe yet". Not only did they not pay us more, they took away the source of the majority of why most of us stayed at O--overtime. They cut that. So, people went from doing one job and making significantly more money, to doing four jobs making less money. Hmm.

Not to mention management. I had five different managers in just over two years and not one of them did even a mediocre job "managing". They had NO idea how the ins and outs of contracts actually worked and could barely answer basic questions. In fact, they were always the ones coming to their reports to ask for explanations to give to their higher ups. I have no idea why some of those middle-management jobs were not cut.

But any who, if you need an idea of how severely underpaid you are, check out any other company hiring for a Deal Desk or Contract Manager position :)

Looks like SSNC health is hiring cost center representatives at Mumbai India for the first time they are traitors to their own country. They just sent out a welcome new associates communication and I looked them up and they are in India. It’s bad enough that they are using AI now now they do not hire Americans anymore.

Many senior employees in chandler doing the badge and leave in Arizona with zero consequences. Intel can’t figure this sh-t out

I’m hearing talk of VSP’s being offered to Verizon retail corporate store employees very soon. How is this possible when every location is adding headcount and jobs are being posted ?

Has anyone felt that they or another employee have been discriminated against for either age, gender or religion?

Half the remaining US customer service was laid off across all brands due to "restructuring" with zero notice given. Those of us left are being trained on all brands.

My whole team in Europe is on PIP...

We were put on a PIP after being classified as low performers. There are about 15 of us, and we don’t know why we’ve all been put on it together. We assume the idea is to fire us afterward, since we haven’t been given any further information other than being told to meet the PIP objectives. However, we’ve been hearing rumors that we’re going to be fired in a month.

Sooo I have been on a STD Leave of Abscence just got a random email that my workday etc all terminated ... i got notification about spectrum reach all of that.. sooo what the heck did i get let go?

I'm wondering how log do PIPs last in Europe? (1-3 months?) After the PIP what should I expect?

Located in a core location and received IM for mid year. Does ageism play role in this? I ask because like many others I have been a top performer but i am 59 years old. Does this mean I will be layed off soon or is it worth making effort to raise the score for year end?

Anyone feeling that all of this new AI agent deployment basically means it’s going to eventually replace all of us at the ground level? That town meeting today was very uncomfortable & felt like they were dancing around that issue.

Hearing maybe something at the end of the month. Anyone else?

So much for cost savings in technology. Everyone from Europe and NA in May lost their jobs to pad this guy's payroll.

Hey man we just want to let you know ELT how we all feel about you. If you are truly like Ted Lasso then you should open your ears and eyes and actually hear what we are saying and how we feel about the company right now. You all are the most hated ELT in the history of the company so from all of us:

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Here to shear that there is a massively supportive corporate level campaign to monitor and manage compliance with the RTW mandates. This includes the 5-day requirement for employees who have always been assigned to an office to badge in five days a week, and the January 2027 requirement for former remote employees close enough to an office to work 5 days a week in office.

Leaders are cautioned to monitor dashboard activity and use non-compliance for employee exits. HR is also monitoring aggressively. If you have an under table agreement with you direct manager, HR is overseeing it all. Plan accordingly.

One of Fauci's associates just pled guilty to conspiracy and covering up what they were doing.
None of what is coming to light bothers the covidians or the people who targeted and fired the unjabbed. Or, worse, they made you get jabbed and then laid you off a few months later, anyway. No remorse, no conscience- nothing but silence. Astonishing.

Seriously, if the comp. is going down then why are they hiring?
OK, they remove the employees with high salaries, give more work to those who are still there, but then still hire new ones (obviously less pay) does that mean the teams that are hiring are not being affected by layoffs?
Or are the employees that are being given more work complaining so much they actually decide to hire to help them?
Maybe I will be answering my own question now, maybe they are hiring to laying off regardless what happens... Meanwhile the newly hired employee has no clue he'll be let go soon.
Anyone know if this is the strategy they are doing?

I have never met a bad person that got RIFFED. It was always the nice ones that were at or close to retirement . People look at it as a punishment but in reality it’s the company way of rewarding the good ones . The truth is everyone I know wants that package but too bad the company will determine who is deserving of it .

Did Macy’s recently change their policy about having personal belongings at the registers? In the store I work we can’t have our clear bags at the registers. The bags have to be put in a locker.

I’m curious what percentage actually took Cara up on the offer to uproot their lives and move to Minneapolis to serve their bullseye overlords

The amount of people in a management position without the slightest idea of what being a manager means is incredible. Directors that continue to belittle and undermine their managers and direct reports, creates a toxic environment that manager then replicate on thier own teams. I have never seen so many people paid to literally do nothing. Managers spend more time in their cars running errands while attending calls that actual doing the jobs they are paid to

☕ Coffee? Check.
📅 Calendar? Check.
😰 Existential dread? Check.
👔 Manager + HR meeting? Oh… sh-t.

Good luck to everyone tomorrow as we gather for that very special corporate tradition known as “Career Roulette Thursday.”

Remember, no matter what happens, your company has a carefully prepared plan for your future…

…it just may not include you. 😂

And somewhere in India or the Philippines, someone is already polishing their résumé.

May the odds, the severance, and your remaining PTO be ever in your favor. 🍀

More and more people that I work with have such an accent that it is difficult to understand them, even though they are supposedly speaking English.

Absolutely horrid accents that need to be improved just to communicate successfully.

EM needs an entire team of Speech Therapists, or possibly make communication ability a key screening topic in hiring. Unfortunately the interviewers also have unintelligible accents.

With headcount reduction ongoing if you dropped this year then don’t plan on anything improving going forward. The question is how quickly will you reach NSI?

Just stopped by to thank the current employees for keeping the ship afloat long enough for my pension to clear and hit my IRA. I wish you all the best. Severance is a great thing after hitting the MR75. Good luck to you all!

The last month or two my motivation has been on the floor — and I can see the same in every single department here in Ireland.

The uncertainty is harder to deal with than the news itself would be. Just tell us.

I'm hoping PayPal will have the decency to inform staff this month and not keep this soap opera going any longer. If we have no update by the end of the month, I'm going to make the conscious decision to just get on with things — otherwise my mental health will be on the floor.

Heard September 10 is when store leadership will be told and will break the news to their team members the next morning. Is this true? I was fearing this because of the strong push with ESL rollout. Store scanners are useless now.

Only asking because I’m not sure if I should be actively seeking out employment before everyone else does.

It's the leadership. It's always been the leadership.

Look at recent performance and it's obvious. Absolutely poor leaders who only speak in PowerPoint prose and can't think beyond a bullet point. Leaders who go above and beyond to keep themselves apart from their "subjects."

DTC wasn't a bad idea. The execution was a sh-tshow. Inept supply chain. Cr-ppy tech. Marketing leadership that thinks we're a fashion company. Innovation that does... actually, not sure what Innovation does anymore. Poor people management. Lack of transparency.. look at the fact that we bury. annual survey results when they are unfavorable. Internal transfers are rarely fair. Finance/procurment.. enough said. Smh

And it all flows from the layers at the top. If EH wasn't good enough to be CEO when JD was appointed, what made him better a few years later? Same for our CMO .. did her experience really grow that much from “co-founding a minority-owned agency”. Our supply chain was so great we gave VA a bigger remit, lol… Can’t make this stuff up.

You can't cut and outsource your way to growth.

We need new leadership.

So on today’s call, he said there are 18:000 people in operations.
We have 10,000 contractors at the new USBank India , and the plan is to turn all 10 ,000 India contractors to USBank employees.

He said we need to view USBank as an asset and that he was very excited to see our assets building in India. We need to embrace and need excited about the 20,000 space new headquarter in India.

So in summary, he is very excited to see 10,000 US based employees OFFShored to India.

Are these people clueless? They see profit by cutting expenses and get excited and think we should be excited to see our job gone or our co worker losing their jobs to India?

Did I miss anything else on calll today? I only listened to the Q and A, which was very rushed, of course

I heard from my manager we’ll be loosing at least one person from our team and im assuming it’s part of a larger layoff.

Are others hearing more layoffs in Jan or Sept?

Anyone know when the union pulse is coming out? I have some feedback I’d love to share with my 3rd-4th liner.

Hello everyone! Hope you are all happy and healthy! I was part of the RIF that occurred last May and to say the least I am still a faithful employee .Over the past 25 years this company has helped me raise my kids, put food on my table and paid my bills on time . I have loved and hated my job but at the end of the day , still happy to have one. I have met some of the best people which in return made me a better person . You know who you are and I will always be forever thankful to U . What is there to complain about but only to be grateful..No job is perfect but if are still working for this company , consider yourself “Blessed’’. Farewell Medtronic and god bless you always! ❤️🙏

A recent report highlights a significant disconnect in how organizations prepare managers for difficult workplace conversations. While HR professionals largely believe managers are adequately trained for layoff discussions, a substantial majority of managers themselves disagree. This gap suggests many companies are underestimating the support needed for leaders navigating increased workforce uncertainty. The report advocates for continuous development and a culture of psychological safety to equip managers effectively.

https://sea.peoplemattersglobal.com/amp/news/performance-management/managers-struggle-to-navigate-layoff-conversations-as-workplace-uncertainty-grows-report-51489

not feeling good for some teams here, seen many more verint jobs being advertised in bangalore (after quick google)