#hr

All bah who feel they are being discriminated against for any reason whether it be wfh status, recognition, merit, promotion etc all because of that forced status need to turn this place in to your states EEOC equal opportunity employment commission

With all the go slow, make offers, hold off on offers, requisition review etc. etc. just wondering where it’s all going for the staff on the front lines who hire when the company continues to lay off…it just seems so odd. Never experienced such a conflicting corporate message. Thoughts on what will be for us in HR/TA?

i guess that's why they aren't looking for a CAO anymore...Thoughts?

They just hired Darcie Henry to run HR. The same Darcie who spent decades at Amazon while they became infamous for break-neck quotas, high injury rates, and treating workers like garbage. Then she went to Snapchat where she was part of cutting 20% of the company in one sweep. After that, she jumped to Flexport and tossed out during leadership mess when the CEO bailed. That's her track record, layoffs, chaos, and employees left holding the bag. If you think she was brought here to make life at AT&T better for employees, you're kidding yourself. She's here to do what JS says to do, protect the company, and squeeze people harder. She's an RTO cheerleader so, you can forget any kind of hybrid work. Morale won't go up under her leadership, it will tank further and further down.

Who already got a HR meeting invite today? Post it here.

We had the annual employee culture survey last week on working conditions. I looked through it but did not hit send. I have to say there were very few questions if any about how employees felt HR, the HR officer, recruiting, compensation, or leaders in field operations were doing. Lots of questions rating our direct managers. Company will try to tie low responses and blame managers so senior managers are insulated. Many feel the workloads in many field offices and in various areas like operationally like loans, new plans, payroll integration are still bonecrushing and management has no gameplan.Anywho, let hope the results lead to real change and the canning of a few incompetent execs. Our hope the survey results will be released two weeks before XMas so that 50 people can get blindsided a week before the Lord’s birthday

Big cuts coming for HR and benefits folks. Will be a sad next few weeks for them.

Hello- Anybody faced a IBM low performance indicator from being on medical/parental leave now or in the past and all previous ratings were positive and no written or or-l performance issue was highlighted. just received surprise notification this week out of nowhere and i am still on medical leave how to defend against this type of stuff if hit with PIP when you eventually go back to work after leave ? will they fire me while im on leave ? is getting a lawyer the only option . Im not sure about complaint with HR/upline as they will usually defer back to manager.

VP-level executives and above were assessed confidentially by the HR department in preparation for the next round of workforce reductions. According to a credible source, the evaluation considered factors such as salary ranges, employee engagement results, documented HR complaints about leadership behavior, and potential organizational liability. Multiple lawsuits tied to leadership actions have already been filed, creating significant financial and reputational risk for the company.

Let’s hope this is good news and human oriented changes will begin soon.

Hello,

I joined the bank in July. On the HR website, it says that “new hires are eligible for a base salary adjustment if hired before September 30.”

At the same time, it seems like I will automatically receive a “Too New to Rate” rating.

Will I still be eligible for a base salary adjustment?

ask hr chat bot, what a masterpiece. truly the pinnacle of modern hr. no phone number, no email, just a shiny little bot that loops canned answers like a broken record. wow, groundbreaking.

and the it department? absolute geniuses. no phone support anymore. perfect plan. something breaks? can’t log in? need tools? don’t worry, you can just… magically fix it yourself. thanks, team.

ibm really nailed it. employees aren’t people, they’re just a line item on a cost sheet. who needs assets when you can have a quarterly earnings slide, right? visionary leadership at its finest.

but hey, i’m sure this is exactly how you build a thriving company with a bright future. total masterclass.

I took the PIL on 8/21 by submitting the docusign and the share point survey. I have not received any communication or contact from either HR or the outplacement company since I left. Should I have heard something back by now? Has anyone else on PIL gotten any response?

one thing i realy miss from my time in the corporate world… is watching that one employe that no longer care ask a real qusetion at an all hands / townhall…

They’re gonna open up talking about how well the company is doing, using a lot of the nonsense corporate jargon. shout out to soulless chatter. But then at the end they’re gonna turn it over to q&A. that’s what the whole thing is supposed to be about you / get to interact with the higher-ups, cause they don’t let middle to low level peeps talk at this. they don’t trust them to get it done.

and what was so disgusting to watch about these is all the questions were clearly planted. It was always hey, I’ve been here 7 years I love the new products blah blah new services, like what other new exciting things do you have, and what challenges do you see. you know, it’s just always just really disgusting talk.

But one in a while like once every three years there’d be someone crazy dude or girl who knew they didn’t care to work there anymore, and they’d be like hey, so like why have quotas has been so high and why doesn’t this or that thing work, in this system we’ve been telling you it doesn’t work for eons. and then I would get really excited and start to love the townhall…

the first thing I would do is look at their immediate mgr cause they’re sweating that they can’t believe this is happening.

and the reason I say someone had to no longer care to talk like this is once you spoke like this you were probably gonna get fired, two to three months after you said something like this. shout out to HR, never having anyone’s back. i know, HR reps will get mad at me. i got friends in hr and we say things like this, but at the end of the day, anytime you send an email to a higher-up or spoke out like this you were gonna get fired for some mysterious reason, or something everyone else was doing…

and when you hear an hr person defend what they do, it sounds just like Congress. Just like Congress is like, I’m here to represent the American people, I wanna get the American people back to work. if you listen to HR it’s the same thing. they’re like we’re here to provide resources and you know blah blah blah for the you know, average person at the company. at the end of the day they just don’t.

and the reason I think Congress is a good comparison is i think a lot of people who go into HR, they go in with pure intentions, a good heart like I wanna help people and then they get in and they’re like okay, you actually, our job is to make sure the share price go up and the regulations don’t get passed against the co.

I just had my second check in with my great champion supervisor. Well it is not going so good. I am dependent on training with another employee for one of the tasks. This person has been out on vacation for three weeks and not trained me at all. This employee also shows no enthusiasm to help me at all. I have asked the supervisor for help but not gotten any. I talked to hr and was told the supervisor was in charge of the pip plan. It really feels like they are setting me up to fail the pip. I cannot complete one of the task without guidance from this employee. I am keeping all documentation and meeting notes. In am thinking of getting a lawyer to look at them and or intervene. I am in my late 40's and have 10 years plus in. I was never encouraged to try the pip and was pushed to take the pil and leave.My supervisor seems bothered by the whole thing and shows no care or encouragement for me passing. The hr rep is even worse.I was told I could give up and convert to pil and leave if I feel as if I am not going to be successful.

Please get a real head of HR. The real HR professionals are about to revolt.

I hear that there will be a lot of temporary assignments. HRLT is expecting 10-15 Psg 22-24 selected people to leave Chevron within the next year.

Welp I made the mistake of buying into the safe and respectful workplace training and reported an issue from the training to HR.

Fast forward - I’m on corrective action, how long until I’m out the door?

Let’s hypothetically say I was texting my friend saying that Fidelity is a bad place to work for, or other things negative about Fidelity. Things like “Fidelity su-ks”, “this is a trash a-s company”, or other reasons why Fidelity su-ks. And then someone shows Fidelity HR my comments about me complaining about Fidelity.

In this hypothetical situation, could I get fired for that? Thanks in advance.

Curious if Chevron HR filed WARN notice this past Friday

For Hess, Chevron HR filed notice on Friday a week before the cut date - and held the “town halls” at Hess the following Tuesday - hours prior to the notice getting published by the state.

When questioned about what numbers were filed on the WARN notice, the town hall’s HR rep dodged the question and said “we aren’t disclosing those numbers at this time.”

Less than 24 hours later they were published by the state (Wednesday) and the employees ended up learning of the 575 / 830 cut through media outlets.

Is this standard operating procedure at CVX - to be too cowardly to talk straight with employees?

It certainly rubbed a lot of Hess employees the wrong way - the lack of professionalism/courteously, and the apparent cowardice displayed by HR in the town halls.

Does CVX have a pre-firing town hall scheduled for Tuesday this week?

Hopefully we are all set now.

I heard of a guy who got his severance mail before he had his meeting from HR. Pretty su-ky

I have been told that a bunch of people have been notified by management that they have been selected. Is this true?

How is the ethically allowed to have two leadership positions on same team occupied by a husband and wife team? Is this even allowed who would permit this?

My boss is all in on using H1Bs, even with citizens and green card holders on the team who have the same skills. He’s literally taking work from U.S. employees and putting an H1B's name on it. The H1Bs aren't even doing the real work; they're just shadowing and secretly managing us.

This was never an issue for me before, but with layoffs happening everywhere and U.S. workers being the target, I'm worried. I already know HR is a dead end. I tried complaining to my second-line manager, and it just backfired. Now they just see me as a complainer and not assigning much work at all.

Any advice on what I can do at Oracle? Is there any way to report this H1B fraud to USCIS? or Silently move-on is the best solution ?
The main cause of this H1b fraud is an asian manager sitting at top and showing bias.

We all know cuts are due in October so why plot elaborate fascade ?

HR, scrum masters, they're all playing dirty games, preventing promotion, opportunities not given to people anymore.

Been asked to do tasks which are mundane, not required in the bigger scheme of things

Do not commit time fraud. Don’t give any reason to be fired. Good luck

Did anybody hear anything about them removing HR from Clifton? The only HR options will be by remote?

This one was woefully incorrect. Thankfully, there were only 4 days to report on because of the Labor Day holiday. I lost more than 4 hours over the 4 days due to the incorrect report.

What does INP stand for against someone's name in Workday?

Has anyone else received a request to complete a background check? What did it include, and what specifically are they checking for?….. seems off

Conveyed employees are all over the country, waiting to find out if they have a future at HCSC, while HR is completely silent. No updates on whether remote employees will ever be eligible for promotions or internal transfer opportunities. No effort being made to engage conveyed remote team members. Not even an inkling that the people in the wrong roles or compensation grades are being looked at or corrected.

Is it always like this at hcsc? Does hr keep everything close to the chest until policies are rolled out? It seems that even leadership is in the dark.

Are you still required to coach employees on the presence report by HR? Or things have slowly fallen off the radar?

If we’re not opting in do we opt out or just leave it and not sign anything?

The security Veep told a colleague of mine that communications does "monitor" these posts and even shares them with executives and other leaders. It is nice to know that he is talking as much as he does. So if a security danger-thing happens at our workplace and something had not been reported earlier to stop it from happening, we now know that an attorney can demand the emails and prove that they knew there was a problem that would endanger many of us. Thousands of associates on another post liked a post begging for someone to do something. Thousands of us! That was a massive show of support and a cry for help. They did it on layoffs.com because they can't trust to report it internally. He also told a colleague that he and his team now have to report to HR and he doesn't like that because they ask for too much to be done right away while they sit on their a-s. He said they were the ones that "had a part in fu--ing up some of his team's onboarding" which I wasn't sure what that meant. But the main point is we now know they do read these and can be held accountable when it happens.

Sep09 6am UTC - Sep10 5:30am UTC totals: 78 layoffs, 33 additions.
September totals (except Sep01): 4348 layoffs, and 279 additions.
Methodology and day-by-day breakdown is in comments.

I have a suspicion some locations (in Pacific region) do not cut Slack access immediately in the same way it was done for the NA prior. May be HR figured out that cutting immediately makes it too easy to track and they don't want this kind of panic and bad press.

I have a question: how much should one be concerned in a case where a poor 360 review is given? What's the overall impact of the review and does the management take this in any big considerations? Thank you.

It can only hurt you!

So a coworker was laid off with some effective date in the future. I'm not going to give away the date because I want to remain anonymous. I don't trust HR detectives.

He's one of the lucky few ones that found a new job right away. They will not give him the severance if he leaves early before the final day. What a joke.

We put people first. Uh huh. Su-k it hr

Chevron was once a great company that valued loyalty, years of service and experience. Your 20+ years of service was looked at as an asset that would be rewarded by a career in which you could choose when to retire with dignity. No longer the case. Under the 'profit right now' short-sighted leadership of Mike Wirth and a phony worthless HR dept, as soon as times got tough they shamelessly let go of their most tenured and loyal employees. Ageism 101. What's left is a batch of fearful, low-morale employees that fully realize how dispensible they are at any given moment. To prospective Chevron employees I say the current state of the company is not worth your time and effort. Look elsewhere where you'll be valued as an asset and not a disposable object at the company's whim.

Thanks, Mr. Wirth for destroying what was once a top workplace filled with content employees. Under your leadership the company is now a shell of its former glory.

I keep seeing more companie rolling out unlimited PTO policies and I’m curious what people here think… Some say it’s a game changer, others argue it’s just a sick scam to avoid paying out unused vacation…..unlimited PTO sounds amazing. No accruals, no use it or lose it deadlines, and more flexibility for employees to recharge. It can also be a big draw for talent in competitive job markets, plus it cuts down HR headaches for employers…flip side. A lot of employees actually end up taking less time off because of workload pressure or guilt. Some people worry it’s just a way for companies to save money on vacation payouts. And without clear guidelines, it can feel like a trap rather than a benefit.

So, what do you think? Does it feel like a genuine benefit, or more like a scam?