#morale

Back from 3days off & 1 of my colleagues is gone..layed off my other colleague told me. the dreaded vvv..on their email. No email, no talk no anything to team from our manger. This place is unreal.. Wove almost dead & going to pasture. How many more casualties?

Meeting Summary:

The "All" "Hands" gaslighting festival in full force today.

Disregard how this company and its leadership is objectively and universally despised by its workforce, customers and students; those feelings are invalidated because Cengage has SEVEN PERCENT EBITDA.

According to MH, "REVENUE GROWTH" is the only marker of a healthy company. Not culture -- REVENUE. Just ignore the incongruency here that everyone on staff is looking for a way out and/or laid off; we are healthy because we now churn more cash to service our debt! F your feelings.

A group of complete Chuds tossing around buzzwords and saying nothing.
Max comedy.

An audience of 1: Wall Street backslash Apollo.

After three rounds of layoffs in such a short period of time, it is difficult to put into words how discouraged and hurt many of us feel.

As someone who has worked on the DTP side of the business, I have watched talented, hardworking people continue to give everything they have to this company, only to see colleagues lose their jobs again and again. January was difficult. February was another blow. Now, facing a third round, it is becoming increasingly hard to believe that employees are truly viewed as the company's most important asset.

From where I sit, the decisions being made feel reactive rather than strategic. There seems to be a growing disconnect between the people making decisions at the executive level and the employees who are actually in the field, working with patients, customers, providers, and one another every day.

What hurts most is the loss of trust. Employees hear messages about stability, culture, growth, and commitment to people, but those messages become harder to believe when another round of layoffs follows shortly afterward. Morale suffers, people begin wondering whether they will be next, and even those who remain are left questioning the future.

There are incredibly talented and dedicated people at Inogen, and they deserve leadership that makes them feel valued, supported, and confident in where the organization is going. Right now, many of us simply do not feel that.

If you are considering joining the company, I would encourage you to ask difficult questions about stability, leadership strategy, turnover, and the recent layoffs before making your decision. The public messaging may sound positive, but employees living through these repeated reductions are experiencing a very different reality.

Three rounds of layoffs leave a mark. Not only on the people who lost their jobs, but on everyone who remains.

Yes, an AI bubble burts would be bad but what's currently happening is worse. They have ALL the leverage right now. There's no mobility for anybody to push back on how awful this place and others have become.

I will start - The organisation is starting to fail across the board with all of the reorganizations. The talent pipeline weak. We are seeing a huge proportion of the new grads leaving but more concerning is the 15-25year range who have frankly had enough of the BS. No raises, more BS and the opportunities are less. The new D and S model is so much worst than the old system (sounds like our PA system) and only helps the HIPos. And Darren will retire just before the s hits the fan. Goodbye long term growth.

A lot of discussion on degraded contractor capability but little discussion of degraded EM capability and rising number of mid career resignations. All roses and rainbows and talk of increasing headcount through hiring and pulling from operations groups. Meanwhile we aggressively drop the ranking of those with proven capability, pace out their promotions, and give them no meaningful raises all while cutting benefits and reducing expat compensation and beating the drum of how important mobility is. What a joke.

Comcast has perfected a strange kind of prison: one where the doors are technically unlocked, but everyone is too afraid to walk out.

That was Comcast for me. Sad energy. Re-org after re-org. Everyone seemingly operating with cortisol dialed sky high, with the stress slowing ki-ling them.

And I kept asking myself: why do you guys choose to be a Comcast corporate slave? Is the paycheck really worth surrendering that much of your time, energy, and peace?

The only difference between being a slave back then and today is that you have to house and feed yourself.

"THEY" got rid of all the good workers in 2018, kept all the cheaters and are replacing the cheaters with incompetence. Wow who came up with that master plan, stick a fork in UPBD it is DONE!

Something has shifted at Humana and I wish I knew why. Managers seem much more aggressive now, and I've consistently noticed people get yelled at and pushed into competing with each other. It's hard to reconcile this with the place I remember joining seven years ago. The last several years and months especially have been a completely different experience.

• Failed to produce any meaningful outcomes in 30 yrs at bank.
• Repeateatedly alienated employees while failing to achieve objectives leading to mass defections and low morale.
• Failed to design and execute key risk strategies causing Wells Fargo to fall further behind competitors.
• Lacks credible leadership skills, communication skills, and risk management experience.
• Failed to consistently meet RTO requirements and rarely worked a full 40 hr work week.
• Failed to hire competent subordinates to execute risk programs leading to numerous executive terminations.
• On the plus side, your leaving will have a significant positive impact on WF risk management. As with all senior executives, you are expendable, easily replaced, and AI will make your role redundant anyway.

Please enjoy your "retirement". Unfortunately, due to a tanking stock price, massive severence costs, and litigation expense, we cannot give you a good riddance, I mean, going away party.

Perfectly summarized, @a6+1m3801rc6.

I’m starting to think hiring incompetent people is just part of the Fossil business model. Hire someone who can’t handle the workload, then magically redistribute their responsibilities to the people who actually know what they’re doing. ✨

The hoops we jump through to accommodate people who are slowly dragging morale — and apparently the company — even further downhill are truly impressive.

And once they’re hired? They scurry under a rock so no one can ask the dangerous question: “So… what exactly do you do here?” Meanwhile, higher-ups quietly cover for them because admitting there’s a problem would probably require admitting who made the hiring decision in the first place. 😌

Truly, a fascinating organizational strategy.

Enjoy your 1% raise that Amazon so graciously gave us peasants
Find it under workday compensation changes if you want to look at it

Only a million dollar bonus last year for VPs? Times is hard.

https://www.beckerspayer.com/legal/elevance-sues-former-network-exec-to-block-oscar-move/

Today marks the one year anniversary date for those laid-off on 9/24/2025.

It was a shocking day! It brought out the reality that HCSC along with manny employers have no respect or appreciation for its employees as a corporation. It confirmed the end of an era of devoted employees.

Hopefully those let go have been able to find a new job or officially retire comfortably. Those who continue to work hopefully it is a good job. Then there are those who found a job, but are still really looking.

For those employees still working at HCSC, maybe think about messaging someone you know who was let go on this day. Checking in on them could do wonders in boosting their morale on this horrible day of memory.

I've been with the bank for 28 years and this is the first time I am actually ashamed to work for US Bank. They treat their employees like dog s***. The raises and bonuses don't amount to anything anymore. They're making it impossible to meet goals so they don't have to give us raises and bonuses. If US Bank doesn't care about their employees why should their employees Care about US Bank.

The Letter to Leadership was good and their call to action, this is ours. Leadership and the Board absolutely need to get their sh-t together, stop the leader revolving-door with swag bags of cash and create stability, but as employees need to stop making things worse too. There’s a difference between calling out real problems and constantly telling the world Crown is dying (when we aren't), collapsing or broke when the facts don’t support that. That noise gets repeated, becomes a narrative and adds to the confidence problem we already have. Hold leadership accountable, challenge bad decisions and demand better, but stop creating new problems while everyone is trying to fix the existing ones. Help each other, stick to facts, protect the business and move forward. Enough is enough, we need to be the examples to the leaders because they need it.

If they want to fire me because I cannot make it in for some uncontrollable reason go ahead.
The roads and mbta are horrendous each alternating a nightmare scenario.
They’ll need to give HUGE raises and comp more because people are spending a fortune now and it’s just begun!
Is anyone hearing anyone still complaining or is everyone just grumbling to themselves?
No recent survey since earlier on it either.
You think they’re mulling it over still or staying hardline? I hope they’re going to loosen this and allow even one day a week wfh but I’m afraid I’m still wasting sugar coated glasses.

1. Employees, wronged by this place

2. Value Investors, deeply hurt by this share price

cannot see any hope at all.

Nothing more to do. Nothing more to accomplish. Nothing whatsoever.

Move along now ….

They wouldn't be forcing us to drive to an office while gas prices are out of control.
The cost of commuting is such an unnecessary burden when we were highly effective as fully remote employees for 5 years!
Love doing more work for less money!

I’d rather x than work at BNY another year.

I’ll start…
I’d rather insert my arm into a bear trap and gnaw it off with my own teeth than work at BNY another year.

Been here a long time and honestly getting pretty fed up.

I know I’m one of the stronger people on my team. I’ve consistently done the work, taken on more responsibility, and when I’ve asked what I need to do to get promoted, I actually did those things. I’ve also told my manager directly that I’m interested in the next-level role and see it as an important career opportunity.

Yet somehow people who have been here less than a year are getting promoted while I keep getting passed over.

At some point you have to wonder what the point is. If you do the work, meet expectations, take the feedback seriously and still get ignored, what exactly are you supposed to do?

My manager seems to have their favorites, and it’s becoming pretty obvious that hard work and performance aren't necessarily what gets rewarded. Maybe I’m just naive, but I thought doing a good job was supposed to matter.

I’m getting tired of feeling like I have to kiss up to management just to get basic career opportunities. And yes, at this point I’m seriously questioning whether I even want to keep putting in the extra effort.

For those who have been in the same situation at Truist, what did you do? Leave? Transfer to another team? Stop going above and beyond and just collect the paycheck? Retaliate and make your manager's life at work a living he.l.l?

Curious what others have experienced.

I absolutely love the fact that leadership is practically begging people to fill out the employee survey. Have any of them seen any of the feedback? A whole lot of really pi---d off people out there. Management will ignore the content which makes it baffling that they are pushing it so hard.

They have laid off so many people not one person wants to go the extra mile. Everyone is deflated, everyone says not my department. This company is honestly so fkd up. Why isn’t management stepping up? Protect the base ….. how about treat our customers with respect. Not one update from James Mc a total waste of space. Renewals are falling off a cliff and I’m being punished for it. Sort it out !

I'm doing three times the amount of work than I did when I first joined because we lost so many people, and I'm about ready to break. They keep adding things and don't give a damn whether I have the time to do it, not to mention energy. If I could, I'd leave today.

It's reasonably safe to assume that if you are on this site you are concerned about the possibility of losing your job in a layoff and judging by many of the comments you are also dissatisfied with working at NetApp. One thing I would offer is to send a message to the leaders of the company by NOT completing the employee survey. That sends the message that you are disenfranchised and don't care - which is a bigger concern than complaints around "barriers to execution" or the Thrive Together policy. BTW - has anything really ever changed as a result of these surveys?? F'em.

Instead of making everyone use kiosks for ordering because some employees were busted shoplifting, how about we pay people enough so they aren’t tempted to shoplift at work?

I know I need to leave this place, but I have no idea when I'll finally get the chance.

I've started thinking my below market salary might actually be protecting my job. That's a pretty depressing thing to feel grateful for.

EL has no vision and no plans so we just sit idling with a failing brand.

When we made toys every kid wanted to have? When layoffs were not something we had to think about all the time? Can we go back to those times? I miss them.

Why are we paying people to sit in meetings where nothing is ever decided and laying off good folks who actually do the work here? BP has plenty of fat that needs to be cut, but somehow it's never them who end up on the chopping block. When will that finally change?

I went from really liking my job to dreading it. And it happened in six years I've been here, which is not that long for such a drastic change.

Some people talk about sixty hour weeks as if they're proving how committed they are. I don't see it that way. If you're spending that much time working, you're giving up a huge part of your life for the job that will most likely reward you with even more work and nothing else. That's not a lifestyle I envy.

Everyone ready for smiles week?

Rough month to schedule it, but the calendar invite had already gone out.

For the uninitiated: SMILES Week is when a large company that sells both chips and soda sends everyone a calendar invite to be happy. It's also the month a chunk of our jobs moved to a shared services center in India or Mexico and everyone left behind got a second job's worth of work to "absorb." The timing is either an accident or the funniest thing HR has ever done.

The agenda, roughly:

Monday: Gratitude Circle. Share one thing you're grateful for. I'm grateful my role wasn't in this batch. Yet.

Tuesday: "Doing More With Less" fireside chat. Less is the headcount. More is you.

Wednesday: Wellness Wednesday. Twenty minutes of guided breathing to prepare you for the twelve hours of work that showed up when your teammate got "transitioned." Chair yoga, because standing up looks too much like a walkout.

Thursday: Career Development Day. Big news: the beverage rep and the snack rep are becoming one person. Two P&Ls, two scorecards, two bosses, one paycheck. That's not a merged role, that's a hostage situation with a route sheet.

Friday: Free lunch. One bag of chips, 40% air. Also the target fill rate for open positions.
Closing note from leadership: "Our people are our greatest asset." Assets get depreciated. Please see the attached schedule.

Weekend Edition
SMILES Week officially runs Monday through Friday, which is the schedule of the people who planned it. The people it's about work seven days.

Saturday: Customer Obsession Day. Corporate is at brunch. The field is in a big-box backroom looking for a pallet the system says arrived Thursday. Our in-stock score is tracked to the decimal point and worked by a merchandiser we pay $20 an hour, hired Tuesday, who can make $22 with no weekends at the warehouse across the highway. We told him he's the face of the company. He asked if the face of the company gets mileage.

Saturday, 6:40 a.m. He quit by text. His route is still green on the dashboard, because the dashboard finds things out on Monday, same as his manager.

Sunday: Rest & Recharge Day. The email says rest. The store manager's text at 7:15 says the cooler is empty. That same store manager fills out our customer service survey. "On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to recommend us?" He gave a 3. The rep who covered the route unpaid will be coached on that 3 during Monday's Gratitude Circle.

Weekend Bonus: #SmileSelfie Challenge. Post a photo of yourself smiling in an account. Winner gets a $25 gift card, the biggest raise anyone in the photo has seen since 2024. Pro tip: crop out the shelf.

Coverage note. We are a "One Team" culture. The team is currently one guy covering three routes, because the other two are open reqs HR paused for the transformation. He does not give a sh-t about the service score. It is the only rational position anyone in the company has taken all week.

The org is basically Game of Thrones now, except nobody wins the chair, the chair got outsourced, and the survivors get a lanyard that says SMILE.

Someone told me "smiles" is the longest word in English because there's a mile between the first S and the last one. It's also the distance between the all-hands deck and the org chart

Likely a pointless long-shot here, but it has to be said. It’s time for the senior leadership in this company to allow those who can to return to fully remote work. Between the enormous increase in health insurance premiums this year, a reemerging inflation crisis, skyrocketing transportation costs, etc.; the overwhelming majority of employees are unable to carry this financial burden. Compensation at this company simply isn’t high enough outside of the executive class to cover the cost of living explosion on 2026.

Allowing sales, admin, billing, contract, etc. staff (most of whom are still sub-6-figure incomes) to work fully remote removes some of the financial burden we’re all facing with $5-ish a gallon gas and all the inflationary side effects with $7-ish+ per gallon diesel (even worse on the west coast).

In addition, Canon is surely facing logistics increases as the diesel prices have skyrocketed and will continue to increase. Imagine saving money on utilities for office buildings for a while until the ongoing global conflicts find some kind of resolution.

Collaboration isn’t limited to face-to-face contact, and most of us still attend meetings via Chat even when we’re in the office. Something has got to give, here. People need a break. I just filled the gas tank on my aging SUV to prepare for the week before football today and it cost $100 (I guess I should have filled up on Wednesday and saved $0.40 a gallon…).

Do SOMETHING to help the people who actually do the work and make the company money. It’s costs the company nothing in the end, but can help improve morale and the financial health of the workforce in a historic time of financial stress outside of any of our control.

...just this...

Nah.
You're hiding now
$30 million disaster.