#morale

Mostly asking folks who are no longer in VMW/AVGO anymore.

We all complain how bad the culture has become - i can vouch, its pi-s bad and getting worse but nobody wants to leave because we all only talk s**t but love $$ too much and lack backbone/guts to do anytime so would rather wait out to get the package and waiting for the 15th every 3 months for the cha-ching.

I for a change, have been contemplating giving the middle finger and leave but want to get a reality check from honest folks. Should I su-k it up and stay 'cuz its too terrible outside or its not as bad as its feared ? I am no dummy but not Einstein either but always been top performer since I am good at reading the room and learning on the fly.

So they are actively surplusing the folks who handle all of the customer care and customer support, then wonder why the Voice of the Customer surveys are so trash as of late. You call in and get transferred around because no one knows WTF is happening or how to fix sh-t that gets messed up in Retail because the teams that DID handle that are gone (Surplussed) and the chat support is so bogged down with people refusing to be stressed to the max that the wait time for anyone remaining to get help is ALWAYS two hours minimum. Then of course they hire in new managers off the street to replace the ones they just surplussed....and these NEW folks have zero idea WTF is happening themselves or what they've just signed up for..This company is operating on the sole fact that the left hand NEVER knows what the right hand is doing anymore. If they start cutting at L3 and HIGHER..we could reach whatever financial target they are trying to reach and everyone could stop being stressed and near their breaking point day in and day out. There is ZERO reason John Stankey should have made 29 million dollars last year when the stock value has diminished STEADILY throughout his tenure. 29 million dollars to look goofy as fu-k in every video they put him in, where he lies about how well the company is doing, then directs the company to send out "Mental Health Support Tips!" emails to the folks who hate his guts.

Im curious why leadership/ HR has not figured out that protecting the people that charge indirect labor (middle management) and treating your workforce like cr-p to the point they resign doesn't make you more money.. your DL money makers are quitting but your heads are so far up your own as*es you cant see this circlej--kis driving the company into the ground.

Do you think u there’s any chance of a mid year raise this year? I got one around this time last year and was shocked.. maybe because I was way below the old TSR minimum.

I doubt it.. but man we have been doing so much and endured so much BS this year. If we got it, it would help so much with gas, parking, other RTO BS. I’m just desperate.. feeling like a prisoner for Debbie and Bill. Begging them to spare me and give me their scraps.

There is no sense of urgency at PEP, they seem content with their negative return on the stock, they seem content trying to deceive everyone by celebrating failure as a raging success.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4931617-pepsi-where-is-the-sense-of-urgency

Largely managing employees out! Strict tracking, micromanaging then what…? Why can’t you actually appreciate your employees and make them happy? What do you lose if you drive productivity through respect and motivation rather than toxicity and back stabbing?

I’m a former TDP. I’m exactly the kind of employee this company should be doing everything it can to keep.

I like the work. I like my team. I like my role. If it weren’t for RTO, I’d probably be here for a long time.

Instead, everyday I spend more and more time wondering if it’s time to leave. Not because of the work, but because of what the pisspoor leadership has turned this place into.

The morale is the worst I’ve ever seen. It feels like an “us vs. them” culture now. People aren’t motivated to go above and beyond anymore. They’re burned out, frustrated, and just trying to get through the day. Everyone is doing the bare minimum, checking the box, and says “who cares?” when a problem or a challenge arises. Nobody here feels valued anymore.

I’m burned out from a long commute that adds no value. I now work fewer hours than I used to because the time I spent getting ahead is now spent sitting in traffic. I’m less productive, less motivated, and honestly just exhausted. I’m worried if I stay here much longer it will destroy my work ethic.

We tell customers they can connect from anywhere, yet internally we act like our own technology isn’t good enough for us to use ourselves. How does that make any sense to anyone?

What frustrates me most is that I want to stay. I enjoy the work. I have a great team. I don’t want to start over somewhere else even though I know I could. But every day this RTO policy makes that decision to leave a little easier.

If leadership is wondering why the younger employees aren’t staying, maybe stop asking why they’re leaving and start asking why you’re giving them reasons to. The job isn’t pushing us away. Leadership’s decisions, RTO policy, and resulting toxic culture and rock bottom morale are.

FRIDAY MORALE CHECK

Anyone feeling positive?

to tell the truth when lowell mcadam's made all these bad aqusitions and cause a incredible amt of debt to this company,you know what im talking about,the arrogance of the wireless side of the company,nickel and diming the customers for 30 years.lowell pitting non-union against union workers,do you really think that you can come back from all that B.S also you think that most of the employees in verizon give two craps anymore,maybe at one time most did,but i dont think so anymore.most people here are just making end meat in these times .so you think hip hip horray go Vteam means anything,wake up and smell the coffee

Why is it any time I talk to any chevron employee they hate their job? Why is it every time I talk to a Chevron subcontractor they hate working for Chevron? Seems like Chevron doesn’t give a fu-k about any local community. Let alone their own employees.

Get a hobby and put from under the boot.

I been voluntold that I'm the engagement chair for my team. I hate this stuff. I just wanna do my job and go home not get involved in all this stupid stuff.

Can someone honestly explain to me what someone gets by posting rude comments on another persons post? Is it to just stir the pot see how many downvotes they can get or people responding? To really think they are better cause some of us are really struggling is completely unnecessary I don’t get it! They are here on this site yet are just complaining and being negative!

For Gods sake please leave John. Nothing you will do will brighten AT&T’s future. The damage you are doing will lead to the company being bought out. Your ego has you frozen in place. You are the reason not the employees that the company is going nowhere. Your leadership is the worst I have ever witnessed. Take your shiny slick dome and ride off into the sunset forever!

Can someone explain to me where we are going ? The nightshift want to know if the company will start to pay our netflix subscriptions to keep us occupied until you close it down.

Apparently Erik Day and other MB managers are saying they laid people off because sellers said they wanted more accounts in Tell Dell? Has anyone else heard this too?

How incredibly insulting!!

Q2 was apparently a great quarter for the company. Great enough to raise the yearly outlook. Leadership made sure to credit us for it.

Remember when the raise was contingent on a good Q2? Yeah. Turns out the goalposts have wheels. Other regions got bumps in Q1. We got a pat on the back and a rerun of 2024's paycheck.

Meanwhile the CEO's total comp for the year lands north of $3.9M. Must be a real coincidence that number moves easier than ours does.

Various roles within target creative were cut today with 60 days notice. Remember when people were proud to work for Target? Seems like a fever dream now

When layoffs happen, higher up managers are going to be looking at the folks that have yet to return to the office. Employees are ratting out managers who don’t make their employees come back into the office. The morale is nonexistent and the employees who have been coming in for years are fed up.

... Folks at work should be smiling ear to ear, yet morale is in the cr-pper. Doesn't someone go hey, is this what 1+1=3 really mean...?

Discuss.

The leadership is driving this company into the ground. I know people say the grass isn't always greener, but at this point, I'm not sure it could be worse. I just need a way out, even if it comes with less pay. I don't give a damn anymore.

This is the only place I've worked where tenure is a disadvantage. New people get attention, praise, and opportunity, while most of long-timers get ignored, overloaded, and quietly pushed aside. The loyalty that used to mean something now feels like a trap.

So they divest stores then shift the quota to remaining locations. Not only do you have to combat lower team morale due to mass layoffs, you now how to close the amount of sales for more than one location and take a pay cut in commission. It’s not like these locations are closing down. Most customers probably won’t even know the difference and will continue to shop there

If they want to maintain or improve morale while still slashing headcount, why not offer voluntary separation packages to those who have been at the company over 8 years? You’d get headcount down, limit the angst for those who perform well and want to be there, and you can control the narrative a bit. You offer the package with a hard deadline and you celebrate those who leave with service anniversary ceremony at year end.

I feel like my team has hit rock bottom. Every single person is looking for something else. Everyone.

It's such a simple concept that's been proven true over and over again: treat employees like they matter, and they'll make a difference. But when you treat people like cr-p, even if it's just some, everyone notices. The respect you lose isn't just from that one person, it's from everyone watching. This place used to understand that. Now it's just another lesson they'll learn too late.

climbing a ladder made of the bones of all those roles he sla-ghtered

With the massive profits the company is raking in, it might go a long way with the employees who have hit rock bottom morale to give an additional bonus. I know there's a f a t chance of that happening with MW ,but all of us who have suffered through his leadership should get an extra piece of the pie!

Just an FYI for you. I entered a comment (on this site) about how Jones is reducing payouts on LP A share and provided my conjectures on its future. I was searching for sites that might provide more information on the offering. Guess what— AI quoted my comments as a factual response to my search. It is so ironic. The offering that will substantially lessen my annual earnings will provide capital to increase AI that is simply taking information whether factual or not and providing to users. So sad! Beware of any information provided by AI online.

It’s hurting!

you should have left dell already. the company is crumbling and the company only cares about how much the CEO makes. Michael Dell has not done one thing for it employees

There are so many trolls trying to distract from the really important discussions around (potential or real) layoffs and how to cope. Please stop this. The important discussions are drowned out.

Two kinds of distractions are especially not needed: fake Indians (used to discredit Indians instead of focusing on the real opponents: the board and upper management), and na-i postings (often referring to the AfD, which is a really despicable lot of people no decent person would ever want to have contact with).

Stop this trolling. Do not drown the important discussions with this drivel.

Thanks.

As in, those who do not get WFRed and freed from this shithole, what fresh he-l awaits us next week?

Employees deserved better. Shareholders will be next to take the brunt. Dell is dying

This waiting for Godot sh-t is for the birds!

Got the email about survey results for Ops. None of the areas for improvement cited garbage pay. None of you wrote about that? Wild. Unless they ignored that complaint. And they would never do that.

I have been with Schwab for 6 years, and still do not understand why people think that they are nice to each other?

There is not a day that goes by without people being rude, not doing what they promised, or just ignoring emails.

"Surging oil and gas prices drive Chevron to $12 billion in adjusted earnings, quadrupling last year's results."

Come on Chevron, invest in employees...they are doing more for less and still making pre-covid wages! What is the incentive for employees to do more for the company? Keeping the workforce held down...