#morale

Some companies have favorite departments or favorite people. Not Oracle. They seem to genuinely dislike everyone equally. From the newest hire to the twenty year veteran. Nobody is safe from the bad treatment.

I walked away three months ago because I was tired of working sixty-hour weeks. I left my team in a tough spot, but I honestly don’t feel bad about it. I feel great. They created the mess that I kept fixing over and over again, and eventually I got tired of carrying it all on my back. Part of me would still love to see how things are working out for them now that the mule is gone.

I just realized I have 15 years until I can get Medicare. I don’t know how I’m going to last that long. Every day at WF is miserable and there are no jobs out there to go to.

That's why we keep losing the best people, the real backbone of teams. So don't kid yourself that performance will save you. When your number's up, no amount of effort is going to change that.

I trained myself not to stress. With so many layoffs ahead, probably rolling out constantly, there's no point in anticipating. They're free to lay me off. I just don't have it in me to care anymore.

Really? You are that unhappy being so well paid, having world class facilities and being associated with great athletes? Things are so terrible.

Also, no one is ever specific at all. Bot much?

Why are bots after Nike?

I worked at Nike for close to a decade, and the first 8 years were the best professional years of my life.

It’s bizarre that you complain, complain, complain here…but don’t seem to have the cajones to stand up for yourself, have an honest conversation with your boss, or just leave if you are so terribly unhappy. Of course this is giving the benefit of the doubt that you aren’t bots and trolls.

Nike was built on people that had the courage to work through this type of pettiness.

Anything longer is just pouring energy into a dead end. Looks good on a resume, but don't expect a career or any real payoff.

Now I've seen them cut a friend who broke his back for this place with no warning. From now on, it's just a paycheck.

So now EH is doing paid-for press to try to save this message? Please. Let's get a panel from the 1400 from the recent layoff and the thousands from all the previous layoffs on the Today show.

Pathetic. He's pathetic.

Whenever I sit in on a team meeting, nobody talks. Nobody volunteers ideas. Nobody seems to care. And when people stop caring, the company stops working. I think we're watching the slow collapse.

All these teammates flying into Charlotte for 2-3 days. Hilarious and bad look. Par the course as they say. Never seen more butt kissing since merger.

Morale’s so low at this point that a decent package would probably have people leaving willingly instead of fighting to stay. A lot of us checked out mentally a while ago.

I understand why longtime employees stay because routine and stability can trap you after enough years, but I genuinely don’t understand what newer hires are seeing in this place now. Most of the things that once made it attractive disappeared a long time ago, yet people still keep coming in the door somehow.

I moved back home two years ago after spending five years at Aramco, and I can’t tell you how relieved I am not to be there right now. The place had already gone downhill before the entire region exploded, so I can only imagine what things are like there now.

I've been here long enough to remember when teams actually worked together. When you could ask someone for help and they'd give it. When leadership encouraged collaboration instead of competition. That's completely gone now. I don't know what this place has become but it's not what I joined.

Too much fat around that desperately needs to be cut. Sadly, I doubt they'll ever be asked to leave. Most of them are too good at a-s-kissing to worry about their jobs. But a guy can dream, right?

I’m officially out of this hellhole in August and I just want to hear some of the feelings of people who left. I’ve been here for 4 years, 2 years too long and decided to go back to school full time. I could only imagine it feels like the weight of the world off of my shoulders

They talk big and contribute nothing.
Dressed sharp, empty inside, opportunistic and self centered.
I'd bet big money that nobody would notice if we were to cut that layer in half.

Managers lecture about psychological safety but nobody is willing to speak up, challenge, or take initiatives anymore because the blaming game is strong. Don’t trust their words. Look for actions instead.

Hey MW, just come out and say it that you want all US employees to quit so all that is left is you and a couple executives and the rest of the company overseas. We are big boy and girls and get it that your goal is to make us all so miserable we all leave. Its a guarantee its on all of ELT's PMPs to get all jobs overseas and to drive morale into.th4 ground!

At Chevron for employees its a race to the bottom with MW and his terrible team running this S Show. What is the next soul crushing move for this leadership team? Will we take turns cleaning the bathroom? Work a mandatory 6 days a week? No AC in the office? Bring your own TP in? Anyone have any idea as its been a couple months since they made things worse!

Incredible. Verizon cut office cleaning and garbage pickup to once a month. Yet paying half these upper mgrs over $200,000 plus a year.

Remember seeing one VP sending award emails monthly. Not bad. Half a mil to go rah rah.

Been nixed here.
They are so much into push push push never fast enough do more do more have less time to breathe. It’s awful lately
I had great expectations for this career and each year gets more grueling and demoralizing.
Add the RTO FT and even the layoffs small in number are devastating. I don’t think I can keep up this pace.

LinkedIn is on fire for employees leaving EM. It’s not the 5year employees but the ‘after 20years I’ve decided to make the move’ employees. People who are vested in the betterment of EM but have had enough of the constant beatings, low morale and drive to the bottom. Imperial have had more than 300 people resign / leave and now are operating at minimum safe staffing, Australia is on its a@se, people are leaving us here at campus and not being replaced. Until the headline hits the bottom line, EM won’t care but safety will be impacted.

But being treated like a human being instead of a soulless number throughout the process shouldn’t be optional.

But by now I know the systems, I know the people, and leaving feels like starting over. So I stay. It's stupid but it's honest. I think there are many stuck at IBM with a similar mindset.

Lately almost every conversation turns into someone talking about applying elsewhere, and a lot of them are willing to make less money if it means escaping this place. That says more about what working here has become than any employee survey ever could.

What the heck was this boring useless and common sense drivel?????

Hot mess….

Nobody knows whats going on with it…

Doesnt usaa know that a good portion of employees do not deal or interact with members?????

We are a much worse place with significantly more terrible, weak, shallow, and insecure leadership than when the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020. Im nervous that if the hantavirus becomes a pandemic that these human skinsuits will not react well or empatheticly. Anyone else feel the same?

I know that probably sounds strange, but when layoffs actually surprised people, it meant they happened rarely enough that nobody was constantly expecting them. These days, layoffs feel so normal that there’s barely even shock anymore. We’re always waiting for the next round, so when it finally happens, it just feels like more of the same.

Are they coming? Raises sure aren't.

another sign that modern day Medtronic lacks the values of the company founded by Earl is the Medtronic PR spin that layoffs are just “rumors.” To show professionalism toward the possibly thousands of employees who were let go this week, it would go a long way to publicly acknowledge layoffs, thank former employees for their work, and speak to how it is a consequence of re-organization, even if layoffs really are a result of executive incompetence more than anything.

Workers bought into the company. They dedicated years of their lives to the mission. They played the game and built careers here. There’s no reason to pretend they never existed. It’s amazing how PR works so hard to defend the company’s public image at the expense of tanking morale internally. It really is shameful.

Then seriously, WTF? So many good people effected this round, makes no sense.

My life is ruined, my daycare bill is up , and over an hour commute to this sh---y Dallas building with sh-t parking and rediculous gas prices, this company is a joke, everyone is exhausted and less productive professionally and personally

It makes everything so much more stressful. Not that I expected them to care, but still.

I come on the site to see what people are writing and thinking. I think is hilarious how most of you just complain and some of you call MD and JC names and how they are id--ts. You do realize MD created a $100B company and he is one of the richest Individuals in the world and JC Is the COO who has made millions. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!

You guys are brave coming on this platform with no ideas, no solutions insulting individuals hiding behind your screen. If you are so miserable then quit. You know why you don’t leave, because you probably realize no one would want to hire you.

Don't pick up any extra work! If you do, you're just validating this leadership in thinking we can do more with less. You're making it seem like it was justified that they removed people since everything is getting done with fewer people. They don't give a damn that means that those who are left are breaking their backs trying to keep things running. They just see it's getting done and patting themselves on their backs. So don't do it. Make yourself busy whenever asked to do this or that if it was not part of your job before. And if you're worried about how that'll reflect on you, I've been doing it for two years and I'm still here.

Leadership isn’t about staying quiet when things get hard. It’s about having difficult conversations especially when their employees are struggling.

What’s disappointing is watching so many of them stay silent while the mental strain on employees keeps growing. Ever since Dan became CEO, the focus has been nonstop customer obsession and AI obsession while the human side of the company feels ignored.

Employees are exhausted. Morale is down. People are anxious about their future while incredible talent is being pushed aside in the name of efficiency.

Let’s hope state and federal governments begin putting real guardrails around employment as AI rapidly changes the workforce. Companies should not be able to aggressively cut human talent in pursuit of automation without accountability or protections for workers and environment.

At some point, companies need to ask themselves: what happens when we automate away stability for millions of people? Will all of this still feel worth it when unemployment rises and people can no longer support themselves? What’s most disappointing is not just the decisions being made but the silence of the leaders who see the damage being done and still choose not to speak up.

Technology should support humanity not replace it at any cost.

Once again, they're going after veterans, experienced folks, quick thinkers, and problem solvers. Exactly the people teams need to function. You could almost believe they don't care about the company's future. And they don't. As long as the top and the shareholders get their value, nothing else matters. I just wonder when the bottom finally gives out.

It has been circling the drain for 10 years.