#morale

my finance avp told us she doesnt care when we log on or log off to work. she said it just matters that we get our work done. she doesnt do work and her directors don’t either. you can be we arent working

So now we have a hiring freeze again as well as possible layoffs? Another push to come back 4 days a week (yeah it’s been policy for a while but now being tracked like elementary school students)? How can we possibly expect to retain talent and become a better company when morale is at an all time low?

How has BMC declined so much in only a few years? I’ve worked here for decades and enjoyed it. I am thinking of retiring early and jumping ship. Is this everybody’s experience or just my luck? I couldn’t imagine being mid to early career and spending the next 20 to 30 years like this….

Next week I'm going to kick back to C+ level work. No more A+ overachieving. Forget circle of excellence, aiming for the triangle of mediocrity - badge in, meet expectations, go home at 5 pm.

some of the SVPs so long with the company makes So much money & the new ones hired recently in tyber kelurity or dinfo jack are m
M plus assets. All they tout & show arrogance on diedentity & sacess dmanagement or drought dmanagement. in private these so called dooders are nothing but unprofessional, arrogant unhumans.

Face it. Very few things there aren't.

I've seen many people make huge mistakes, and I've seen who faces the music and who doesn't. It's not about the severity of the error, but about who made it. Some people are untouchable. They can do no wrong and they know it. When people say nobody is safe, that's not true. There are favorites who can do anything and still avoid being reprimanded not to mention laid off. Knowing the right people pays off here, with interest.

New mechanical forced overtime policy of the week. You live here now! If you’re good and the director likes you, you may get to see your kids three hours a week (but only if they come to the shop). Now get to work you slaves! Oh, and your union said it’s okay!

This week has been the perfect example that we do not matter. One coworker passed this week and all of fraud has continued on with managers acting like everything is normal. Shame on you leaders we are humans.

My god, can this little troll do anything right? The stock is a yo-yo now and we’re at all time lows. A monkey could run this place better.

Did you heard that company is very surprised by token cost due cursor usage ?
Now they will cut it off, while leaving lots of “engineers” incapable of writing code sitting on their as--s because they can’t do anything meaningful by themselves.
People who are capable already left or leaving, it will be hilarious seeing MI crashing in few next months.
Good luck Emma, you gonna needed it :-)

Project Exodus is about to live up to its name.
What started as another corporate initiative may end up becoming a mass migration of talented people out the door.
Enjoy the short-term “profit” from squeezing Sales compensation. You may hit your Q3 and Q4 numbers. You may put it on a slide, declare victory, and tell everyone the strategy is working.
But somewhere along the way, a company built on salespeople, relationships and customers became a company run by bean counters. And while the spreadsheet may look better today, you've set something else in motion: the exodus.
People are packing their parachutes. The best will jump first. And when they go, they’ll take years of experience, customer relationships and institutional knowledge with them—the very things that helped build this company in the first place.
That’s the sad part. There are a lot of incredibly talented people here who carried this company through good times and bad, and customers who depended on them.
So to everyone getting ready for the jump:
They may take our bonuses. They may take our commissions. But they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!
🪂 Good luck with the jump, everyone. See you on the other side.

Prepare yourself fellow Cengagers. Just when you thought the layoffs were over for the year - surprise! Get those resumes updated and expect the axe to fall again. The scent of cuts is in the air. The fun never ends! Cengage is bleeding talent by the boatload and the hacks in charge don't care. Slash slash slash! It's a rush to the bottom. It's the Cengage way. IYKYK. What lies ahead is worse than anything Freddie, Michael, Jason, Chucky and Pennywise can do. The Hannibal Lecters at the top have no remorse in making the company worse by the minute. Keep cutting the workforce and no one knowledgeable will be left to run the store. Gross dereliction of duty anyone? Shouldn't sales be better this time of year? Are educational institutions losing confidence in Cengage? Will Cengage even be around in the future to honor existing paid digital product fulfillment?
Artificial Intelligence could do a better job managing the company than those at the top because there is certainly no intelligence coming from these short sighted decisions. The competition doesn't have to do a thing when top leadership is destroying Cengage from within. It's like watching a train wreck in person. Great job! IPO anyone? Nobody is going to buy a sinking ship. Strap yourselves in and grab the popcorn folks. It's going to be a bumpy ride!

To be honest, I don’t give a flying fu-k about picking a corpo side. But for those of you who were around under Greg Foran’s leadership, I’m genuinely curious about your take.
He recently brought over former Walmart execs Nate Faust and Mark Ibbotson. Are these guys just corporate bootlickers, or are they actual leaders who know what they're doing? How did they shape the culture, what was it really like working under them, and what kind of bullsh-t or improvements should we expect?

It seems they are already outsourcing our engineering jobs within the next couple of years but I suspect that was in the works before Greg came along. Moral is at all time low and culture is becoming non-existent.

My friend got laid-off on Tuesday. Worked 12 hour days, managed her team in several parts of the country, always got an exceeds. Rarely took time off. Single mom with 3 little girls in school. Don't waste your time climbing corporate the ladder, spend time with your family, take your PTO.

Nothing like hearing the EVP of LP saying your scorecard is going to su-k this year. I know it boosted my morale and desire to perform quality work.

No raises. No promotions. PTO requests denied. Such a great place to work.

I can't seem to get rid of the knot in my gut even now.

Every single day it's something new. I'm tired.

I'm at three now. Each one felt like the end of the world at the time. And each one taught me the same lesson, that you're just a number to them. No matter how hard you work, no matter how much you give, they'll cut you if it fits the spreadsheet. Sad but true.

When is the next lockout? As company profits and executive compensation soars the workers just keep getting squeezed

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/big-oils-new-playbook-how-bps-us-refinery-lockout-signals-shift-corporate-labor-2026-09-03/

Congrats to the lucky 10 people that won a TSHIRT!!!!!

And the runners up that won a bag of candy filled with all kinds of unhealthy cr-p!!

What a slap in the face

No other company out there subjects it's employees to this kind of stress. Sure there are layoffs and restructurings but they are one time thing and once they happen, people go about their business and lives. Fannie Mae on the other hand has been laying off for a year and a half now. With no clear communication to anyone. How fu---d up is that. Incompetent buffoons and morally bankrupt leadership throughout. Disgusting.

I used to enjoy work. Now every day is an exercise in willpower to get out of bed and show up.

Going in to the office is like a dose of human sadness. Of course everyone is all smiles when an exec comes in so dear leader can be happy. But here’s what I see. Rows of grown adults sitting in their cubicles with their heads down scrolling on their phones and jiggling the mouse in their open spreadsheet every couple minutes. No one is talking. No one is collaborating. Most people avoid eye contact. We’re all just waiting for our phone alarms to go off so we can get our 8 hours and leave. Others- post what you see in your office.
Abandon hope all who enter.

In my personal experience, Jeff Nibler and Kyle Goodwin are two of the worst managers I have encountered in my career.

Their leadership was an exhausting combination of unclear direction, poor communication, weak accountability and an astonishing lack of meaningful support. Problems were allowed to fester, legitimate concerns seemed to disappear into a void, and employees were left to deal with the consequences of management failures they did not create.

Working under them felt like being trapped in a leadership vacuum. Instead of providing clarity, they created confusion. Instead of building trust, they eroded it. Instead of helping employees succeed, their management approach made already demanding work needlessly frustrating and demoralizing.

What made the experience particularly intolerable was the apparent disconnect between leadership’s perception of itself and the reality experienced by the people doing the work. Accountability seemed to flow downward, while support rarely did. Their management did not merely fail to improve the workplace—it actively made the workplace worse.

This is my personal assessment, and I do not claim to speak for anyone else. However, anyone considering a position reporting to either of them should proceed extremely cautiously. Ask current and former employees direct questions about morale, turnover, communication, psychological safety and how management responds when challenged.

A difficult job can be manageable with good leadership. Under Jeff Nibler and Kyle Goodwin, the leadership was the most difficult part of the job.

most teams understaffed, then on top of that MLRP PIP and insulting feedback from those who know nothing about the subject matter every year, depressing campus environment, constant turning employees against eachother all for 1-2 % hikes, what is the point? who is actually doing any work? is any work needed? then constant quitting of people, constant hiring, no stability, manager changes ,role changes org changes , staffing process change, polaris change, this change that change — how are we all just pretending this is normal? where are the human leader voices?

Yesterday's email from senior management has convinced me that they have absolutely no clue and are now racing full speed to a crash. There are thousands of people and their families whose livelihoods will be impacted by this. We are now seeing collapse of a fintech pioneer in real time

We at STCB are worried and uncertain about our future. Like many others, we come here simply to look for clues, information, and perspectives about what might happen—not to disturb or upset anyone.

This platform is one of the few places where employees can openly share concerns and discuss uncertainties. If our posts or comments are not relevant to you or you do not like them, please forgive us and simply skip them.

We are all trying to understand what the future may hold during an uncertain time. Please be kind and understanding toward one another.

Has anyone else these past couple of weeks noticed a large surge in cancelled contracts? Many different reasons but also many that are unhappy with the current onboarding process. Are nurses beginning to avoid taking contracts with MedSol?

Why give more when they're paying less? Work your wage.

Since I haven’t had a raise in 3 years this will be the first time I don’t donate in almost 20 years. Executives can pick up the slack as their compensation increases are significant every year and outpacing what employees are receiving by a large margin.

What a piece of Shi$ Mu#i and the rest of the cr-ppy leadership.
How about giving up some of the exec pay raises so monetary awards can be given back to deserving employees.

God speed

When layoffs were something others had to worry about, but not us? I miss those days.

Nothing says “we’re thriving!” quite like opening LinkedIn to a fresh Talent Acquisition post by senior leadership celebrating how amazing L3Harris is.................…while people are being laid off.

Apparently, the corporate strategy is:

Step 1: Lay people off
Step 2: Post on LinkedIn about how incredible the culture is and how you love your recruiters
Step 3: Have mediocre mid-level leadership congratulate themselves for successfully navigating “challenging times"
Step 4: Repeat until morale is completely fictional

Talent Acquisition, please, keep posting those beautifully polished “We’re hiring!” graphics and hosting hiring events. Nothing reassures the workforce quite like watching the company recruit externally while simultaneously eliminating positions internally.

Managing Director told us that previously discussed date of 10/8 might change because of “leakers”. They may be pushing back to later in month or November, but want to do it before Thanksgiving to avoid 1/1 Readiness impact. As if losing people won’t make 1/1 harder.

Crazy. Is this the Pentagon, where leakers will punished and beatings will continue until morale improves?

Also there seem to be no answers about strategy and goals for end of year, early next year or beyond, except for vague Lead to One support.

My gut tells me Evanko went in without a plan and doesn’t know WTF to do now. We will just tell everyone our products are now shipping through the open Strait of Hormuz. Cigna won the war!!!

Listen up—this man speaks the truth! Verizon don’t give a rat’s a-s about you. To them, you’re just another line item on a spreadsheet

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcmvBcrTG4J/

MW is 0-2 on deep cut reorgs that have royally messed up the company. Is he going to go 0-3 and mess it up further with more reorgs run by consultants we pay millions to? Managers out there, what is being said about the state of the company and the poor morale?