#morale

I go above and beyond I’ve always gotten exceptional but not today. Today I got a 3 and 90 percent. I am in dis belief I’m hurt this really is hard constantly overlooked and underpaid.

Bank needs happy employees to build profit. Why care about producing quality work? They dont care about us. Missed risk? Oh well. Unhappy customers? Oh well. Lost accounts? Oh well. Because guess what? U stripped us of dignity and respect and comp. What's left to care about? We will just buy our time until they eventually cut all of us. Let em think their highly bloated team of managers and leaders will carry them to victory and profits.

It's cutting a swath across the staff. The atmosphere is so heavy.

I keep showing up and pretending it doesn't bother me, but the gossip and pettiness here is next level. It's so unprofessional that I'm starting to wonder if every corporate job is like this. Makes me want to find something completely different just to escape this mess.

The lack of transparency is jarring. We’re constantly left in the dark, never told what’s happening, even when it directly impacts us. I hate it.

You can’t expect people to perform while there’s a constant axe over their heads. Living like this all the fu--ing time is inhumane.

Who the heck are these people? The result was 73...for real...??? Do these people hate their friends or did so few respond that some c-suite group was able to skew the results?

I work in optum insight. I was moved to new team due to a restructure last year.
3 other people on the team have a job title that is 1 above, so they are eligible for bonus and I am not, along with 2 others.
This means we all work very similar roles, with now more pressure due to layoffs, and I get a 1.5% raise and no RRP due to my level, while they get 5k or more bonuses plus possible merit and a bigger base salary.

Why would I ever work hard when 3 other people are getting bonuses while me and others are not? For almost identical work. It would be different if they did a different job, but with the restructuring, our jobs are basically the same now with the same goals and metrics.
I am at the point of being extremely bitter.
Someone make this make sense at all.

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Remember when they claimed to be "A business of csring "

I keep receiving these emails about great results, another wins, another successes, so much money from so many contracts, but SO WHAT? There is nothing in it for me, and if the company is in such a great condition, why it cannot match the salaries to modern rates? I do not know what is the purpose of these emails. Honestly, every time I see these, I feel like someone just spat in my face, laughed and walked away.

There is no further talk of layoffs in the coffee corners.

Are we safe now? I hope so!

People are just maintaining status quo. No one willing to contribute out of box in fear of No recognition, No salary hikes or promotions.

1. Skilled people were exploited until they stopped innovating. No one is motivated to contribute extra.
2. Management is begging Developers and leaders to bring change with AI , hackathons, and study more on AI concepts. Even if I learn AI, why should I contribute if no recognition ? I will use my learning to jump for more salary.
3. Oracle is the low payer , even less than Asian service / body shopping companies.
4. Lots of bureaucracy in Oracle.
   Throw out all Directors, Senior Directors and VP's who doesn't add value and improve salary structure for real working employees. Things might change.

Leadership keeps stripping away every reason I, or anyone else, would have to stay motivated.

Fifteen-plus years here, and things have been sliding downhill for so long that I now doubt even those first couple of years. How did we hit such lows so fast? Workers have never been treated as more disposable and worthless than they are now. It feels like we're approaching the moment when the whole thing spectacularly collapses. And what a disappointing, sad career arc - a steady decline, likely ending in a layoff where your years of contribution are never even acknowledged.

But go up the ladder, and the incompetence and arrogance just skyrocket. I've never seen anyone truly skilled or deserving get promoted. This team could do amazing things with the right management. But nope. Not a chance in he-l we'd ever get a decent one.

… between the weekend of Bandy 🤡, CB chuck, our CMO, our sales-operations-but-don’t-know-anything-head and the other EC members. Counting their money. Putting the future of the company and any thought about employees at the back of their mind. Making up a new talk-track about how everything is working, failing at every ethical measure they can, showing the world their lack of moral compass or fibre

….. and the employees who have been let-down, disrespected, kept in the dark, miscommunicated to, not sure what happens next, constant feels of dread, or knowing in that this week is the last week here, or spending precious family time looking for a new role as the Kool Aid has been drunk and people seem to think Lexmark will save us. Xerox will go bankrupt because of Lex acquisition - Xerox has been around for 100+ years but add Lexmark and the down projection accelerates.

Leader here. Let me say this loud enough for everyone to hear:

Your performance ranking is not impacted by your performance.

Read that again!!

You are stack ranked with your peers. Leaders are allotted a certain number of 4s and 5s per team. Everyone else is given 3 unless you are on a CAP or PIP.

The only time someone is given more 4s or 5s is if there’s extra 4s and 5s available rolling up under your leader; AKA a higher team than yours su-ks and they don’t have enough to fill the spots. They are then passed to whichever team has the biggest brown nosing leader.

Do not go above and beyond because it doesn’t matter. End of the day, unless you are teachers pet, you’re not getting higher than a 3.

Decades of experience with this company and the only reason I stay is because I can’t find anything else comparable in wage. I have been forced to give exemplary employees a 3 due to not being allotted enough.

I sat in a meeting with a manager where they literally told us no layoffs coming. Not two weeks later, people were getting cut. What is even the point of these meetings anymore? The whole culture is just fear now. You can't trust a word that comes out of their mouths.

With the peanuts netapp pays, who can afford to live close to office ? With RTO you will just lose young talent and not the ones you are aiming . Don't forget about the burn out due to commute. This is just d-mb.

As an ex HCB sales person who got "stuck" at 3M I still follow all my old European colleagues on Linkedin. Life looks amazing at Solventum! It's seems like unlimited travel and many chances to get together and meet in person at amazing high end conferences. At 3M we can't go anywhere . But then I come on here and it's all doom and gloom , seems like the two things be true so which one is it ???

Management talks to us like we're machines, not people. The pay doesn't come close to matching what peers make elsewhere. Add in the constant pressure and zero respect, and it's getting harder to remember why I stay. The only thing keeping me going is the team, but even that's starting to fray.

I have been unable to relax this entire weekend. All I can think about is whether I'll still have a job come next week. I'm as prepared as anybody can be, but with the current job market being the way it is, no matter how prepared you are it doesn't seem enough.

The culture here has shifted so much. There's this constant political game now, with people deflecting blame just to stay safe. They brought in outside hires who brought their own drama with them. Some folks have been here forever but are in roles that don't fit. Nothing seems to work anymore.

Because it sure feels like it to me. Some big, some small, but always layoffs.

I'm back in Risk and it seems to be worse this time around. Anyone else experiencing the chaos and toxicity from the top down. Everyone seems to be trying to leave. Is this just where I am?

Stack ranking has everyone watching their backs instead of helping each other. A buddy was laid off six months ago and still can't land anything, so I'm terrified to leave. The only bright spot is the friends I've made across different teams. The rest of it is just showing up and wondering if today's the day they cut my access.

Lifted this from another comment on this site. It gets to the heart of the matter bigly. Sad but true that this is happening to this once great company before our eyes.

It's the only AI software that Chevron has. I am guessing that the LT is planning on celebrating this tool as a means of leveraging AI to cut operational costs. The entirety of AI within CVX has been oversold to the board and the executive team. They have been pumping money into the "dream" software for years and the BoD wants to see results. The money saved over cutting headcount from eavesdropping on emails and text messages will never match the promised returns of AI sold to the board. There is a critical OC gap with regards to AI and the datasets are a mess. It will take years to harvest energy production related returns from AI within Chevron. MW is on the $32M hook to show costs cuts has cut critical headcounts and is now recreating a low cost workforce in India and eliminating the costly US workforce in an attempt to realize the savings that AI might have provided. This is a one-to-two-year trick pony because it's not a sustainable YoY strategy. Once the sham starts falls apart in a year or two, MW (who is already cashing out) will depart. In the meantime, Chevron will lose more talented people since it is fairly evident there is no long-term career to be had here. This is a prime example of how short-sighted corporate leadership with a shallow technological understanding can destroy a once great company. The workforce tension and the desperation of management is palpable, and the first cracks are starting to appear.

Found this site where you can anonymously rate your job on two axes. One is how hard the work actually is and the other is how bad the people are to deal with. They call it Pain Level and A--hole Coefficient which honestly tracks.
Would be interesting to see where Google lands right now given everything going on.

Bad leadership. Too many leaders do not understand the brand or the mission. They do not care deeply about sport or sneakers. They care about titles and power. They focus on themselves, not the company.

We promoted the wrong people. Then they promoted their friends and loyalists. Now it is people in power protecting each other instead of building the business. When the top is weak, everything below it crumbles.

EH has not reset the organization. The leaders under EH avoid hard decisions. There is a lot of head nodding and very little action. They wait for direction instead of leading. They are not building the future. They are not leaders.

Talent is leaving or has left. The people who care the most get frustrated and walk away. Strong voices are pushed out. The people who stay are comfortable, not outstanding.

There is zero accountability. When we fail at something, there is always an excuse. Market conditions. Timing. Someone else’s decision. No one clearly owns the failure. If no one owns it, nothing changes.

There is no unity. Teams protect their own goals instead of fighting for one mission. The culture is political and siloed. We do not act like one company.

This is the norm now. This is the new Nike culture.

Exxon considers themselves to be even every time they send a paycheck. No loyalty. No consideration of the late nights or weekend work. No consideration of the weeks away from home traveling. Work your 8 hours a day and then log off. No one notices your hard work. No one will reward your extra effort. Stop caring so much.

I am approaching a seven-year tenure on my team and I have long found solace in our shared atmosphere. Everyone is remarkably kind and approachable. Although we have recently encountered adverse shifts beyond our control, I have remained a steadfast advocate for collective resilience despite the prevailing negativity because I deeply honor the journey that defined every teammate’s professional growth.

Finally today, I have fully grasped the irony that the more one ventures above and beyond, the heavier the burden of responsibility becomes. If you fail to navigate the unspoken rules of the game, you bear the most devastating fall. I have never experienced such poignant disappointment and I recognize it is finally time to part ways with those who fail to safeguard what is truly essential.

By no means am I suggesting that I am the most indispensable and irreplaceable asset here as there are far more brilliant minds within this organization than myself. Rather, it is the professional spirit and the arduous paths we have chosen to walk, that merit profound respect and should be held in high regard.

It’s midweek. All Hands. The higher ups are ranting and raving about how great of a year we had. How well the company performed. How it’s all “due to our hard work and our commitment to ensuring a great client experience”. Then… the Q&A starts

The inevitable, quarterly question about pay comes up. Management scoffs and gives the same tired answers they always do, smiling because that “hard work” benefits them way more than it does us. “If you want better pay, get promoted”, they say. Work harder, get better reviews each year. Go above and beyond, that’ll make things better.

The kicker is: that’s all bullsh-t.

I’ve been here 8 years. Tried my very best for 6 of those. Got exceeds, got promoted, got licensed, dragged my a-s to the office almost every single day during RTO to sit on VIRTUAL teams meetings, and guess what… it’s always 2-4% merit increases. I half assed it last year, still did pretty well, but basically stopped working myself to the bone for self preservation. Guess what? 2-4%.

Bonus? Pretty much the same as last year accounting for the slight increase in base pay.

Promotions don’t seem to be available now. New hires get paid more than I do. The job market su-ks, I keep looking. I keep my job because I need stability to take care of my family.

My boss plays favorites and low performing ‘personalities’ get better raises because they make people laugh and pick up food during work hours.

This isn’t just a Schwab issue, but an endemic struggle for all who shoulder the palanquins of corporate America. Prices keep going up. Wages barely increase and the rich get richer.

I want to find that spark again. I want to love what I do and strive to perform at my best, but it’s so damned hard when either way… it’s 2 to fu--ing 4%…

There’s really no point

I am approaching a seven-year tenure on my team and I have long found solace in our shared atmosphere. Everyone is remarkably kind and approachable. Although we have recently encountered adverse shifts beyond our control, I have remained a steadfast advocate for collective resilience despite the prevailing negativity because I deeply honor the journey that defined every teammate’s professional growth.

Well actually, I heard BB is only allowing 7% of us to get promoted.

In 2024, it was close to 30%. In January 2025, BB told all the managers - you know all those people you decided in December 2024 to promote? Cut that in half.
As a result, promotions happened for only 14 percent of the company.

Not very energizing! Why stay?

We're 90% through, and the last 10% could happen anytime between now and forever, just to keep us on edge? Sigh.

But it doesn’t feel like a win. I really feel for the people who lost their jobs, especially given the current circumstances, and it angers me that so many of them were exemplary employees. I’m not a big fan of my job either. I reached my limit long ago, maxed out on exhaustion, disappointment, and ethical conflict. I’m not glad I survived, I’m just relieved I’ll still have money to pay the bills.

Perhaps it’s because l’m young and still early in my career, but watching a mentor I admired get canned yesterday was one of the most heartbreaking things I ever experienced. We’re not talking about the average Joe, but an advocate who went up and beyond for everyone, and was so crucial to the systems and applications that we supported.

I can’t say it comes as a surprise. People have always warned me, but yesterday cemented that we really are just a number at the end of the day. Performance doesn’t matter.

I don’t know how my team’s gonna move forward after losing someone critical. This is not the same company I was excited about joining a few years ago.

My god its nothing but incompetence. Take your wanna be fancy degrees and shove them where the sun doesn't shine because holy moly the amount of common sense added up together doesnt say much. Just give them back because none of you deserve them. Completely sabotaging staff and the whole damn place