#morale

I'm going to be optimistic for a change and believe that we've have our fair share of layoffs for this year and that November and December will be layoff-free. Usually I'm the local Debbie Downer, but I'm honestly too tired right now. I need to believe we'll get at least two months of reprieve.

I came in wanting to do good work and bring new ideas, but the environment has worn me down. If you're already feeling the same way, think carefully about whether staying is worth it.

The cuts keep coming, and I no longer believe the reassurances we're given. At this point, another promise that things will settle down doesn't mean much to me. I'll be looking for a way out any way I can just to get away from this mess.

Anyone coming on here claiming these posts are fake is either a manager or executive trying to justify the BS employees are no longer buying, or someone so focused on their own paycheck they couldn't care less about the company or its people.

A company is built on its people, not out-of-touch leaders who couldn't drive a school bus from point A to B, let alone drive revenue or motivate employees.

Now Xerox wants younger university recruits. Why? So they can brainwash them for the next 5–7 years into sacrificing their ambitions, buying into empty promises, and working for pennies?

Xerox, stop selling dreams while playing with people's livelihoods.

It's the same exhausting cycle every three months:

"We've made the necessary cuts. This is the team moving forward."

Three months later: "We need more adjustments, but now we have the right team."

Three months later: "Unexpected headwinds. We need to pivot and reduce costs."

Three months later: More cuts.

How many times can you tell employees they're the future before eliminating their jobs?

People dedicate decades to this company, get let go, and the next sales meeting carries on like they never existed. No acknowledgment, no appreciation. Just another number removed from a spreadsheet. It's corporate musical chairs with people's livelihoods.

At this point, I genuinely believe if every C-suite officer and VP resigned or was replaced tomorrow, Xerox would be in a better place. At least employees would have something they haven't had in years: HOPE. Hope for leadership that can actually grow revenue, motivate people, and rebuild trust. Why do employees always pay for leadership's failures?

Meanwhile, LP appears to have secured himself a nice golden parachute while the rest of us are stuck on a plane going down.

You cannot keep cutting your way to greatness. Leadership is about growing a business, not shrinking it while rewarding those at the top.

People aren't tired of change. They're tired of broken promises, endless layoffs, and being treated as disposable.

Maybe the next round of cuts should start at the top.

Someone wrote this comment:

“This place is going to get sold. Writing is on the wall, one reason they are letting morale go to shxt. There is no family succesor in place to take over. Various business lines will be sold to various different outside companies, it won’t be just one massive sale. Will start in 2027 is my guess.”

I don’t have much time in Fidelity like most other people here, so I can’t really agree how good of a prediction this is. But if the Fidelity overlord was to sell, what’s gonna get sold first? What kind of customers are gonna be buying? What kind of offer would Fidelity take seriously? And which parts of the company are gonna be considered NOT for sale?

I was severed, last day end of the year. It is amazing how many people in my department think they are safe. Maybe its just coping at its finest. They are next, department still way too bloated.

Exxon just reported $15B+ in quarterly profits, $16B+ in cost savings since 2019 and we're still talking about PIPs and people getting pushed out. remember those 2K job cuts announced last year? now more discussions about performance plans, restructuring, people wondering how long they have left. PIP, layoff, fired... different names but same result if you're the one leaving. doesn't seem like this is slowing down...

The email arrived at 7:03 AM. No subject line. Just a calendar invite titled "Organizational Update."

You click it. The meeting starts in twelve minutes. Your hands are already cold.

The voice on the call is calm. Too calm. "As part of our commitment to making care more affordable," it says, "we are reviewing staffing to meet changing market dynamics." The words sound human, but they aren't. They're a spell. A lullaby sung before the lights go out.

Someone in the chat types: Is this a layoff? The message vanishes. You're not sure if it was deleted or if you imagined it.

The slides advance. A map of New Jersey appears. Then California. Then Illinois. Little red dots bloom like wounds. Five hundred and seventy-two in one state . Ninety-two in another . Ninety-eight in a pharmacy that used to fill prescriptions for the chronically ill . The dots spread. The map bleeds.

You look at your coworkers on the screen. Their cameras are off. They are already ghosts.

The voice says "redeploy our talent" and "support affected team members." You've heard this incantation before. It means nothing. The last person who believed it was walked out by security before lunch.

The meeting ends. Your calendar refreshes. There's a new event: "1:1 with your manager." Fifteen minutes. No agenda.

You stare at the screen. The cursor blinks. Somewhere, offshore, a replacement is already learning your job. The reorg doesn't ki-l you all at once. It just keeps taking pieces until there's nothing left to cut.

The invite sits there. You don't click accept. You don't have to. It's already happening.

Raemy going on press spree while few hours even pay attention to us and sales are drab.even online they have reduced. He claims they are up compared to right before bankruptcy..They couldn't be worse..

The fantasy gifts were also stale..
I see a bad holiday season ahead.

As layoffs appear to continue, I don't know why more folks aren't actively looking for jobs to get out of this sinking ship. My theory is that they will continuously cut jobs, as Karthik adopts AI more and more, and the field will eventually be just a few reps per state, a few regional manager, and very few data scientists left. Then, after it all crashes and burns, they'll realize the mistake of letting talented people go in all areas, and then they'll go through a hiring frenzy, but it'll be too late because of their reputation being ruined.

Anyway, if there's any field folks left, lurking this page, what's it like now after the last round of layoffs?

How did anyone get work done the last week? Share your story.

Pepsi would benefit greatly and turn the ship around with qualified managers.
My manager’s style (and many others style-same club) would call you up and state something false or incorrect to see if you knew the correct answer or corrected them. It was ridiculous and demoralizing. As if anyone working for this company was actually goofing off all day with “everything “ you had to do on a daily basis to survive all the failed applications and processes that they should have been working on.

It is easy to be a good company when the business is growing. The real colors come out when times are tough. Comcast was good. Enter competition and management denial finally over. Hatchet job and dump employees as fast as you can. Who would rank it good now?

Also, general sentiment is that if another survey was done now, the NPS will be even worse.

This Holiday feels particularly rough and lacking (for obvious reasons with the economy) just wondering if any other regions have had some success making it through. I’m getting nervous that next year they’ll be doing more layoffs and cutting more corners.

After more than 27 years with the company, and after seeing similar stories from thousands of loyal and dedicated Comcasters, I experienced something on Monday, 10/26, that I never thought I would feel during my career: I felt like a number.
After decades of commitment, sacrifice, and dedication, it was difficult not to feel as though everything I had given could be set aside so quickly through what felt like an effortless decision. 27 plus years of service should mean something, and in that moment, it simply didn’t. Good luck to all of us impacted and those who remain.

Lots of pi---d off people.

Service anniversaries use to be a big deal. Now making it to the next month is. What’s next in the PepsiCo world? Odds on making it to December.

By presenting your employees with one of the worst CiC's in history. You'll be remembered as a company built in the backs of hard workers who were gladly stepped over in the end, but Dennis got his board seat!

Here it is, always at this time of year. Happy Holidays tenured employees, come and unwrap your displacement package. I wouldn't say completely blindsided by their gross actions and timing of it but blindsided enough at the amount of layoffs by a new care center director who is utterly oblivious -while they simultaneously open up a large new batch of roles. Who is approving these outrageous business decisions? Are our senior executives mentally ok? Beware everyone. You could also appear on Santa's next naughty list and a wrapped severance package under your tree too.

50% the people around here spend their days sitting in airconditioned offices drinking free coffee, sittn in meetings about other meetings and moving numbers around in excel. all while collecting 6-figure salaries.

yet everyone is miserable because the guy down the hall makes $100k or $500k more. so what?? bob makes $350k doing practically nothing and you make $250k doing practically nothing. you're BOTH doing fine.

meanwhile there are people working outside in 100-degree heat making a fraction of that. i'm not saying dell is perfect (far, far, far from it). but some of you have turned one of the cushiest gigs imaginable into a personal tragedy because someone else got a bigger bonus or a better ranking or some exec has a plane.

maybe, just maybe, the job isn't nearly as bad as you think. maybe you've just gotten so comfortable that you've run out of real problems... and aparently bob getting promoted is now your biggest one.

Buh, buh, byeeeee!!!!!

Doesn't change your reputation when you keep all of your VPs having a pact with the devil. You ripped off suppliers and shareholders, had accidents in the field by not following established company policies, promoted those that least deserved it. Good luck trying to find anyone with morality to work for your company. I blame Lawler and Nick for establishing this culture. Yet they both landed on their feet in spite of destruction. And their VPs carry on the tradition.

It does nothing but lose shareholder value.

Call Out. How many of us are here, but really don't give a fluffy?

T-Mobile leadership has failed miserably at moving the company in a positive direction, both financially and culturally. A company should be able to generate revenue while maintaining an environment that values its employees. Unfortunately, over the past several years, upper management has systematically dismantled much of what made T-Mobile competitive, successful, and a place people once took pride in working.

I'm sure the bean counters packaged these changes as necessary growing pains, selling everyone on the idea that things might hurt now but would make the company stronger in the long run. It's the same tired corporate playbook: make sweeping changes, promise a better tomorrow, and leave employees dealing with the uncertainty and consequences today.

I hope people remember this before giving their loyalty, dedication, and best years to a company that clearly doesn't understand the value of either. T-Mobile appears willing to cut off its nose to spite its face, sacrificing the very people and culture that helped make it successful.

You gave them your best efforts, your skills, your experience, and your loyalty. When it mattered most, what did you get in return? A reminder that loyalty from employees is expected, but loyalty from leadership is apparently optional.

The idea that keeping your job is some kind of a reward, at a place that is in a constant state of turmoil, it's sadly pathetic and a hallmark of the Devon experience

If you still work for this company, you are an imbecile. It has been dismantled by incompetent leadership. Get out while you still can.

Every week a talented colleague is leaving. And it’s not just malcontents, but includes people who drank the cool aid from a Big Gulp. Just found out another one today. The talent/brain drain is staggering! The executives are getting what they wished for. I hope they are happy. Once this train accelerates it will be tough to slow down.

How about showing some respect and recognition to the people who grind every day to earn those big fat paychecks for executives?

please be patient for God 's sake 🙏
there's Literally life beyond Q

no one

Just hating on this place? Wouldn't it be better to simply leave?

Layoffs gutted our department, and the following reorganization has made the work harder instead of better. There's more micromanagement and more toxic behavior, and it only keeps getting worse with every new layoff. I know this will just continue the toxic cycle.

Elad Nafshi spent billions on upgrading coax. Now let's see what he waists more billions on! And hey made him more powerful and richer.

Dan, if you want employees to delight the customer, then start making employees feel good about the company. Morale is low. Very low. The bar is low. Show some appreciation for the people who are fighting our terrible policies in order to retain customers. Most decisions i have seen in the last 12 months didn't delight the customers, it pi---d them off.

If the company was fighting for survival and leadership was giving it's best. But the company is swimming in money and 3 stooges wouldn't be able to run a lemonade stand on their own.

Feels unreal to me. How long will these layoffs last? This is crazy, what’s happening.

got the results for my team and, as expected, the lowest ratings are for corporate strategy and direction. There is confusion about roles and a much worse morale because of the new PMP system which is likely to disappoint many.