#morale

Nobody wants to hear your sniffling coughing sneezing all day and worse yet become a victim of your super spreading. You can tell when one is around even when they are silent - the air smells funny. FWF for forcing these sickly people to show up and sit in an already crowded space to meet the 8 hours a day, 3 days a week in-office mandate so that the rest of us could benefit from their presence.

Tonight will be "fun," considering I didn't sleep at all last night, and something tells me I'm not the only one. I'm now wondering, is there even a slight chance that this will be it? That after this round, we'll be able to move on from layoffs at least for a while and focus on our work again?

In Legal Affairs this week, 11 people most of whom are in their 50’s and women with pensions. They are outsourcing their jobs to India and hiring a few of them to teach their jobs to and manage their Indian replacements. Of course if you are one of the ones they hire back, you will get a demotion to a lower job grade level.
Is this happening in other areas?

It's been relentless, too much stress for way too long. At this rate, we'll all be wrecked by the time it's done. I wish they'd just ripped the bandage off in one go. Finding out bad news immediately hurts less than endless uncertainty. My heart goes out to the Blaine people, but at least they have answers. I truly wish them the best of luck finding good jobs.

It's really hard to feel settled at Gainwell anymore. Nobody talks about long term plans like they used to. It's all about how we'll make it to the next month. It's exhausting, to be honest.

Curious how others felt about today’s town hall. Did the messaging resonate with you? I’m trying to process it and would appreciate different perspectives.

If you want, tell me:
• What specifically rubbed you the wrong way?
• What words or moments stood out?
• Was there anything NOT addressed?

Let’s unpack it instead of letting it just sit in your chest.

Key people keep leaving or getting shown the door all the time. Morale is in the gutter and the energy here is completely dead. You can feel it walking in every morning. Nobody trusts that things will be stable from one week to the next, not to mention month or year.

I mean sure thank the folks you let go... Who are not able to join the meeting... Who aren't give the opportunity to retrain... Who get to enter one the harder labor markets.... Take it from these well paid folks who are getting bonuses during such strong business singles thanks...

M@rk, please wake up and see who is running this company:

Your head of HR is an emperor with no clothes.

Your CFO is a washed up hack that does not develop people and is coasting. He also does not live our values.

Your head of IT is in WAY over her head and was a salesperson before she arrived here.

You need change. Why can’t you see it? The entire organization and Elliott does. And, yes, we all discuss it.

You have lost the confidence of your people. When you came in you gave us hope, but your leadership selections are ruining this company.

This witch SM is having her Town Hall and is putting me to sleep. What a waste of company time

It seems that FIS Belgrade office is in disarray. Lot of people were fired and morale is zero. It seems they are probbly going to close the office. Almost everybody there is trying to escape

After withholdings and deductions, the base increase indeed feels like "peanut butter" sized. It's hardly there at all. Meanwhile, Mr. Shart gave himself a handsome 28% raise.

It’s simply not worth it. Don’t let this mismanaged menagerie put you in the ground. While they shove more work and a 1% raise at you (while the CEO cleared nearly 30mm in 2024 per the 10k published). You’re doing time here that’s it. There is no future any longer working for PepsiCo - it’s just a name on a C.V. that looks good. When the economy picks up - they might as well just leave the exit door opened.

There was a time when retiring here felt guaranteed. That hasn’t been true for at least a decade. With constant layoffs, retirement feels like a distant luxury. Most of us are too busy worrying about what tomorrow might bring to think that far ahead. That’s the reality we’re living in.

20,000 is really massive number to RIF

If 1K were riffed in January
and we don’t know how many were laid off in February (say 2000?).

Still have around 17K to be riffed beginning March 4. How is this number gonna be spread? 2K a month until December? Anxiety-inducing and demoralizing for employees!

Any guess/speculation?

How many of you are able to relate to this from a now former XX

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarahpietraszek-mattner_something-strange-has-happened-in-my-last-share-7432072271994892288-7Sll?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAALU6LkBTm8tBGObLkpIxe7I62dcL9DN5cI

Officially reached my breaking point after my performance review.

Context: S&T L10, 4/5 on my performance review, and only a 0.6% raise but “the company is so excited for my growth this year!!!”

I know the situation here and have treated it as a transactional relationship. But for me to bust my a$$, deliver above my expectations, and get a fraction of a percent raise?

They’ve officially lost me, quiet quitting begins now. This company and its “leaders”
incompetence combined with Indian nepotism culture has ruined the employee experience.

I feel disrespected beyond belief, fu-k this place

The cuts around me were completely senseless. They kept some redundant positions, yet laid off people who seemed indispensable, either because of what they brought or the role they filled.

is anyone working?

Have a couple of friends in CREB, and it sounds terrible over there. One was telling of an opening whereby the workload would quadruple from her current load, with no pay raise whatsoever if she took the job. Also heard today of a very senior leader leaving and his role is not being replaced, but instead his duties will roll up to his manager going forward, who lives on the other side of the country. Sounds like morale is in the toilet as well within that group because of workload with continued reductions in total compensation. They all agreed that nobody is happy and basically everyone is looking to leave when they get the chance. Ouch.

Turned all the way off when I see our ceo dripping in designer labels, meanwhile half of us don’t get a raise… the two piece Chanel suit for 15k, the Gucci sweater on Instagram. Does she think we are stupid or does she just not care? Either way I can’t respect someone who displays such a lack of care and respect for the worker bees just trying to make ends meet.

Dell has changed, they are no longer the company we once knew and loved.

When a system shifts risk to employees, the experience changes and the job starts to su-k more.

Stress becomes structural, not situational

The math starts working against the us

Even big wins can feel diluted

Over time, effort and reward drift apart, and trust in the model breaks down.

Great sales organizations create environments where performance, ownership, and outcomes stay aligned. When that alignment exists, people do their best work.

We have to ask ourselves, are we doing our best work or just trying to survive a broken system?

I hate waiting around knowing if I’m next. No one communicates anything and it’s just a horrible feeling. How are we supposed to get work done knowing we could be next?

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.

post here if you see this too.

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.