#morale

I think there was a previous post but where are our EC and SLT? We have a couple of weeks to year end but no rallying cry, even though it will not halt the demise. No interest in any big deals. No interest in any small deals. No interest in any client interaction to help close deals. No idea about what is going on. Our CEO, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and our Head of Sales strategy are AWOL and too busy creating slides that say nothing and continue the BS. Our COO is too busy making up numbers. Maybe everyone should simply stop for the year as well?

Seems like the world has gone downhill fast these last few years. Not just at work, but at home.

There suddenly seems to be fraud everywhere, people manipulating other people, people willing to lead children astray, possibly for a little cash.

You can't trust anyone these days. You can only do the best you can. Try to raise your family to have the right values, but with so much corruption around them, what can you do?

Even those places you think that are safe, maybe aren't.

Then, your workplace goes out from under you. You lose your job and there you are with just one more thing to take care of.

How is everyone holding up after being deceived and cheated out of their rightful pensions?

I firmly believe that the elite members of the Mars family will eventually get what they truly deserve in life and beyond.

Promotions - Basically you can no longer get promoted unless someone leaves a C-level that you are interested in. E.g. C12 will not get promoted for how hard they work, they can only get C13 if someone leaves that role or a rec opens... Bonus have been rubbish for years and pay rise are the same excuse each year "the bell curve" and you get 1%

Layoffs - As we were advised before, would be 20,000 until 2026. Well more information out today that the layoffs will not stop. As long as AI and cut backs happen, this will just keep going on and not stop until the shareholders are happy.. which they never are. I would advise people to stop taking on more work, setting up meetings etc for nothing in return.

Never in my years of working for many companies have I seen a once reputable business become incredible tight and awful to work for. Why would I work overtime when it doesn't reflect? Why would I work harder if there are no promotions? Why would I want to stay in a dead end role with no prospect of earning more? Why would I take on more work and not given anything for it?

Citi has become the company everyone advises to leave or not apply for. A company at one time I was proud to work for, I no longer am. Citi is a place you go to live out the rest of your life by achieving nothing. Shame it went that way

Optum/UHC jobs exist less to create real value and more to sustain systems, hierarchies, and the appearance of productivity.
People often sense—quietly and uncomfortably—that their work doesn’t truly help customers or society, even while it consumes their time and energy. This disconnect creates fatigue, cynicism, and a low-grade moral injury, especially when work centers on compliance, internal processes, or managing perceptions rather than solving real problems. The deeper issue isn’t effort or competence, but being asked to spend a life maintaining structures instead of meaning—while the work that actually keeps society functioning is undervalued and strained.

I bet they shared this news when they did so they could get rid of a wave of rage-quitters before they hand out their “ever-so-gracious” 1k bonus in January. I know at the end of the year it’ll all even out, but it’s still such cr-p that our paychecks will be shorter on that first check, even with the bridge advance, due to the higher supplemental taxes.

I am being laid off as a direct result of the company’s return-to-office policy. I do not live near an office and relocating without financial support is not feasible. Despite being a top performer, there has been no acknowledgment, appreciation, or even basic empathy from leadership regarding the impact this decision has on me or several of my teammates. And to add icing to this cake, we will not be given severance and we will not be given our annual bonus.This “business decision“ impacts livelihoods- kids, tuitions, rent/ mortgage, etc! So who’s getting richer off of this? RV is.

For anyone considering joining the company, it’s important to understand that people are treated as numbers, valued only for what they contribute to the stock until they no longer fit the model.

Good luck to everyone at WellMed who’s hoping that the axe doesn’t fall on them this week. Thought I’d raise the Festivis pole for an airing of the grievances or a place to drop the dread we’re all feeling!

Much as possible. What I don't like is my drinking has increased massively and that's my problem. Lunchtime I head out and go to some random parking lot and knock a few back. Have a tumbler roadie for the office to nurse for the afternoon and then have a few for the ride home. By 8-9 pm every day I am lights out asleep only to do it all over again. Do you think there are many more drinking, getting high on the job? I only have a couple more years of this but man it's taking a toll.

I detest my job. I work 60-hour weeks without any benefits.

Perhaps if I work harder, they’ll take care of me?

I have been laid off.
I started in 2008. The CEO when I started was Lowell McAcadam.
I did not pay much attention at the time as to who was CEO.
However, I did know the man who sat in the cube next to me (name withheld). He was an elderly man (comparatively) . I still do not know what his job function was. I did however overhear his conversations. Just because i was there. Behind his grizzled visage I discovered the kindest most considerate man I have ever met.

I decided this was a good job.

He is gone now.

As things worked out I became very tightly entwined with Ericsson (a Verizon equipment provider). Including Equipment configuration, optimization and to a lesser extent design.

This was a beautiful thing.

It has been defiled

I'm honestly low-key sad I wasn't laid off. I don't relish not having a job, but I look forward even less to staying here and having to deal with this company's cr-p and more never-ending cuts. I swear, layoffs sound like a better option. At least I'd have severance and a decent chance at a better job.

Very common for companies to try and reduce costs with layoffs so I do get the reasoning behind that.

However, with that said it now seems with this unnecessary RTO, mandatory low performance ratings, and a variety of other items such as a large exodus of leadership..are they setting up the groundwork to find a buyer for the bank?

In other words it's as if they don't care how miserable they have made it working for the bank because it won't matter since the goal is to reduce employee costs to make the bank more attractive to a buyer.

I mean how are you supposed to grow the business when morale is way down and your employees have no faith or confidence in the leadership.

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This reorg was handled so poorly. From the way it was announced to some really hardworking and talented people who ended up losing their roles. PepsiCo made it clear you are only a number, there was no effort to condense the workforce through removing under-performers or individuals ready to retire. It was just a blanket cut of roles. What is even more irritating is there is a new batch of campus hires celebrating their new jobs with PepsiCo on LinkedIn. It’s no surprise it was handled this poorly with Ram and Ramon’s track record. This is just the beginning of it as well, get ready for more in 2026. Elliot has spoken. Really discouraged and disappointed with PepsiCo and its felt the same by many employees.

They're everywhere in this company. They've ruined Unity by hiding their inability to lead. They're sacrificing hard working people to cover the as--s of those too inept to do their job. Way to ruin families Unity. Maybe you should have TRULY invested time into your employees that bring VALUE, and not some titled position.

So some took it as overdue discipline, others as the familiar cost of order when order is measured mainly in expense… and many simply waited for the next email to tell them what their years would count for…

You sh-t managers stand out like a sore thumb. You’re not fooling anyone. We’re the people who actually make this company run, and it’s wild to hear you talk about “making things better” while your incompetence makes everything worse. You don’t solve problems—you create them, turning simple work into chaos with pointless rules, useless meetings, and half-baked changes that ignore how the job is actually done. You push out good employees, destroy morale, and replace real experience with your little circle of sh-t managers, then act surprised when everything falls apart. You take credit when things go right, dump blame when they don’t, and when things don’t go your way you sound like a cry baby instead of a leader. You expect respect you never earned, you don’t know sh-t, you don’t listen, and you don’t lead—and we all see you exactly for the joke you are.

Our team's lost four people since the fall, and they aren't being replaced. All this extra work is probably just going to push more of us out the door. I don't see how this helps the company in the long run, but here we are.

If people are worried about more layoffs so close to Christmas, you know something is seriously wrong with BofA.

It feels like Exxon isn't the same place anymore. Everyone I talk to just expects the next change to make things worse. There's no real hope for things improving, just this constant worry about what's coming. It's really difficult to stay positive in this atmosphere.

You have to see this job as just a paycheck, nothing more. Your real purpose needs to be completely outside of this place. It's a losing battle to hope the culture here will ever improve, trust me. Don't let their daily nonsense steal your peace.

The regular drumbeat of cuts has had a damaging impact on morale as staff become accustomed to the ever-present threat of losing their jobs, sources said. Co-workers regularly vanished from Slack without much, if any, explanation, sources said, with staff often only finding out when former colleagues post about being let go on LinkedIn. Shopify did not respond to a request for comment.

https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-layoffs-morale/

Doesn’t matter if you’re in STS, CRM, CSS, RPS, etc the whole system is built to benefit the top and treat everyone else as disposable.

Leadership knows exactly how toxic it’s gotten but they just don’t care. As long as the stock price stays high and they keep getting richer, nothing else matters to them

Bumping from @43w+1k9ze46kn for being 100% on point.

A coworker who got laid off is one of the best people we had. He always got perfect reviews and everyone respected him. If they can just let someone like that go, then it's clear that none of our jobs are secure. That reality is hard to ignore.

I know it's a little sad, but I am desperately looking forward to that week. It feels like the only thing getting me through this month. I don't even remember when this job started being so bad for my head. I just know it is.

Don't do them any favors. Please. Don't do the work left behind by those who were kicked out. The leadership wants you to do it. They want to see all the work getting done with fewer people so they can say, see, we were right to cut those employees. Even if those left are breaking their backs to keep this place running. Don't give them the satisfaction.

They don't care about performance. It's you get eaten no matter what situation.

Know two people with multiple write ups with written documention in insights who are still on here, their teammates on the other hand got laid off..

Beloved company is long gone. If you notice, they took away soda again.

Exactly what @a3+1kc55g9pz said.

Is anyone else tired of only being motivated by the threat of losing their job? It is absolutely draining to work this way. There is nothing positive left, just constant pressure and anxiety. We deserve better than this.

The company needs to leave block schedules for long term associates. We have earned it with all the mess we have done over the years. Long term associates are the back bone and have earned the company a lot of money. Leave it a line we have a life out side of work

it is very much a fiserv pattern over the years to cycle in leaders for a couple of years. they create havoc, fire loyal employees and then they are gone. you get some stability and then the next one shows up. this more than anything destroyed fiserv

After talking to quite a few of my coworkers and everyone got a 0% or 1% raise. We work in Carlsbad so how do they expect to keep good employees when they don’t take care of them?

Happy Holidays! Hope you like my holiday video. I hope it makes you feel warm and fuzzy. Please don't ask me how many FTE's were sacrificed for my video. Love, RO

Brandt is once again asking for toys for tots meanwhile we’re all struggling with penny's for raises. Also new people in the same division are being given bonuses when veterans of this place are not? Something’s gotta change. Management has taken a downward turn in the last 10 years. We have greedy clowns running this place. No longer a good place to work. More responsibilities and no compensation. This is bull sh……

I was not rif'd but I am disgusted by the holiday activities that are being shoved down our throats. Most laid off employees are not gone yet and leaders are trying to shove "fun" events down our throats. Meanwhile, we are all so overloaded with work, that the idea of participating in a fun event just feels like another task that is being piled onto us. Now on top of all the extra work, you want me to cook for my coworkers too?

Besides the people that were let go, the impact on their families and this ever changing landscape, where it is difficult to find a new job, there are other casualties as well:
Work that will fall on the decimated teams, survivors guilt, and environment of fear and hopelessness.
Is it finally done for this calendar year?

Take all your sh1t back and forth, fight for space, zero personalization, spread everyone’s germs, sit on Teams calls with team members down the hall or across the world… and do it 4 days a week.

Enjoy your check and stfu cattle.

Now that the fat has been trimmed with 13K gone and workload doubling, we deserve a big fat raise come March.

Open the email and it says: This domain is used to teach employees how to recognize and avoid phishing attacks. This page is here to let you know that this is not a malicious web page. The email that led you here was likely sent by your employer as part of a training program.

So for this time of the year all the management can do is reward us with a fake gift card.

Town hall became “all about me” CFO spends 30 minutes talking about himself and his wife instead of the growth, health of the company. While he was patting himself on the back for taking the job, I got 35 emails and 2 phone calls I then had to deal with so he can get paid.
OP: @a5+1kc6wprqe

Meanwhile, they are looking for ways to pay us less or push us out. Also, offshoring galore.