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Fvck this company, milk it as much as you can. Do the bare minimum you’ll still get 1% merit increase and they’ll tell you that your blessed you did …
2026 Goals:
Don’t go above and beyond
Play the game
Milk the system
Act like you don’t know
Low scores on the annual survey
Use your PTO as much as you can
I do only because I get to work remote and make a lot of money.
https://www.thecannatareport.com/xerox-global-print-go-to-market-q2-2026/
Very bottom of the page. Looks like some elitist party of millionaires out of touch with their own workers.
I'm searching for another job, and that helps. Somewhat. Because it's also made me realize just how hard finding one will be. The constant talk about offshoring and AI is starting to panic me. I have a family. A mortgage. Bills that keep climbing. The fear is almost paralyzing. And please don't tell me to just "deal with it." You all know we're hanging by a thread. So, how are you dealing with it?
T minus 41 days, then it’s 4 days a week and 8 hours a day in the office, no ifs, ands, or buts. The directive from above is that WF offers a very generous PTO policy. In Risk, if SM gets her way, 4 hours of PTO will only be considered as 4 hours worked in the office. I’m still hopeful that 4 hours of PTO will be recognized as a full day in the office. I plan to use 4 hours on Mondays and Fridays throughout the summer, every week in July and August.
So… Friday was a hard day.
Why Shell IDT employees are looking to flee the company
I gave up my evenings, my weekends, everything. And there's still more work waiting. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up. Something's gotta give.
My boss micromanages so badly that I’m torn between begging him to let me do my job or laughing when he confidently (and wrongly) corrects things he has no clue about. He slows everything down and still acts like he’s right. Please tell me this isn’t just me.
I wish skipping happy hour didn't make people think you're not a team player. I like my coworkers fine, but my evenings are for my actual life. There's this unspoken expectation to always be around. Is this just my team and my manager? Because I'm getting really tired of it and I wouldn't mind transferring to get away from it.
Nobody told me I'd be working 3-hour longer days for the next month vs others of a different religious persuasion. I wonder why?
Pros: a few decent coworkers who aren't management.
Cons: everything else. Bad management, zero work-life balance, toxic politics, no growth, no security. The list goes on and on. Says a lot when the only good thing is some of the people.
Relocation to a new place will cost spouse’s job. I am unable to land a new job despite having interviews. So RTO seems evident to save my job. Did anyone had to deal with this issue? How did you manage?
I gave this job years of my life and kept pushing even when it was draining me. They took everything they could and never slowed down. Now there’s nothing left in the tank, and I’m done trying to refill it. Package or not, I’m walking away.
How are you all so mentally strong to take the continuous layoffs, relocate states for RTO and adapt to so many life changes?
It totally amazes me what T employees go through every day and still try to put everything aside and focus on work.
I lost 3 colleagues today and sick to stomach returning to ghosted work location.
May be I am getting too old for this, but ever since I joined T, I have seen people in my team go every year.
How long does one need to be in the office for it to count as a “day in office”?
I’m not talking hours. I’m talking actual days. My LOB mandates 3 days per week and today is day 4 - I’m trying to get ahead.
Would me showing up at the office for 3 hours on a Friday show today as a “day in office” ?
Anyone know what percentage of people actually reach their ultimate potential CL? It is a vanishingly small number. Just another false promise.
Bonus landed. Given they sc--wed me on Merit and Bonus... well they can forget me giving a 2 week notice. I would give notice today but I'm going to leave at a time of my choosing, when its the worst possible time to leave for management, that's when i say this is my last day. Karma
I was under the impression we’d agreed to keep Friday afternoons clear. I’d stepped away for an hour, having not had any meaningful work come through all week, only to return to a stream of messages and requests for urgent, cancel everything else 4pm meetings.
This evolves around items that have been outstanding for weeks! If they weren’t time-critical on Monday, it’s hard to see why they’ve become so this late on a Friday.
Stop panic managing everything!!! Or at least say - we don't need you until Friday afternoon, then we want 30hours solid! But no I am not working all weekend to catch up on someone else's bad planning. Another day makes no odds other than your stupid status tracker.
Unless they spring some nasty surprise at the last moment. I don't even like my job, but I'm still relieved. I'm juggling so much in life right now that losing this job would probably bring it all crashing down. I imagine most of you are in the same position. What I really hate is that we've been brought to this, fighting tooth and nail for a job we'd gladly ditch for something better. There don't seem to be many better ones these days.
Do you all come in five days a week? No hybrid at all?
Happy Friday, enjoy your long lunches!!
As voted on by corporate america:
#1 2025 revenue inducing change = RTO
Comply or Fly, corps always win!
Getting to see posts from those involved, sharing in real time, is incredibly sad and validating. There is a lot of value in that. Not making light of the real pain being experienced. However, the Theater of the Absurd in upon us. Then Theresa flips a table with "20% raise with AI!" Can't wait for the Reunion Show where everyone shows texts from Stephanie, Bob and Ian. Andy Cohen is unprepared for this level of insanity and that is saying something.
Not far! Growth of 1.8% ? Why even wake up and go to work. Oh wait, I work for infinite. I work at home. Let’s continue to milk this dead company.
Loyalty is gone! I don’t give a cr-p, I just collect a check.
I feel sorry for those who wake up and go to work at Fiserv, or still hold the Fiserv stock in their M Lynch account or Fidelity account.
This is all because of Frank and his “leaders”
Friday tomorrow, you know what that means. I show up at 5AM with my YETI Cup filled up 3/4 Jack Daniels, 1/4 coffee. Get me my hidden back corner desk and throw on Netflix to catch up on my shows. Around 7 I’ll head over to the bathroom to take a half hour dump before people start showing up. Then I walk around and check in with some of the friendlies, say hi, get my FaceTime in, and complain about the company. Now it’s 10 and I need a refill. Back out to the truck to refill my yeti with a Jack N Coke, then have a little parking lot siesta. It is Friday after all. At 11 I clear out my inbox and send a few emails out. Next thing you know it’s 1PM and I did my 8, so the work day is over. Time to head over to the club for 9 holes and a few beers with the boys before heading to my daughter’s basketball game. Man I love Fridays.
Like a year? How long has it been?
Company wants to be more efficient so they hire more managers, lay off seasoned/experienced engineers, introduce the "product model" which is great for software developers but slows the rest of the tech teams down/delivers slower results to our internal customers, increase bureaucracy, and gaslight everyone. 15 years ago, this was a decent company to work for. Yeah they did not pay top dollar, but you had the ability to grow your career, work with good people, advanced, and where ok with the less pay because the company valued "work life balance" and did a decent job of investing in skill development/training. You actually felt like you can grow and build something that helps advance the brand, better serve the customers, and where better rewarded with innovative ideas. Now, it is all the bad of the tech world: work life balance out the door, health insurance benefits mid, constant threat of layoffs, a massive slide in technical leadership, a feeling of constant uncertainty/direction, gaslighting, a significant increase of teams backstabbing each other, more offshoring esp with sensitive customer data, political pandering, and paying customer satisfaction at an all time low. Unless it is automation or a way to layoff more people, innovate ideas are frowned upon esp if they challenge the "product model"/hired too many new managers. Current leadership team brags about how they "revolutionized" CVS, yet CVS when they where there, but look how bad CVS has performed over the past decade. I get that the only thing that matters is the stock price because everyone above director is paid with stock shares. I think the reason you don't see higher attrition rate is because the company is still pretty remote/hybrid (good thing they got rid of a significant amount of real- estate or else this would be different). However, there is going to be a strong return to office mandate soon even if the majority of your team is offshore in a different region of the country. If you do not live near an office because you believed the company about working remote, you either better relocate or start looking elsewhere. By the end of the year, there will be a new tech out that will have the ability to better track remote workers/hybrid users and HR is already looking at it as a way to eliminate/reduce remote workers.
Perfectly said, @rh+1kgyvphgn.
What percentage of the company will leave in 2026 due to 5 days in.
Badge in and badge out coming as well……
NY JC Plano Columbus tech teams still hybrid 3 days.
The summary is work even harder and hope for the best. Really annoying to say the least
ENGINE only need to work 2 or 3 days in office.
Maybe their pay should be reduced, since the rest of the company now it’s required to work 4x days?
I recently got piped out of my favorite place to work not. They were trying to fire me at all costs. I was alienated, isolated and made ti feel unwelcome. I truly hated to come in everyday and see those persons. I was ready to leave and accepted my date. No matter what I did the supervisor had something negative to say. It was all part of the plan. My design software was removed and I was told I could not get it back. I could not do my job without it. It was a relief when I failed the pip. I did not sign the pip and was told I would be fired if I did not. I was terminated for performance. I got unemployment because I got fired. So now I am working at a smaller company. The place is heaven compared to that shith ole exxon. I can do meaningful work and it is appreciated. I feel like part of a team and the place is not toxic or dysfunctional. I make about 70 percent less and I got 4 weeks vacation. The insurance is better than exxons was. The most important thing is my mental health. I feel better now and I don't dread going to work. The company needed an employee that could innovate and improve processes and testing methods. I have found a place that needs and values my talents. I had a horrible time at exxon. So the grass can truly be greener at another company. Too many employees get stuck because of the high pay but is it worth you mental health.
Now that the bonus pay has been posted. Or is it safer to wait till Friday once it hits the bank account?
Are they still bringing in fast food for inside reps? You’d think they’d try something more thoughtful to keep people energized and engaged during long days at their desks.
Factoring in vacation, sick days, holidays....how many days do people actually need to reach before getting flagged for not complying? I'm aware that eleven days equals 100 percent.
Spend five clicks minimum on SalesChat to prove you’re engaged.
Help train AI systems designed to eventually replace your role.
Accept shrinking commissions so executive comp stays intact.
Stay chained to a desk eight-plus hours a day, regardless of performance.
Bounce between internal tools and dashboards to signal productivity.
Operate inside an expanding web of apps built more for monitoring than selling.
Daily workflows dominated by internal systems, compliance tools, and activity tracking.
An environment where optics often outweigh outcomes.
Operate primarily as a quote generator - processing pricing requests instead of driving strategy.
Go “all-in” and be grateful you have a job.