#workload

Hard to pin down exactly why I'm drained most days. It's just this constant pressure to keep up, never feeling like you're actually ahead. I'm starting to worry this is the future, with no relief in sight.

New low-oh-oh-oh oh-oh (NKOTB jingle). Wow, we're really sinking, gang. How long do y'all think we will circle the drain until we're under a buck? Will the savings from the layoffs keep our heads above water in Q2? I'm in the weeds trying to keep up the work of three as is. Time to update that resume.

Anyone get their goals? Why are there so many? This isn’t manageable. I don’t get what any of them have to do with me. Create 10% digital employees, reduce night shift by 75%. Um I don’t have staff, and I don’t work night shift. I’m assuming night shift is Pune and we only have 1 person. How is 75% reduction possible and why do I care? I’m already doing their work. You already took my staff and gave them to Pune. D-mbest firm ever! I guess they are gearing up for another 10% layoff!

Is next week just for people going from 3 to 4 days? Or is it affecting people who were remote and not remote anymore

Also what happens if we don't do the 4 days

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.

It's like everyone forgets once the layoffs are done. There's only so much the rest of us can absorb, and some things just can't be picked up at all. There's never any follow-up, no real attempt to readjust after the cuts, and zero attention to the important work that's simply not getting done anymore.

The O9 system is a complete piece of sh-t. The high-and-mighty leaders spent several million dollars on this system every year. thinking it would replace Excel and reduce the workload for planners. In reality, every planner now has double the workloads. Leaders now hope AI can take all over.

What’s your thoughts? It’s hard enough to operate week to week with limited payroll, fixed activities, conference calls, the micromanaging and now we have CAC walks next week. I’m curious to see how thorough these walks actually are and what the overall company percentage of passing stores is.

Resources are fed up with unrealistic timelines and no one is willing to work anymore with every alternative month layoff. There is lot of insecurity on the floor.

My lazy manager is losing touch with reality. Suddenly Woke up from a deep sleep after layoffs.
Trying to impose impossible deadlines without understanding or having plan how to get that done.
Should I let it happen or push back ? Or try to talk senses to this person.

New update. Some branches will start staying open until 2pm instead of noon beginning April 25th. They are sick of paying those “free” hours when you work a half day Saturday. Also going to help more branch employees to quit so they don’t have to pay severance

Not laid off yet, but all my projects have somehow been distributed to other teams.

There’s a growing misconception that AI "does the entire work. employees are sitting and watching". In reality, AI is helper not full-performer. Still lots of development requires human efforts. Management is pushing towards AI. The problem is once work is done, you will be first one to be thrown out.

This is the second time within months our team was hit. How are we supposed to do our jobs and remain sane when layoffs are now basically a monthly occurrence?

s it normal to feel overwhelmed at Verizon?. Or is just because we are heritage tracfone and the are doing it on purpose for us to quit?

Plus the new office will make worst commute due the traffic in Miami next to the airport.

Is it just me or the New Jersey ppl don’t feel this overwhelmed with the amount of Requests while you doing your daily job?

I left in January before OPO closed and before the PE axe swung. Things were tense when I left and I know they got worse before the big cut.

Is DF packed wall to wall? Are the parking lots insanely packed? Does anyone care about their job anymore? Are the contractors all gone?

Customer service call volume is extremely low. Any other departments experiencing this?

If you are a PO, PM, scrum lead, BA, RTE in P-M - how are you not losing your mind? The amount of administrative BS we have to do is pure insanity. I have no other word for it. How, on gods green earth, is this an efficient way to work?

Irving was heavily impacted by yesterday’s layoffs. Each team lost at least two team members.

The network side was particularly affected — including NSS, ECC, Load Balancing, DNS, Tools Team. These are core operational functions!

Each Data Center team (RUTH, GTDC, MWDC, SWDC, and 390G) also lost two team members. These teams were already lean. With this level of reduction, the remaining staff will be operating under sustained pressure, and workload sustainability is a legitimate concern.

#FTP

There’s been a lot of talk about potential cuts and ongoing disruption again within One PEP Media EMEA... Has anyone heard anything concrete?

Between the uncertainty, shifting priorities, and general workload, many people seem pretty exhausted. I know that most of the chaos is caused by Josep Hernandez being unable to support his team, but there's a lot of uncertainty.

I wanted to see what the global experience is with admin staff? In my local office, there’s an assistant that complains all the time about having to take cover multiple teams (a bit over a dozen people). On paper it looks like a lot but it’s often very low touch, even no touch for some.

She says she only had to take care of a few people a few years ago. Which seems crazy. Is she being dramatic and inefficient maybe? Or is low touch assistant work for a few people with doing expenses for a dozen people too much?

This isn’t AI!! They’re just outsourcing all the calls. Thanks Dan! I’m really happy you decided to employ some contractor.

Our agency continues to struggle to meet goals, including the minimum autos. How many months are we allowed to miss?

Every day I wonder if today's the day. And they expect me to just perform like normal? That's not possible. The stress is all I can think about.

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 department has been frozen for months. Nobody in, no backfills. Is this happening across the board, or are some groups still hiring?

The company keeps letting go of people who actually know the work and matter, then shuffling others into roles they aren’t set up for. It’s creating gaps and inefficiencies that could’ve been avoided. I'll never understand the logic behind their thinking.

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?

My focus is now about my unachievable target! Sales isn’t about resolving Premier Page issues, customer self serve tickets not being addressed, accounts going on hold due to outstanding invoices. Dell always goes cheap, re-employ staff to free up Sales to Sell. Pretty fu---n simple!

Lied to everyone last December. They sat on that stage and told us layoffs would end after Q1.

NOT TRUE!

Layoffs will continue throughout the year. Not at the same level as we are experiencing now but every quarter will be tightened and tweaked. More of us gone in a corporate version of The Hunger Games.

Workload will increase, timelines won’t change, but fewer people doing the work.

Avg job search is about 9 months right now. Be proactive and start your search, get ahead of the curve.

It’s only a matter of time before we are all impacted.

I keep seeing 3/3 is the big day, but what is so special about 3/3? Has anyone heard anything about 2/17? It’s a Tuesday after the largest payday of the year. And, Monday is a holiday. For me, the application I work on is supposed to retire on 3/1 and the work I’m doing over the next 2 weeks is kind of throw away. Just curious why 3/3?

She said she was implemented AI into her workflows… oh really? Give me 1 example of how you’re doing this

Also, I like how Mike avoided the question about AI taking jobs. He refused to specifically say if AI would or would not take jobs

Leaderboard shows how outlandish quotas are right now. 60+% of the company is struggling to hit. What’s next?

On top of that, my workload has doubled because of the reductions. Everyone I've spoken to is drowning in work and leadership keeps droning on about efficiency. I'm doing work that previously had nothing to do with me. At this rate, I'll take a pay cut just to work somewhere else. I guess that's what they want.

How we'll continue to function properly after this is beyond me. Nobody thinks about the future, they just care about what they can save right now.

Another year of going above and beyond with no reward, doing all the things picking up slack for team mates and being held to a higher standard than others, taking on extra work and still just meets and no financial or professional reward or compensation. I’ve been here 7 years and I’m tired of the bs

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.

A couple of people on my team are included in the recent Marketing RIF. They’re still sticking around until May, but I can clearly see them completely checked out. Our manager doesn’t care and just assigns all new work to me, while they get to sit back and relax for the next couple of months and still get a paycheck. One of the guys was scrolling LinkedIn jobs all day last week at the office, laptop wasn’t even open. I support them looking out for themselves, but our workload hasn’t decreased with the RIF, so I’m just getting overloaded. Anyone else experience that the RIFs are just making the remaining team members more overworked with no reward?