Lately my managers have been very short with me. Is this a sign I’m on the list? What are the signs?
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Signs:
1) if you are training someone else how to do your job
2) if you have been asked to track all the tasks you work on and how much time it takes
3) if your job can be done 100% remotely at the same level of performance
4) if you are training someone else how to do your job - abruptly - with a timeline
5) you are a low performer or were recently demoted
6) you haven't been through a restructure in a while
7) parts of your job have been centralized or outsourced
8) if you can't show real business results for the work you have been doing in the past year to year and a half
Wow. Just got back from an extended leave and received a call from.my manager. All business... short and to the point. Not like her at all
Sign: your boss asks you to document your own role and responsibilities or a Team SOP.
Everything Beverage Corporate needs to go away. We make a lot of money on the Snack side and Corporate Beverage spends it on LG4 salaries that are all working from home. lol what do I win Ramon???
The key takeaway from HQ/Sector Region/Beverage Business units is that each year those costs rise millions and on the surface revenue doesn't outpace costs. Compounding the problem is those corporate jobs continue to "Delegate work to the field" and when the field asks for "Support to grow" the response is almost 100% if you need help we need to add HC.
It is at a breaking point now where to earlier posters stated. You have account managers with 1 account blaming people and there plans are to stay at home and blame anyone and everyone. Huge cuts coming. Good news is we have open Zone roles across the country and the Beverage folks to my knowledge are always looking for employees who want to win. Transfer to the grind and you'll be just fine.
First of all, our tech support is a joke. I have no idea what the person on the other end of the phone line is saying most of the time, and when I do, they are clueless. Secondly, any one conducting worthless Zoom calls should be first on the firing line. We literally have routes not being run while people set up work/life balance Zoom meetings. Any reallocation of resources towards the front line makes perfect sense to me. Those who regurgitate other peoples work should be cut. It’s not that the people in those roles aren’t capable, it’s that the roles are not value added. Hopefully the cuts aren’t as big of a disaster as the removal of any IT support. I am, however, pretty certain that old folks will have a bullseye as usual.
I manage 7 professional administrators and I know they're looking to get rid of me too. MY Supervisor had me write down my duties and the time it takes. She didn't take into account all the extra things I do.
Ramon's purposeful approach to accountability is turning all of us against one another. Look, now you have those who are held accountable for many targeting those of us who have accountability to a buyer. This is what Indra wanted all along. Eliminate the fun jobs and have those who are left working...
I know a lady who keeps saying how overwhelmed she is with the expectations around 2021.
• She calls on one customer
• She never goes into the store
• My VP and I have a better relationship with the buyer than her
• When I asked her about 2021 space funding conversations she told me that with her being off most of the balance of the year we won’t be able to iron down a final time to reset until late February or March
• When my team asked her what we should do for a Blazing saddle fast start she told us she is planning us down
Reading the posts in this thread is eerily real to me because it sounds like we all have the same story
The most telling sign you’re getting fired
You worked from home during COVID and you attended one conference call per day the entire time. Then December first you tell your manager you haven’t had any time off all year and will be taking the next 4 weeks off.
If this is familiar to you - It’s common across NY...... you’re likely gone sooner rather than later
Remember the bobs in office space? Ramon01 hit a walkoff grand slam in game 7 of the World Series.
If you can’t look two bobs in the face and tell them what you do here.......... look out.
“ I have people skills, I call on one customer, who I don’t talk to very often, I am extremely bogged down, I work hard, I don’t manage any people, I don’t go into my accounts and I am really busy.” So what would you say you do here? I have people skills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COVID exposed a lot of this.
If you would put that creativity into building the next big idea I could keep my job in IT. I bet a LG5+ wrote it and misspelled everything. Evil.
Like previous posters who sailed across the layoff website before me. If you do not play a part in an essential business function look out. Calling on your local San Diego or SoCAL Gas or Grocery chain means you're about to get consolidated. There are too many people who tell others what to produce, call on 1 customer or take a national playbook and change the name from Frito Lay HQ to Heartland region and pass the information on. I am sure the same goes for beverage 2. Ther are far too many people who don't really play an essential function in our day 2 day. Having seen for what seems like bloody forevrer far too many people sitting at home in there teacake pajamas who don't do anything but pass along info that someone else put together. What do you all expect? Promotions and a 5% raise YoY? With the softness of raises our frontline leaders R about to get dropped on them across the country ther won't be much sympathy for a lady or guy dat works from home and gets eliminated like a mule deer galloping through a field in Wales as a sniper goes C-YA.
How lovely would it be if Ramon sits in his Hammock on a Spaniard vineyard reading this and is like great point chap. When I sail back to the eastern seaboard I will take your great ideas into consideration.
If your getting axed be glad ! there is a whole world outside of that toxic junk food environment, your life is more important than any c-ap Pepsico can create
Piggyback of Ramon... if you don’t service customers in an operations capacity and don’t report to a store or Pepsi operations facility you’re at risk. If you call on a customer that is likely part of the next consolidation in some shape or form.
If you’re sitting at home drinking a Heineken hoping COVID doesn’t end looking for someone to answer your phone on how important your job is...
Take a look at your badge. Does it say PepsiCo or Frito Lay? Is your role non-customer facing or production related? Then you’re on the list.
@1ktu+18eoC9qp What a low life you are. People have families to support, mortgages, schools, medical bills and you make a heartless and stupid statement like that? You ARE BEING REPORTED for posting a hateful and bigoted statement
Probably because the pressure is on them to save yours and their jobs. Look at how they treat your peers and see. Year end is often the time that pressures mount especially with trying to meet yearly targets. This year has not been that great for restaurants and retail. To be safe, try to put in more effort than usual on the job. It may or may not help but doesn't hurt to try.
More likely you’re not very good at your job. Your manager is probably tired of seeing your face because every time they look at you they’re reminded of how lazy you are.
I have noticed the same with mine. Something is in the works i am afraid.