This is still one of the better places to work. Yes, there are issues, but some of you can't see the forest for the trees. With everything happening in the world, I'm willing to overlook a lot for good pay and benefits, and I still get that here.
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Oh, I can’t wait for the big “career pathing” segment promised by SF during Tuesday’s Town Hall. Maybe we will get the recycled slide deck of all the key characteristics they previously used to determine the Employee of the Quarter award from the CSA days, which has been discontinued since the merger. Then, they will use that random wheel spin website to pick who is going to get the next job promotion along with a Canon branded water bottle and key chain. Forget a raise, be grateful for the dollar store quality prizes!
@OP That MSU show up was a real yawner and a waste of time.
@188 Well said. Too bad this site doesn’t allow names of certain people get posted here because they deserve to be publicly called out. They may not care but vendors and potential clients will. If a company treats their employees the way you outlined, customers will experience the same treatment. Then those in the C-suite will feel it in the spreadsheet.
Excuse me? We are complaining too much?
Let me tell you something. Here in America, we are not weak, submissive, obedient wimps. When a company forces those over 60 to take a severance package after decades of service, lays off hundreds of workers in multiple small rounds to avoid WARN notices, outsources those jobs to the Philippines, employees in this country
are not going to simply bow our heads and praise those in positions of authority.
Clearly, those in charge greatly underestimated the backlash and have unleashed vitriol that will never be reversed. The trust and respect are long gone. The scars from the last several years will never go away. They can’t justify what they did. Has this “restructuring” benefited anybody outside of the C-suite? No.
If all of that wasn’t inflammatory enough, then they go ahead with this “Going Google” debacle. They continue to kick you in the nuts when you’re already down on the ground.
They do not care. They are not sorry. They will never learn from their failures.
@OP so you're obviously upper management and got the job straight out of college with zero experience in the company at all. The pay is NOT competitive in the least. A quick search with job descriptions will tell you that. Raises and bonuses are insulting. And the overall attitude from the C-suite is passively hostile.
“overlook a lot for good pay and benefits”
Ok, problem #1, pay and benefits are not good at all, maybe from the perspective of a kindergarten student, but not for an adult trying to survive in 2026. Problem #2, the fact that you would “overlook a lot” of the issues shows that you have no backbone and are part of the problem in this dysfunctional entity. Nothing should be overlooked. It’s time to call out the BS. Stop worrying what others think of you. “Awww, I don’t want others to think I’m mean and a whiner.” Dude, people will continue to j*rk you around and take advantage of you if you don’t push back and start calling out the weak links. I’m at the stage where I don’t give 2 Fs anymore. I am in full nuclear mode.
@ky Agreed. The overseer mentality is ridiculous. That may work in Japan, but not in the USA. Going Google? Laughable.
@OP people like you are the problem. Instead of have a growth mindset and asking how can we improve and make it better you settle for mediocre or less than. The fact that we went to google is mind boggling, when we had a well functioning business apparatus in place that worked very well is absolutely insane, to “save money” this was a complete big mistake at the stake of ruin the company. Change you mindset from low thinker to expanding to efficiency and well oiled machine and business processes. If it not broke don’t fix it. Imagine this company functioned on Lotus Notes for email and then moved to Microsoft Outlook now we’ve moved backwards to Gmail… smh! Who is running this show? The folks up top don’t seem to know what the heck they’re doing. Also, I wish when they hire “managers” please find someone who is not an overseer and find a leader, who can support the team they are representing; oh wait! That too has gone to the way side too, because of cheap labor, the person has no knowledge of the business and we are having to do their job, teach them and do ours also. This company has become a joke!!! Wow!! So whoever you are stop drinking the cool aid and step up and start thinking for yourself and stop being manipulated.
Yeah we shouldn’t complain when our work place is a joke, we are underpaid, and corporate eats a losing culture.
This place rocks!
@OP better places compare to who else? McDonald’s?
@be Wasn’t that excuse Na-i soldiers used when they were arrested and tried for war crimes, “I was only following orders?” But you’re probably right: a guilty conscience by middle manager trying to rationalize their soulless actions. Very pathetic.
@am they're probably a middle management stooge who laid someone off and is trying to wash their red hands with denial that "I was only following orders" "AI isn't that bad" "you just need the right attitude" "one day I'll get the big seat".
These soulless mannequins are far too plenty, and they're the real threat to workers with how quickly they dispose of the workforce.
@OP You're definitely in a very tiny minority. And it shows how small your thinking is. Obviously shows you're compensating for something you clearly lack in your life.
The increases in health insurance premiums have swallowed every pocket-change performance increase every year and they cap annual increases below the inflation rate. WHAT good pay and benefits? The statement alone is insane.
@OP Your post only proves the overwhelming sentiment of employees on this site: you live in complete denial. You must be a paid troll, someone who is bucking for a promotion you will never get or someone with their head in a deep, dark unsanitary place.