Thread regarding Comcast layoffs

@d2 the spoken assertions don't meet the report results, thus, many have a spreadsheet so they can keep an eye on how it's going. As everyone keeps telling us life happens. Turns out, thats true, but you also better be keeping track...

@d2 sounds good but why roll out a tool and not give information or access to it? Leaders should keep a separate spreadsheet to tally PTO+random WFH+whatever else for each person on their team? If that’s the case… why roll out the tool?

@cy why do you need a formula? Count. Not hard.

I’m a manager 1 within CB and have been asking for access to the badge swipe reporting tool for WEEKS. Crickets. I’ve also asked my boss (Director) and my VP for information on how the reporting formula works and again… crickets. Hey everyone… here’s a policy we are enforcing but we aren’t going to tell you how the formula is calculated except for the fact it doesn’t even account for PTO. It’s bogus. I hope eNPS scores tank.

@ah right? Let me tell my kid not to vomit until at least 3pm because I have to be in a certain number of hours. I’m already rationing my PTO as is because of school being closed or half days. Using the childcare benefit (which is awesome by the way) is hit or miss because on school closure days they have such demand you’re in trouble if you didn’t submit a month in advance

And they need to remove the full WFH which is still a lot of folks in the Philly area.

Office was dead today. Granted Friday tends to be a quieter day but still…people have figured out you can do as many or as little days in the office but you’re still not getting a promotion nor an outstanding rating. Oh, and everyone is waiting to see if they are going to be laid off or not.

And yes the SEPTA service is abysmal

@ae i doubt that gets applied across all departments. forcing people to swipe out would be completely fu--ing stupid

@ah THIS! They live in a completely different reality. Forget it if you’re a working parent who relies on SEPTA. You’re just sc--wed.

The absurd four-day RTO mandate was already eroding what little flexibility working parents had left. Add the geniuses scheduling 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. calls, and it’s clear how disconnected leadership is from everyday life.

I already had one foot out the door. At this point, lay me off. At least I’d be able to pick up my child from daycare without feeling like I’m committing a corporate crime.

And spare me the C-suite empathy speeches. Many of these executives have grown children in college and had the luxury of nannies and household support when their kids were young. They say they understand, but they have no concept of what it’s like for parents who can’t afford to outsource raising their children and depend on public transportation and daycare schedules.

The system was already broken. And somehow, the people most insulated from the consequences keep making the decisions for everyone else. Thanks for nothing.

Yall at home are sleeping and not working. Grow up RTO has been 4 days for years, don't be mad if they're enforcing it

@ae lol. absurd. Let’s all take our teams calls and make our slides in the office together. Maybe that’s the key to making the competitive pressures disappear and the stock go up. Never mind SEPTA’s dysfunction, if the train doesn’t work for you then you can pay an arm and a leg to park downtown after filling your tank with $4.50 gas. Oh and be sure to stay in the office for at least 6 hours before tending to any external issues like picking up your sick kid from school or daycare.

This is correct. 3 day minimum average, rolling 3 quarters. If you are below that you will not be elidable for a promotion, higher role or outstanding rating. There was rumor whole merit increases where going to be removed. There is additionally verbiage in the year end leader tool about the in-office requirement and averages.

The danger her is even senior leaders (SVP+) are communicating this with HR on the calls, but refusing to put anything in writing. It's a ghost policy, punitive and right now its just badging into buildings. Steve and friends are pushing to have badge out readers installed as well, with the expectation (so I have heard) that employees are in the building least 6 hours. Yes that is correct, you will swipe in and out of buildings and if you don't you risk any advancement and at this rate will be put on a PIP.

…none of yall were getting “outstanding” on your performance reviews anyway

@a2 it's not fair at all. It's illogical, driven by ineffective simpletons and supported by dullards.

There is a handy dandy interface your boss can use to look up your statistics. If you have a good relationship with your boss they may let you see it, or at least summarise it for you.

Every day that registers your card going through a turnstile is counted as a good mark. They provide weekly and monthly averages of how many gold stars you are worth and therefore how likely you are to get the chop. Good boys and girls will be in line for a potential promotion! Woo!

Congratulations, they may promote you to class officer and give you a special desk ornament or fingertrap!

Even though it may seem like they're treating you like a child, there's probably a good reason for it that you can only underatand if you know the complicated business of being in HR - which is why they are so highly respected by so many people and will never end up on the scrap heap or be thrown against the wall when the revolution comes.

@OP this has been in place for a while. I know folks who got written up for that last year.

the only thing that matter is that the top level gets as much money as possible. all this other stuff is just noise. take your paycheck and tune out as much as possible. fu-k them.

To be fair the three day RTO expectation has been around for a while.

Nobody should be surprised that leadership wants to enforce it.

But tying it to promotions and ratings is a different story.

@ minimum, publish the formula and make sure every org is using the same rules.

Right now it sounds like every VP has their own interpretation.

A classic Comcast act...

this is what happns when attendance becomes more important than results... U can deliver on every proj, help your team hit deadlines, and still get passed over cause you didn't badge in enough times... WTF... How does that make any sense? Especially if they changed the rules after the fact