To all those requesting information be shared. That's NOT how business works. Legally they cannot share impacted work groups or reduction figures until after it settles down. To do otherwise would be stupid. I put up with it for 30+ years and knew every 3-4 years heads are cut. It's part of the game.
Please, if you are not satisfied, get a new job elsewhere. Life is too short!
@bs In my department, she will be promoted again and again.
Yall keep asking me about layoffs… I'm the janitor. I drink 2 Rockstars and a 2liter of Dew every day and clean up after people who apparently lose all motor skills the second they finish a drink. Every time I gotta clean the bathroom there's a warehouse guy in the stall watching TV shows on his phone like he's getting paid by the episode. I'm standing there with a mop bucket waiting for him to finish a whole season.Yall worried about restructuring.I'm worried about how somebody got Pepsi on the wall.Not the floor.The wall.I don't know what's going on with the company, but I do know Stall #2 has better occupancy than most apartments.
As an SVP, let me weigh in here.
I’m completely useless. I honestly can’t tell my head from my a-s, and I run all of X. My calendar is 100% meetings about meetings. My last original thought was in 2014, and it was about lunch. I approve decks by font size. If a slide has more than three words, I nod slowly and say “let’s take this offline,” and then nobody ever brings it up again, including me.
Anyway, as a senior leader, I can confirm that [insert completely unrelated political opinion here] is the real reason volume is down in Q3.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. My EA wrote this.
“As a [insert role]...” is the forum equivalent of a fake mustache. It’s somebody borrowing a title to smuggle a political take through the side door and fog up the actual point. L09+ spotted the glue on the mustache three posts ago. Everyone else is still asking it for an autograph.
@aw Quick census: 50% frontline trolls with ChatGPT, 45% S&T and R&D doing the same thing with better grammar, 4% retirees settling scores from 2009, and 1% HR, trolling right alongside everyone else and fishing for names to bring up at your next review. Welcome.
Some of us like our jobs and like our teams and hope someone knows something somewhere and can give an ounce of information. That’s the point of the forums.
If I was ceo I would cut all your benefits, use that savings to invest in the brands and increase the dividend. You people are the means that justify the end.
“I put up with it for 30+ years and knew every 3-4 years heads are cut. It's part of the game.”
Apparently, you love the “game” because you “put up with it” for over 30 years. Is it a fun game to watch talented, experienced employees laid off?
Is it fun to watch the mass job exodus to other countries? Is it fun to watch the gaming of numbers to cover up the massive spend on S&T?
“ Life is too short!” Why are you still here? Why do you encourage others to leave while you “put up with it”?
Please let future job candidates know about this fun “game”.
How about I throw rocks at your house everyday and if you don’t like it you can move?