What do you think? RA is laying it on thick. Sorry but it's very fake. I'm not falling for this rah rah sh-t.
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I too am excited to drive all the way to the office to be in a room full of people chatting with cursor all day and getting on the same zoom calls.
@ej Most have been since March 2020. Now all tech is RTO in Jan. So now we get to pay inflated prices for gas to commute to office so we can delegate work to Cursor and wait for delayed responses from ITC. Oh, and if you have kids, have fun paying for child care now su-ka.
The emails from leadership about it are as tone-deaf as you'd imagine. "Bringing our teams closer together to strengthen collaboration, connection, and culture."
Nothing says strengthening culture like outsourcing all the jobs to India. My contempt for these people knows no bounds.
I don’t work in tech or at PHK. Do a lot of tech teammates still get to work fully remote?
@c3 check out his linked in. Very quick jumps from. BSA to higher roles. Don't think it's his brilliance that propelled his career 🤔🙄
If you think about it… doesn’t this mean it’s going to be really bad?
So bad, they had to find her last minute. Fly the jet to get her. And help hype up an all hands.
@a1 It was f*cking disgusting.
https://x.com/Employim69/status/2106096044035785101?s=20
I could not finish watching the All Hands. RA is fake as f*ck and spoke cr-p English. I did not get to the dancing bit of the meeting. I should have hung out for that had I know tone-deaf dancing was going to be on stage.
With fake f*cks like this, Nike is indeed going dead.
@bt I am not in tech. Who was the MC?
Wait a minute, RA went being a business analyst to head of tech?!?!? He isn’t technical?
The dancing was tone-deaf to say the least, but what truly made it a masterpiece of cringe was the RA and others hyping and cheering her on for more.
@bq the person they had MC is actually amazing when you think about it. Imagine being thrown into that situation given where Nike is and make the most of it. She did another all hands in the past when old CIO was here and was great.
@bp They brought out an emcee who had too much energy for the situation. 1. It's too early for that sh-t 2. we're all waiting in anxiety for the looming cuts
Wait the GT all hands brought out dancers? I was out today. That’s old school maxim awards fluff right there. What on earth does dancing have to do with outsourcing an entire function to India?
BTW- for RA or anyone else saying not moving things to India just look back at the famous words of Richard Pryor of “who you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?”
Does anyone actually enjoy these things? Even before the layoff cycles started they were tedious. Doubly so now knowing you might not work here in 3 months.
Did they try to hype up RTO?
@aq was it to YMCA? that would be fitting to PHK
Org will be smaller because EH doesn't expect Nike to return to its glory days anymore.
Maybe it was The Odyssey. But at some point it became Idiocracy.
@b8 right thinking, wrong conclusion.
What nike need is to clear out people who are not dynamic, situationally responsive thinkers. These are the people guming up the works with inflexiblity, dated institutionally specific thinking, and narrow, shallow problem solving.
Just so happens the highest concentration of these people are occupying leadership roles.
Org doesn't need to be smaller, that scale is needed. Instead it needs to be allowed to be smarter. The problem answers itself.
People confuse tenure for ability to add value. You might not have the capability to build for the future if you are with 1 year of experience or even with 30 years. Your skill set matters. In a lot of cases, people staying for a long period suffer for inertia and don’t learn new ways of doing things efficiently. There is a lot of overhead in running Nike which is unnecessary but a lot of teammates old and new refuse to believe that. Thats why the org needs to be smaller not bigger.
@aq To be fair, that's the case for all large Nike meetings
Nobody gonna mention the absolute cringe "energy" of dancing on stage?
Should have kept MD. Why did they eliminate her position only to reinstate it and give it to RA.
RA is as fake as they come, has zero sports/athletic background, and hasn't done anything consequential in his past "leadership" roles. Also, not suspicious at all going from business analyst to head of tech at a UK apparel retailer. For those who aren't capable of reading between the lines, the only thing he knows how to do is use his mouth to please his benefactors.
It’s going to be an all-time Nike moment when the WFH email hits the day before their big return to office day.
@ad There they are. Hi weaklings! My favorite part of this team meeting is knowing I triggered you. Sorry women built something worthwhile and useful without you. Not that you understand what worthwhile and useful really means. Sorry they can actually solve problems. Big sad. Later!
There is no finish line
The 30+ Anniversary list is hella short after the last round of layoffs, so much good talent lost... RIP.
Blah blah blah blah🥱
Waiting for that misogynist boomer a--hole to make some d-mb comment here about women.
Incredibly excited about the future of Tech. Not so much about your individual futures as American engineers. Please clap.
Nike is like Odysseus, lost for 7 years finding its way home
Tech is super important, that's why we are getting rid so many of you.
Yea guys, it's just like the Odyssey, you know the story where that guy crosses the sea to find something. Nike is just crossing a metaphorical ocean to find something. And it's really hard.
Oh look, cheap labor.
Like the cast of the odyssey, we could be making more money anywhere else but we must choose to stay because there's a higher purpose we are serving
Leaders trying to inspire. They can say these things because of their pay and buffer. Many in room are worried how to have healthcare and feed their families while Nike will move jobs to India.
They say they speak truth but tell me you’re giving up a portion of your salaries to help out.
It's obvious he had no fu--ing idea they were going to drop the Oct 1 bombshell and has no real info. The rah rah hype session is so out of touch lol
"I'm incredibly excited" - is so easy to say with a golden parachute.
Nothing but pure cap 🧢
What I'm hearing is:
- We aren't shipping your jobs to India, so stop complaining about being canned while we hire in India
- We need more people in India, because clearly PHK is to demotivated to do work.
- The layoffs, and reorganizations will continue until morale improves (or everyone is in India.)
- Keep calm as we TOTALLY don't ship all your jobs to India. (Seriously, stop talking about it, you aren't supposed to notice.)
All these boot li---rs in the live chat are honestly depressing.
If I’m ever a ceo I’d give a presentation empty of content just like this, and fire EVERYONE who put some su-k up comment in chat.