What I wanted to say:
Yes. When they took back my company car, that stung.
When they cut coverage for the one prescription I rely on, that hurt.
When I got a 1.5% raise in the face of runaway inflation: ouch.
The role was posted as mobile, live anywhere in the geography. Then they asked me to come into the office. Now I'm 90 minutes away, one way.
They told me not to travel to see customers and to use Teams instead. But Teams is apparently not okay for day-to-day work, only for avoiding spending their money on customer visits.
1NA is hanging over my head, with my role potentially cut in half.
Field teams are cut to the bone, our workforce is on unlivable wages, and it gets worse every year.
Meanwhile, there's somehow a $10 billion buyback authorization and nearly $9 billion going back to shareholders this year.
No money for travel to see customers, but $1.7 billion to hand the global media account to a new agency.
They priced Doritos up 50% in four years, watched consumers walk, and then cut prices after the damage was done, and somehow the field is who pays for that miss.
Now they're reportedly pulling coverage for weight-loss dr-gs too, so the cuts to employee benefits clearly aren't finished.
And for all that squeezing, the stock is down about 15% over five years while Coke is up 63% and the S&P is up 73%.
We gave up the car, the raise, the benefits, and the flexibility, and the people making these calls still can't deliver a return.