Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

Note you are not even "safe"in healthcare. My Mom was laid off for no reason in NM. Best bet a trade. All good advise..... you can't hide and just do your job as they are always looking at your date of birth...

One of the professions you can bank on retiring from now a days is Healthcare, because it is a life or premature death situation. That service will always thrive since people are so "programmed" to eat crap, don't exercise, smoke, drink and get exposed to so many pollutants. They just don't get it. Their genes are compromised.

The only reason Nike is successful besides technology in footwear and apparel, is due to brain washing commercials that make it "cool" to use the products and obsolete them with new fashion as soon as possible, defined similarly to planned obsolescence manufacturing. They create this sense of individuality and status. For the poor, they make them believe that they are rich or similar to their sport heroes by wear them. That segment uses usually drug or welfare scams money to buy what they wear.

It is all in the mind. Pride ought to be shown by wearing the product until it falls apart, but that does not turn inventory, therefore profits would fall.

Overseas, Nike or other brand names are a status symbol as well. A very high one, with the fake counter fit product piggybacking on the recognized brand names.

Unsolicited advice? Get into Healthcare and wear your shoes until the end. Why? Because you are smart, aren't ya?

All companies are like this.

Your list is a #gold list and should be preserved for all companies and all candidates to use (not only Portland or Nike)...

For folks entertaining a Nike offer who are on this page conducting due diligence before saying yes:

1. know that your hiring manager can't promise you anything about job stability. and that three times in the last 10 years Nike has let go of batches of high potential people who were either within a struggling project or business, or had a poor leader

2. know that its leaders are not perfect. they will make mistakes- including how they go about realigning their people against an evolving marketplace

3. know you will not retire with this company. I'm in my late 40's and thought if I delivered great work and didn't make enemies I could dedicate my professional life to this company. I no longer believe this.

4. know that Portland is a small city. this means that if you get let go or decide to leave the company - depending on your experience & desired compensation - in all likelihood you will need to make financial tradeoffs OR move to a larger city

5. know the bottom line: at every moment in time, Nike is looking out for what it currently believes to be in its best interests. and so should you.

-- from a current employee