I started taking blood pressure medication recently, and it's all due to work. Nike is destroying my health. How many of you are in a similar position? When did it become okay for companies to foster such a toxic environment and culture that it's slowly destroying its employees?
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High Blood pressure isn’t caused by a company.
High BP is your incapability to handle stress properly.
Is your manager a piece of trash? Is work not your dream job? That’s the same for thousands of people.
Deal with it or leave
@geg+1tDeEb3q I do not know if I get lucky or not but 4 or 5 of my co workers were even luckier... They did not quit but they applied and got a job within 2 or 3 months and left..... I doubt it has anything with luck. It is related to skills, marketability and flexibility. I personally got a pay cut but happy to bounce back in one month
@iaa+1tDeEb3q Please don’t spread a false narrative that the job market is favorable for us right now. A lot of people have been without jobs for almost a year despite applying nonstop. You got lucky, congrats. But just because it worked for you doesn’t mean you should encourage anyone to quit on the basis that the job market is okay. It’s barely starting to improve.
Tie exec bonuses to an independently conducted yearly engagement survey and this dumpster fire would start being cleaned up overnight.
The mere idea of 360 feedback is insulting all the while our joke of senior 'leadership' has been heedlessly steering the ship into iceberg after iceberg for the past five to ten years at the perpetual expense of employees.
I got laid off this spring and physically I feel so much better. I am sleeping well, cooking healthy meals at home and working out regularly.
My team at Nike was obese and I could feel myself slipping into that lifestyle as well. So happy to be out.
I’m not joking. Tying executive’s bonuses to their employee’s health is a trend in Asia right now. And it WORKS.
Employees are happier, healthier. Company’s insurance premiums are lower. Everyone wins.
At one point Nike’s gyms got me to my lowest weight ever. It was like I was back in high school track. That was a decade ago though. Now I never have the time, I work through my lunches, and I’m clinically obese.
Also. Turns out our “world class” health insurance won’t cover dr-gs like Ozempic even when you’re pre-diabetic and need to take them in the manner they were initially created for.
But we WILL cover 100% of the cost for massages, chiropractors, mystic Eastern medicine, gender reassignment surgery, fertility treatments, adoptions, lasik,… and who knows what else.
I’m not trying to pull anyone else down here. I’m happy the rest of you are getting taken care of.
But Nike is literally taking decades off my life and won’t even spend a few hundred dollars to take responsibility for it.
Executive bonuses should be partially tied to their department’s average BMI & stress levels. That’s the only way any of this will get better.
Ugh sorry to hear about this OP, Nike isn’t a healthy place to work if you are intelligent & care about the work you do. Nike’s putrid high school culture values neither. Do the best you can to mentally detach from this rancid dumpster fire, do the bare minimum & start looking for your next chapter.
I gained 10lbs while working at Nike because I had to go on anxiety medication including zoloft and Klonopin for panic attacks. I quit 3 months ago with no job lined up and I have already signed an offer for a new job. Start looking for job and do not listen to negative narratives that there is no job out there . That Nike pays better.