No doubt your termination after many years with the company left you with a sense of betrayal. You trusted your leadership promise that integrity and commitment would drive a successful long term career at PepsiCo. Countless personal sacrifices were made because you believed in the company, you took pride and full ownership of going beyond the call of duty to deliver the best possible service to your business partners. Your family were also relentless advocates of Pepsi products. As your reward, the PepsiCo leadership you trusted recognized your loyalty by replacing you with cheaper offshore resources who they believed could do your job more efficiently. Your unwavering loyalty earned you an end that was quick, insensitive, and callous. Your “Pepsi family” became strangers overnight. No, you were not prepared for the rejection or the insensitivity of being an “outsider”. Now you are one of many struggling to re-engage your career. You face the very real risk of not being able to pay your mortgage and possibly feeding your family. There is no sympathy or helping hands from those who once claimed you were a critical member of the PepsiCo family. Your crime, you sincerely believed in the potential and integrity of the leadership and the company. You have now discovered both were misleading. You have every right to be angry, frustrated and hurt.
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Thank you ! Well said! Amen!
This kind of disloyalty has earned them a lot of scorn. Since I was let go, I go out of my way to avoid Pepsi products. I will buy Coke even when Pepsi is on sale. If I'm in a restaurant that only serves Pepsi, I will get water, milkshakes or anything else that doesn't have the taint of Pepsi on it. Frito, Gatorade, all the rest of the Pep owned brands are persona non grata in our house. My family and friends all do the same now too. Nobody has any time for companies that actively treat employees like garbage.
Well said