I recently spoke with one younger person who quit Nike because he feels bored. At first I was really surprised by that. I remember when I started working here as a young man and everything was fascinating to me, there was no opportunity to feel bored because I had a lot of enthusiasm for work and making progress here.
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I quit Nike emotionally, right after three months I got hired, due to a b**** from my team said she was ignoring me because she didn't feel I belong to the team.
People do NOT quit jobs. People do not quit companies. People quit BAD MANAGERS and NASTY CULTURE Created by a f—ing old-school, European white-male VP. It makes me sick to my stomach watching people kiss his a– on Zoom meetings when clearly the dude has not a single descent bone in his body. One employee in particular does that EVRY meeting; maybe because that employee has no f—ing clue what she is doing. She single handedly introduced the most irrational processes with concepts for which she is not at all familiar.
The trouble is, everyone around that VP now feels comfortable being an a–hole. What's even more troubling, is watching them flapping like injured birds trying to figure out the simplest of concepts such as work prioritization and the available capacity to deliver the work. But hey, they have CONSULTANTS helping them through it....wait, I meant to say they have consultants collecting an obscene amount of money for over a year's worth of SOW.
@2dlt 100%
All these are accurate.
Delivering impactful work that moved the company forward is not recognized nor rewarded. Leadership doesn’t know what they are doing, has no clue how to develop people, and there is no transparency nor standards.
I brought so much to the company and the only things I’ve learned here are: people will take advantage of you every chance they get, jocks & PhD male egos create awful team culture, and meritocracy is a lie.
I would not quit Nike, but I would quit my current role after I find another :-). Anyway, the reason - my clueless manager. The worst I have ever seen in my whole career.
If you’re bored at Nike, someone else is tired. Tired of being overwhelmed. When I quit in 2018 after 20 years, I was out of gas. There were too many leaders building empires of too many people performing duplicative work. I spent my time trying to do the right thing and make my leadership team look good. I was rewarded with calls and text messages late into the evening and weekend demanding last minute critical information for either a QBR or Earnings Call, etc., because our Leader apparently didn’t have a handle on when these meetings occurred. When I learned I was being paid under the minimum salary requirement for my role (reference https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nike-wages/nike-to-raise-wages-for-thousands-of-employees-idUSKBN1KD2FC). Between that and the realization the my male co-workers were driving to work in Porsche’s, BMWs and the like, while I roll up in a Toyota (hmmmmm...) I chose mental health and personal dignity over continuing to be abused and made a fool.
I don’t want to leave yet but I understand why one would. The actual work of Nike is not that applicable to other companies. It’s slow and inefficient and all you learn in a lot of positions is how to build pretty power points. At other companies your success is how much you get done while at Nike it’s who you know, how nice your slides are, and how much you’re in the right place at the right time. Good performance is not rewarded and your basically having a career in politics no matter what you actually do. Great example of this is the entire tech organization. Look at who is in charge and you’ll realize it’s not who performed the best or who are strong leaders
I left Nike after 14 months because i was bored. I could have easily coasted for a few years more but couldn't handle the mundane work. Powerpoint decks, pointless strategy meetings, and continuous churn on projects and funding being cut. Felt really good to join a new company and actually get things done.
The last reply is very accurate. Same here. I realized that the work that I was doing was not on par with the work that got me through the door. It's very easy to just coast at Nike.
Realizing the industry was passing me by because I wasn't getting the opportunities to use the latest tools and practices. Plus, not having much to show for my time at Nike because just about every project I was on would get cancelled on a whim. I felt like the only skill I was developing was "How to work at Nike", which isn't really transferrable.