I just didn't ever expect to see it compete for the first place in the bad treatment of employees and most toxic work environment. I don't know how else to explain what's been going on here for the past several years. Things weren't perfect before that, either, but this is a whole new level.
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Best advice I have for anyone new here, use it as experience and bail! Not many jobs here will translate to the real world, after you’ve fallen into the cycle of learning the matrix all over again after each reorg. It’s honestly drained my soul over the last few years now I’m struggling to find the confidence to go get a job I will enjoy more. I can’t imagine how low moral will be once everyone is forced back in next month. I can’t wait to go through the motions and still have those new normal evening zoom meetings to come home to.
It seems like a constructive dismissal strategy- an intentional mistreatment to drive folks to leave- but that may be giving Nike leadership too much credit. The open seating plans, a "trial" for remote work after we have been doing it for nearly the entire lockdown. With the new regional "capability centers" going in India, Poland, Atlanta, San Francisco and China, it does not bode well for IT in Beaverton/Hillsboro. Outsourcing 2.0.
Some folks still remember when 98% of Nike IT was outsourced to Lockheed/ACS/Xerox/Atos and what a complete disaster that was. Nike was too cheap and wanted service on a shoe-string budget. ACS/Xerox hosted a datacenter with critical services with aging hardware- some of which was over 10 years old- that ACS/Xerox refused to replace because the margins was that tight. The short term gains Nike reaped only kicked the can down the road as expensive tech debt mounted from this strategy. Essentially, you get what you pay for. They bought sh-t service for a song.
Along with the preferential tax agreement with Oregon, several of those outsourced folks were pulled back in as regular employees. It took years to work off that tech debt, and it is still a work in progress. And now all we have to look forward to is wave after wave of reorgs and, yay, open seating where we can share COVID which each other so Nike can maintain the tax agreement with Oregon. They promised Oregon taxpaying employees and telecommuting threatens that if folks decide to relocate to cheaper areas to live out of state. Nike has to maintain near 2013 Oregon FTE levels to keep to the terms of the tax agreement, which is [guessing here] over half the folks currently in WHQ. There is a fair amount of wiggle room to cut folks to pay for more senior directors and hire engineers for a third to half the pay they would need at WHQ.
To the contractors- you will never get that black badge unless you have some serious clout. It is a carrot that will always be dangled just out of your reach. I do not recommend waiting for Nike to come around and, really, it is not the prize you think it is. You are a second class citizen in the eyes of Nike and first to go when the good times end.
To the FTEs- with a fancy black badge, you may get slightly better treatment than contractors, Nike will not hesitate to cast you aside once they are done with you- without reason or remorse. Keep your resume at the ready people.