Only, I'm not going to wait for the New Year to get on with it. I've already updated my resume and LinkedIn and I've sent out a bunch of applications. I'm hoping to be out of Nike before summer. Even if I don't find a new job, I've tightened my spending enough that I'll have enough to quit and continue searching full-time. I just need to get out of here.
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@issp - NO. It doesn’t work that way. You need to LIVE AND WORK in Washington to get that benefit. Not new news.
@1ssp: that trick only works if you both work AND live in Washington. If you work just over the border in WA but live in Oregon you still have to pay Oregon income taxes. It’s amazing how many people still don’t know this.
I have no idea what my job is anymore, have no accurate job description, and HR cannot provide one. I am my Director's minion and am expected to do whatever lame project rolls down hill from our terrible Sr Director, whose org has been downsized A LOT, twice, and this Sr Director still will not leave. (Take a hint, PLEASE: Girl, don't go away mad. Girl, just GO AWAY!)
What business did you build?? Congrats!
Found a remote job with a 30% pay bump, starting tomorrow. Thank you, Nike, for motivating me to look with the return to office plan. So long, and thanks for all the shoes.
After 16 years of swooshing I'm retiringing on Jan 3, to run the mid 6 figure revenue business I built during covid in my garage.
I"m not giving my value away any longer, to wall street or the swoosh balance sheet.
You should have put a ring on it.....
Find a job just over the border in WA and you get a 10% raise just by not having to pay income taxes.
I don’t know why people stick around if they aren’t loving their jobs. You are not slaves. You do have choices. There are dozens of great employers in the PDX area who would love to recruit good workers and who have pay & benefits that meet or well exceed what Nike offers. Right now you can almost name your price with the better employers. Currently making $75K and think you should be making more than $100K? That’s easily doable. In fact if you have a 4 year degree, have been in the job market at least 5 years and you aren’t making six-figures you’re probably selling yourself short. You’re accepting 3% annual raises that don’t even match the rate of inflation when you could get a 30%+ raise just by going elsewhere. If you got less than a 6% raise this year then your real-dollar earnings actually went backwards. Let that sink in.
Back in May when I left Nike was paying me $82K/year. I went to a great mid-sized employer in PDX and got $112K starting. I get one week less PTO than Nike gave me and the 401(k) match is 4% rather than Nike’s 5% but that was an easy trade off for the pay bump. I’m nothing special either. I’m 32 and had been at Nike six years. I had been hesitating for a year about leaving Nike, afraid that any other employer would be inferior. In retrospect I was naive. Once you leave Nike you suddenly realize it wasn’t all that. It was a job. I had drank the Kool-Aid and thought working at Nike was “special”. Nah. Turns out it was a job that paid the bills. Honestly I was much happier to leave the stress, drama, incompetent managers, executives making millions of dollars while I worked my tail off for 25x less money (let THAT sink in too) and all of the remaining BS. My only regret now is that I didn’t bail earlier.
You have more power than you think. Your market value is also probably higher than Nike thinks.