Successful companies excel at doing the reverse - retention of the best and talented employees, which is not the case at EM where attrition seems to be even desirable.
If one more colleague leaves, I will have no choice but to accept any other job because I can't stand this much overload here anymore.
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Note…There is an increase of pay when an employee leaves EM, it all goes to the executive bonuses! They double win, ‘we’ double loose! The difference between the have & have-nots is a wider gap with each departing person.
A whole lot more work every time someone departs. No corresponding increase in pay.
Company benefits indirectly with each departure.
It is honestly pretty terrible, we lose quality people because of shifting labor market demands where we are to slow to respond.
Still expected to deliver the same results with less people, even if we get someone with a similar skill set this particular project requires a many months to get up to speed just given the complexity.
Direct supervisors understand the struggle and have empathy at least, but appears to be a big disconnect the further things go up line. So that part is a little disheartening and no confidence of changes for the better at this point given what leadership at those levels have done over the past couple of years.
I quit 5 months ago. I celebrate each time I learn of top talent leaving or I see a new cub pic. EM deserves to fail miserably so that the business community can learn how not to operate a corporation.
We just lost another person that I never thought would leave…he mention many times about the amount of work and everyone pretend nothing was going on…who will be the next one to be overload???? When we will stop this???
The constant pressure to send more work to KLTC and other “low cost” areas is unnerving. We are training our replacements. I’m Currently job hunting. I’ll tell the company when it’s time to go. Not the other way around.
EM-pathetic!
One thing you can't hide - when yr crippled inside.
No mercy for the commodity company now.
Take this dinosaur's bones and make some flare jello.
Don’t forget the bias and politics. Folks are over worked or stressed, that they cannot develope others. Pathetic
Safety and Compliance here in Baytown (Ref/Chem/BOP).
I'm the last one here.
Dropping the ball evuhree day.
Thank goodness we don't contribute to the bottom line.
Such a shortage of Lab Technicians here in Annandale, Ricky will soon be cleaning and running Lab experiments, for the MTS PHDs that left stay away don’t come back, worse than when you quit…..just saying……PB employees have a plan target is on your back.
Affects me as I am a contributor to it. It is all in the rear view; lower BP and stress, hours of life back on a per day basis, more time with my spouse, home and friends and family. I just watch the stock price and yell at the TV, “keep working y’all!”
I'm retiring soon, so just saying no to almost everything until I then leave. Attrition from me isn't an issue therefore I'm fortunate enough to be able to say. Our office capacity and capability however has declined subsequently, with the lack of folks.
Outsourcing and cheap contractors with a few kool-aid chugging managers is the future. That's why so many have left, been fired or are working on a way to survive until early retirement. I don't like kool-aid so I'm leaving...
For mt group, we are doing the jobs of multiple people. As people equity, their duties are divvied amongst us.
Although I am overworked and stressed, I can handle it because I know it’s very short term (I am quitting at the end of the year). Unfortunately, I work with someone who is completely overwhelmed and overworked. At the beginning of the summer, he took on a few new roles after a couple of people quit. Recently, he told his manager he can’t do it all much longer. What did his manager say?
“Sorry, but we have no one else to do it.”
I overheard him on the phone telling someone that it’s obvious they don’t care that he is struggling with the workload, so he’s going to quit as soon as he finds a new job. Sadly, they are going to lose a great employee and when he leaves, they'll somehow find a way to miraculously get his duties completed when they “ have no one else to do it.”
I worked in IT Product Management and we had no choice but to turn away most non-operational work because we didn’t have the people to do it.