RTO, 5 days per week? What an original idea, Bill! People work at AEP because the culture is relaxed, not for the pay, benefits, or office setting. You're going to find out the hard way that talented people will leave when you squeeze them.
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Quiet layoffs, targeting employees so they resign and looking for any little thing to suspend then ultimately fire, so AEP does not have to report to Fed Government. Great Job Bill.
How can one man cower thousands of employees and 5.6 million customers?
@23c+1jjae32ss- are you referring to 1RP or company wide? We've been going their major reorg for months now. I'm not sure there is much reorg that could come as a surprise at this point unless they are getting rid of large numbers of people not in management OR if they are selling
Hearing that major reorg happening NOW. I'm not at AEP. across the street now. Lol
Everyone is updating resumes right now. There has been so many negative changes since Bill arrived, we can only assume what’s next.
Yeah, blame the RTO on greedy corporate boards, or Indian outsourced functions, AI transition or the coming Antichrist. The purpose of AEP is not to provide you fat complainers with a fabulous place to work. It is to make shareholder profits while providing the public with reliable power. Put on your big boy/girl pants and get back to the office. No? Then Walmart and Costco are hiring.
When nothing gets done and systems start failing, I wonder what Plan B is? It can't be TCS to come in and save the day. Those guys couldn't find their a$$ in the dark to save their life. My mortgage company outsourced their support to India a few years ago, it's all back inhouse now. I wonder when AEP comes to see the light and bring IT back inhouse, never had the issues with application systems before it was outsourced to India. I guess they thought they were saving money. Like RTO.
How can they still be laying people off?
Almost 1000 took the voluntary severance. How many more people do they need out the door? How can the financials be that bad? We're already gouging the customers.
I fear this is just the beginning of the end. I believe Bill first announced the RTO order to see how many would rebel and leave, less layoffs that they have to do. They will next announce their DEI rollback and then more will leave. If not, here comes another massive layoff before being sold off.
No way will the grid be prepared for the incoming loads after all the talent leaves. The green engineers that are left won’t be designing any of these new projects right or they just won’t happen. I’m buying a generator
Employees and customers are recognizing the problem is not local employees, it is disconnected corporate management that is obsessed with major shareholder enrichment to the detriment and at the expense of everyone not sitting at the corporate board table. Maybe, it is time corporate management was forced to make hard choices in their professional and personal lives that negatively impact their quality of life. Then they would be more sympathetic and empathetic.
Bill has vowed total war on AEP employees.
The shareholders cry out for vengeance, and Bill has answered.
The comforting sound of the whip cracking will be heard throughout the halls of AEP once more.