Do the bare minimum, and spend as much time as you can looking for a better job. It’s obvious that leadership isn’t taking this company, or us, seriously. So why should any of us behave differently? There are plenty of other places where you can work hard, earn mediocre pay, and be laid off at a moment’s notice. The least we can do is give them all just enough and move on when we see fit.
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Pepsico was hijacked by Indian agenda a while ago, we´re loosing our once iconic all American brand!
@OP I worked 36 years on the beverage side. The first 25 years were great. We had world class people, great marketing and customer relationships, partnerships, sponsorship and happy customers. Company made money every year, treated employees well and I was proud to be a part of a global company. I did notice the fabric starting to unravel once big decisions from branding and innovation and top tier reorganization that negatively impacted us not having needed support. The nail on the coffin for me was PGT. To my understanding financial reporting, procurement remain a debacle. The PepsiCo Way said to voice your opinions fearlessly and I did but fell of deaf ears. I'm sad I didn't get to leave during the better times but Pepsi was once an amazing place to work.
Since joining DPA (in S&T) , my enthusiasm for PEP has significantly diminished - within a year, I found myself no longer taking it seriously. Impossible! Wasting energy with lies coming from DPA leadership. Although G-ayatri (former DPA SVP) has since left, the leadership mess she left behind - with a number of underqualified VPs - doesn’t inspire much confidence in the organization’s direction. As a result, I’m now actively exploring new opportunities outside of PEP before the ship sinks!
As people started quiet-quitting and mgmt made customer-be-damned decisions, I tried not caring but ended up working my a-s off trying to humanize the company in the eyes of my key accounts, had to take ownership advocating for them (which most of the time meant apologizing for ham-handed HQ edicts and servicing outages, fighting to get even menial account maintenance performed for them, correct A/R and pricing office eff-ups … thank god I got a VRP offer last year as the toil was going to ki-l me eventually…. Miss my customers, not the company and its utter disdain for its customers, operational managers and front line employees
@ew even Rats in a maze give up and don't care and stop trying when they finally figure out there is nothing in it for them, like some cheese at the end of the maze
I say take pride in your work regardless of the conditions How you work is a reflection of you not a company Do the next right thing!
the ABSOLUTE bare minimum, the place is a joke, especially the "management"