Any ideas? Even if temporary.
You only need to survive +- a few weeks of the actual event. Thinking a well timed medical leave. Or?
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@186 No, Supply chain tech
Was that person in Finance by chance?
@z7 yet you keep coming back here to complain about how sh---y Nike is even though you left for a competitor.
Why do people want to go out of their way to remain in such a sh---y place to work? I’m a former employee who quit and walked over to adidas and I’m genuinely curious. Is it like Stockholm syndrome or a victim of an abusive relationship that keeps wanting to stay/go back?
its fine. I learned how to commit fraud from nike execs and my role model is the orange cheeto in white house
In your own words, please articulate why this is illegal.
@p5 I feel like encouraging people to commit insurance fraud is something that you shouldn't be promoting. Keep in mind, Nike doesn't pay 100% of your STD for folks in Oregon, you have to file for Oregon paid leave, and whatever they don't pay, nike tops up to 100%. So, you aren't only commiting insurance fraud with Nike, but also the government. Good luck with that.
@j6: Lots of mental health providers can sign off on the paperwork, not just a traditional Dr. look around. You don’t need to tell them that you’re trying to take short-term disability, only that the situation is mentally and physically debilitating to the point that thinking about work or going into work makes you want to unalive yourself.
@mr: Yes, salaried employees can unionize. That is another thing Nike is SCARED of….to the point they rolled out training for managers to spot this type of activity to hopefully disrupt it before it gets too far. Do your research. There is LEGAL, protected, concerted activity you are allowed to do on campus. Contact a local union and ask how you can unionize. It will send a signal to corporate that you won’t take this laying down. What are they going to do, close the campus and move? Nope, if WHQ employees unionize, it will send a BIG signal….unfortunately it also has downsides….but at this point, who cares!
Can corporate office employees unionize?
If so, it seems like it’s past do at Nike given how rank and file employees are treated and the rolling layoffs and offshoring of jobs.
How do you find a Dr for this?
1000% this.
The short-term disability is self funded, which means it comes directly out of Nike’s own pockets rather than some insurance plan that they pay for. Fastest way to get attention of this company is to have a lot of people take short term disability and get no work done and they are still paying them.
They contracted with a third-party to administer the plan, so in the interim they can’t really get rid of this as they’re stuck with it. I would love to see a mass exodus of people taking this benefit legitimately because of all the mental stress and just hamstring the company in the short term. Prove all those Wall Street ba----ds wrong for betting that this is the bottom.
100% this.
The mental health aspect of being in a company that is akin to a real life survivor… coupled with a “leadership” team announcing we’ll have rolling layoffs for the next five years… (and beyond) would make it quite easy to claim enough mental duress that any reasonable Dr. would agree; and sign off on a Short Term Disability claim.
The threshold is rather low. Are you losing sleep? Does it give you existential dread? Everyone here could absolutely claim this.
And should. Before they change the policy. Which, you know they will… because it’s posted here.
I’d love to hear about a mass short term disability wave as a result of the mental strife this company has put everyone through. Not because of the anguish… but because people signed up for the resources that are there.
Wanna get paid 100% for the next 26 weeks and not work? Short Term Disability. Nike is one of the FEW companies that pays 100% for STD, it’s INSANE. This tumultuous time can be debilitating for your mental health, so go see a doctor and get put off work. It WORKS! I was a manager there and not many people know about this stuff.
Other option is to finally claim that workplace injury you got this month working and get workman’s comp…it only pays like 60%-ish, but hey, it’s something, especially with that carpel tunnel syndrome you got or the back pain from sitting or even the injury at the gym on campus during hours….claim it all! After all you really can’t “go back to work” with that debilitating injury.
Believe me, there have been legit healthy people taking this stuff for up to TWO years. If a lot of you take it, it gums up the works and slows it down….read: you can possibly stay in it longer before getting denied.
If you are a man, start wearing a dress and say you are transitioning.
I mean @a7's solution feels the most likely to work.
Flawless victory
Accumulate more izzat and practice jugaad
There’s a certain employee that worked at Nike, then moved to Converse for a while and then back to Nike, who has placed so many complaints about people to HR that she has sort of turned herself into a protected class. She is utterly useless, yet survives every single layoff. Maybe try that strategy, it sure works for her.
Get promoted to the executive leadership team and then you can make terrible decisions, be a sh*tty leader/person, destroy billions of dollars in shareholder value and even be accused of s-x$@l misconduct and still be safe…
(Just kidding of course…)
Create a huge liability like being a s-x pest. HR will protect you
There aren't any. If you want to be superstitious about it, get an ADA accommodation since that puts you in a protected class that will make HR antsy about touching, but even that isn't going to make you immune to layoffs
They have fired people with cancer on medical leave so I doubt they will care little for your particular situation
Walk around campus and look people dead in the eyes and say “YOUR SOUL IS MINE.”