Thread regarding Enbridge Inc. layoffs

@14t life isn’t fair. They teach that in kindergarten? Maybe you missed that lesson.

Your life will be much better if you stop worrying about other people’s lives and focus on your own.

@14t no it doesn’t, you’re just recycling a fiction that plays out in memes on social media.

Unless you have actual proof you’re just repeating what everyone else days

@103 the internships turn into first jobs. And first jobs into careers. It’s the cycle of privilege and it’s starts with mom or dad asking a colleague for a favour to hire their kid for the summer.

@xt get a life people they are summer students not executive positions. They literally do the cr-p work if they work at all.

@vm Truthfully, this is the only outfit I've worked for where that particular brand of nonsense went down. Closest comparison I've got is the old PC government in Alberta, when they leaned on us to hire some MLA's nephew. Or cousin. Details get hazy when you're trying to forget something.

Most places I've worked, the folks at the top at least had the good sense to be subtle about it. A little shame goes a long way. Dress it up, keep it quiet, make a man work to notice.

Not here. So yeah, I'm with the original poster on this one. Enbridge just doesn't bother with the dressing up.

@kj and you think this is unique to enbridge? Come back when your finished whining about life not being fair.

There is an easy answer for your problem - stop caring. If the company cuts budget, won’t let you hire who you want let THEM own the outcome of that. Stop carrying that burden on your shoulders - it isn’t yours to carry. I’m not saying stop caring about your work - just give management the outcome they are paying for. Grade yourself high at year end saying you gave 120% with the resources you were given.

@er yah it’s more than that. Ever been told to hire someone’s kid or their friends kid for a job they aren’t remotely qualified for, while also being told your budget is being cut, headcount restricted and workload increasing?

I have. At Enbridge.

Shameful.

had a columbia computer science student apply for a internship at the Innovation Lab and guess what ? they didnt even bother to talk to her. She worked for mckinsey when she graduated. Just saying how the company lacks any vision in attracting top talents. Glad i am not there anymore.

Jesus fu-k you id--ts - of all the things you complain about it’s summer students.

Get a life - they make less than minimum wage and many employees kids, not just vps work there as summer students.

Find something real to bi--h about this is not nepotism.

Now if someone’s kids came in at got appointed to manager or director that’s a different story.

@a8 Have you worked at any workplace ever? lmao

I’ve noticed multiple students and interns that aren’t even Canadian or American citizens and they’re duds on top of it all. Hire local citizens FFS.

Not just SVPs and VPs. Most of the summer students and even some new hires have parents in our office.

If there were any real HR around doing their job, in any company in the US, they would frown upon this as conflict of interest. But like everything corruption has percolated everywhere. Indians show the Americans how its done and now there is an unholy union in place.