Our manager has created such a toxic, adversarial atmosphere that we're now working in a man-eat-man environment. Instead of working together, everybody is looking at how to get one over somebody else. I hate it. I've been trying to get out of this situation for months. This is not a healthy work environment.
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Let’s be honest 2x.
There aren’t many departments that are expanding, we’ve been in a hiring freeze for half a decade now.
And even if you somehow lucked into being on the right team at the right time… your promotion still depends on your membership with your leadership’s in-group.
That leaves the far more common opportunity, mass turnover. This has been happening all over the company.
If you’re comfortable staying behind to hold the bag while your more experienced & connected coworkers run for the hills… well… you’ve earned that promotion for better or worse.
@2hr there are only so many promotions to have, let’s be realistic.
@edu so true. If you work at Nike you either have a “career” or a “job”. You’ll know which you have by year 3 to 5. Starting around that time you should be getting a good promotion every three years. If you do this you have a “career” at Nike. If you aren’t getting substantial promotions every 3 years you have a “job” at Nike. A lot of my colleagues have “jobs” here and they don’t even know it.
I believe you and this is sad. Not every team is like this.
Wait someone said Nike was bad 10 years ago? That's not plausible, that can't be! Everyone says the culture is terrible now and it was so great back years ago!
is this a recent change? is this the first time your team is doing all of this due to a bad manager?sorry to hear that op! hope you find what you are looking for sooner.
Does it matter if you are remote/wfo? i mean how is the team's working environment all remote/hybrid thinking whether that could be one of the reason too(im assuming no)?
I havent been at Nike in 10 years....but it was exactly like this on most teams even way back then. Nike has never been a good place to work unless you were a highly sought after creative or designated a "future leader" early on which gave you a hall pass for sc--w ups . Nearly every manager I had was completely toxic.
All the good managers left or were forced out. The last few years gutted the company
A former competitor leader said this is the biggest difference between Nike and their brand: At the competitor, people need to work together and want to work together to move ahead individually and as a company. At Nike people work hard and are ultra competitive and ultimately eat each other alive.
I would say in my experience this is true - especially the higher up the food chain you go.