Of those impacted by the AES move, how many of the retained are thinking of leaving either prior to the retained bonus date or right after? It’s pretty obvious that they felt they needed to provide a bonus because they have betrayed us all. I think we would all like to know how the rest are feeling. Watching our co workers have to help outsource their own jobs is a pretty bad way to spend the next year, and with leadership completely missing I just don’t know if I can do it. I know this is a capitalist/elitist company but come on, it’s like they want us to leave.. Some might say, it’s Oil and Gas, get over it and find another job, but maybe you weren’t there to see the massacre play out and then expect the dead to go to a town hall two days later and slap a smile on their face while hearing about how great this plan is to outsource their jobs. If it was so great then why aren’t all our S4 problems solved, why is there a Paths to Green initiative? Where is our IT group and why can’t they fix our incidents? Oh wait, they are outsourced too. Gonna be a great year, folks.
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I guess you all know the "agile enterprise optimization" won't stop with Finance, correct? Who will be the next contestant on "The Price (in India) is Right!"
I’ll do the least amount of work possible, get the retention bonus and then hope to leave the next day. In the mean time, I’ll refuse to do any of the work that those beings laid off did.
I plan on spending my time doing the minimum amount of work required to keep my job first of all. After that I’m going to talk to headhunters, spiff up my resume and browse LinkedIn on the company dime.
Not only locked the doors and shut the windows, but also put a sock on the doorknob. Saucy CFO and HR VP need some adult time.
The idea that the “retained” are all compensated with retention bonuses is not correct. This may apply to the specific groups that were outsourced, but all of the rest of the employees now have the daily struggles of dealing with this nonsense while getting nothing (but pain).
Newsflash, outsourcing (not”MSP” as they would like us to call it) makes everyone who remains life harder. Every employee who has to deal with the new vendor, every customer we sell to and every person we buy from. The only unaffected is senior leadership who don’t have a clue.
The town hall discusses “unnecessary work” being outsourced! What id--ts! If it’s unnecessary we should STOP DOING IT. It’s like tying your shoes only to untie them and tie them again. That is “unnecessary”. Paying someone in India to work different hours than the USA to do needed work is idiocy if the work is part of your business needs.
Management thinks they have an easy button - in fact, they are in a small group of people with have bonded over the fact that they found the only people in the world that think they are smart and correct, and they have decided to lock the doors and windows and only talk to themselves. SMH. Sad.
It’s easy for a member of a protected species to say bot with your feet.62
Stop thinking you’re owed something. “Vote” with your feet.
My wife was laid off in October; told her job was work that P66 was no longer going to do. A week later there was a position posted that described a good portion of job. That was personal, not about work stopping and it happened all over the place.
The retained feel hopeless and sad. There is no winner among the retained. The jobs left sound miserable and like high paid babysitters. The only people happy and excited would be Juliano, Tandra, and Kevin.