Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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BF seems like the most honest. NA didn't let any real emotion into the ether. The Mad Money spots were so phony.
@2xpq Leaders not employees, who were denied and still are denied a seat at the table.
@2xpn fine you are correct DEI was not the driving factor, but did speed up the process. Lets put it this way. If you were a leader at AEP and you took a position and lowered the reauirements for that position to match a name instead of skill, you are the problem and helped destroy AEP. Decrease experience and requirements there goes a lot of important pieces, safety, quality, hard work, desire, culture& etc. Without those things a company will decline and the board will have to change to save the company or somebody like Karl takes notice and intervenes to make money. If AEP were to have ran the company like a well run utility none of this would occur. Stop blaming Bill and Karl. Previous leaders and even leaders still there allowed this to occur.
@2xpg The promotion of incompetent lackeys was a pain point at AEP long before DEI came on the scene. The tolerance of we-ponized incompetence was a pain point at AEP long before DEI came on the scene. DEI disrupted the good ole boy network to some degree for good or bad. The fact that employees, who excel at their jobs and refuse to play politics are excluded from promotion opportunities remains unchanged. For all the surveys employees have completed and culture training programs we have endured nothing has truly changed. That is why AEP can't retain employees under 50 years old. Younger employees look to their older colleagues and recognize the damage this company inflicts upon its workers and they do not want any part of a demeaning, demoralizing and dehumanizing crony corporate concentration camp.
@2xpa You have the vision to see beyond the rhetoric. Most people invest to provide income in retirement, not to get filthy rich. Ordinary people do not impose suffering on their fellow citizens because they do not want to become the monsters we know the elitist have chosen to become. Better to live a humble life than live an ostentatious lie.
I think the board of directors has a major effect on who shareholders are. If the company is running well, assett managers will buy a large portion of the stock. Board Directors play a role in how a company is ran. Lets say for example a company that makes electricity decides to go very political and startschanging the cukture of the company by setting DEI targets and not respecting employees that have been buikding the company for the pass decades. Well the company may start to underperform. Then a new assett manager may force their way onto thr board and make changes for shareholder value. Always keep your core business your core business.
@2xgh look at the top 20 holders of our stock, they hold more than 50% which means everyone else is a minority shareholder and has no power. In effect, 20 people (asset managers) have all of the control. Just because I own a few hundred shares of stock doesn't mean cr-p.
I think when people have an issue with shareholders, it's really with these 20 asset managers, not Mom and Pop who have the stock to balance out their holdings.
This channel is kind of sad. I wish we could all learn how to get along and accept change better. If you're that unhappy you can find a door.
Everyone should go to college to be more like this guy.
Could not acquiesce to your request, even technology has its limitations. Did you even attend college?
@2xgc All shareholder are not evil. Because all shareholders are not driven by insatiable greed and possess the immense wealth to dictate a greed centric corporate mindset. You paint with broad presumptuous brush like all elitists defending their unearned and undeserved self-appointed privilege. Privilege has no place in a nation founded upon the Principle of Equality. I embody my principles. You wear yours like a shabby ill fitting coat of preposterous pomposity.
@2xgc I am an American and I have NO desire to further distinguish myself. Liberals and Conservatives are elitists, who presume to be our betters. The Founding Fathers rebelled against immense wealth authoritarian tyranny and found it extremely gratifying and liberating. We the people must re-assert our sovereignty over those un-Americans, who only swear allegiance to themselves and their insatiable greed. The American War is over. The American Revolution has only just begun. You are either with us or you are against us,
Why draw the line at "major shareholders?"
Aren't all shareholders evil? It's the principle that matters, is it not?
Looks like I'm more ideologically pure than you are, comrade, off to the gulag you go.
Humbug holidays brought to you by our CEO, Board of Directors and major shareholders.
"Just another glorious day serving the Empire of Narcissists." We were the employees of AEP and now we are the laborers of "EN."
@2x8y
Cheers!
No community wants the AEP Headquarters because they know who comes with it.
@2x51 The Winter of our discontent is upon us. We shall see who remains come Spring.
I heard a rumor thst AEP was moving its headquarters back to NY. The values there align better their. DEI
So happy. Take a look at that Boman Jumanji winning in NYC. AEPA can begin generation operations by giving our unhappy Berners a ticket to a tent city of their choosing and help maximize shareholder value and increase our ICP.
The weakest men covet wealth and power because they are unworthy and incapable of earning it. They must resort to stealing it.
@2wd1 Better than fu*ked over in gaudy gold gilding.
Refreshing not to hear the canned responses that are lipstick and ruse on an ugly pig. I know I spelled rouge wrong, it is a satiric misspelling, thank you for your concern.
@2wtx AEP is a company with great people but it is borderline abusive with the constant tension of being laid off every 4 or 5 years. The C-Level thought their sh-t didn't stink and thought they could bring in a Velma from Scooby Doo snake that would make you question if soulless reptilian people really existed or not. I use to tell contractors to become an employee at all costs but now the place is so sh---y I tell them to leave for solid employment ASAP.
We are soliciting more PAC contributions from our employees to further enrich corporate officers and major shareholders. Good luck with that nonsensical narcissism.
The last generation of dedicated employees are aging out or leaving due to broken bodies and/or minds. The 30 plus year employees with institutional knowledge, customer trust and hard earned wisdom are soon going to be a echo of the past. No one wants to dedicate themselves to a company that's sole purpose is the extraction of value. We have all witnessed the destruction wrought by the extraction of ores, minerals and fossil fuels. Once the value is exhausted the corporate boys pack up and leave and all that is left is the wreckage, the unemployed and the scars on the land, the people and the community. Destroying everyone else's American Dream to abhorrently aggrandize your own is abominably un-American.
Exactly. Leadership is being in control of your own destiny. If AEP is full of leaders that promote neopotism and merit is not considered, you have to leave. Having forums like this is helpful. I look for companies that are on this webpage. There is a reason they are on it. So thank you for everyone for telling your own experience on here.
Leadership is being in control of your own destiny. Lead yourself to a positive mindset and let go of whatever bad experience you had so you can enjoy life now.
Hey Dad. Typical aep leadership qualities. Insult instead of listening. You are more than likely a retaliator.
@2wsg How do you support your family now, by going to forums of your ex-companies? If you changed some work habits you'd be able to do some nepotism and hire your own.
I would not wait around for another 5 years. AEP is full of nepotism and always had been. 5 years becomes 10. From my experience do not tell anyone of your goals or aspirations. AEP is full of arrogsnt leaders that will take offense to you wanting to better yourself. Retaliation is real and awarded. Do not count on it willgst better. Time is important. I would have been able to supportmy family better if I did not believe in AEP lies and acknowledgef that the lesdershop there did not value me. This occured before Bill.
You should absolutely upskill, if not to move up at AEP, then to move to another company.
AEP before this had a fairly strong promote from within culture. And it makes sense, the compensation just isn’t there to attract superstars from other industries.
Bill is here because of Icahn’s reps on the board. And Icahn won’t be here for very long. Bill himself is older and the lieutenants he brought over are older too. They were brought in to stabilize the company to win some rate cases and up operational performance. Those guys won’t be here in 5 years. Who is that going to leave, but the talent already in house.
Be patient!
@2wjr Upskilling at AEP is great when AEP is paying for it. They also make you more likely to stick around during layoff periods when the next Velma from Scooby Doo shows up to bring their retail store mastery and bad midleg odor to the IT systems at coal plants and transmission lines and nuclear generation.
Destroying an organization's cultural history and legacy is the first step to destroying an organization's identity. Removing over a 100 years of AEP history from the lobby of 1 RP was damnatio memoriae. Demoralize, indoctrinate, incentivize assimilation and you have subjugated the organization you have invaded. It is the resistance to assimilation that makes us AEP and not Bill's servile lackeys. Resist subjugation or become serfs in Bill's feudal kingdom. He has already chosen his royalty and now he seeks to squeeze the value out of his subjects.
@2wk6
Rats are watching. Have to flood it with ridiculous sh-t for a while. The facts will still come out.
There is no point in upskilling at AEP. You are better off getting on a PIP. Turn it around snd the management will love it. They will oat themselves on the back for being great managers. You will have a lot more opportunity then someone working hard. This is AEPs culture. Wish I new this a decade ago.
Stop whining people. I understand you need to get things off your chest but this thread has gotten ridiculous. You all just parrot each other over and over. Use this thread to pass on real information. This thread has gotten way out of hand. Use it to be productive. Holy cow I didn’t get on here for awhile and came back to this. Talk about a disappointment.
Is there any point to upskilling, except to leave? Upper mgmt doesn't hire from within. They hire people they knew before, and those people haven't done ANY of this successfully before.
I feel like I'm at a Nascar race in a go-cart.