Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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We The People are in big trouble if our lineworkers don't read carefully.
@2vt6 They Actually come from We The People.
@2v60 It feels like the lack of rumors around leaving 1RP probably just means there’s no big splash like leaving downtown Columbus. In other words, we will likely just continue at 1RP and do some renovation work.
@2vrt Some bucket bunny inflate your ego? Everyone knows how the sausage is made. People do appreciate the work required but let's not pretend that there aren't a few hundred younger men and women ready to step in your boots.
Comments like this typically come from some line foreman with dirt on his hips from the gloves he used once a few weeks ago.
Lineworkers scaling poles in the wind, dispatchers juggling outages, substation techs guarding the grid—none of that magic happens without us. Every safe restoration, every flicker fixed before a kid yells “Trick or treat!”—that’s skill, training, and solidarity.
This Halloween, remember: the grid isn’t powered by pumpkins—it's powered by people. Strong contracts, strong crews, strong communities. Stand up, sign up, and show up—because when we bargain together, we win together. In the end, it’s simple: we the people.
We the people are about to make some serious bank in Texas now that the way is cleared. I am bricked up like something crazy right now 🤯
AEP Texas about to make a fortune with a politically favorable landscape. Y'all see they purged millions of illegal voters? Also we gonna get rich once all these people needing bill assistance go back home.
Not going anywhere … going to spend millions of dollars renovating 1RP
Evil men only succeed when good men cower before them.
So about this announcement regarding the 1RP update following the next town hall…
I got a 10% raise in June but have since left for a better remote job
Who on here was a part of the 40% of engineers that got a salary adjustment? What was the percent increase?
@2v11 when your boss comes to you and ask, why have you not completed the survey, that should tell you they know who took and who didn't.
I completed mine in about 5 minutes, start to finish. Didn't read the questions, just marked it high and moved on.
It was worth about that much effort based on what I will get in return from it.
They will break down the numbers, give Bill a report and he'll say, everything looks good, on to the next item on the list.
These surveys are just a check box for them, nothing will change.
I’m a junior level employee and I just gave everything the highest rating because I’m afraid of retaliation. I had to move to the city for RTO and now my finances are stretched so thin I don’t have the security to feel like I can be authentic on a survey. Bill has me trapped just like he wanted
Don’t assume that this or any other survey is anonymous. It is, after all, collected via computer and reported back by your respective managers.
Don’t think for a second that the Yes Men from the very top down won’t hesitate to root out the “problem people” to save themselves.
Your best option for self preservation is to complete the survey with high marks. Don’t completely skip it, as that will also identify you.
I did the survey this time and gave lower ratings than I ever have. I think they need to know employees are not satisfied with what is happening at AEP. I think people who come to this site are venting and that is great to have this space, but nothing will change if we don’t at least try by completing the survey, that is if you want to continue your career at AEP. I know we will all get action items and it won’t change anything but at least upper management and hopefully the board will know of the frustration of the employees.
I believe it was the year after TR came onboard and we had a survey. I heard there were over 600 negative comments, most about her. The survey was quickly wrapped up and not official comments were made above Director level. Pretty much everything was handled by the first line managers.
She knew she couldn't say anything because we all knew outsourcing was her primary objective and she was the villain in our horror story.
@2twv
And yet each year you get assigned action items based on your lowest scores. So you have to come up with a plan to fix problems, that aren't even yours to begin with (insert some poor management decision here) and then magically make it all better. Pass. All 5s and leave me alone.
Management may not be worth 5s, but I sure as sh-t don't want to be hassled even more.
@2tvc And lock these hayseed yokels up that text while driving on the highway. Put them in the El Salvador jail for an hour and they'll straighten right up.
Omg you guys are so right. Let's being TR, JS, NA, and restore AEP to its former glory.
@2twm Each year I struggle with this! They’re not worthy of 5’s (also leaders would NEVER blindly give any of us fives/role model just to be done with a review; keep that in mind). But also, if we are honest, we then have to try to resolve that which is a broken leadership system. Oh the woes of corporate America
Survey always gets top marks on every question. If you don't and you tell them about the problems, the issues are never managements fault. It always ends with the lowest scores being action items for you to correct. Save yourself the drama and just put all 5s with no comment.
My survey thanked AEP for dumping thousands of more vehicles on the highways and helping me wait in traffic after the 3rd or 4th crash on 270.
Retaliation exists at AEP. Better off not taking the survey. Look at your leader, did they nake it to that position by hard work and helping others. There is more of a chance they walked all over emloyees to get where they are at. That type of leadership is bred at AEP.
@2tq4 last I checked, only 58% completed it. I haven't done it, not interested in doing it.
I have never seen a survey at AEP ever made things better. All they do is make work for the ones that do the majority of the work around here.
If I'm forced to do it, I'll just mark everything as fine with no comments. Done.
They've lost the support of the employees, they just don't know it.
I let em have it in that god sam survey. Eat my thoughts and words.
Has anyone done the recent survey? I think everyone should and express your feelings. I’m not sure it will make a difference but I think it’s better than just not completing the survey. Just my opinion.
Still waiting on more bad news that will impact me… been expecting them to take away take home vehicles for distribution design engineers for awhile.
@2t9n Debt is recovered from customers through rates, so no worries there 🤙🏻
It's amazing the number of people still leaving AEP. I worked at AEP for close to two decades and don't recall seeing or hearing about the level of turnover there is today. I really liked working at AEP for most of my time but am so glad I got out. So it's kind of sad to read this thread and see what AEP has become. When I left, it seemed like people couldn't believe there are other jobs out there/or expressed they were scared to leave. I promise there are many other options, with as good or better benefits. It's not that scary. In fact, it's quite a lot better on the other side!
@2tdc AEP employees are mature enough and virtuous enough to only demand what they have earned and deserve because we realize customers pay our wages and for our benefits. It is you, who contrives to steal far more than you have earned and deserve. Customers see us working in the oppressive heat and humidity, the frigid cold and howling wind, late at night and early in the wee morning hours to keep their lights on or restore their electric service. Our dirty hands and uniforms and our inexhaustible determination to overcome adversity makes our value glaringly obvious to our stakeholders, yours is always dubiously doubtful.
@2tam
We the people are trying everything we can to make you happy. What can be done to satisfy your worker's greed? Please take all the money I have.
Corporate profits absent shared prosperity for employees is wage theft by the global oligarchy that pledges allegiance only to itself and its insatiable greed. Corporate leadership must rebrand, Un-American Electric Power.
@2taa Snarky comments are not helping your case. We know they are the result of haughty arrogance and guilt deflection.
Have you had anything to drink today sir? How much is a little? We talking one... two hundred...?
@2t9n Without the company we built and maintain they could not convince shareholders to invest a dime. It is the same as someone stealing the deed to your home and selling the house you spent a lifetime buying and maintaining right out from under you. It is time to take back our sweat equity and run these highly educated and lowly raised thieves to ground.
@2t9n Growth for their bank accounts not ours, Americans do not tie their individual identity to their employer the way Japanese workers do. Apparently, when AEP leadership is getting richer we are all supposed to be excited even though we are struggling to feed our families, keep the bills paid and try to save a little for retirement and emergencies. We are not buying into their BS when the boss is doing great we are all doing great and now their mortgaging our future to provide for their 7th future generation.
Remember we are their legitimate beard so they can con people, including us.
Wow we secured a $1.6 billion loan from the DOE. Didn't we just get done raising a bunch of money by selling a stake in one of the opcos? Not to mention all the rate increases. How are we so strapped for cash? Leadership keeps telling us that we should be so excited for all the "growth" but it appears that we have to go into massive debt to chase it. I hope they know what they're doing.
@2t08
DB, is that you?
The bigger question you all should be asking isn't about money or culture. These things will always stay the same at AEP... but now a great leader has made peace in the middle east will we the people at AEP finally invest in their utility sector?