If you talked to someone that has cracked JD, he will tell you that he blames his poor experience as CEO, on Covid.
He also begrudges longtime Nike employees and says they infected the newer employees with their wining.
The old employees speak up about the loss of the day care center on campus, the lack of athlete interaction, brand presence, and on-campus perks — you know the things that Phil wanted to make the brand feel like family.
He mocks employees for RTW 4 days a week, and thinks it’s ridiculous when we leave work to take our kids to sports, etc.
He is not a family man. He is not an Oregonian. He’s not a FW guy. He’s not even a product guy.
JD never should have made it out of the boardroom and his ego told a huge story when he destroyed relationships with our retail partners.
What’s his CFE rating? Why was he allowed to lie about how many layoffs he’s executed in his career? This was his 2nd time in 4 years. He gives pro instructions on YouTube how to step by step fire people.
How will he break innovation boundaries when he junked the innovation specialty teams?
He doesn’t live in Oregon, but he made you all move here, just to fire you. Amazing.
Oh and the Innovation, product, design and other teams NEVER stopped innovating.
It was their decisions to not work them into the fold.
And please, no one ever said it was a good idea to flood the market with AF1s.
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JD, HON, and the rest need to GTFOH. My retirement is counting on it.
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I am surprised this has not brought forward a class-action suit yet.
JD hates long term and loyal employees as he’s never worked for a company that had so many and truly loved where they worked. They also are willing to speak up when they see it all slip away.
He wouldn’t know pride or loyalty as he just chases the almighty dollar while dismantling once vibrant workplaces.
NCDC closure had nothing to do with diversity. If anything the staff wanted an increase in diversity. It was very expensive and a gigantic liability. If it were easy or cheap to maintain childcare at work then more companies would be doing it. It is very hard and eventually Operations decided it was not worth the risk. That is why they were taking away FTE status from the teachers and were moving to outsource the whole model. Covid + JD did it all in. They did not want to carry the “burden” (teacher payroll) through however long Covid was a “thing.” It was an incredible perk. It is so sad that it is gone. So many new Nike employees will never know the smiles it brought to see the kids all around campus.
The track story has to do with JD not really into all things nike " being a family man ". He seemed bothered to have to go to an after work event with women and children.
They want just the tiny bit of sampling of various demographics in campus. If it gets too much diverse/darker, then do the equivalent of geese chasing dogs (ending contracts or sacking particular groups of people) to get the right shade in the campus. Child care center, they could not enforce that amount of discrimination in public, so moved the whole thing out.
AFAIK, child care centers were closed because colored folks started bringing their kids in. I know many will downvote my answer, but that was my observation nonetheless.
The childcare centers were trying to shift to an off-campus model when JD came on board, thanks to ES. But they were not closing entirely.
I dont understand the JD track story… what is the point?
This makes sense. One day i was leaving campus and security was walking JD out to the track, JD appeared confused about how to get to the track and was flapping his hands talking. When i got to the track it was The Girls on the Run event. Must have dreaded it.
I thought the childcare facilities were closing down before he even became CEO?
Not questioning your thinking but I don’t pin all this on JD. I put some of the blame on the board, Phil and Mark. First for selecting him and going along with his concepts. Then on JD for picking his leaders to lead us.