Wondering why give front line bonuses simultaneously with layoffs? Because it's hard to justify letting go 1% of your workforce when you are receiving huge corporate tax breaks. How do you change those optics and justify the layoffs? Bingo! Front line bonuses! I'd rather see my hard working co-workers feed their families than fund a nominal bonus to the front line. I call Bulls--t!
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Sorry to hear new batches of lay off ! Include technology folks from Plano ? may be not, they outsourced most of it in past 5 yrs , lay off often happen with their annual result in february . It is hard to fool people with soda , they are getting knowledgeable about sugary drink and salty snack !! when the number go down lay off ! 1000$ bonus is a political statement ! most of them might be with pension plan ! and older employees ! How many times is the CEO and top exec pay compared to average worker pay ? Talented people take care of your own career path , corporate america does not take care of you ...
1% layoffs are a BS coverup as well. 10-10% of corporate positions were let go....NY, Chicago, and Plano. This is a HUGE number. The 1% is including all our hard working drivers and factory workers....but their volume really skewed what REALLY happened. The bonuses were just more smoke and mirrors.
They give bonuses to the frontline but sh-- on the back office because they are spineless. I made it through the layoffs, but now it’s “f--- everybody over and stab them in the back” time. My own boss, who, for the past two years, I lauded and said how she was the best manager I ever had. As soon as she realized she could have gone just as easily, she took 2 projects off me, banned me from traveling to the corporate presentations, and said, “Yeah, only I can go. Too bad. Talk to you later.” This project took me months to code. She didn’t write a characater anywhere, and she is taking my project outright. Typical, post-layoff “You don’t matter” b---s---.
I spent the last 5 years bleeding PepsiCo. Now, I have never been so let down by management that I thought had my back. It was a tough lesson. Even those people you think are your mentors and would never wrong you, they are usually the first ones who do.
I will work here until I find another job. I’ve been recruited and I decided to respond to a few. I can’t bleed PepsiCo anymore because the one person I thought would never screw me over, screwed me over today.
PepsiCo isn’t sacred anymore. Their managers, including my own, are just as evil as the worst I’ve ever had. They merely wear sheep’s clothing long enough to slit your throat.
Ah that makes sense. We were almost sure the layoffs would take place around Thanksgiving!
Even worse than that the rumors been circulating they specifically waited for the tax cut to help offset the severences. Not a good place to be...
^^^^^ this all day