Just heard everyone at Nike has been fired. Only the geese remain.
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just heard they laid off the geese as well
That last post was spot on. Very highly compensated Directors and Senior Directors who are adding very little if any value. They are men and women who control what is sent to higher levels and also they promote favorites because they provide the information on employees so it’s very easy to ruin a career and do it unofficially.
They get their buddy’s to be on the interview panels and make it known who they want to get the position.
So much wasted time on reporting but people not speak up because it’s what their manager wants even if it’s already being reported some place else.
The CFE is a joke. Easy if you only need to write a few but some managers need to write dozens and then get together and force rank to meet the curve.
HR and ER are not your friends. They have job to do but at least be transparent about it and be quicker on your investigations. I have heard that some investigations have taken months and very little shared with the person who complained. Only feed back was if their is retaliation be sure to report it.
Many ways to be passive aggressive and make someone miserable..... and it’s happening. Nike has many good people who do the right thing. I hope they just reduce the unnecessary over head.
If you can have a line of people who wait for a free annual tri-met sticker for 3 hours, then you are wondering what they do all day long.
On the other hand, many great people who were asset to Nike were let go in 2017.
Nobody looks at the HR complains otherwise those who were investigated wouldn’t get promoted over and over again.
And the yearly evaluation/CFE is a joke. It doesn’t even go to HR or above your direct manager, so you have to work with directors that are “working from home” and that never had a successful program/project. They are very good in making their way up though.
Agree with the layers of managers. Information gets sent up to them and then they pass it on to VPs. Such a waste of money and then they travel to locations instead of living in the locations that they manage. Meeting after meeting after meeting. Stop and interview the E and S band and ask them what value are they adding? Take out the meetings what do you do all day? Yes you need leadership not managers but you don’t need so many highly compensated managers not adding value. It’s very difficult to know who to contact when you want to get information or something done. Also to many sacred cows and people who have been around know who they are.
Agree with the layers of managers. Information gets sent up to them and then they pass it on to VPs. Such a waste of money and then they travel to locations instead of living in the locations that they manage. Meeting after meeting after meeting. Stop and interview the E and S band and ask them what value are they adding? Take out the meetings what do you do all day? Yes you need leadership not managers but you don’t need so many highly compensated managers not adding value. It’s very difficult to know who to contact when you want to get information or something done. Also to many sacred cows and people who have been around know who they are.
But those geese a bullies though
This would be a great plan. Get rid of the egos, success theater, layers of people that do nothing. NOTHING! The political scheming and assassinations. The company does not embody what Bill Bowerman or Phil Knight set out to accomplish. People don’t work hard here anymore. No one notices or cares.