#experience

I've been here long enough to know the script. They tell you you're safe to keep you grinding for mediocre pay and benefits. The second they can hire someone cheaper, you're gone. I know because I've seen it happen. Don't believe the hype. This is experience talking.

The leadership's perfect candidate has wisdom of a 50yo, experience of a 40yo, drive of a 30yo, and will work for pay of 20yo.

I see an uptick in Retirements, mostly 25 to 35 years experience each. Seems like many are being replaced by first or second year BTC staff performing the job remotely.

Dependence on less experienced, less competent persons working remotely, using AI, seems like a recipe for disaster.

What are examples of disasters, or potential disasters, that you see due to this trend?

Any convenience reps here? Accepted a convenience sales rep role and would love to hear from someone with direct experience what I’m getting myself into

I can't tell you how many fresh college grads I've watched join Nike and flame out within three months. They're hired to do a job that was invented by someone with years of experience, given next to no training, and then thrown into the fire with sky-high expectations. The result is always the same. I really feel bad for them. And I wonder if anyone in charge has realized yet that firing experienced people and replacing them with rookies might not have been the genius move they thought it was.

If you’re comfortable sharing, I’d appreciate hearing about:

• How many years had you been with the company?
• What location were you in?
• Was it a complete surprise, or were there warning signs?
• Were you placed on a PIP beforehand, or was it unexpected?
• Were you notified by email, or in a 1:1 meeting?

I think hearing different experiences could help others better understand what to expect.

The "go work for a coal mine" was a bad take, but I see a lot of you are unhappy with your job. My best advice is to just leave.

With your experience, you can probably find something better, whether your pain point is a bad boss, low pay or bad coworkers..

I know the market isn't at its best and it will probably take a little long... but if Nike is what makes you unhappy, leave. You deserve to be happy. Have a great one

I’m trying to understand what the actual purpose of that group is and what the experience has been for people who’ve been part of it for a while.

Recently, Risk Management was added under that umbrella, but there hasn’t been any clear explanation why. Of course, we’ve heard the usual “happy” messages like: “lucky us,” “everything will stay the same,” “everything will be alright”, but it doesn’t really seem that way.

If anyone has insight into what’s going on or how this group operates internally, I’d really appreciate hearing your perspective.

Curious to hear from interns about their experiences this summer. Don't be too specific or give any identifying information.

In the last several rounds, most of the people let go were in their 50s and 60s. The most experienced people. How is this allowed?

I've been trying to find something new for months. I've got plenty of experience, but I can't get a single interview. Is age really that big of a factor? I'm 54.

Have you completely moved off the mainframe to the cloud?

If so, how are you loving Cloudfare?!

Don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel.

Experience any outages???

The UK 🇬🇧 is looking like it’s going in the right direction. Share how KD affected your life at bp both the positive and the negative.

That's the post. What do u think?

How come at the end of 2025 we all got a thank you note saying that we did better than ever and how much they appreciate us, then few month go by and they just sp-t on us? They're reaaaally trying to lose all valued and experienced employees. Is common sense in the room with us?

Does anyone have experience or knowledge of others who have retired in the current calelander year and still recieved thier bonus the following year? Documentation says it's the process, but......?

What has been your experience with Delta Dental of Virginia?

I’m currently pregnant and was recently laid off. I was wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation and tried negotiating their severance package. Just trying to understand if companies are generally open to reasonable discussions, especially around healthcare coverage or severance duration.

In April, my PDS review was great. The meeting went well, and my manager even asked me to join him for lunch. He told me I had a great year. Two weeks later, they had the ranking meeting in May, and after that I noticed he was avoiding me in the aisles, around the kitchen area… everywhere.
For the PA communication meeting, he sent me an email saying he had come down with a cold and would be WFH. Then, on a zoom call, he told me I was in the PIP category and read some HR formalities. I was shocked. And then he said the infamous sentence: “It shouldn’t be a surprise to you…”
After two weeks, I told him I would do the PIP — and how stupid I was not picking up the clues that the real result was my termination, even before writing the PIP document.
Anyway, the whole three months he tried so hard to hide from me and barely communicated. He documented things like “he came at 9 AM and left at 3 PM,” “he was chatting loudly in the neighborhood area disturbing others,” “he worked from home more than 5 days in the last 4 weeks”… such a pity.
I finished every single thing in the document, and I even started some initiative ideas for a project. But I was out by end of 90 days.

I know we are the lowest in the IT hierarchy but maybe there are people working as L1/L2 and would like to share experience? Because honestly it is my first user-facing job where users are the LEAST of the problems lol!

33 yo - 6 years with oracle. infra eng. total comp around $200K. wife is a teacher, about $60k.

how much $$$ do i need to have stashed to survive a potential layoff.

my gut tells me that i am on the list.

appreciate comments

Hi everyone,
I’m a former employee of Nike and I’m trying to obtain a more detailed experience letter. So far, I’ve only received a basic employment verification that includes my start date, end date, and job title.
For my current needs, I require a letter that also outlines my roles and responsibilities (job duties) during my time there.
Has anyone here successfully requested a detailed experience or reference letter from Nike after leaving the company? If so, could you share the process, the right contact/team to reach out to, or any tips on how to make this request effective?
Any guidance would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I work in PA, joined Honeywell as an experienced hire. Band 4. There are so many great colleagues here. And yet somehow there’s also this overarching toxicity. How can both exist and how do the long timers overcome it personally?

What does NRE mean for experienced hires? Especially if they joined mid-career or late career? What does YEE need to be for a person to be NRE?

I'm so done with this Company, I'm in a position they won't layoff but am so done with all the new management stupid decisions, It didn't work 20 years ago, didn't work 10 years ago, didn't work 5 years ago, but hey I'm a new guy and I think it will work. Yeah just give me a package hire someone with less experience than our management team and feed them the slop.

my position is being eliminated (long story and it will not affect others). i am thinking about keeping cobra and wanted to see if anyone had experience with it. gracias...

What are some of the signs you are going to get laid off? Is it a complete surprise? Just curious of experiences. I already feel it coming, workload is dwindling.

I've spent the last few weeks catching up with ex MS colleagues (a few who also has the same experience in the past)...

Anyone have any experience with how long it’s taking to receive severance payment? I submitted mine electronically March 9th.

Fellow employees, how are you all getting along in the new org? How is the work load? My personal experience is pure he-l to be honest. Triple workload and chaos from management. This may be just my own experience, so I’m hoping to get an idea of what you all are experiencing.

They trade experience for cheap labor and then they're surprised the results aren't the same.

I watched Fiserv push out a whole group of older folks last year, because they were too costly. They wanted young creative types instead, so they brought in new people. Guess what? The company still runs exactly the same way. Same bad processes, same broken systems, same stupid decisions. They changed the employees but kept everything else. Now we just have less experience and the same mess.

Restructuring solves nothing, breaks plenty. Vacancies never get filled, teams just get more stretched and bitter.

And they always cut the wrong people. Not that the rest of us are useless. We're not. But without fail, they boot the one person who actually mattered - the skilled one, the experienced one, the glue who kept the team from falling apart. Every single time.

It boggles the mind, really. Especially when you see the same pattern repeating itself for so many years.

Another day on a bridge call, where you have twice as many managers than what is needed. And they're all trying to outdue the others when it comes to being overly obnoxious and throwing their weight around.

The best way to cool their heels is to ask a question in regard to something a manager who has real experience managing technical resources would have done, knowing they didn't do it or have a clue. I did that today and the bridge went silent for about 15 seconds before the redirection started.

I miss the day of having managers that had real world experience in the areas that they managed. Which is not the case at Gainwell.

I resigned earlier this year. Since then, two full pay cycles have elapsed but I still haven't received my unused vacation payout. Is this normal? Emailed payroll twice already and got no response. Please share your experience if you have any. Thanks.

Laid off a year ago after being there 15 years (EMC brought into Dell). I had a larger quota (20-30 million a half but I will admit I was semi over paid compared to market averages)...but I was lucky and was immediately employed by a competitor a week after posting up my looking for work banner on LinkedIN.

I wasn't replaced by Dell for a while and they finally got headcount or whatever to replace me and they did it with a guy fresh out of college. Turns out they couldn't get meetings or sell anything.

Now here is where it gets funny. Encouraged by his lesdership, the new kid has the nerve to reach out to me and ask me if I can introduce him to my old customers (bear in mind i'm his direct competitor now and he knows this). Absolutely laughable.

That is how they are running things now, I suppose.

I’m thinking that I’m about to be laid off and I’m hearing there are zero jobs out there. Anyone have any ideas of ppl who may be hiring? My best friend just got an mba w 5 years of experience and cannot get an interview anywhere.

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