#morale

I get the anger, I've certainly felt it myself, but I don't understand people who want to see Dell crash and burn. What good would that actually do? It would saturate the job market, leave thousands upon thousands of families scrambling, and solve nothing. I want things to improve, not explode. I'm not sure what hoping for destruction is going to achieve for any of us.

I'm strangely indifferent to it. I guess I've given all the fu--s I could give up until now, so now I'm in a "whatever will be, will be" frame of mind.

And it never gets easier. I'm now almost hopeful about getting laid off just to put a stop to it. Almost.

Mission Simplify: layoffs, outsourcing, and offshore hiring (through Alorica and JobHai). Employees ask: who's really benefiting?

Mission Simplify cuts jobs while offshore hiring grows. Employee trust and morale continue to erode.

As U.S. jobs disappear and offshore roles expand, many see Mission Simplify as anything but simple.

$365M in severance. Offshore hiring expands. Employees question the direction of Mission Simplify.

The bridge between leadership and employees weakens when layoffs and offshore expansion occur together.

Mission Simplify: American jobs out, offshore jobs in. Workers and members are taking notice.

Someone in India is more valuable than you right now.
Londons Bridges Falling Down!

It's started here, sad to share, we've received an email today, whole my team. I thought my role in sales is secure, but it been told by HR that this time is most of pre-sales and 30-40% sales will be ripped.
15 years and always overachievement means nothing. even president club award 6 years ago.

So my boss left last Friday, and not gonna lie, I think a lot of people are wondering what happens to the team now. He was basically the person driving most of the strategy and a lot of the ideas, and he was always pushing us to question the process or just find a way around it if it was getting in the way. Which honestly was sometimes really helpful, but I also think it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way and he probably burned a decent number of bridges. I’m still pretty early in my career, but it’s hard not to look at all of this and feel like the bigger issue is that there just isn’t a super clear strategy from the org. I’ve heard way more people frustrated about the lack of collaboration and alignment than I would expect, and now that the person who was basically setting the direction is gone, I think everyone is kind of sitting here wondering who’s actually going to drive things now. Feels like the writing is kind of on the wall....

Any you talk is just depressed & no way out.

I was told the ISP is done for my department so I'm safe. But makes me wonder for how long. I just started at Centene in April after being laid off from another company. I'm so burnt out. I'm acting happy and taking on extra work but my morale is gone. I don't know how much I can handle the lack of ceos caring about their employees.

Will MW be man enough to discuss the dysfunction and terrible morale he's caused at Chevron?

How’s morale California employees… SMH

Way to run a company !

I’m a former Jones associate who was laid off through a VSP. I was at West County Mall Saturday with a friend who also used to work for Jones, but left long before the current nonsense. After we parted ways, she stopped at Michael’s and ran into Penny, then shared it in our group chat.

My first thought? Damn, I wish I’d gone with her. I would’ve loved the opportunity to introduce myself as one of the many associates she helped send packing over the past few years. 😂 Especially since she seems to have perfected the art of disappearing into her “secret garden” on the 10th floor of the West Tower and rarely showing her face around campus.

Missed opportunity, I suppose. 😂

so no money for hours or repairs, equipment for belk stores? but sure do have enough to buy 2 more company's? are you serious. clearly the pi-s poor belk owners don't care about belk and are running it into the ground.. sad. yall have fun . I'm out! good luck!

Layoffs today, best of luck everyone!

This week is off to a great start-a department in OTS was hit with demotions and salary decreases. Not performance based, based on job title alone. Long term BAs brought down to FAs, despite no change in job duties. Just the moral booster associates need.

This deserves its own main thread not buried in comments on various ones. It’s no coincidence why things have been a fu--ing sh-t show circus since he came. I’ve lost trust and respect for this company, it’s truly sad how much damage has been done to moral for everyone in technology.

How come Target is on a tear financially but yet people on here are so miserable? Our bonuses this year are going to be huge. Why aren’t more people happy? It seems like Target is making a complete comeback in a very short period of time.

I didn't take the VSP because I didn't have any other income or enough in my savings to last and that vsp money could only last so long. I didn't think I'd find a job by September as we all presumed initially everyone who took the vsp would be gone by then. The involuntary layoffs have already taken place on my team. I feel guilty that I dont feel more relieved than I thought I would. The environment has changed and it is not the same as it use to be. I am not optimistic at all about Centene's future. Not to mention that we will now be more overloaded with work than ever before for those left here. I naturally want to apply out but feel obligated to stay because that couldve been someone else's job. Anyone else relate?

But it's certainly working hard to take that title. I give it another year or two of this direction and we'll have it.

I know this subject isn't necessarily about layoffs, but it definitely affects morale. Here are my thoughts...

I came up through CellularOne, then AT&T Wireless, then Cingular, then AT&T again. When SBC came along in 2006, they brought along this thing called Contingency Planning. It was explained to me that in the event of a strike of the union labor force, regular desk jockeys would head to the field and repair and maintain the phone network. I was like, WTF? Many of the IT types don't even know how to operate a sc--wdriver. But that's right, they will train them (us) to do the job. So, off many of us went for training. (BTW, it was the only business travel I had in decades. At least I got some In-N-Out on the company dime.) We learned how to climb ladders and poles, and some necessary skills for the role. We then retreated back to our offices to quickly forget what we learned. The process would continue until the next contract expired.

Do they really expect that this contingent workforce would be effective in the field? How many millions of dollars are spent, and for what exactly? A threat to the union workers? And another thing when it comes to recruiting talent: How long into the interview do they mention that periodically they will need to train for contingent work and possibly be sent to fix phone lines? I'm guessing that most degreed professionals would balk at the notion.

In reading all of the forum posts on Centene lay-offs, the one common denominator is how the lack of information, misinformation and blatant lies has systematically destroyed the morale of almost every employee who has/or currently worked there! The level of stress the employees have had to endure seems unnecessary and borderline cruel. So much for a CEO that preaches transparency and doing the right thing.

Hearing there are folks who accepted a move to Edmonton and had been planning for the move. Then to have Imperial pull their offers and gave them an end date.

What a slap in the face.

Welp! Got my notification this morning. To say I’m surprised would be a lie. I was let go due to a personal vendetta but hey life goes on. I’m actually relieved. Centene is a sinking ship that I’m happy to be off of lol

In the past, layoffs were final. They took a day or two to let everybody know and after that we could refocus on our work. Now, even after this round is done, we know more will be coming. In a month, two, or six, but we all know it's coming. There's no reprieve anymore. Just constant stressing.

Layoffs have started and there is no end in sight. Sad to see so many post on LinkedIn.

Enrique just continuing to ruin the mental health of all employees with his absolute lies and gaslighting

This company is criminal

If you're letting people go just do it already and stop talking rubbish

Forcing people to quit by destroying the morale in the whole company

The whole board should be scrapped

I came to BOA a few years ago from another big bank. Everyone I work with here seems to be vapid, boring and uncreative.

Get out while you can!!

Verizon paid employees, can we come together and do more. We can cry about an infinite number of reasons why the work is hard, yet we stay and we quit putting in any effort. Since we are stuck together at work, do we have the professionalism to help each other, or are we going to pout and refuse to put in any effort? We can avoid RIF, but a collective lack of effort only provides the company reasoning for further RIF and rebadging.

The cost cutting and deferred maintenance are starting to show. Many items in campus are just left broken and not being repaired. Pathetic.
Should people be rewarded for saving money at the expense of not maintaining things? In the long run doesn’t this backfire?

Mostly asking folks who are no longer in VMW/AVGO anymore.

We all complain how bad the culture has become - i can vouch, its pi-s bad and getting worse but nobody wants to leave because we all only talk s**t but love $$ too much and lack backbone/guts to do anytime so would rather wait out to get the package and waiting for the 15th every 3 months for the cha-ching.

I for a change, have been contemplating giving the middle finger and leave but want to get a reality check from honest folks. Should I su-k it up and stay 'cuz its too terrible outside or its not as bad as its feared ? I am no dummy but not Einstein either but always been top performer since I am good at reading the room and learning on the fly.

So they are actively surplusing the folks who handle all of the customer care and customer support, then wonder why the Voice of the Customer surveys are so trash as of late. You call in and get transferred around because no one knows WTF is happening or how to fix sh-t that gets messed up in Retail because the teams that DID handle that are gone (Surplussed) and the chat support is so bogged down with people refusing to be stressed to the max that the wait time for anyone remaining to get help is ALWAYS two hours minimum. Then of course they hire in new managers off the street to replace the ones they just surplussed....and these NEW folks have zero idea WTF is happening themselves or what they've just signed up for..This company is operating on the sole fact that the left hand NEVER knows what the right hand is doing anymore. If they start cutting at L3 and HIGHER..we could reach whatever financial target they are trying to reach and everyone could stop being stressed and near their breaking point day in and day out. There is ZERO reason John Stankey should have made 29 million dollars last year when the stock value has diminished STEADILY throughout his tenure. 29 million dollars to look goofy as fu-k in every video they put him in, where he lies about how well the company is doing, then directs the company to send out "Mental Health Support Tips!" emails to the folks who hate his guts.

Im curious why leadership/ HR has not figured out that protecting the people that charge indirect labor (middle management) and treating your workforce like cr-p to the point they resign doesn't make you more money.. your DL money makers are quitting but your heads are so far up your own as*es you cant see this circlej--kis driving the company into the ground.

Do you think u there’s any chance of a mid year raise this year? I got one around this time last year and was shocked.. maybe because I was way below the old TSR minimum.

I doubt it.. but man we have been doing so much and endured so much BS this year. If we got it, it would help so much with gas, parking, other RTO BS. I’m just desperate.. feeling like a prisoner for Debbie and Bill. Begging them to spare me and give me their scraps.

There is no sense of urgency at PEP, they seem content with their negative return on the stock, they seem content trying to deceive everyone by celebrating failure as a raging success.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4931617-pepsi-where-is-the-sense-of-urgency

Largely managing employees out! Strict tracking, micromanaging then what…? Why can’t you actually appreciate your employees and make them happy? What do you lose if you drive productivity through respect and motivation rather than toxicity and back stabbing?

I’m a former TDP. I’m exactly the kind of employee this company should be doing everything it can to keep.

I like the work. I like my team. I like my role. If it weren’t for RTO, I’d probably be here for a long time.

Instead, everyday I spend more and more time wondering if it’s time to leave. Not because of the work, but because of what the pisspoor leadership has turned this place into.

The morale is the worst I’ve ever seen. It feels like an “us vs. them” culture now. People aren’t motivated to go above and beyond anymore. They’re burned out, frustrated, and just trying to get through the day. Everyone is doing the bare minimum, checking the box, and says “who cares?” when a problem or a challenge arises. Nobody here feels valued anymore.

I’m burned out from a long commute that adds no value. I now work fewer hours than I used to because the time I spent getting ahead is now spent sitting in traffic. I’m less productive, less motivated, and honestly just exhausted. I’m worried if I stay here much longer it will destroy my work ethic.

We tell customers they can connect from anywhere, yet internally we act like our own technology isn’t good enough for us to use ourselves. How does that make any sense to anyone?

What frustrates me most is that I want to stay. I enjoy the work. I have a great team. I don’t want to start over somewhere else even though I know I could. But every day this RTO policy makes that decision to leave a little easier.

If leadership is wondering why the younger employees aren’t staying, maybe stop asking why they’re leaving and start asking why you’re giving them reasons to. The job isn’t pushing us away. Leadership’s decisions, RTO policy, and resulting toxic culture and rock bottom morale are.

FRIDAY MORALE CHECK

Anyone feeling positive?

to tell the truth when lowell mcadam's made all these bad aqusitions and cause a incredible amt of debt to this company,you know what im talking about,the arrogance of the wireless side of the company,nickel and diming the customers for 30 years.lowell pitting non-union against union workers,do you really think that you can come back from all that B.S also you think that most of the employees in verizon give two craps anymore,maybe at one time most did,but i dont think so anymore.most people here are just making end meat in these times .so you think hip hip horray go Vteam means anything,wake up and smell the coffee

Why is it any time I talk to any chevron employee they hate their job? Why is it every time I talk to a Chevron subcontractor they hate working for Chevron? Seems like Chevron doesn’t give a fu-k about any local community. Let alone their own employees.