I’m only working for this company now for the pay cheque.
Motivation is at an all time low, as little as 2-3 years back I was pretty keen.
All I’m doing now is digging in as long as I can to maximise the payment to see me out the door.
Who else feels the same?
I'm not feeling that way, but I have to say that in my department we completed a reorganisation in June 2025 and now we announced another one, so it was maybe 13 months of stability...and guess what last model was done by Accenture and now they're back sending us in the opposite direction. Can you really be so blind?
@bx thank god I don’t work for you. Get a bloody grip.
Everyone get a backbone, tell them what’s wrong tell them what makes you unhappy. If it’s blunt truth hitting them in every direction there’s only so much they can spin.
This ^^^^
I am actually feeling better than ever. I work in one of the traditional hydrocarbon businesses and finally feel like this company is back on track.
They are having a family day in September at WL. That should improve morale.
You misspelled pay check.
I caught one of my guys filling in pulse the other day. I made him go back through to make sure his answers were good before I let him submit.
@bj it’s wild that LMs sort through the data to identify employees. That should be a fire-able offense.
They cannot see who the individual is. Just do not fill out any demographic or age related information so it makes it difficult to narrow it down to you. Don’t fill any text info, the grammar and use of language can reveal you to your lm. But LM may figure out comments on their own, they should not be able to pin point an individual unless you gave yourself away by talking to you LM on the same issue/s and he made the connection.
Fwiw I know for a fact that leadership can determine my Pulse responses. My manager made it clear to me last year. So needless to say my responses this year are not reflective of how I actually feel.
Honestly, the whole thing has become a parody of itself. Morale is in free‑fall, people are checked out, and then we get served a 2‑minute “pep talk” from that feels like it was thrown together on a lunch break. It’s the same recycled corporate fluf no substance, no acknowledgement of the real issues, just another attempt to pretend everything’s fine.
What’s worse is knowing exactly what comes next: the pulse results will be massaged, spun, and packaged into some upbeat narrative about positive momentum and continued engagement, even though anyone actually doing the work can see the wheels coming off. Leadership seems more interested in optics than fixing anything meaningful.
At this point, it’s hard not to be cynical. People aren’t demotivated because they suddenly stopped caring, they’re demotivated because the company keeps offering hollow gestures instead of real change. And every time they try to boost morale, it just highlights how out of touch they are.
Did you see the 2 min video by orlando on improving morale, its pathetic and useless like all other attempts at improving employee motivation. Fully expect them to spin the pulse results to show that everything is ok though.