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Whoa Batman. No wonder we the people at AEP have tried to reduce our California presence. You all see those clips of that former congressmember running for governor?
@2sxa On the same coin though I have seen incredibly underpaid expert talent get slow walked to at-market wage. A lot of people are just not good at telling their leader "I think I a worth X amount of money and here is why" so they never get big boosts.
I worked in a department for almost a decade. New people in the department were making thousands more a year. AEP leaders are not truthful. 'Equity'. I bet the raises went to friends and families. There is no merit. The sad part is that the narcissitic leaders dont even realize right from wrong.
Heard on the Transmission town hall today that 40% of transmission employees got an out of cycle raise. I certainly didn't get one! I wonder how they chose the groups to provide them to. I am surprised they even announced that with such a large audience. How do you think that makes people feel that didn't get one?!?!?
@2ss2
Something is not adding up about that story. You're saying Interns get a stipend from AEP to live in a house? You sure it's not coming from a contracting organization, a college, a government program?
Are you at starting pay and interns off the street are making your wages plus a house stipend that's probably not worth more than a couple thousand a month?
A few lawsuits settled out of court for multi-million dollar damages would eliminate a lot of bad management in this company as it has done in the past. Consult with an employment attorney. The more documentation you can produce, the more attractive the potential settlement will be for a representing attorney. If you can prove the manager responsible financially benefited from discriminating against you for raises, bonuses and/or promotions that may allow you to sue him personally for damages, especially if he violated Human Resource policies and procedures. If the attorney can establish a pattern of unfair labor practices, it could become a class action law suit with far ranging ramifications. Stick it to the man as he has set the example for us to follow.
@2ss2 Whoa! That’s actually insane. I know I’m just a lowly fellow employee, but I’m truly sorry! That’s mind-blowingly unfortunate! Usually I’d say hope that improves for you, but I have no hope when it comes to this organization. We’ve been milking false hope for the last decade and it does nothing but fatigue long tenured employees :(
We see and hear you over here!
Just found out today that when you factor in the housing stipend, the interns here make more than I do as an engineer. So basically during my time here I've done nothing but go backwards. And I can't even rationalize it and say "well at least I have hybrid" anymore.
Working here is really brutal. It's always just one blow after another.
Any updates on 1RP?
@2rz2 Congrats!
You're right about this place, it su-ks and always has su-ked. Bringing in the retail store master that has never built anything in their life to fire everybody and then Billy boy changing his mind and clawing everyone back is BS.
2025 will be my last year with AEP, started here in 2000 and I'm done. Good thing I get to retire and not have to look for another job.
I thought I was going to miss it but looking back over the past 6-7 years, I'm looking forward to getting away from this place.
It's been a lot of little things and they add up, not one big moment in time, just a lot of paper cuts.
I think Bill and RTO was the last straw.
2 1/2 months and my misery is over.
GL to each of you, I hope everyone can survive. I'm done looking at this site as it's turned into the same as work.
Some things never change. Shaft a group of employees and then go post an award.
Did it right after each set of layoffs, and after yanking flexible policy and barking RTO mandates. If they announce an award for best pension, I'm grabbing mine and running.
No wonder we the people at AEP don't do business in Illinois. You all see the Chicago mayor's speech?
As Riky Boby would say, “if you are not 1st you are last”. At 272, AEP is hardly a great place to work let alone one of the best. Just look at all the open positions. 150-200 is pathetic in this economy
Progress and Poverty by Henry George. We have been here before and we find ourselves here again because Americans have not been good stewards of the Founding Fathers' extraordinary American experiment. Our weakest shall destroy us, if our strongest fail to define us. Celebrate your weakness while you can.
@2ree Get a Bohemian Grove membership and have a wa-k in the woods with the elite you hate so much. It'll do you good to get some fresh air too.
Yes men and yes women empower and enable you to be your worst-self. So little aspiration for so much outrageous ambition. Truthful men and women enable and empower you to be your best-self. It requires hard work and commitment but you earn what you achieve instead of stealing it from everyone else. I am your conscience and I am relentless because I do not want to be destroyed by your failures as a human being because I failed you.
Superficial leadership diminishes the authenticity of American Electric Power employees. We are AEP and you are pathetic pretenders seeking a virtuous beard. You su-k, you know it and we know it. You are now and forever more known as electrofaultsiphon.
@2rcn "Soulful" is an adjective meaning full of or expressing feeling or emotion, especially deep, tender, or poignant emotion. It can describe a person, a performance, music, or even the way someone looks, suggesting an inner depth and expressiveness. To be called soulful is generally a compliment, indicating a person who is compassionate, deep, and authentic, rather than superficial
The truth can be adjusted. There's always a greater good. Progress must march on.
How in the world could a supposedly reputable business media outlet disseminate such a outlandish bald face lie and hope to have a shred of credibility. That is obviously why I do not read Forbes content. Propaganda arm of corporate America. Groceries are best consumer value in America would be another great pitch for Forbes. Prescription Dr-gs, Health Care and Health Insurance are cheap and comprehensive would be another whopper. I miss the days when truth had value and contained corruption and collusion to the unsavory parts of society.
@2ra8 Thinking about it more now. Obviously someone (Billy Boy?) used their rolodex of financial connections and asked Forbes to run that story about AEP. No one on my team believes this is the hot spot to work in the industry lmao.
@2ra3 Damn. The C-Suite must have snatched the editors of Forbes off the street and gave them a few hours of enhanced collaboration if they're printing that lie.
AEP named one of America's best places to work for tech workers by Forbes!!!
@2qxf like most training that comes out from HR, it's useless. I will say most of the time out group has one guy that likes to do the training so he will share screenshots and answers to complete it quickly. I guess that is the only benefit of Bill's collaboration.
@2q1t Several young, great technicians got tired of the no money this year, maybe next year we can promote you song and dance. Not promoting deserving employees is going to haunt this company for decades and competitors will reap the reward because they reward talent and performance instead of exploiting it. Makes you wonder if managers are holding employees back to get bigger bonuses for themselves?
@2qxf
"Billy Boy" here. Yes I am contacting people to get their sh-t finished because I mean business with a capital B. I AM THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.
Is Billy boy really going to make calls if you’re “late” with workday training?? Heard he was going to start making calls a couple of weeks ago and the deadline is 10/1. Fear and intimidation, new normal and new motto
@2q24 like the company, the forum has gone downhill over time, just like the company. I swear Bill is running the company like a PE firm. It's only a matter of time before AEP
Gets hammered by everyone, from all sides. Internal, customers, PUCs, Wall St and the Feds. I don't think they know what they are doing. The new CITO is a je-k, how he made it this far is beyond me and I'm not sure if he's better than the old witch we had.
@2qat 8-character passwords can be cracked in lass than an hour.
Yeah same here too. If they do away with 4 10s, im out. Im done with this crazy company constantly changing things this year. Also can we do away with this 16 password deal!? 8 letters and some characters was perfect. Or at least password change once a year, not every 3-4 months. So unnecessary! Ivconstantly have to call IT because i get locked out everytime if one letter is off !!
If they take away my 4 10’s, I’m out.
To the point that some have mentioned earlier, this forum used to be informative and helpful. Especially for those of us with willfully cryptic and non-clear leadership. I’d venture to say this silence can only mean something is brewing. We’re due for a ground-breaking announcement before the new year.
@2q19
I would imagine that management would probably prefer to not rock the boat anymore with engineering right now. Still boat loads of outside opportunity out there for Substation, P&C and T-line engineers. Management made some good moves earlier with the consulting Grade 11 and removing the PE requirement for Grade 9 principal. If they would work more on moving up the good fresh outs faster, that would help with those retention issues.
@2pxy I totally understand for lineman etc I was wondering more on the engineering side.
@2pwj
Well if you take call outs at off duty hours you should have a take home vehicle. Dropping 4-10s is just pants on head d-mb. Easiest way to get to 50 hours a week for the field people that are building, in+servicing and maintaining the equipment.
Any word on take home vehicles going away or doing away with a 4 day work week? I still hear rumors it’s going to happen but haven’t seen anything serious. Miss when this page was a source for information.
@2ps1 This is par for the course during my day. As far as I'm concern the one spewing the lefty-liberty stuff is a real employee that spouts off with their Berner stuff in public that makes everyone cringe in their seats and the manager just staying silent because they're either part of the cause or they just say "I'm not touching this" for fear of job loss.
@2ps1 100%. I used to read this board all the time to get intel on the latest developments at AEP, but you have to weed through all the bizarre political screed to get to the relevant posts. Now I check it once every two weeks or so and find I haven’t missed anything.
@2pr2 but the problem is the company basically has a monopoly for certain areas. I understand you can change your supplier but most people don't. You use to invest in AEP and other similar companies for a 4-5% return, not 15-20%. The problem has been inflation and Wall St wanting more and more from every company.
When I started at AEP in the 90s it was a great company to work 30+ years for a career and decent pension. Now, we get a mindset of we don't want you here more than 5-10 years. We don't want the pension costs, we don't want loyalty, we want to treat people as an asset that can be depreciated and replaced with guys from India because we don't care about you or the community we serve.
I'm happy Therace was shown the door but they need to get rid of all of her cronies as well. Talking about you Heather, you Chris, you Steven, all of you need to go