Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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@2fn6 Customers and employees paid dearly for that historic 2nd Quarter. Corporate officers and shareholders waddle up to the trough of gluttony and gorged themselves.
@2fnb Cheating is not trying, it is stealing success from others.
@2fp3 Apparently, corporate has not had safety training on stored energy and the dangers of its sudden release.
@2fm9 Creating the illusion when shareholders and corporate officers get richer it is a win for everyone. The majority of AEP employees are fed up, unhappy and increasingly angry we are being excluded from the success, we are driving. Record corporate profits do not mean a damn thing to employees, who see no benefit or reward from them. I don't know, who Bill and the corporate board think they are fooling or intimidating but their delusions of grandeur and not being accountable to stakeholders is a outrageous and infuriating provocation.
The corporate toadies insinuating raises have been given out to corporate's pets and everyone else gets nothing is going to push employees over the edge and when their frustration and torment becomes backlash, I do not want to hear about how no one in leadership realized things were this bad. Leadership is wholly and solely responsible for the corrupt corporate governance, toxic culture and your toadies' provocative statements. They think we do not know who they are but their arrogance betrays them.
Honestly I was opposed to RTO but some of you have succumbed to wishful thinking it seems. It's like you want the company to fail because you don't like RTO. We aren't failing. The company is doing good. You can accept that or you can continue retreating into an inner world of delusion that everyone is quitting and everything is about to collapse.
@2fn6
Must be all those PAC emails that they hit of over the head with every two weeks. 😂
the best Q2 in the history of AEP. Like HOW though?! On what merit?
Simply, the earnings were higher because of rate increases that we (or some of us) lobbied for and got passed by the local Public Utilities Commissions. That's really it.
It is the chaos playbook. Keep everybody off balance. Don't let the opposition solidify against you. Keep them guessing. There are different versions of every corporate announcement for each OPCO. They are playing games with employees lives and livelihoods and they think it is hilarious and extremely profitable.
Retirement is so liberating. No more corporate toadies. No more infuriating kiss azzes. No more trifling goldbricks. No more senseless grind. No more aggravation. No more all hands on deck bullsh-t. No more f*cking shareholders. Just peace and contentment. What a waste of a life to make azzholes rich.
I’m really trying to understand Bill’s comment: that this has been the best Q2 in the history of AEP. Like HOW though?! On what merit? People are quitting or getting fired in droves. Every little thing changes every 5 mins; new initiatives left and right. RTO was flimsy and “unique to each BU”. (So don’t tell me that’s the key; I barely go in a full week myself). Remaining employees are angrier than grizzlies. I’m seriously trying to understand….what did it?!
RAISES, BENEFIT COSTS and ICP PAYOUT 2026 determines AEP employees' future commitment to corporate success. Share the profits or forfeit our commitment to your future success, SINCE WE HAVE BEEN REPEATEDLY DENIED OURS. WE HAVE SPOKEN!
Q3 usually is better than the other 3 with Q4 being the worse. If Q3 and Q4 just meet their expectations we should get an ICP but I'm sure they'll figure out a way to cut it back to sc--w everyone over.
Big ICP on the table until 10 days before the payout and then the bottom drops out and the Big ICP vanishes and we get lint. They can't help themselves. It is okay to unjustly take from everyone else, but don't you dare contemplate diminishing their compensation.
Big on promotion, but outrageously small on execution. Is it cold in here?
Been here too long, the bait and switch doesn't work anymore.
What are we thinking about potential ICP?
@2f9j makes me think they didn't want to answer questions they knew would come their way. Mine would have been with profits up to this level, will AEP seek additional rate increases? If so, how are we going to justify them? Any thoughts on delaying any requests for higher rates?
@2f9w I believe around August, 2026. I don't have an exact date. I do remember about August 2020 was when Therace, Sanjay, Heather, Anne, and a few others were pushing the Co-Sourcing smoke screen on everyone in Ops and Apps. It was a lie from the very beginning, it was always about outsourcing but they couldn't afford people leaving before getting TCS onboard to take over which started in September 2020.
I thought it was a 5 yr contract but was told by a manager in the know at the time, it was 6 years. I had a hunch TR would be gone after Bill took over. I'm not sure who or what protected her for so long. Maybe just a few key people protecting her left so her days were numbered. TCS days are numbered now.
Anyone know when TCS contract ends??
Anyone watch the employee cast where Bill asked for questions and then showed two prerecorded videos of people asking questions? Woooowww he didn’t even address any questions for them audience or online even though they kept sticking the questions@aep.com on the screen. WHAT A JOKE
@2f1z Not for long, IT is scheduled to be back in before EOY. TCS should be out sometime next year, should mean IT will need to hire a few hundred replacements. It will be interesting to see how many can be remote or will need to relocate or drive in if local. My bet, they'll have a hard time filling positions without some form of remote work
Personally, I do not care, the BUs think the service provided by IT 5ucks so anything will be an improvement. Maybe they should call all the folks that got let go back to replace TCS.
@2f27 surprised you were able to type that while gagging so hard…. I don’t care who you are in transmission or engineering, what degree you have whatever.
@2f2d doesn't matter to me anymore. I can do the next 6 months standing on my head. I am out of this miserable mess in January. Leaving at the beginning of the year. I'm going to carry over my 100 hours, collect my 200 hours and retire. Done with this place. If I get the CIP, fine, if not I don't care.
Someone stuck a fork in me and I'm almost done. Just 6 months stooges.
Transmission owes thanks to Carl Ichan for saving their azzes. Otherwise those azzwhole were failing to deliver. Lucky soneone bouught part of that company.
Misery loves company and AEP is a company where misery is never lonely. The sad part is it doesn't have to be this way, but sorry azz leadership looks out for their selves and leaves their employees to fend for themselves. Soon, it will be employees looking out for themselves and leadership fending for themselves. The extreme heat, injuries and fatalities and the never-ending struggle are driving employees to seek better working conditions and safer occupations where you don't have to ki-l yourself or destroy yourself to earn shareholders more value.
Working in transmission comes with certain privileges. Not anyone can just walk in and work in transmission. We have the highest brain power by far. Tremendous brain power, the likes of which has never been seen. Yuge.
Also aren't we providing like 60% of the company's revenue? You should be thanking us you have a job, not demanding Bill take away our 4-10s.
@2f0z
Some animals are more fair than the other animals. I would expect that anyone of working age would know that. He-l look at RTO. IT is still remote right? Well that is not fair either!
I’ve known nothing about transmission; distribution is my realm. If you let some Do 4 10s all should be able to. If that doesn’t work oh well 5 8s for all. Also save money and don’t have take home vehicles. They’re back in office now so there’s no need.
We're not all on 4-10s but it is an option a lot of people took. I figure it's only a matter of time before Iron Bill puts a stop to that too.
@2ewh
Been hiding under a rock? Transmission engineering has been on 4 - 10s for a while. Transmission field services has been on them for years.
Please, this is management. Let me exploit you, lie to you, manipulate. Besides our customers will float the bill for our incomopetance. Put a smile on your face.
Cool have a good week, but some engineers are getting to work 4 day weeks? Wtf. If you’re going to let some do it let us all do it!!!
Let’s try to have a good week everyone. I’m sorry things aren’t great for everyone right now. Let’s just do what we can to make it to the weekend.
@2efw More like the herd mentality always leads to a big corral and an unexpected and inevitable betrayal.
@2efw cool story, bro.
@2efg Anything remotely creative and non-conforming is automatically characterized as AI. No thinking outside of the box we placed you in. Don't you dare have an original thought of your own. Only parrot what we tell you to say. No creativity that might distinguish you from the rest of the corporate cult. The herd mentality always leads to a big corral and an unpleasant surprise.
@2ecb Just me being a smart azz regarding their weird comment that was almost certainly alliterated by AI.
I thought I had seen it all as an AEP employee. This morning a 12 year old shows up with Grogu lunch box and his light saber. Must be one of the new engineering hires. I thought to myself good luck little Jedi, you are certainly in the right place to fight the dark forces of the evil empire. May the force be with you.
Out of the loop, I guess. What’s the dr-g test thing about? Who? Why?
AEP has already handed out the out of cycle money for the people they needed to retain. If you didn't get any $ but yet are still on here complaining, you should probably find a new home. If my pa-ties were in that big of a twist, I would take my skills to someone else who appreciates me more. If I could not do that, then I would just be quiet, try to enjoy my job and my mediocrity.
I don’t hear any complaints from my coworkers at AEP Texas. Culture must be good with Judith
It is a shame that the response to employee awesomeness is he needs to be dr-g tested.
Makes me think this toxic corporate culture is intentional to hide corporate's abysmal inferiority and Glass Door reviews.
@2ebr HR called. You have a dr-g screening scheduled for tomorrow at 8am.