Thread regarding American Electric Power Co. Inc. layoffs

Inferior leadership produces inferior results because they promote inferior employees to avoid creating a superior contrast to their inferiority. Mediocrity inspires no one and diminishes everyone. Stop rewarding mediocrity and punishing excellence to perpetuate comfortable institutional uniformity. We are better than you. Always have been. Always will be no matter how hard you try to keep us down. We are the PHOENIX that keeps rising from the ashes of corporate selfishness and incompetence.

Which OpCo has good culture right now? Which OpCo has lots of leadership leaving? Are any of us doing ok? Scary times.

Boss Hogg be diggin through his prior deputies again....

If the VP from Cook is still employed with AEP he was never loyal to AEP. Have some standards. You made enough money. Stand up.

You let the fox on the farm and now he is going to be guarding the hen house. What could possibly go wrong? (SARCASM incase it was not obvious). I think state regulators and major shareholders need to address this issue since Mr. Icahn is a minority shareholder gaining a great deal of power, not commensurate with his level of investment holdings.

Bill is now going to be the new chairman of the board. Hostile takeover in action, yeah let’s give him even more power

@2dkr
Curious to hear more about life/scandal/gossip at Cook, mainly because a certain EVP and several of his cronies here at corporate all came from Cook....and they have no clue about the electric business other than what they know about running a nuclear plant...

Hoping for the rumored layoffs so I can get my butt into gear and be motivated to hunt for a job.

@2dsn we were all lied to about COVID and the vaccine, don't blame people for being pi---d about either one of them. AEP handled it better than some, worse than others. Let's hope the CCP doesn't release Covid-## on us again.

If the company didn't learn from it's mistakes, hopefully I'll be out of here before the next one.

@2dsa I do my best to take care of state side employees, sc--w the guys in India. I force them to use the process, no back alley for them. You an American employee, I got your back.

Did the workers stsrt slacking off, because they were sc--wed by a leader who lies, manipulates, backstabs, plays favorites, supports neopotism. All you are is describing a broken culture created by leaders, who dont value your hard work. Look upwards in your chain of command if you want to blame anyone for negativity and individuals not caring. When your best employees go quiet and stop caring, sonething is wrong and it is not with the employees.

I saw how fellow employees cared during the pandemic when employees with vulnerable family members wore masks in the workplace to try to avoid bringing COVID home to their vulnerable family members. I saw how employees mocked and taunted anyone who dared to defy them and wear a mask. That's when I said sc--w them as they brought COVID into the workplace. Care my a-s, all you are worried about is the bottom line and your generous ICP.

@2dsa Disagree. We don't have to like anywhere or anyone. We can be professional while doing our jobs, and that's the extent of it. Many of us work here or elsewhere to support our lives. If someone says they have a passion for the work or the company, there is a good chance they aren't being honest with you or themselves. "Care" about one another is a super-strong concept. I care for my family. I am professional with my coworkers who are NOT my family. For those who may be passionate about their coworkers, company, or role, that's great. For those that aren't, that's fine.

Going through comments I understand hating the company. But do you all really hate each other so much you can’t support the idea of being good and at least not negative for each other? If you’re one of the employees slacking because sc--w the company, there’s just going to be one of your coworkers having to pick up your slack.I get it sc--w the company. But we can still do a good job for each other and boost each others mental health by not being overly negative. You don’t have to care about the company but we need to at least care about each other. Some of us are getting sc--wed by those so pi---d they’ve decided to start slacking off. Please, just do your part while you are here.

Given how CEO's act in general, I do not want to be 'immersed' with one.

@2dcb that's ok, all of Therace's brown nose will start to leave as soon as she sets up shop in another company. They will do the same to another group of managers in another company as they did here, they'll use a PIP to force out people, club people into early retirement or just leave. They'll start with operations and move to applications after that. The managers that came from TCS, who's loyalty is still with TCS will leave at some point as well as soon as they start getting poor PMR 360 reviews. Once I know upper management is no longer there to protect them, 360 reviews will go into the tank for these guys.
Time to use the system against them like they did when they first got here. I will not have an issue with putting down, "failure to communicate clear and concise instructions", "often have to ask for repeated instructions when speaking", "have to resort to asking for details in emails because of the language barrier", "not up to date on current issues or technical aspects of the systems", "no sense of being able to think outside of the box on issues, must rely on check lists". This is not being bias, it's a hard and sad truth.

Coldplay kiss cam scandal. Everyday life at Cook

@2dah
To anyone who can't get through that building easily with a disability, you sound like an insensitive a55.
Please find a better use for your time.

@2dcb if you’re outside a 50 mile radius, you’re supposedly exempt. If you move to avoid RTO, I heard that won’t go over well. Who knows. They will shape the rules to their advantage when everyone knows RTO companywide is a sham.

@2dcb Looking forward to Steve Martin moving to Columbus!

How does this work when 1/2 your management is still going to be remote

@2dc0 I heard Q4 so November would be spot on. Great, just be Thanksgiving, really nice of the Company not to just wait and leave it after the holidays but then again,most of IT is gone from late November to the first of the year.
Still, nothing says we care about you during the Christmas season as RTO.

IT RTO mid-Nov.

Time to have a great day everyone. Be better for our coworkers not the company!

Those that make themselves irreplaceable will be given the flexibility to WFH when needed. Those who are not will not be given the same flexibility. Just a fact of life, things are unfair and unequal. I'm sure managers will use it as a carrot for some, a club for others.
I know it doesn't matter to me, I'll be gone before long and this chapter of my working life will be over.

@2d1v I've said similar things somewhere in these messages and elsewhere. Before 2020, yes, most people went to the office 5 days a week, but were not questioned if they chose to WFH or elsewhere, or needed to handle a delivery or service call. Flexibility was never questioned. Now, they've gone extreme, where everything is questioned. Some departments want to impose inflexible bankers' hours or retail hours as if we're a shopping mall with a specific open and close time. It makes no sense. Being where I am in my career, I don't care. I'm doing it how I want and not asking. We'll see how that goes.

@2czs looks like most people would have bought into a hybrid return that allowed them a sense of some control over their commute schedule. I understand some people will say just rip the bandaid off and get over the pain of being in the office 5 days a week.
I will say I was on a 2/3 day schedule prior to 2020. 3 days in, 2 days home. Made it easier to get the kids to after school events and not rush to leave the office. Also saved on income tax 2 days a week which was a bonus
Now the kids are older and can drive themselves, not such a big deal but if I had the schedule before 2020, I should be able to keep that schedule after but not now. I think that's the big disconnect. The 2 days at home I worked on projects, head down, phone set to busy and I got a boat load done. Now, people stopping by to BS which is fine but doesn't do the project work any good
I'm tempted to put up a sign to leave me the F alone 2 days a week in the office so I can get my work done. Yes I was more productive at home because of the work I do, now, not so much.
Am I losing sleep over it, no. Will it hurt my PMR, most likely but I plan on using that as a catalyst for change. You want more production out of me, I need quiet head down time. I get that at home, not in a noisy office with a dozen interruptions each day.
Do I dislike my coworkers, no but they can be a pain and less time around them the better my work product is.

Take money away from employees, take oppurtunity away from employees, drive lifetime emoyees away and promote friends and family. Hey evdryoe lut a fake smike on. Drlusional is thinking everything at AEP is ok when posting on AEP layoff.com. Acknoeledge reality ang hold your leaders accountable. Look at them. Did they earn their postion.

You all are so delusional you can’t even accept that some people are trying to make life better by being less negative. Not everything is a big corporate conspiracy. Life isn’t fair. The plan was never to be wfh forever. It was for covid, a pandemic. Life goes on. It’s time to be mature adults and move on. If you just can’t move on then try to make a change. We want a better work place and one way we can influence our workplace is our attitudes. Sorry if that offends some of you.

It pretty classical toxic AEP leadership, to say Culture has to start at the lower levels. It really shows the lack of accountability. Remember, a foxic culture is more likely to change you, then you change it.

@2cz3 IT is coming back into the office, just wait, it's only a matter of time. IT was supposed to have already returned but got the canning of one CITO. They will be back in, mark my word, it's not if, just when.

It horrible people ask zomething of their company, like a career. Bell leaders should be abld to lie, exploit and take advantage of their employees. How dare anyway say anything also. If you dont like it leave. The leadership will still get promoted and he-l aslong as tbe customers are forced to float the bills, who cares. Its not like turnover costs the company anyways right?

@2chh What if employees filed a class action law suit? Hypothetically, if you drove to work more than 50 mi prepandemic, some are granted WFH, or if you're IT WFH, you're saving much $$ and time, without adjusting compensation of those who RTO. Think about it - 1.5 hrs/day to commute (consider it as 9.5 hrs work related per day, no paid lunch) times 52 weeks minus PTO/Vaca - per year...your hourly wage is less than WFH

@2cyh We the corporate leadership are enjoying our "Sweet Deal" and we can't understand why everyone else is angry they are having to suffer our injustice to PAY for it. Maybe, because you have neither earned or deserve it and you are abusing your authority to enjoy it.

@2cyh CONTEMPT SAYS IT ALL!

@2cyh you sweet, sweet, summer child. Bless your heart.

You all need to stop letting the negativity drain you. Those guys are right you need to try to live a good life and be happy. You don’t like the company? Don’t let it ruin your life. Not everything is doom and gloom enjoy your life. If you can’t do that leave the company and find somewhere that doesn’t pi-s in your Cheerios so much. Personally I am contempt here, but that doesn’t mean everyone is. Smile, try to spread some positivity, it probably would help the culture where you work.

@2cmq there was an AEPNow article on it a few weeks ago. If you search for it on Monday, you should be able to find it

Accenture had a chokehold on tech consulting engagements because of Therace. She’s gone, so they will be too.

@2cn5 The corporate leisure class are nothing more than un-necessary parasites stealing the prosperity we, the toiler class labor diligently to create and sustain, for their own unearned and undeserved obscene vain-glorious self-aggrandizement. These are the very people that should be deported because they take and offer nothing in return. We needed those thousand employees and had we gotten rid of the un-necessary and burdensome corporate leisure class we all could have shared in greater prosperity, shareholders, stakeholders, employees, retirees and contractors. The only real losers would have been the trust fund parasites and the corrupt politicians, who enable and empower them. Remember the PAC and hedge funds are the reason we are in this tyrannical nightmare. Rise up toiler class, we are the only majority and we shall all be free.