Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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I’m glad that Bill is getting out into the field but at 1RP he never leaves his lair (or any of the execs for that matter)
I can’t wait for the welcome back breakfast for New Albany! Free pancakes will surely improve everyone’s mood and increase collaboration! I even heard we might get MERCH and SWAG if the funding is there!
@286k you can bet 1 of 2 things happened. There was a breach and their not talking about it and it was because of a short easy pw. Or some government entities is now requesting all companies comply with a longer pw. My guess is on the first. Last few years there have breaches that cyber has not said anything about but friends have told me there were a few, some dealt with TCS and others, like Bill clicked on bad links. I've been using 16-20 character PW for years so it doesn't affect me.
Pick something easy to remember, song, movie titles, add years and special characters, could use car names, site names, you name it.
Then write it on a post-it and put it on your monitor. 😂
It could be more on the emphasis on trivial or meaningless things that are easy to implement (like RTO without planning or password criteria) instead of things that truly enhance the business or work on bettering the employee experience that annoy folks.
It is people like you, complaining about a relatively simple password length requirement, that are the reason leadership makes decisions to RTO.
Isn’t it funny how people can go from accepting their job as part of their life and being OK with it to all of a sudden dreading work? And that just happens to coincide with Carl Icahn and Bill Fehrman and the “leadership” change? Funny.
Be sure to swing by the lobby today and get you some of that AEP merch.
I am right there with you. My house and land are paid off. And I don’t have kids. The more demands that are placed on me, the more I feel like typing f**k you and disconnecting. I am tired of not getting my fair share. I’m 43 btw. I’m tempted to go work a part-time job, stocking shelves or something.
I literally cried on the way home yesterday and today. Searching for a new job, but the market is tough right now, especially over 50. I hate Bill and AEP for putting us in this situation!
What's going on with security? on a call with Kristin, she's not the brightest bulb in the pack and now a 16 character pw - d-mb.
Wow. I am on my 173rd manager in less than two weeks.
On my 45th manager in 3 months …not sure when things will settle down
I’m on my 17th manager in about 8 years. IT of course.
My manager left early this year and now I’m stuck with the most incompetent person in our department. No experience, no interest, no support.
@280f I am on my 6th manager in 2 years as well. Unfortunately they probably rank as the 5th or 6th worst out of the bunch and I’m afraid the carousel has stopped.
With all the comments on just quit if you dont like it. Has anyone informed the leaders, if you dont like the results, look in the mirror and then quit.
Welcome to Bill's Wild Ride. Please keep hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times.
I’m on my 6th manager in less than 2 years. I’m so tired in the chaos. This is a failure in leadership.
@27wn The legacy pension is lonk gone, it disappeared with the merger with CSW. It was replaced with the Cash Balance plan which most people should have by now. 30 days after you leave, you can have the CB funds rolled into a Traditional IRA and not pay taxes on it. Whatever you do, DO NOT take the annuity from it.
If you do and pass away a month later, the annuity stops paying unless you have it set up to go to your spouse which will be at a lower amount until they pass.b
Take your money, all of it when you leave AEP. I would also shop around for health insurance, not sure if AEP plan is worth it. You pay it on top of Medicare so it can add up.
Takes 30+ days to get the funds transferred so make sure you work that into you plan GL
I agree with the last post! Throw their culture back in their face. “Be Here Now” the minute you leave and whenever you’re away from the office! With RTO, we are actually in the position now to physically detach at end of day. Let’s mentally detach too!
Stop caring, and the dread will decrease or disappear. There is no reason not to enjoy your entire weekend. Then, when Monday arrives, accept that if you're in IT and still working remotely, enjoy it while you can. If you have already RTO'd, enjoy the fact that the office is a less productive place, and you ki-l a lot of time with the nonsense of an office environment. I'm not a Lean Six Sigma person, but if someone cared about eliminating waste, sitting in a building where you MIGHT put in 4 hours of real work/day, they would step back and reassess the 5-day plan.
The Sunday night dread is setting in. Hating the thought of another Monday in the soul su-king shithole AEP has become. Welcome to their Making America Great Again for rich corporate arseholes and their Big Beautiful Bill robbing us blind.
They made me toil as a contractor for 3 years so I lost all that seniority and pension time.
The pension is worth it if you stick around for a long time. AEP owed those older employees they forced out over the past two years huge pension obligations.
If you don’t see yourself at AEP in 20 years, it’s not worth it. It’d be better to just get another job and roll over your amount into your IRA or new employer’s plan.
The real question is, do you want to work another 20 years for leaders who do not value you? How do you know if the pension will still be there in 5 years? How do you know if AEP will still be there in 5 years? I myself am in my 40s and left. As an emoyee I was not valued and being valued meant more to me than the pension. I rolled it over to my new employers 401K. I did not want fo give my narsistics leaders any more of my time and would not have been hapoy queietly quitting for 20 more years just for the sake of reirement. Live your life.
Pension was a formula based on age and years of service. As you climb both you get a higher %. I was just getting to the 7% level. So in your pension/cash balance account I was given an extra 7% a year of my pay toward the pension. It was invested by AEP and made around 4% a year.
When you leave you can choose to take it as an annuity at retirement or roll it over to your IRA or your new employers 401K. It is a nice benefit that is on top of the 4.5% 401k. One thing I could never say is that AEP didn't not have good benefits. Pay was low for some jobs but the benefits were very good.
Those who have been employed at AEP for awhile…at what point is staying for the pension worth it? I’m in my early 40’s. Retirement is a ways off but also feels close. Is the pension payout really worth it?
@27rw It’s because when you hit level 10 you are making so much money that you have to protect your lifestyle, so you become a total “Yes” man. There are way too many examples of people who were great employees and even lower level supervisors and managers who get to that level and above and totally change their personalities.
Its called ego.
Is being a psychopath a requirement for everyone above salary grade 10 or is it just a coincidence?
@27kr Sorry to tell you, the small print had Subject to change under Company's discretion.
You're only option, give notice and leave. You could find another job, not tell anyone until Friday, quit and start working for the other company on Monday. Drop all your stuff off on Saturday so you don't have to see anyone. Make sure you clear your desk out on Thursday.
Buddy of mine took everything home months before he left. Kept the manager on his toes as to when he was leaving.. At the time it was just playing mind games with the manager. Eventually he did find another job and left.
@27qa lmfao
Satan is in our workplace and only we can purge him and his minions to save our souls and our customers.
This place is horrible! I’m applying for every job I can elsewhere, considering pay cut… anything to get away from AEP.
In order for any organization to succeed there must be shared sacrifice and shared reward. There must be mutual respected that is earned and deserved. Teamwork and employees at all levels that hold themselves accountable are essential. A leadership perceived as looking out for only itself will never enjoy the loyalty, respect and organizational excellence that only a professional organization can achieve.
Veteran employees at AEP measure their workday by the hours that remain until they can escape this God forsaken nightmare. They see the future in the number of months or years before they can retire. When the future is dictated by a corrupt cabal that does not have the decency to be ashamed of its unjust and immoral behavior, employees know there is no future here only a career of torment, anguish and misery that must endured till a better opportunity or retirement avails itself to them.
No employee should have to sell their soul or abandon the principles instilled in them by their families and their faith to have the opportunity to advance. Neither should they endure an indoctrination that in order to advance you must prey upon your fellow employees and customers with callous indifference to their quality of life and humanity to succeed. If their goal is to instill petty selfishness and arrogance, you will become them to be among them and you will be despised by everyone you betray including your family, friends, coworkers and community. They are not worth losing your humanity for acceptance and inclusion in their immoral, unethical and criminal cabal.
Chilled environment at Cook. This is a shame to see. This is what happens when accountability and integrity leave leadership. What is worse is other leaders allow and promote it. This stuff should not occur in nuclear power.
Bill's favorite term is BOHICA. Bend over, here it comes again.
Pretty sure if I was hired as remote and they told me I had to come to the office that would require a renegotiation of the terms. You want me to work in the office, I want $x more money. No, then see ya. Lots of OECs are hiring.
@27kg
< = 50 miles to an AEP location.
If you were hired as remote then how did you not get an exemption from RTO?