Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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I cannot stop smiling. Therace is leaving.
Next - all the people she brought in with her.
Bill seems to understand the outsourcing nightmare.
I’ve wondered if Theresa came in with a directive from the board and previous CEOs to do this level of cutting? Or if she came in with this plan and sold it really well and previous CEOs were just too unaware of what it was going to end up doing IT org?
Anyone wanna weigh in on that?
I for one am glad to see Therace gone. All of IT will feel the same I'm sure. She was an utter nightmare and it was long over due. The cronies should be next. They assisted in making this mess.
The jury is still out on whether Bill will turn this around, but yesterday was an excellent step in the right direction. And it was a shot across the Minnesota nepotism bunch.
As I start my day today at AEP - this is perhaps the best start to the day I've had in years. Many will agree I'm sure.
For now, thumbs up Bill. You earned a lot of love yesterday. Let's just keep it going in the right direction.
As for Therace. Karma is a B!%/&
Nearly 5 years to the day that Garth/Therace/Target started. Family time? My *ss! Hundreds of people cheering the news. What kind of life she has. Wreck a place. Be hated. Move on.
Risch is like the aliens who invade Earth in Independence Day. Traversing the galaxy destroying one planet at a time ( or companies I should say like Target and AEP) su-king resources from them leaving each in ruin. I wonder what her and her reptilian lackies are targeting next?
Well Bill some of us graduated college during the pandemic with just a laptop. A screen share and phone was all I needed. I also was hired and trained perfectly fine during the remote and hybrid transitions! Good luck with all these changes and making your loyal and hard working employees miserable in those small cubicles. Alot of those loyal workers are leaving or about to
Glad to see they scissored Therace off the leadership page.
Bill is a stop gap. Bob is interim. Hahaha. How about some more changes once the long term people step in? Fun stuff!
There’s no way the Ohio state commission would wave through a merger between FE and AEP. Way too much concentration .
What AEP is doing is simple: getting O&M (salaries) under control, fixing the balance sheet (pay down debt, soon to issue more equity), and win regulatory outcomes.
Bill is a stop gap to get these handled.
That search for external candidates for Transmission President sends a terrible message from a Transmission focused utility. It’s showing all the mid-level engineers and managers that there is a ceiling, and they’d best look elsewhere to advance.
Seems Carl Icahn had a role similar with the board of FirstEnergy for a couple years and getting them their current CEO shortly before getting his people on the Board of AEP in early 2024. Icahn divested and gave up his FirstEnergy board seats in December 2023. Maybe coincidence the way things have happened or maybe not
Saw on AEPNow that Therace is leaving the company. Is IT going back to the office? When and where?
THANK YOU to all who post good information here and maybe most especially for the comedic relief. Hearing the perspectives of others, both similar and different than mine, is helping me to cope with the non-stop changes...those that make sense and the many, many that do not. Sending support and good wishes to all.
Conspiracy Theory: Maybe the goal is to do some sort of merger of AEP and FirstEnergy. There are a lot of former AEP people at FE in Executive roles now, including the CEO. They are doing the same things Bill is doing if you look at FE on Glassdoor. Forced RTO, layoffs etc... There was this post from few weeks ago that stated "Many divisions and locations to be sold and many departments left to be eliminated or outsourced." Maybe it's nothing and all coincidence
Save money? Get rid of private flights and take home vehicles.
Never was it made more clear that someone has no idea what it's like to work in IT, especially now that we've been remote for so long as they continued whittling down staffing and have us just working like dogs, on before 7, often working until late into the night. (If that's not what's happening in your area, you're quite lucky.) Never have I had to struggle to hold a cell phone and balance a laptop working remote. Also, we're spread out across all our territories. Let's go to offices so we can dial in to calls all day?
“You don’t learn sitting at home” someone hates their home life.
Looks like all the org changes from the past year or so (separating t and d standards and combining all of project mgmt, const mgmt, siting, row etc under Juliet are being undone) shane lies is losing a significant amount of headcount from his org to transmission
“We need to hire hundreds of engineers” keep the hybrid work model and it won’t be so hard to keep the ones already here!
Get ready for even more metrics to track all your compliance failures! No room for human error. And the new graduate hires will be 100% perfect with no one to train them!
Antonio has been liquidated.
Bob "The Enforcer" Bradish named interim president of transmission.
Was a transmission President announced?
“You don’t learn sitting at home” - Bill Fehrman
Oh no wait until this guy hears about how half of us got our college degrees.
If he kept the workforce hybrid MAYBE employee retention rates would be better.
I believe NOTHING Bill says.
What a JOKE of a meeting. So it's a big gaslighting session about how you should be excited to RTO.
My interpretation of this is that Bill is feeling the heat from the backlash to RTO and doesn't have the cred to defend it since he hasn't even been here a year.
A lot of talk from Bob about accountability, consequences, discipline, austerity. "Performance tracking." He's putting Bob in charge to be his attack dog because he has the seniority to make people shut their mouth and stop complaining. He's been here a long time so Bill thinks he can step in and be the bad cop.
Sorry Bob but shareholder value does not fire me up. And no amount of corporate word salad can brainwash me into feeling excited about commuting 5 days a week.
Bob is as delusional as Bill. No one is that room had a face filled with enthusiasm about collaborating in person.
I love Bob mentioning the energy in the room and how wonderful it is to be together in person, then it cuts to the staff sitting with blank faces and crossed arms being completely unconvinced. Incredible work guys.
Wasn’t transmission under Shawn Robinson a few years ago?
What the heck is he saying?
This is such good news. I’m glad to be Transmission again and get back to where we were many years ago.
Interim Transmission President announced - Bob Bradish and transmission organization changes announced
Looks like Risch is leaving
If it is only announcing the new President of Transmission and org structure, that’s putting my mind at ease. But seems silly to have a mandatory meeting for that? Everyone has been shuffling meetings around to attend. Why announce it so last minute?
Meeting with Energy Delivery is probably announcing new President of Transmission and new org structure
Not surprised about Therace. She had no desire to be in Columbus.
Therace is out. AEPnow
the meeting is to tell everyone they have to lock your cell phones in a faraday box while at work
Re: March Madness
I have a YouTube TV window up on my monitor now.
Probably to tell ppl that there shall be no checking of March Madness scores during work hours
Mandatory meeting with Bill at 3:30 today for all Energy Delivery