Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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I have no options. I have been cornered like a rat. I am being humiliated. I am too sweet for this world.
You know that is what they are doing so vote with your feet. It is that easy. Last person to leave can turn off the lights.
Management wants to continue to turn the sc--ws on everyone so respond by firing them and going somewhere else.
I’m so buried in work I can’t breathe. They keep dumping more and more on me and I feel like it’s being done on purpose. Somebody needs to know that AEP is quiet firing.
I retired from AEP with one of the cuts last year. Best decision ever! But as I watch so many companies RTO I realize that it impacts more than just the employees. As a grandparent we are more than glad to step up to the plate and help when needed to get kids off the bus. But i am thankful it will not be a full time or every day commitment. I enjoy the occasional need, but i feel for families that now have to change everything. It reaches far beyond just the employees
Worst company I’ve ever worked for (8 yr), I’ll be leaving soon- management is a joke
I left AEP. It was really hard to do. I thought I worked for a company that CARED for its employees. I know now that my biggest mistake was staying too long. I never really had great management in my almost 2 decades of employment.
They treated me like sh-t after I resigned too. It tells me they have no ability to reflect on how they treat their employees the past few years.
I really thought it was me, but seing this websight I know I was not alone. I started hating my country and all my decisions in my life and serving the country. I listed to God Bless The USA the other day and realized, I oicked up and started over again with only my wife and kids, but I am blessed because I live in the USA.
I would say if AEP does not match your you anymore leave. There is nothing worse then working for liars. AEP is not the only utility. I have increased my wages and knowledge in less than a year. Dont be afraid to take a risk. You are leaving with all your knowledge.
I am also not so sure if they are making the company fail. This way they can break it up and sell it. There is no way they can pull of this once in a lifetime growth for AEP with employees being so upset and dis engaged. The once in a lifetime maybe their plans to break the company and sell its assetts. AEP has great assetts for sure.
I had an interaction today that I hope will be encouraging to some of you. I’m struggling with RTO and it’s not because I’m lazy or rebellious. If you’re not a churchy person, I’m sorry. I think there’s something here for everyone though.
I had Sunday School today and the teacher, who is also our pastor, asked several of us to share something we’re struggling with that would not be too personal to share. I mentioned RTO and the negative impact it will have on my finances, my personal happiness and quite frankly, my ability to be a good parent. Before I even got two sentences out, the teacher started laughing and said this was apparently something people at other congregations had been sharing with their pastors, and something he had counseled a few people on at our church as well. Surprised me, but he then spoke about his time in corporate America, and how companies are nakedly showing themselves as anti-family, anti-community, anti-employee etc with their actions over the past few years, including RTO.
His thoughts were that companies requiring RTO for people who don’t really need to be in the office, are ‘shameful’ and asking you to place more importance on your work than the rest of your life. He then compared them to churches who ask elderly and poor congregants to tithe, knowing how damaging it is. And that based on his reading of the bible and even books from other faiths, our society has placed an unethical value on “work” that does not align with how humans are intended to live. His words really struck me. I know this will have a negative impact on my family, but knowing that our company leadership ALSO KNOWS how this will impact our families, truly stinks. They just don’t care.
Another woman mentioned her employer backtracked on RTO after employees showed the impact it had on their children’s scores and behavior in school etc. I didn’t even consider that but it’s now something else I am concerned with.
All this to say, if you’re struggling with an ethical component of this RTO, I am with you and starting to apply to places that don't require this, even if it means a reduction in pay. We have to put ourselves first people. My kids are not going to remember my bonus or performance review 20 years from now. Even if I did not have children, I would seriously hesitate to give AEP untold hours of my life back (and money), knowing it would impact my ability to do things I care about. I’d have taken a paycut to stay remote if it was an option. Start looking!
I had an interview lined up that I cancelled like an id--t because a wave of delusion washed over me about being hopeful for AEP's future.
An hour after I cancelled the interview, we had a staff meeting and I realized I made a horrible mistake, AEP is crashing and burning from an employee perspective. I started reaching out to the recruiter begging to unwithdraw my withdraw. I was even going to get a sizable pay bump. Don't make the mistake I did, get out if you can.
There’s a fair amount of people interviewing with other companies, including me. And contrary to what we are being fed by our management, still a lot of companies offering remote and hybrid work!
Every time I think I'll try to come back in, just because I've been here so long, and we have such great front line managers, the top level does or says something incredibly strange, weird or stupid that makes ZERO sense next to their stated objectives. I keep making up my mind, and then changing it. I think my subconscious is doing the right thing, and maybe I just need to also.
I'm curious how many other people are actively interviewing with new companies. I fully expect to be out of AEP before everyone returns to the office in June. AEP now has a GlassDoor rating of 3.3. That's a horrible score that would be even worse if it wasn't for the thousands of 5 star reviews from years past. I would never go to a new company with that low of a score. They will struggle attracting good talent because of this. Realistically, AEP is a low 2.
Looks like you will be walked out the same day you resign. They will pay you for the notice period. Give a 1 or 2 months notice just to rub it in.
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The Spirit of 1776 RESOLUTELY ENDURES!
AEP's moto should be Rich people helping rich people become richer.
No sane human being can endure this whipsaw leadership much longer, First we involuntary and voluntary severance over a thousand employees in a ploy to diminish compensation for new hires and now we are offering bonuses because no sane person wants to hire into this insanity driven by unbridled rabid greed. Pay people to leave and then have to turn around and pay people to join because of the diminished compensation and toxic work environment that is driving employees to quit, retire, engage in substance abuse to cope or come to work with a fatalistic outlook on the future. We are being led to sla-ghter by a wolf posing as a shepherd. It is time for the livestock to stampede.
No amount of monetary incentive shall entice qualified potential employees to wade neck deep into this chaos addicted, soul su-king cesspool of vainglorious shareholder aggrandizement and the drama king leadership that revels in the torment, anguish and misery they deliberately and gleefully impose upon their employees and customers.
Ridiculous..they give sign on bonuses and bringing even more contractors to help, but can't even compensate those of us going back to an office after being hybrid 5yrs or busting butt for these new assembled teams out of knowhere?! Also having to move out of family owned homes for a high price housing and apartment renting market in a few months?!. AEP about to lose more of us soon. I'm already job hunting since we lost the remote and hybrid flexibility. AEP is going downhill for sure now
Why are we doing sign on bonuses? You want to attract new hires? How about offering them....hybrid schedules???
I have heard the $1500 will be paid after 6 months. If they think that will lure experienced people then that shows how much they care. I agree experienced engineers will be pretty much gone before RTO date. 3 staff level people resigned in my department on Friday.
$1500 sign on bonus is laughable. Better off not even offering that. It shows you are desperate enough to try something to lure people to engineering but don’t really care at the same time. A lot of people left right after the bonus Friday. It has begun. Soon there won’t be anyone experienced left in engineering except for management.
One calamity after another. The competent ruled over by the incompetent seems to be a reoccurring theme. My how the worthless value themselves above all others. The clique inflates egos to the point of bursting. So many strutting peacocks with their plumage on full display. Taylor Sheridan's Landman is a cautionary tale about the perils of working in the energy sector, not afraid to portray the ugly and inconvenient truth about wealth and power. See if you recognize Bill and a few of his underlings.
"I am sure the new $1500 signing bonus will bring many senior/principal engineers to Engineering!"
Not sure if planning can offer $10,000 for the same person. Move to planning if you still work in transmission engineering.
"Most of the good ones in transmission P&C resigned today. It will be fun how they will keep it afloat."
I am sure the new $1500 signing bonus will bring many senior/principal engineers to Engineering!
Ok, I could not say that without laughing. On the plus side, if most of engineering leaves we can all make 30% more working for the OECs that AEP will need to hire to get the work done.
Good luck to all of the people that jumped into the pool today. Come on in, the water is warm.
Is it true that the EVP from Cook was moved to corporate job because he allowed s-xual harrassment?
Most of the good ones in transmission P&C resigned today. It will be fun how they will keep it afloat.
Not sure why everyone has an issue, we have Best Friend Friday and Sammy Bear, the culture is outstanding!
I can assure you that I didn't nail Karl to a cross. He put himself up there. I have better things to do. I am going to take my ICP and go buy some bargain stocks.
He was poor, oppressed and exploited too. Your kind nailed him to a cross for being a virtuous contrast to their virtue-less oligarchy.
Political campaign financing is immense stolen wealth invested in a corrupt and unjust system of government as a we-pon of mass oppression, exploitation and abominable subjugation. PAC money is raised to enrich and empower an immensely wealthy PAC of capitalist oligarchs, criminals and thieves, who swear allegiance only to themselves and their insatiable greed. Remember the Pledge of Allegiance we all recited in public school? They didn't attend public schools.
Bill Fuhrman can kiss my fat a$$ if he thinks I’m giving even one red cent of my measly ICP to the AEP PAC. Let’s see him give up his $14,000,000
F.... Bill, I'm not giving a dime to anything associated with AEP. Don't ask me for donations for anything, I'll give to organization outside of AEP and F... United Way, Not a dime, don't ask.
How about you just keep your money and not give it to a PAC or a Union?
Therace's stock bonus posted on AEP.com was 20,500 shares at $107 a share. Totals just under $2.2 million.
We are better off supporting a union instead of the AEP PAC. Who gives money so their employer can bribe their elected representatives to empower and enable the company to oppress and exploit its employees and customers? Dum--ss conservative boss's butt smoochers and wa-kers.
Obviously other utilities have leaders worthy of the title. Us, not so much. Shared sacrifice equals shared reward. Maybe it truly is time to seek out professional employers instead of the 3rd tier mediocre leadership that gets the most for doing and being the least. The diminishing carrot at the end of a very long stick got old a long time ago. Based on the failure of the Kentucky sale, botched rate cases, and a $19 million payout for Ohio HB6 Scandal settlement I am shocked corporate got a penny of ICP, if the same standards were applied to them as they apply to us. They have failed the shareholders and we are the scapegoats covering their financial failures.
He didn't just ask for us to give to the PAC, he hinted that this is what our ICP money should be used for.
https://www.wymt.com/2025/03/13/complaint-filed-against-kentucky-power/
Just got an email from Bill Fehrman advertising the AEP PAC. It is a really bad look for the company to be asking for PAC donations when AEP just settled that SEC lawsuit around HB6. Talk about poor timing. This company just keeps getting worse and worse!
The hardest part about working at AEP?
Figuring out how to use the stupid timecard system.
Why do I have do to this anyways, isn't the only remaining benefit of being salary that you don't have to fill out a timecard?
Why is it so tedious? Why are there thousands of different possible codes to select from? Are they just hoping we give up and don't enter any time in?
My issue with the ICP structure is it’s not just something extra to be given away as bonus money. It has been defined as “pay at risk”. If you su-k you don’t get it, if you do what’s asked of your job you get your pay, if you do great you can get more.
But what could be used to say we as a company did what was expected of us? Maybe hitting the midpoint of EPS. That sure seems like doing what’s asked of us and should warrant our full pay, not just half.
If ICP is truly too much to payout when the company is meeting its published goals maybe the obscene percentages in the top third of the pay scale should be reevaluated. Other utilities also have an incentive compensation structure but from what I’ve been able to find the higher end of our pay scale is much more lucrative.