#burnout

I stopped caring about this job a long time ago. At this point, the only thing I want from them is a severance check. This company isn't worth my stress, my sleep, or my health. They don't get to take that from me too.

You want MORE certified experienced store managers to quit and leave because you're not giving them real transparency into bonus and compensation while expecting more results and giving them less resources?

What does the talent pipeline look like for a high stress salaried 55k job with empty words about a potential bonus? 😂

You want stores to completely collapse with absolutely no direction and only district managers as the point of contact while spread ultra thin and unable to provide real guidance?

Happy and engaged/retained Pharmacists and teams have real leaders in the store that communicate and help them allocate resources like payroll and avoid problems like understaffing and compliance.

Everyone in the pharmacy is way too "busy" to PDR...it's currently called survival. The burnout and turnover is accelerating, coupled with the already toxic company culture is a recipe for collapse.

Every conversation I have with a talented certified store manager speaks of their complete loss of faith in Sycamore and plans to leave soon.

Better call the underwriters and have them get the IPO ready now, you might not make it to next year. Good luck finding investment bankers that'll give you a firm commitment as well during the IPO lol

And I'm proud I finally reached that stage. Cisco is not worth one iota of my dedication, and even less of my anxiety and stress. Coming home and not allowing work to spill over into every facet of your life is pure bliss.

Hi everyone, i know it's a long shot, but I am genuinely looking into how to possibly "volunteer" for layoff. I am burnt out and going to take a career break, but how can I be part of layoffs if there is a second round? Might as well try to get some severance pay, based on hcsc policy for years worked here. Seriously asking/inquiring. Here come the troll/mock replies, I'm sure...

The job is so stressful, the pressure so relentless, that I can never unplug. Workdays are write-offs. I just exist until the weekend, hoping to finally decompress. And it never happens. Seriously, how is everyone else coping with this?

Not until I walk out for good. But I still do my work, still do it right. I just stopped playing the games. No more kissing up, no more pretending to love meetings, no more acting like I care about things I don't. I do my job and go home. That's enough.

When I started out, I believed that working harder meant getting ahead, so I often stayed late, skipped lunch, came in on weekends, and even covered for people who weren't there because the company wouldn't hire enough staff. Do you know what I got in return? More work, and nothing else. No promotion, no bonus, just a growing pile of responsibilities until I eventually burned out and had to take leave.

That is why my advice to anyone early in their career is simple: don't do it. Do your job well, but do it at a reasonable pace and don't sacrifice your health trying to compensate for problems the company created. If they're understaffed, that is a choice they made, and they should be the ones dealing with the consequences. Don't protect them from their own bad decisions by wearing yourself down.

And the truth is, they are not going to fire you for working normal hours, because if they did, who would be left to do the work?

Joining everyone else sending resumes into the void. Really hoping something breaks in the next month or so. This place has a terrible name now and for good reason. The way they handle people, the way they make you feel like nothing, it's disgusting. And don't get me started on how they measure success. All made up numbers that mean nothing. Half my team does nothing useful all day.

Schwab people who brag about sixty hour plus weeks, I don't get it. You're not a hero. You're being used. I feel bad for you, not impressed.

doubt LT or HR is reading posts from this site, but they probably should

regardless, maybe they'll stumble here and read this 4 sentence summary from the last 14 days of posts here.
yes, they should be getting a rolling 14 day feed to their inbox daily, but probably can't figure out how to do that, or if they even care, tbh

well, here it is anyway:

The Nike employee community is currently defined by a profound sense of anxiety and a breakdown in trust, as workers brace for rumored "March-April" layoffs.
Morale has plummeted due to a perceived lack of clear communication from leadership and a declining stock price that employees feel reflects mismanagement.
Many staffers report extreme burnout and a toxic environment, leading some to openly wish for voluntary severance packages just to escape the company.
Ultimately, the consensus reveals a workforce that feels undervalued and deeply pessimistic about Nike's future identity and stability.

Now the people left are doing twice the work. Every single day.

Who else pivoted from being terrified of layoffs to hoping to be laid off just to get out of this mess in the last couple of months or so?

I need to pay the bills. But I'm not going to bust my a-s for a paycheck. Everything else is an insult to our intelligence. Forget promotions or a decent raise. They work you as hard as they can get away with, and then kick you to the curb. So, as far as I'm concerned - no overtime, no hard work, and I couldn't care less about outcomes. Passable coasting is all I'm willing to do until a better opportunity comes along.

Not anymore. We've been through round after round of layoffs, always knowing worse was coming. I care more about my sanity than this job, and definitely more than this miserable company.

I am so sick of all of the non-stop change that isn't improving a g**mn thing around here. I'm sick of being paid below market, considering all of the licenses I'm required to hold to do my job. I'm sick of HQ people punting every question to another department because they don't know the answer and their leaders don't know what the word accountability means. I'm tired of being the whipping post for every FA that is having a bad day or is told to do something they don't feel like doing.

Therefore, I'm going to su-k it up for just a few more years until I reach the Rule of 70 and can keep my LP units (for whatever they're worth), then I'm out. There are plenty of firms in this industry that will pay far better than Edward Jones.

I hope that every last bit of this Enterprise Reimagined backfires in spectacular fashion and leaves PP/DC and the rest of the ELT that's ruined so many lives on the hook to figure out how to run a firm without any US employees that give a chicken fried f**k about the future of this company.

I'm done. Almost 20 years of my life reduced to hating the place I go to every day to barely break even.

Burn em up. Spend as many AI tokens as humanly possible. Analyze all your repos and generate charts and docs etc. Basically you have a free pass to burn as many tokens as possible. Collectively we all have a responsibility to spend as much AI dollars that Oracle has. So don’t be shy about your use of AI. Use it everywhere and for everything. Oracle will pay the bill in the end after all.

This place is a joke, plain and simple. The company is run just like the American Government. Mismanaged, wasteful, overpaid leadership and top-heavy org chart, excessively outsourced, process bloated, disorganized, inefficient, zero trust, poor communication, on and on. Its one big milk cow and everyone's vying for a te-t. If you're an overachiever or results driven, get ready to tow the line for your coworkers. Everyone will run to you for help because there's so much dysfunction that any productive employees gets inundated with help requests until they are burned out and either leave or quiet quit. The existing employees learned that hard work isn't rewarded, so the culture is to not care too much and milk the te-t as long as possible. Talented and productive people see the writing on the wall and bail after a few years, leaving behind the riff raff. C-suite execs get inserted sideways into the organization without any idea about how things function in a heavily regulated company like BD, resulting in multiyear multi-million-dollar projects getting abandoned at the whim of new VPs in lieu of their new vision. Communication is poor, syncing between teams and depts is such that workload and project tracking, pre work documentation, and process bloat are the norm. Resulting in inefficient workflows, delayed timelines, stagnated projects, unnecessary time sinks and frustration, just so management can attempt to have visibility and traceability while sitting in meetings all day. There's waaay too many meetings, and waaay too many people who do nothing but sit in meetings all day. Theres's people who exist solely to sync information between workers and management because everything is so disorganized. This place is a total circus, and its no wonder were in the position were in. The sad thing is BD is still a pretty good company to work for, which says a lot about the state of America as a whole.

For the past year I’ve done such a little amount of work it’s comical. Maybe an hour or two per day. I call into meetings and then play on my phone. I ignore pretty much everything exec management tells us and then cash the paycheck. I’ll continue this until I get canned and if not, I’ll quit once I can’t do this anymore. Two things they’ll not get from me anymore are effort productivity. I’ll quit before I have to do any actual work that would benefit the company. I figure I’ve clawed back about 90k of free money so far from Oracle. Take care of yourself.

Toxic place. Work that means nothing. Long days. Constant stress. Never feel safe. Old tech. Nowhere to grow. Raises that don't keep up. Bad bosses. Same thing every day. Skills going nowhere. What am I missing?

If we’re talking honestly to our younger selves, the conversation might include warnings about corporate messaging that talks about empowerment while employees feel undervalued, overworked, and unheard. It might include advice about spotting organizations that talk about people-first values while quietly prioritizing executive egos.

Ba----g on about courage and “seeing yourself bigger,” but anyone who’s actually worked there knows the reality is burnout, bureaucracy, and Accenture-rejects that couldn’t manage their way out of a paper bag.

It’s the usual corporate fantasy written by out-of-touch suits who love the sound of their own inspirational waffle while the people doing the real work get ground down. There's not a single member of M&C SLT that wouldn't gladly stamp on their own mother if it made them look good on LinkedIn

Maybe instead of publishing this smug nonsense, the prickgoblins running the place should try fixing the toxic culture they’ve created. Until then, spare everyone the sanctimonious wa-k.

We all know that RTO was a completely political kissarse move and not a decision based on any facts but I am completely over it!
I'm in the office more days now than before COVID except now I don't even have my own assigned desk. We promote homeownership and affordability but treat employees like we are vagrants having to pack up our entire work life and take it home everyday and then hope we get a desk tomorrow. One that isn't covered in food crumbs from the person yesterday because they aren't cleaning these desks and the desk wipes are out more often than not!
Now that Trump had destroyed gas prices, between the cost of tolls, gas prices rising, the constant fear of layoffs, and hours in traffic, I'm being pushed way past my limit. I'm naturally a high performer but that's about to change. Being asked to do more work with less resources, all while being forced to come into an office just to sit on Teams Meetings all day is the d-mbest thing Pulte has done to date.
And, unfortunately, it's an employers market, so he can get away with it. #burnout #FDT

It appears to me there are many 3Mers who are struggling with mental health issues. The constant layoffs, increased workloads, toxicity, harassment, micromanagement, etc. seem to be taking a toll on so many of our colleagues.

The colleagues I spoke with have high anxiety, depression and more. The abuse and harassment triggered PTSD in at least one senior manager.

I am wondering if anyone else is seeing similar issues within their teams?

Please be kind with your responses. I was reluctant to bring up this issue but believe mental health is important and an issue that needs to be addressed by 3M.

I spent years at Humana and genuinely loved chunks of it. The mission, the work, some of the people. But the last couple years were rough. The workload became impossible, the appreciation dried up, and the manager we had, I've never seen someone less suited to lead. He ran through good people like they were nothing. I went to management repeatedly, told them I was overwhelmed, and offered solutions that would help everyone. Each time they found a reason to say no. It was either too hard, or too different, or not how we do things. Eventually I left. Now I'm watching what's happening from a distance and all I can say is I am so glad to be out.

Feels like 44 tho

Everyone I know is burned out. This place isn't what it was ten years ago. We'd all leave if we could but nobody's hiring. I've got a masters and 50+ applications out there. Not one response. The constant threats and fear have drained me completely.

I've become one of the twenty percent who carries the load and I'm now thoroughly exhausted. The other eighty percent show up, do the minimum, and clock out. I work late, fix problems, keep things running. I want to leave but I've got too much built up here. Years of vacation time, a team that depends on me, a family that needs my paycheck. Plus, the job market feels risky right now. So I stay and burn a little more each day. It's a terrible spot to be in. And to think, Nike was considered a great employee once upon a time.

The problem is the limit doesn't matter because the mortgage doesn't care. The kids' school supplies don't care. The car payment doesn't care. I have to make a specific number each month or things fall apart. So I keep coming back even though I hate it. Even though I'm exhausted before I even walk in the door. The worst part is knowing I'm close to breaking. I've never been someone who loses their temper at work. I'm the steady one. The reliable one. But lately I feel this rage building. A manager will give feedback and I want to walk out. I'm scared one day I won't hold it in. I'll say exactly what I think and then I'll be gone anyway, just with no paycheck. I don't know how much longer I can do this.

You can work nights and weekends and they'll still blame you for the next tiny thing. The worst people sit right next to you, take credit and disappear when there's a problem. I'm completely finished with it.

Despite all the promises, the workload hasn't changed after all the layoffs. If anything, it's gotten worse since morale has tanked and many of the remaining employees are burned out and have given up on putting in the effort. The fact that there's less people to cushion the impacts of the folks who've always been lazy regardless of staffing levels doesn't help at all either.

I feel like an id--t for being so proud of my work ethic and working way above my pay grade for so long. I love my job, I really do, but things are continuing to spiral and I'm so, so tired of working my a-s off everyday when I feel neither valued nor respected.

If I'm probably going to get laid off within the next couple months anyway, why should I keep doing the work of 3 people? I might have to join the horde of people coasting until they give us a package or at least just stop the paychecks.

I sure don't. It's just a paycheck, with no hope that raises would even keep up with inflation. Between offshoring, AI hype, zero growth paths, and the constant threat of being cut for no reason other than bottom line, why even try? Working hard, doing overtime, delivering quality - it's all just investing in future regret.

There is no longer incentive to overachieve.
All loyalty is gone.
take care of yourself.

Between reducing OT making it virtually impossible , not enough staffing and AI taking over 😒

I'm so tired of this cr-p. They keep layering on expectations while continuing to shrink support. At some point, the math just stops working. I'm done even trying. I might get fired, but I'm not a magician. It is what it is.

Now I'm hoping for one. My workload is already piling up and it's just going to get worse. This job has nothing left for me anyway.

They're too close to Mondays. I need more time to recharge my batteries. Working at Oracle has become so draining that I'm always tired. Always. I'm considering walking away even with nothing lined up. I just don't know how much more of this my mental health can take.

Hard to pin down exactly why I'm drained most days. It's just this constant pressure to keep up, never feeling like you're actually ahead. I'm starting to worry this is the future, with no relief in sight.

We're stretched thin, underpaid, and drowning in work, but they keep organizing these mandatory happy events. Last month our manager brought snacks while pretending our 60-hour weeks don't exist. Is this just us? If not, does anyone actually feel better after these things? What would real acknowledgment even look like?

It is astonishing that Belk expects professional loyalty while their stores literally rot around them.

From water-stained ceilings to predatory workloads, the 'Belk experience' is one of pure misery.

They don't care about your department; they only care about how much labor they can squeeze out of you before you break.

I quit without notice because they earned that lack of courtesy. It’s a dying brand for a dying generation, and the day they finally close their doors will be a mercy to the retail industry. Just go away Belk.

Is it just me, or does every day feel like you’re bracing for something? Meetings have gotten tense, and the only time you hear feedback is when something went wrong. God forbid you get commended for a job well done. In the end, I just keep my head down and try not to get noticed too much, either way.

I didn’t realize how sick Wells Fargo made me until I left last May. I’d gained weight, couldn’t sleep, and lived with constant anxiety. It took at least six months before my body started feeling like it belonged to me again. Sadly, the mental part takes even longer. I’m still recovering.

Part of it was dealing with a horrible bully of a manager for so long, but the overall culture played a role too. I genuinely hope more people decide to leave. It can be life changing.