#morale

I know that would personally make me feel much better about my Phase 2 colleagues being excused from RTO, while the rest of us are required to be in the office doing the same exact job. Maybe some motivational posters? The kitten dangling from a tree branch that says “hang in there”?

100% total absolute joke.
The place thrives on three foundational pillars: nepotism, low morale, high turnover!

Such a waste of time. The only measurable outcome is my rising blood pressure.

A few years ago, this career became just a job.

My only motivation is pay day, and putting food on the table.

No climbing the corporate ladder
No MVP photo op.
No spreadsheets.
No daily reports.
No metrics.

I do my job to best of my ability and go home. MY job. Not everyone else's.

I think this is how most of us see the job these days, @ct+1kpc62cbh. It's sad that it came to this. But seeing it as anything more is foolish.

What did they think would happen? That we'd go above and beyond for a job that might be gone in a month, or two, or three? We still don't even know when the layoffs are actually coming.

Remember, at the end of the day everyone is replaceable. Never think you aren't. Don't ever work harder than you think you should. Just get your work done, go home be with family , take care of your health before any damn job. Sometimes less is more.

I recently resigned because my lit job started to feel like I was at Allstate or Geico. Upper management micromanaging has reared their ugly head and begun making life miserable. I wonder how much worse it will get

Oh, we finally got ourselves a middle manager, after over a year of blissful independence, purely so someone could tick the “yes, we have one” box. Never mind that our team handles complex fintech systems with intricate backends and high-risk frontends; our new overseer couldn’t tell you what tech stack we use, how we build, or how anything actually gets shipped.

Instead, we get endless lectures about “empathy” and “psychological safety,” followed by mandatory meetings that accomplish nothing beyond recycling the same tired talking points, while our actual work quietly piles up. Real contributions? Nowhere to be found.
What makes it even more impressive is that about ten years ago, they were in food service, and somehow parlayed a string of small-company roles and a questionable degree into a banking position they seem wildly unqualified for. It’s less “career growth” and more “failing upward with confidence.”

My coworkers have already figured out how to play along and stroke the ego when needed. I just don’t have it in me. And to top it off, the complete lack of effort in their presentation only adds to the whole secondhand embarrassment of being professionally associated with them.

Infecting healthy people, meaning more people will have to ask for PTO to recover and less and less people will be available to do the job. Well done corporate! Going back to square 1. Great leadership, very smart!

Never seen an entire organization all check out at the same time in my career like this. Nobody has confidence in leadership and I would estimate over 80% of people are looking for new jobs. Even new hires are skeptical, turn over the leadership team before it’s too late.

The position is being described as “an amazing opportunity” in a “winning company”

The reality is you will be working at a store in a dead mall from the 1970s.

A mall parking lot with creators in it that can swallow your car

A store full of mold and rodents

A skeleton crew of employees

The year Chevron made the most money and the employees made nothing more for their work. Chevron on track for another record year and another middle finger to the hard workers who decided to stay. 100+ people that I know are ready to walk. Take care of your people or you will find out we can fu-k you harder.

Nothing gets done. Priorities change by the day. Projects launch and die overnight. Key people vanish without warning. Managers are overwhelmed. I've completely checked out. No more goal-oriented work, just treading water. And I'm pretty sure most people are doing the same.

Every time the employee experience worsens, I employ another tactic to lower productive output and/or squander corporate resources to bring things back in line.

And no pride in work where the lion's share of the rewards go to the already bloated senior "leaders". To the contrary, pride in racking up those direct deposits in exchange for next‐to‐nothing.

Luckily, Ford's incompetence in performance management is matched only by their level of integrity so I'll be here doing my thing for a long while. So sorry if you don't like it.

Manager favorites and ego strokers enjoy the gains !!

Headline is accurate - our CEO is "celebrating" the demise of thousands of employees. Save us the lies of how "difficult" these layoffs are for leadership, and how "thoughtful" the company is in its approach. Why are we all still here working for this type of person?

We are going hours without customers here in the northeast. It’s becoming more often. Is anyone else experiencing this at their stores?

Who else was “saved” but is updating their resume and looking. This place is a joke. How soon until the next round of layoffs?

RV has brought us to the flourishing Netherworld.

Everything in our business has withered and died.

What was a great company has turned into a heartless bag of cashless Pennies!
This is what happen when investors buy and they want to make money!! All you can do is hope those silver lined parachute pants are useless after this!! They’ve ruined soooooo many lives in 3 years!!

AC not working in Burlington everyone is complaining, its so miserable. We're all jammed into these smaller rooms I'm sure all the body heat is not helping. How about let us leave an hr early instead of having this 1 hr social hr!!! The A side is working of course because no one is working over there.

Just some honest feedback — there’s been a noticeable amount of negative talk about coworkers, and it’s affecting the work environment. Also, there’s a tendency to get involved in things outside of your role, which can come across as overstepping. It might be worth focusing more on sales, staying in your lane, and keeping things professional.

I FINALY RELEASED WHAT THE MOTO MEANS.

I heard this moto many times in All hands meetings, they essentially say "Do More with less" in the context of AI, to encourage you to feed your work details to AI so they can train capable models to replace you eventually.

BUT from talking to many engineers in EMEA, which haven't seen a promotion in years now despite having good reviews.

I do not know why should I be surprised to see same a$$ kissers in receiving EIA.

Sick to my stomach, after yet another year / quarter where the efforts are not recognized or appreciated.

And no surprises where only the pets in the same location getting all the recognition.

Call me narcissist or petty, but no denying now that all the posts I saw about how managers have their own pets who get all the recognition were true.

The plan is that there will only be a skeleton crew in the US once ALL the cutting is done to still claim we are an American company. Farewell Five9, you were once great.

Budget cuts and no new programs - people afraid to talk about the fact that they are just idle. I’m a SD been here 15 yrs and never seen it this bad

Budgets cut, no new programs - everyone scared to admit (I’m not working on anything) out of fear.

I’m a SD here for 15 years this is as bad as I’ve seen.

It would be a welcomed change to be layed off.

Teams have been gutted, some repeatedly, by layoffs and reorgs that solve nothing. Yes, talent is expensive. But when you're too lazy to cut strategically and just go for the simplest savings, you shed the people you actually need. Meanwhile, the endless turmoil ki-ls morale, ki-ls commitment, and ki-ls any chance of long-term planning. Chaos like that always turns out to be far more expensive in the end.

In 2024, when we were hybrid, I used to be genuinely happy going to work. I was energized, motivated, and excited to contribute to the largest telecommunications company in the United States. But after nearly a year and a half of the five-day return-to-office mandate, I feel completely drained.

Every day is a battle — fighting traffic, searching for parking, and then scrambling to find a desk. To make it worse, people schedule meetings during my commute, which makes no sense.

Back in 2024, I felt bright, energetic, and enthusiastic about the work. Now I feel like Squidward, doing the bare minimum just to get through the day. Whenever I am asked to go above and beyond or deal with some ridiculous request, my response is basically that I am commuting or that I will get to it once I can actually find a desk. The whole thing feels like a joke.

To make matters worse, everyone on my immediate team and in my department seems endlessly enthusiastic about chasing more wireless and fiber gross adds. Maybe some of that excitement is real, but a lot of it feels rehearsed. I look around and see people acting energized and engaged, and it is hard not to wonder whether they actually feel that way or are just playing the part. Honestly, the only place I ever see people expressing what this experience really feels like is on this site. In person, people seem scared to say it out loud. It often leaves me feeling like I am the only one being honest about how exhausting and demoralizing all of this has become, especially because I am overshadowed by so many coworkers who seem enthusiastic about their jobs and about taking AT&T to the stars.

As per the -3 Chief HR Officer a few years back, Clap Now. Eat your slop, little piggies.

there was some kind of huddle meeting with each pod. d-mb a-s manager used an analogy of fast food drive thru employee. lol

Is this how they view us? fast food drive thru employee? what a d-mb bi--h.

yea... I mean employee who has all customers information from their ssn, dob, cc #'s, chk # information and ready to be sold off.

would you like bbq sauce and upgrade it xl size?

what a fu-ken clown leadership is.

Curious has anyone been around long enough to remember the last time corporate gave the employees some good news? Feel like its been nothing but bad news the last 10 years. Offices closing, forced moves across the country, returns to office, replaced with people overseas, forced realignments due to corporates unwillingness to staff and retain properly.

Id say the last "good news" was us working from home during COVID, which wasnt exactly good news but maybe the only positive change I've seen in like 15 years. Ok i guess they did the math and so few people were having children they increased maternity benefits like 5 years ago.....

Cant wait for this weeks bad news meeting either way.

Can anyone explain why such high turnover in claims has been acceptable for so long? Assuming they will be moving people from jobs that are not 100% horrible to a claims department that is.

Forget about the layoffs and the impending doom guys , the toxic culture seems ok when we are minting money isn’t it ?

What the title says.73

Never used to get this, but now it’s every week. GK has got to go.

Good luck all. Doesn't it just make you sick that our CEO got a 30 million bonus but people still keep getting laid off? Makes me feel gross to work for this company.

This is a company that is slowly losing its identity. Rent-A-Center is now forcing their employees into becoming a Amazon drop off hub. This a desperation move to attempt new blood into Rent-A-Center. This means additional responsibilities for employees without any additional pay. So on top of begging clients to buy something, chasing after past due clients that just hide behind their doors, employees are expected to ship out a unrelated companies packages. Is it even Rent-A-Center anymore or just a company on life support?

Prepare now. The official word will be passed down shortly for a dramatic increased requirement for Connect Week attendance come September. NO ONE on my team (FI) or others I run into in office feel that connect weeks benefit them at all and I’m sure that is one reason why it’ll be put into place. Forcing senior people out? Dragging morale even lower? Flexing hollow upper management muscle? What have you heard?

They've got us stressed out constantly. No breaks, no rest, no relief. This company has completely taken over our lives.