#morale

It's not even just Verizon anymore. I'm done, period. Been here too long. I can barely drag myself into the office these days. I need out. And I'm willing to take the risk in this market. I'll survive a few months, the big financial stuff is behind me. Mortgage done, kid almost done with school. I can afford to coast for a bit. Frankly, I never want to hear the name Verizon again after this.

"Do more with less" and "we're all in this together." I don't want to hear any pep talk. None of us are here to clean up leadership's mess, only to be dismissed with a generic email. I'm staying until they show me the door. For now, it's about what I take from this job, not what they squeeze out of me.

I'm always worried about going back to work on Monday. Always wonder if this is the RIF week. I can't be the only person feeling this way.
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For six long weeks, the air’s been thin,
A waiting game where no one wins.
From Calgary’s frost to the Houston heat,
The sound of shadows on every street.
We’ve scanned the halls and watched the clock,
Waiting for the final, heavy knock.
They speak of "assets," "reorgs," and "flow,"
But forget the people who made the thing go.
In Denver, the Woodlands, and Permian dust,
It’s hard to find a place left to trust.
The "sinking ship" is the story they tell,
While we’re the ones ringing the warning bell.
But listen close through the fog and the fear:
The value you hold isn’t what’s written here.
A title is ink, and a badge is just plastic,
The toll on your spirit has been truly drastic—
But you are the talent, the heart, and the spark,
You are the light that survives in the dark.
Tuesday will come, and Wednesday will go,
The dust will settle, the bitter winds blow.
But whether you’re staying or finding the gate,
You are the pilot, the master of fate.
This office is just a place where you stood,
It doesn’t define what is "great" or is "good."
So look at your neighbor, give 'em a hand,
Help each other find a place left to land.
The logo might fade, and the building might fall,
But your human spirit is bigger than it all.
There is life after Wednesday, a sky clear and wide,
And a much better world on the other side.

The Bently Nevada division has already gone through multiple layoffs in 2026. It’s all about making sure the almighty EBITA is good and no longer focusing on making sure the client is being taken care of.

The sales team is shrinking without backfilling roles. When a rep leaves all of their clients and spread out under another sales rep. Increased responsibility with no increase in pay.

Technical Account Managers are being laid off without being replaced. The remaining Technical Account Managers are spread so thin that no one has the bandwidth to fully support the sales reps.

There are also less Sales Directors now. Instead of backfilling the roles reps are just spread out amount the other directors. Each Sales Director has too many reps to be responsible for now.

Quotas have been unrealistically increased and the bonus structure has become even more difficult to reach your 100% pay.

Company is trying to become a software company and has put all of its eggs into the “cordant” basket even though the hardware is the meat and butter of the business.

All of this happening despite the fact that we break record numbers in sales every year. Overall team morale is the lowest I have ever seen and I have been with the company many years now.

Just wanted to vent on the whole connect week policy for regional centers- I'm quite frankly embarrassed to hold client zoom meetings when in the office- that clients have to hear the background noise of loud talking, laughing and coughing. I understand the loud talking as we are all raising our levels to ensure our clients can hear us over our colleagues. I wonder what client's impressions would be if they could actually see behind the scenes. All the negativity I see & hear from co-workers on the fact they have to go into the office isn't helping my morale either. At the end of the connect week I continually ask myself why did I need to go into the office? Not only did I not gain anything from it other than another cold/ flu virus but feel demoralized & with less money in my pocket after filling up my car.

There's no rock bottom here. There's always one step lower to go.

And I have to say, I'm looking forward to watching what happens next. Not in a mean way. Well maybe a little. They mistreated me for years and seeing them struggle, make bad decisions, slowly fall apart, it will be enjoyable after everything they put me through.

Why is leadership teams so unnecessarily large? What real value do they actually add? They hold fancy titles but contribute nothing to product strategy or execution. Most seem obsessed with impressive job titles, posting on LinkedIn, and organizing pointless town halls that drain everyone's energy. These aren't leaders,they're overpaid parasites feeding off the work of G5/G6 employees.

We've hit the point where cutting your way to a higher stock price no longer works. The cracks are showing, reality is finally catching up.

From truly enjoying my work here years ago, to all the stress from waves of layoffs throughout the decline, now I've reached the point where I have no hope that Nike will ever again be a great company to work for, and I'm looking forward to being on the next list. I've been here too long to cut the cord easily, so the sooner they make that decision for me, the better.

It’s getting ridiculous!

For those remaining that we want to target, let's make it difficult and wrong, until they quit.

I will never stand up for this company again.

Unappreciative ba----ds.

Leadership needs to get their act together.

Shouting, pressure, and creating a climate of fear in engineering won’t fix anything: in fact, it only makes things worse. Right now, people are acting out of fear instead of making rational decisions aligned with actual goals.

That’s how you end up with poor outcomes, short-term thinking, and teams that stop taking ownership.

If the goal is better performance, this approach is doing the opposite.

We’re eliminating a lot of people. The round of layoffs like always are getting swept under the rug. We’re just expected to keep our heads down and focus on generating more revenue.

Sudden Friday afternoon meeting for my entire department! The day of reckoning has come! The end times are at hand!

Am I reading right? I guy who makes more than 10 million a year USD offers 6.5k USD as a means to homeownership in the US?

Dear BNY employees who are eligible: how do you feel on that initiative?

EMEA commissions statements are typically ready on 6th-8th of the payment month. January looked like an outlier, being the 9th. However, as of 10th April, there is no statement for February.

So, what happened:

1. The comms team got RIF'd - unlikely
2. It's just a bit late - possibly
3. Something more sinister is going on in EMEA linked to the RIF - probably

Lack of respect for employees by Oracle - the gift that just keeps on giving.

Word to work sentence from our vice president in a call this morning with many managers. According to him, employees are a cost and we need to find ways to reduce costs. If we are not laying off, we can probably put more work on them so they're more efficient and have a higher value to cost ratio. And when creating our semester plans or budgets, we are asked to mention resources and not employees.

That is an interesting mindset shift, really.

It makes me so angry as a manager that our management is like this. And it's not just in our area. Every growth area is like this now.

It’s hard not to notice the growing stagnation within 3M’s PSD division. For a company long known for innovation, the lack of meaningful new products coming out of this group is concerning. The pipeline feels dry, and the urgency that once defined 3M’s culture of invention seems to be missing. Just chasing lost business now.
Equally troubling is the apparent gap in leadership. Strong leadership should inspire direction, accountability and momentum and there’s a sense of drift. Without clear vision or decisive action, teams are left without the guidance needed to push boundaries or bring new ideas to life.
Employees feel it. When innovation slows and leadership doesn’t step up, morale takes a hit. Talented people want to build, create, and solve problems and not sit in a holding pattern.
3M has the legacy, talent, and resources to do better. But without renewed focus on innovation and stronger leadership within PSD, it risks falling behind where it once led.In addition commercial effectiveness is a total joke.
#3M #Layoffs #Innovation #Leadership #WorkplaceReality

Rolling layoffs, zero communication, blatant indifference. I have no idea who could deliver a "work hard" and "we're all in this together" load of cr-p with a straight face. But then again, they pick them specifically for such purposes.

That's Fiserv's recipe for disaster.

I've seen several rounds of cuts now. And I still don't get how they pick who goes. Because time after time, the ones who get cut are the people who carried the team. The ones who went above and beyond, who stayed late, who kept things running. The heart of the team gets ripped out. And the people who do nothing stay.

No wonder things are falling apart at the seams.

Leaving isn't realistic anymore at my age. I'm too close to the finish line to jump ship now. So I show up, do my work, and wait. Not because I want to, but because I don't really have another good choice. There are so many who feel the same way. This job has turned into a prison sentence.

Things are so messed up at Xerox right now that I’m constantly running into situations where no one can give me a clear answer to ANY question. You ask one person and they point you somewhere else, and it just keeps going in circles. I know decisions are being made somewhere, but no one knows where or how. So everything gets brought to a crawl as I have to guess who can give me a straight answer. Like I said, a mess.

Everything has been bad, from communication to execution to now expectations. If they wanted to get us mad and for morale to plummet, then job well done!

Morale at USB is the lowest it’s ever been. Don’t believe the way they will try and spin the engagement survey. The only reason there is not a massive flight of talent is the economy. There is no support for the CEO or her managing committee. They are the worst in the industry and have shown that they despise the employees. They take millions for themselves and give no raises to thousands of employees.

Corporate real estate and the awful head of HR have ruined RTO. They forced people who were never hired as in office into the cheapest office spaces that are loud and dirty with people who sit on Teams meetings all day. The locations they chose to keep do not work for most but they said people having a 90 minute commute each way is acceptable for RTO. Read other posts for how awful it is here for people. They do not care about employees or their well being.

The best we can all do is demand new leadership in any forum we can, do not bank with USB, do not take the survey. Refuse to do more than the bare minimum. The only positive you will hear about leadership will come from GK’s damage control minions and the boomer boot lickers.

Why do people act like working at Truist is their life’s purpose? It’s not. It’s a job. Check the box. Collect the paycheck. That’s the endgame. Your “team” is just a bunch of strangers you’d never know or interact with if survival didn’t force it.

Meanwhile, in places like France, people actually get it: grinding at work is not something to brag about. Hard work is overrated. So stop worshipping Truist like it's holy!

Vteamers enterprise wide are busy watching the masters golf tournament today. They didn’t cut deep enough in the rifs.

I would just like to give the middle finger to where it’s deserved. Fu-k you GK + her following a-s kissers. I will not be joining any town halls or taking the survey.

I’m legitimately curious why the pendulum has swung so far to one side. Pre-covid we had balance and trust, and now we have neither. Instead of going back to balance they’ve swung to micromanagement and rigidity. What actually is fueling the need for such strict expectations and absurd tracking measures? They say they care about morale but then micromanage us like we are children.

And as an aside, we all know the timing of the latest TTUS survey just before this announcement was strategic in every way. Get those numbers up before they plummet again!

I'm not surprised IP tracking happened. That seemed inevitable, but retroactively changing RTO targets after employees were working toward a previous set of expectations? WOW. What kind of company does this sort of thing? Let alone a company that shouts to the heavens about its ethics awards won. They have set the stage to change targets again in the future and retroactively juke the stats. These people are shameful and have none of it.

This is truly unbelievable. What an unserious bank.

In office just waiting for the hammer to come down. Not great vibes today. I know alot of people missed the mark from door badges to just not coming in. Morale is extra low today.

One week away from reorg. Attitudes and employee effectiveness are in the dirt in Permian OPs. How’s everyone else functioning?

But we got Nike Shoes! What a slap in the face.

If you weren't sure before you should know it now.

Not sure how this motivates anyone to care about their work anymore and you can't outsource your way to success.

After the recent layoffs and seeing my friends left with very little severence I am scared.
I started preparing more for interviews from Home and I am not interested even to show up in office unless there are critical meetings. I used to respect coming to office earlier.
The severance pack received by my friend is very low and I am also scared now with a single email any time my job is in danger. This layoff has collapsed entire morale of the unit and the human work culture.

Before I got cut, I told myself the severance would soften the blow. Once it happened and the money showed up, it didn't fix how I felt. Not one bit. After years of giving everything to Oracle, they let me go with hardly a word of thanks. The check does not help the feeling that comes with that. I'm still not over it, and it's been months.