#morale

Layoffs are something that happens everywhere, we're not special in that regard. And I still think this is a decent job if you're lucky to have a good team and a good manager. Just my 2 cents.

I'm happy that the latest layoffs are in South Africa and not here. It's good to hear somebody else is getting hit for a change.

Yeah, it's weird here. Yeah, the morale isn't great and the Coporate big-wigs make life more difficult on their employees than they have to. But get out and enjoy the weekend, everyone. Happy Labor Day!

But to the on-highs who decided that the still hybrid office employees have offended the company by having the audacity to celebrate a federal holiday on a Monday and elected to punish us by forcing everyone into the office next Thursday; I hope the beer is warm and the grill breaks.

Years of dedication and results don’t seem to matter anymore. It’s demoralizing for those of us left behind, to say the least. Knowing that hard work means nothing is certainly not a morale booster.

are leaving this company in droves

On Thursday, several internal staff members were let go as part of the company’s ongoing restructuring under the TKO Group Holdings umbrella.

https://wrestlingnews.co/wwe-news/report-wwe-staff-layoffs-took-place-week/

And why? Layoffs happening this often shouldn’t feel so acceptable. We hear about them, stress through them, move on for a month (or two if we’re lucky), and then rinse and repeat. How did we let things get so very, very wrong?

You can’t even get through to them and you can tell those agents are miserable. Wayfair needs to rethink and retool this mess.

I wake up at 2 AM shaking and sweating, dreading the day ahead! The two days WFH are a blessing compared to dragging my ar-e in for that two-hour commute to He-l Town. And that damn Teams! Every morning, that red dot! What's wrong now?

Or are you staying strong and saying no?

The idea of being laid off, or being stuck at Nike in this culture and environment for years to come? There was a time when this would have been a no-brainer. Now, I honestly can’t tell which I dread more. If the job market were any better, I’d embrace layoffs in a second.

So do people think it’s normal to just assume that you will be laid off any day you come in? When the new leaders come in they just clean house and bring in people. What kind of work gets done when people are worried all day?

Don't worry. Everything is gonna be normal, easy, smooth after layoffs, emotions, reorgs.

Hahahahahaha.

Enjoy the misery of tryin' to get anything done in the new situations. For many it will be demoralizing, depressing, and a kick in the teethies.

Those who get to leave are the winners.

State Farm here! Come over and read our posts about what this sh-t hole is doing to its people! Your CEO has set the pace/tone for all the other CEOs to fall in line! They attend the same meetings, talk to the same consultants and run in the same circles. I've been at SF 30 years and need a couple more to retire. If you happen to have SF insurance cancel that cr-p, it's too expensive, service su-ks and all you are doing is giving 10-15% of your premium to a SF Agent. I'm about to move all of my internet and cell away from AT&T after your CEO sent that letter to employees basically telling them we owe you absolutely nothing and we expect absolute conformance and loyalty to AT&T! Same sh-t hole people no matter where you work in corporate America.

This is insulting that the train wreck our c levels created is now our front line manager problem to fix.

What has this company become. I’ve given 19 years of my life to it and how do the big wigs repay me? A choice between termination or demotion. There aren’t words big enough to express how disappointed I am. So much pain and sadness.

It’s a joke! I was training 3 people to replace me. All 3 were 2+ my PSG.

Posts here get hundreds of views. Social media statistics indicate only 3% engagement. (Of 100 viewers there's 3 commenters) And then there are comments deleted "magically".

I don't have a point. Just acknowledging the engagement and concern. I see it in quick hallway looks. I hear it on calls. I know most people care. And I know they don't feel cared for.

Please enjoy the long weekend if you can.

Jeff hates costs and his employees, and he's all out of cost cuts.

Sam Burd is 100% sidelined, only kept on salary so he won't bolt for Lenovo or HPE.

Rumors are Jeff and cronies are laying out a massive downscale and will hit in Q1.

Sampath’s post is pure smoke and mirrors. “Transformation in months”? Please. The only thing that’s transformed is how fast leadership churns out buzzwords while frontline employees are buried in RTO nonsense, broken systems, and nonstop cost cuts.

“Once in a lifetime opportunity”? For who — the execs on stage collecting fat paychecks while the business bleeds customers and morale tanks? The Value team isn’t setting a new standard — they’re just the latest props in Verizon’s never-ending PR circus.

Growth? Sure, in empty slogans and staged photo ops. Out here in the real world, Verizon is shrinking.

It’s been six weeks since the July purge, and the fallout is still being felt. The job market is brutal, even highly qualified people are struggling to get a single response.
Inside T. Rowe, the situation is even worse: leadership incompetence, suffocating micromanagement, and a relentless push to offshore jobs have left current employees on edge. The once-respected name of T. Rowe is crumbling, and morale is in freefall.
If you’re still there, don’t wait around and protect yourself before you’re the next one cut.

Organizations are being forced to mark more than a quarter of their teams low in performance reviews as low achievers, or inconsistent or however they want to work it. People are being marked low in the overalls to satisfy HR demands, but if they looked closer would see nothing in the categories are marked low. Teams are being told to "pass the pain around" so that no one hopefully gets terminated. HR forcing this is utterly ridiculous, and if they looked closer at the notes and other performance reviews they would see that teams are just playing this d-mb game. This turns employees sour and makes everyone feel undervalued. I'm sure the Detroit Freepress and others don't care either since they love to run Farley Love pieces constantly. This forced ranking stinks of Farley. He openly talks about how incompetent the employees are. I hope his contract is not renewed.

Hilarious - absolute garbage numbers and she’s trying to put a spin on it. This place gonna sink like a rock as the job market turns around

Good look for the Value org. Nice off-site in Miami dressed up in tux's and dresses while the business is cutting left & right.

Cater to those who can't afford postpaid but they can throw a good party for themselves. Nice!

I'm surprised morale is even a thing here, considering. I think I've survived ten major and who knows how many small rounds and I've been here for six years. Oracle is a joke.

It’s not going to be like the last dozen reorgs over the years that reduced the workforce but accomplished absolutely nothing else. No, sir. This one is going to make real changes! Unlike all the others, we’ll finally see real improvements in results, not just a temporary bump because of layoffs. I’m telling you, this is it!

Go home and relax, this place is for drones and sheep

For the employees that remain at dell. Working at Dell is one of the saddest and most toxic places to work at in central Texas.

Also from the main thread, morale is rock bottom and the culture has changed:

• "It's been a constant rocking boat the past few years... I used to say I liked Kroger for the stability. Funny." (Diskonnected, Post ID: @pz+1k3eddae2)
• "Hard to plan life when arbitrary layoffs happen every 3 months." (Danica, Post ID: @p8+1k3eddae2)
• "This is why no one should be ki-ling themselves everyday for these corporations. They don’t give two fu--s about the everyday people doing all their work." (Anonymous, Post ID: @kr+1k3eddae2)
• "Very sorry to everyone affected... the company is spiraling. It’s a shell of the company it once was." (Anonymous, Post ID: @m7+1k3eddae2)
• "Prayers to the parents, children, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends—we’re all in this journey together." (Anonymous, Post ID: @kv+1k3eddae2)
• "I wish I was one of you. I'm ready to get off this boat." (Diskonnected, Post ID: @pz+1k3eddae2)

I took VSP and will be gone in ‘26 Understandably I’m far less important right now than everyone else who’s getting meetings or emails about their fate My heart goes out to all of you I’m wondering if / when VSPs will bear anything at all I want to be here for the people I work directly with each day and I’m hearing murmurs of impacts. But I’m at a complete standstill right know - I have heard crickets this week To spite everything around me being shifted - I haven’t had a meeting an email or anything And my work is at a complete stand still because I don’t know what’s happening with all of my peers - crickets

All I hear is b.s., b.s., b.s. Get ready for September layoffs while we’re supposedly doing so awesome!!!!

I got comfortable during the good years, then just kept adapting as the crises piled up. Now I realize I’m completely fed up. And of course, it hits me at the worst possible time, when the options out there are practically nonexistent. I have no one to blame but myself for waiting this long, but that doesn’t make it any easier to swallow. It feels like I’ve wasted years hanging on, and now I’m stuck in a place that does me no good whatsoever, and will most likely only get worse. I’m just ranting here, but I suspect the vast majority of us feel the same.

One common theme about Canon is clear: it doesn’t matter which building you work in, the problems are the same. Canon doesn’t suffer from a lack of talent.. it suffers from a lack of leadership. Employees show up, work hard, and carry the company forward, while management hides in endless meetings, promotes favorites over performers, and makes decisions that protect themselves at everyone else’s expense. Supervisors are handed titles without the skills to actually lead. The facade of care may look good on paper, but the reality employees live every day tells a very different story, no matter how polished the corporate messaging may look

It’s because our leadership doesn’t know how to lead. Extremely poor communication upward and downward. Probably the worst in the industry. It’s why we are perpetually in the position we are in externally and internally. Literally All of them need to be removed for folks better suited to these roles. We are effectively leaderless with just some puppets occupying those positions. The senior mrgs, heads of x and dept are the worst at this. No bad people just horrible mgrs and leaders. And truth is they are comfortable they don’t want to change or for things to change.

OP: @b6+1k3kqvjzn

This is definitely the root of our problems. Bumping the post up for visibility.

Hi - I'm looking for new opportunities and may consider Cigna. Very few companies seem like great places to work. But it seems like employee dissatisfaction is comparatively low.

Any thoughts on taking a job here?

I stopped putting in extra effort a while ago. I just do my work and unplug, no more doing anything late. Whatever happens next, I’m ready to move on. The way things are going, it feels like we’re all just waiting our turn.

We just got some help at the start of the year. Much needed help, let me add. I feel so bad for the kid. Why hire somebody just to kick them out so soon? How does that even make sense?

It doesn’t get more ridiculous: while the ELT is carrying out further layoffs, nearly 20,000 salespeople and useless middle managers are being flown to Vegas to party. How is that compatible with the layoffs and the H1B scam? GSX must cost over 100 billion USD with those private concerts. A slap in the face for all customers, employees, and partners who pay a lot but get less service .. or get fired.

They told me my role is no longer needed, with my last day in mid October. Two of us are affected, I do not think this is systemic or a part of a larger plan - it's just that they are tweaking things how the group (~20 folks) works - two of us are affected.

Yet, surprisingly, I feel relief more than shock... The signs were there... mornings felt heavy, mgrs went quiet, and even teammates I thought had my back started to drift away - it felt bad... The energy was 100% off I knew the call was coming.

It stings. At the same time I’d rather be out than stuck in a job that drained me. Theres a strange peace in knowing it’s official.

Anyone else ever feel like the final cut is easier than the slow buildup?

im gonna go in tomorrow. I’ve got people counting on me, and there’s no room for self-pity right now, i'll finish this chapter with dignity and will do a good job... Time to chase the next chapter, onward & upward.

Why 'serial layoffs' are a new job-market norm for workers

Serial layoffs become common, impacting employee trust and morale. AI's role in job cuts grows, leading to longer unemployment for affected workers.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2025/08/26/serial-layoffs-are-a-new-job-market-norm.html
The Business Journals
Aug/26/2025 05:24 PM
Location: Sacramento, California