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Why would anyone still work for a company and industry that will move to the far East in a few months to no more than 1-3 years and whine about it here? #timesup

Seems more like late February or early March. Lots of states halted SNAP benefits for fatty snacks and sugary sodas for the new year. Made poor people too fat and causing health care issues on the back side. A bad mix with minimal profits for these manufacturers. Hear me now and believe me later. #timesup

Why are Belk postings on here? A regional 1990 hasbeen store in 2 or 3 states. This is a national site. #timesup. No future here

Better for you to be you in office than someone in Îndia or the Philippines now that T1 internet is widely available M-F. Or better hope we get another virus. Simply as this. #timesup

Lots of racists white folks on all of these threads. You all had your time and ran this country for centuries on the backs of slave labor. Get used to the future of America or get out. #timesup

My director was s-xually harassing female employees while his office door was closed for years while I worked for him. #timesup Nike. I will have closure when people at the top who do nothing except get away with abuse, harassment and bullying are exposed and pay for what they’ve done to us. Let it burn to the ground.

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Tick tick. The clock has struck. The packages are in and security is set. Have your resume ready and go across the street the grass is greener

"Nike is a toxic workplace for women" (Glassdoor)

I worked at NIKE full-time (Former Employee - Anonymous Employee)

Pros

Gym access, decent food, quiet rooms

Cons

It seems it's #TimesUp and #MeToo at Nike this week, with the "retirement" of the brand president and firing of another VP. I don't know what went down, but the fact that the company is now going to open up an anonymous hotline for complaints and is promising some soul-searching about the culture there indicates to me that upper management is aware of a company-wide issue -- one that's pervasive, systemic, and stretches far beyond the C-Suite.

Good. It's about time.

Nike HQ is toxic for women. It has been for a long time. And not in the ways that are easily identifiable -- not everyone is getting Matt Lauer'ed or brushing off lewd comments at an office happy hour. It's far more insidious than that-- and it's not just the entitled, overpaid white men who are responsible.

Here are some ways the environment is toxic for women:

  • Getting ignored, marginalized or talked over when trying to present in a meeting. (The standard-issue white male Senior Director will be checking his phone, trust me).

Toxic.

  • Leaving early to pick up a sick baby at daycare, feeling the resentment of the rest of your team (particularly childless women) following you out the door.

Toxic.

  • Being passed over for promotions as a woman, doomed to tread water in middle-manager-land forever, because you've been deemed either too aggressive or not committed enough because you leave early to pick up said sick baby (see above).

Toxic.

  • Checking your email at 3 a.m. because you're up and dealing with a kid with an ear infection, only to discover a brusque, frustrated note from your boss sent at 11:53 pm asking why you haven't turned in a project yet.

Toxic.

  • Standing around at an office function, watching the lads and bros (all Senior Directors) shmooze with the VP as you stand off with the other women (managers, "specialists") and wait your turn to try and make an impression on said VP (white, male, usually British) and hope he remembers your name.

Toxic.

Look - some of this probably sounds like standard corporate-America griping, and perhaps it is. But having worked for other Fortune 500 companies, I can tell you that the environment at Nike is unique. Politics, backstabbing, strict adherence to hierarchical, patriarchal norms, and frat-boy/lad culture all conspire to make it a fairly awful place for women, particularly moms. The only women I know who ever made it up the ranks (a double-edged sword, as the job will then consume your every waking moment) are the ones who acted like men to get there -- swaggering about, doling out sports-talk, ingratiating themselves with the right people while stepping on others to get up the ladder, and routinely placing work as the highest priority over family time and/or anything else.

Of all the painful circumstances of working there, the woman-on-woman warfare was the worst. Women at Nike HQ are forced to squabble, scheme and bully each other to fight for position and influence at a company that gives out precious little of either.

Toxic.

I'll leave it at that. #TimesUp, Nike, and not a moment too soon.

Advice to Management

The leaders at the top who have been at Nike for more than 10 years need to retire and move on. Nothing will change if the entitled rich people who benefit so much from this toxic culture aren’t shown the door. Time for some fresh thinking from younger generations who understand what it takes to build a corporate culture for the modern age.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-NIKE-RVW19736239.htm (03.17.18)