#workload

This "leadership" keeps cutting people and stacking the leftovers on whoever stays. They already started again, and I am determined not to take on another unwanted task. We all kept absorbing the hit and pretending it was normal, but that ends for me today. If pushing back puts a target on my back, so be it.

Now that feels like a foggy memory. It was never perfect, and I never expected major career growth. Advancement was already limited when I joined. But things were better organized, more efficient, less harsh, and at least somewhat logical. Doing a good job actually meant something.

Today it’s a drag, with constant chaos, growing obstacles to helping clients, and the axe always spinning overhead. Any motivation, encouragement, or respect has been stripped out of how leadership treats employees. I honestly think they’re counting on most of us being decent people who still try to do our jobs responsibly, because there’s no external incentive left. The only thing keeping anyone dedicated now is personal ethics.

By the time Friday hits I'm worn out from all the extra work I've been expected to take on, and even an entire weekend of doing nothing but resting doesn't bring my energy back. I start every Monday already drained, and it's getting harder to see how I'm supposed to keep this pace going.

After 25 years I was terminated on 11/20. And now a local Engineering firm has just reached out to me to see if I would come to work for them on the projects I was working at the time of my dismissal. So VZ will now pay much much more to get projects completed and they won't be able to overwork me like they did in 2025. I was told my former manager was in "Panic" mode to get these projects completed. Should I take the job?

Being one minute late to a meeting is “disrespectful,” apparently. But him slurping coffee into the mic like he’s doing a Folgers ASMR? That’s “leadership excellence,” I guess.

He swears email is a letter because, his words, not mine - he’s “old.” And he responds to every single one of those letters with pride… but Slack? Oh no. That’s where he draws the line. Technology has gone too far.

And when the layoffs, sorry, the “carnage” are finally done, he says those of us who remain will be… delighted. Yes, delighted. Because nothing screams delight like survivor’s guilt and three people doing the work of twelve.

If you missed the all-hands, don’t waste your time watching the replay.

He said ALL of this in 33 minutes… a meeting that absolutely could’ve been an email.

Enjoy your weekend everyone and come Monday may the odds be ever in your favor! For the survivors make sure you add on at least 2 peoples work load to your overstuffed plate to help your work life balance! Toxic wasteland!!

That’s the uk offshore workforce been hit with 10% reduction from our poor offshore dayrate.
The following day my boss is telling me to stay vigilant at the well site despite the cut!
For me it’s do the bare minimum to get by.

Our team just went through another round of layoffs recently and it has become routine at this point. Every few weeks a new team gets hit. These days, people spend more time wondering who is next than focusing on the work. I have been trying to stay calm, but the nonstop churn takes a toll. If I could, I would leave on my own.

Can’t even imagine what this job will be like come next month.

So far the stress and workload has doubled as well as the quotas and that’s with our laid off coworkers still here

Interesting - folks posting within minutes after CW and MD announcements. Nothing else to do? Like do your work?

I'll be writing nothing but small orders for Christmas. This B's company does not give us help to work deliveries but want us to Load up stores so the product can sit in backrooms. Door to floor only from hear on out.

What is it with DXC staff and email. I'm Cc'd on endless message chains. It's literally a full time job just trying to keep on top of reading it all. Can we not just have some propper systems. Unless directly asking me - I do not need to know. The point is when I do need to know - I'm not included!!! I give up on this place...

My team has been shrinking for two years straight, and none of the key roles were ever backfilled. At this point, I can’t even remember the last time I left at the official end of the day. The only thing keeping us going is that my teammates are solid. We’ve been carrying the load together, since our manager isn’t exactly helping.

We’ve pushed ourselves because the job market is rough and we’re all trying to hold on to what we have. But we’re getting to a point where the workload just isn’t realistic anymore, and the exhaustion is hitting hard. It makes you wonder what the point is. Fighting so hard for a paycheck every day, when the whole thing could be sent offshore at any moment.

Management supposedly just wants to see how long it takes employees to work a case, however, there are 35 (YES THIRTY-FIVE) different task codes to choose from, including lunch/breaks AND Other, in which a comment is required. Looks like every single minute of our day has to be accounted for. I am so done with this place! Not like we aren’t doing our work, just certain times of the month are busier than others but we always get our work done.

Trying to split britive permissions down to granular level based on what a random vp in cyber thinks a developer does. Fails to account for the fact we've been doing every role since frank's reign of te---r. I for one am going to feel great saying I cant do the work because cyber says it's not my responsibility

I’m ready for it to be over. Knocking out new code this morning. Expected to finish projects, migration, and do hand off. Just friggin fire me at this point. 3 more weeks…

Yeah I know man up. I got ya.

We lost two people on our team who were solid in every way, reliable, hardworking, the kind you could trust with anything. Now the workload is barely manageable. And after seeing how the layoffs were handled, I have zero motivation to go above and beyond. The only thing keeping me trying is the rest of the team, who’ve all been great to work with. Still, it’s hard not to think that any of us could be next.

Manager I/II/Sr are all just puppets. Scared little puppets with no real power other than forcing direct reports to work twice as more hours, take on more projects and assignments. All for a badge on the loop and thank you email and a well deserved layoff in couple of months.

It’s these people who are ornamental that should be let go. There are more manager layers for a 4 member team than necessary.

TU had a great run during pe-k and kapoor era. Ran out of hope for any course correction.

Squeeze every cent out of TU- VA and team!!

i read that there are some occupational restrictions on this, does this affect the compressed shift hourly workers in the factory, if so thats great news!

Every task is marked urgent, but planning is almost nonexistent, and the list of measurables keeps growing. Cuts leave teams stretched beyond capacity. The constant message is just to be grateful you still have a job. Keeping operations moving under these conditions is exhausting.

Nike keeps reorganizing every six months, and it's always the same story: one step forward and two steps back, like we're stuck on a loop that never ends.

This management has relied on the same tired playbook for far too long, choosing layoffs as its only real method of improving numbers while pretending that constant cuts somehow count as strategy. They cycle through the same pattern every time, bringing in a handful of low-cost replacements to quiet the workload complaints and then returning to the exact behavior that created the mess, which has become the predictable HP way in every sense.

How are you dealing with it? Because I'm nearing my breaking point.

Since much of the maintenance on the network has been turned over to contractors, I wonder how much longer will VZW’s Field Assurance Engineers (aka cell tech’s) last before they are caught up in the next round of layoff’s? Lots of long term employees with little to do….

How’s morale for you? I am exhausted from the layoffs. Wish they would just get the firing over with already. This place su-ks now.

I saw in previous post same thing was stated .Being told we need to carry a bigger load now.Im relieved to survive the rif but I’m just not sure it’s fair we now have to carry an even bigger load!I mean why should we be expected to carry our own load plus now everyone else load that was let go.Does anyone agree or should we just deal with the bigger load

How many more people are they going to cut before they realize we are already operating at a bare minimum head count at some facilities?

So we have all been stressed but made it thru .I am feeling better since my director told me I should be ok the next round of rifs after the frontier merger.He said we all may have to pick up the extra slack but it will show we are value.

They keep cutting experienced staff only to bring in new people who take ages to get up to speed. What's the point?

The whole place feels stretched thin because we’re missing people on the floor and in management, and it shows every day.

It’s happened so many times already that I’m not even sure there are enough people left on some teams to carry the load. Every time they cut, the rest of us get buried.

is a good day to get a jump on the week and log on to knock out emails and work items. hard work is how we come back

Rumor is that some of the folks in the stores that are being converted will call in sick on Black Friday. Anyone one hear about this?

Anyone else see similarities to Cares and Targets 10-4 program?. Thought micromanagement was bad before now they have daily observations, other branch employees spying on each other ans numerous new click counters that will be a reason to deny annual incentives. Wish we could just opt out of the incentive plan and be left alone to truly focus on the job not bean counting.

For everyone who was not affected from this RIF, I suggest you do not pick up any extra slack that puts you over 40 hours. Let jobs fail due to lack of resources. This is the only way for management to truly feel the pain or understand that we will need those people back where we were already spread thin to begin with. If you truly can’t get it all done in your time allotted then it will be on your manager and their manager to figure it out. That is literally their job.

You'd be a complete fool to work harder to fill in the gaps.

All stores are underperforming (according to the corporate office), so that means fewer employees who will be pushed to do twice the work! You should be looking for a new job now. Be prepared to be called into the office after the holidays.

Anyone notice (and maybe you’re one) PetroTechs are being parked in functions across the organization not related to their discipline (IT, Finance, Supply Chain). Park until needed? Waiting for an upturn in activity? I can’t imagine they are very happy with these assignments other than getting paid.

Hi, haven't been here for a year. Was declared obsolete 2 years ago. Just wonder how much the employee count is these days, and how many of these are effectively and actively working ...

For stores to look they way they do this close to Black Friday is deeply concerning. Everything is being run by text messages, I haven’t seen an actual Belk executive in months. I am under the assumption that the RVP and GVP are stretched so thin, they can’t visit all the stores. Freight is pilling up, call outs are through the roof, payroll is less than previous years, workload planning is a joke.