Companies have to be competitive by relying on cheap indentured labor or outsourcing work to sweatshops. If NM don't, fall behind in the market. To see real change, elect politicians who will protect American jobs by banning H-1B visas, reducing... — read more 

If anyone missed they are reducing the 401k / cash balance plan by 2 percent. SLT values young employees over tenured ones saying over 10 year employees receive too much vacation. KC you are the mini me of DR.

What is this obsession about cramming everyone into city traffic? Frankly Franklin campus was the best asset. I smell corruption

Seems that the IT staff is all going offshore. Infosys is taking over again. We all remember last time they worked. The field is going to love this.

What’s behind the quick dismissal of DG? And what happens to the USAA prodigies, aka the Price Is Right models?

No update other than they can’t figure out the parking problem but they want to pass the cost onto employees. The good news is there will be 40 parking spots for when the new Walmart opens in the tower next to the 5th version of Starbucks and the 7... — read more 

he has no direct reports and he's the only person reporting to DG.

Lots of business areas have their own agenda! They just want to cost themselves to retirement! So now the engineers have to make wonders for them to beat competition by maintaining the century old legacy systems built before Internet age

Management used to mean something here - leaders knew you, understood your role, and genuinely cared. Now, it’s just a rotating cast of executives playing corporate chess with our jobs. They talk about transformation and innovation, but on the... — read more 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/alexa-von-tobel-has-high-hopes-for-fintech-3-0/ She is also selling a bridge to nowhere and tickets for rides on her magical white unicorn.

Why aren’t we in the fortune 50?

In 2022, McKinsey was paid $55M to advise Warner Brothers to combine with Discovery. From 2022-2025, McKinsey charged Warner Brothers Discovery $37M by advising the company to change HBO to HBO Max, then to Max, then back to HBO Max. In 2025... — read more 

Why is the network quality in the tower is poor? Is bald ghost AR worthless?

WIT overseers exploit engineers. Why a WIT engineer to oversee other engineers? Absolute redundancy to the management! WITs collude with DEI fanatics to run this scam. These scammers completely exploit and leach off other people!

It's called The Reorg! JS got the entire company swaying to that crazy reorg beat. CM grabbed his dancing shoes and showed everybody how to really shake it down. Reorg! Reorg! When you are a leader and don’t know how to deliver, Reorg! If your... — read more 

Our best manager got pushed out for someone who su-ks up but can’t deliver. Now our group is drowning while all the new guy does is take credit. Instead of noticing what’s really happening, leadership just eats it up. Who exactly is this benefiting... — read more 

Who will we obsess about now? :(

Need I say more?

From AA’s AMA, AA’s teams are bracing for layoffs in the middle of June, and yet he’s still busy inflating his ego by adding more layers of vice presidents? Watching this unfold, it’s both disheartening and infuriating. Leadership isn’t about titles... — read more 

Has anyone used flight tracker recently to check the NM corporate jet? It seems the info is now blocked.

They Recommended Strategic Operational Excellence focus intersecting back office synergistic objectives and top line expansion... seemed legit

Easily a thousand people unable to log into many necessary things for 6 hours, yikes!

They will lose homes, cars and much more. Brace yourselves :(

New hires here will be retained for 3 years and then discarded afterward. The aim is to let them go cheaply without severance once the major work on the project is completed. This has been the new employee experience for a decade. @Job seekers... — read more 

When that doesn't work they will make it 6 days, desperate times :(

Who is responsible for bringing in and supporting Five 9? Why did they pick this tool?

LTI does not get paid if they don't reach certain metrics but NM would still reap gains from them so it would make business sense to have them fall just short, I wonder if they figured this out yet. I bet all the laid off testing people and their... — read more 

Unless we stop the cheap labor imports there will not be any jobs in the market. Current job market will only benefit do nothing management class, rating you based on no idea about the difficulty of our work! If we are able to get another job easily... — read more 

Over the past month I personally know of about a dozen layoffs and “involuntary retirements” taking place plus others in previous months. I’ve only been at NM a year and don’t know too many outside of my area and am wondering if there are a lot of... — read more 

the last i saw she was talking wherever she could both internally and externally about how amazing ai is. then gone.

Someone once said something about ARs family business. I asked for some more detail. Never saw any. Anybody care to elaborate? Or am I right this place just full of bottom feeding CN rated racist conspiracy nutjobs?

What did merit increases look like for everyone this year? Seems like they’re cutting costs everywhere they can.

They are constantly swapping out the more expensive ones with new ones at a fraction of the rate, it's incredible. Unfortunately the next iteration is even more unremarkable than the previous, and that is saying something

It’s time to rise up against Northwestern Mutual walking away from their DEI goals. They are added them to the do not buy list under https://thepeoplesunionusa.com. From what I hear their employee bonuses were the worst since 2007. There is a direct... — read more 

Is it ignorance of how bad others have it or gratitude knowing how well off they are compared to those having to find work in a truly apocalyptic employment market? I try to bring a positive attitude everywhere I go but I know many of you are... — read more 

DR, your legacy is now firmly established. Your pay-for-performance model has effectively moved NM out of the top 1000 companies to work for. Wishing you all the best, silver fox. Your most notable contribution remains installing Workday at your 20th... — read more 

I got an external offer from NM. And even after all the changes and lay offs the last two years it’s still hard to leave. Anyone else felt this or have left and found something better?

Oh wow, the VPN went down again yesterday—right when people were trying to work remotely. Incredible. After all the money we threw at ICS and J2C, you’d think we could at least count on our resources to function when it actually matters. But... — read more