I was hired on and the future was bright.
High salary, good options, good bonus. Lighter work load but very interesting work.
That became the status quo for the first 2.5 years.
Then onto a project that had legs but should have been completed in half the time.
The excuse in length was, don't #$%@ up the brand. Valid but the program still took entirely too long.
All the time the better than avg salary/options/bonus arrived.
The next 4 years flew by but the work was not mentally stimulating. In the back of my head I knew I should leave to stay sharp but those golden handcuffs kept me.
The last 2.5 years have been terrible, still a great pay package but at this point in a career there needs to be more. There is not.
No bright future for the company, no groundbreaking tech to boost a new footwear line.
Just backstabbing and cliche high school atmosphere which does not fly in the FAANG corporations in which i have previously worked for.
Its a shame as I loved Nike in those early years and would have bent over backwards to forward the corporate agenda.
I'll stay but no longer have that fire.
Too many VPs to count and absolutely no clue what some do. How a corporation can justify the cost of VPs that barely contribute but a slide deck now and then. Slide decks do not keep the lights on.
Nike is down, Portland downtown is down, that 2016 vibe is long gone.
I am just planning to milk the Nike te-t until my day arrives. It eventually will.
People will say then just leave. Not a chance in this Portland job market. My family would take a hit and that is not happening.