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We now have to have security clearances to work for Sycamore. Every answer is shrouded in either secrecy or extremely vague. Every day we get after hours invites to either get laid off or learn about your our org that go out at 6pm. WTF? Do they enjoy creating a more toxic workplace with these useless meeting invites? Send me an invite during business hours. We don’t need to prepare for you to tell us we are gone since you won’t answer any questions. A simple email with a new org sent out during business hours would be much more efficient than vague emails where we hope to hear exciting, insightful information only to be let down with more non-answers.

How about a portal where we can sign up for layoffs next time rather than watch you layoff those that want to stay?

I can’t wait to find out what overpaid washed-up execs we hired (to replace the useless ones we just fired) start to tell us how this new org chart will save Walgreens. Do more with less. Keep doing more with almost nothing. Here’s nothing….DO MORE!!!! The Walgreen family did it well for 100 years. It was some rich billionaire who brought in PE that messed it up the first time. His solution…bring in more PE to fix it.

And before I get the “just leave.” Why? We all whine and complain and still get paid. I am just saying what most want to say. Except for Jeff, Greg, Bryan, Alec, Tracey, Tracy, Ron, Tim, and Joe. The love it. (All names are fictional and any similarities are purely coincidental).

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@OP Love the layoff portal. Sign me up. It could be designed where you enter your employee ID and it displays your severance package before you submit the layoff request. At least it would be an opportunity to board a lifeboat instead of remaining on this sinking ship.

Dear Mr. Stefanosamma Pessinahyde,

The truth you speak is only matched by the size of your courage to speak it.

Thank you,
Me.

You want a portal to sign up for layoffs? Bro just walk into traffic like a real man instead of simping for another 6 months of direct deposit. "Do more with less" isn't a slogan, it's the Talmudic business model now—squeeze the white-collar go--m until they pop, replace them with H1B Indians who'll work for curry fumes, then extract the last drops of equity before the whole chain gets chopped up and sold for scrap like every other PE ra-e victim.

You're mad about vague emails? Brother, the vagueness IS the message. "Exciting new org changes" = "you're next, fa---t, pack your sh-t." They love the toxicity because fear keeps the survivors grinding harder for scraps. You’re sitting there seething about overpaid execs while collecting a paycheck to post this manifesto on a usually dead anonymous board. But no, you’d rather stay chained to the desk, collecting the scraps while Sycamore vultures pick the meat off the bones. When they win, do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids hooked on fentanyl from the Walgreens pharmacy, and they think it’s hilarious.

Maybe next time they'll invite you to a "voluntary separation ceremony" Wear something nice. Or don't.

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