So after the C suite took cash earned from ERP from 168 to 112 to fund future projects, removed raises, tanked the share price of the company impacting pay of anyone with any equity, doing constant layoffs....
The next thing we are being told is we are about to get a lesson on the Stoics? Yes, this is true. We need to compare ourselves to philosophers from 300 BC and ignore all this nonsense and see it all in a positive light. That is coming from the top.
Meanwhile all VP+ are staying in luxury accommodations this week for the leader forum. Have we learned yet that this new executive leadership team only cares about themselves and their shareholders. They’re making millions but couldn’t give raises this year. They’re forcing us back to the office because the majorly of our shareholders also hold capital and shares in commercial real estate. But let’s call it culture.
I just do what I am told. No more, no less.
This is true. The CEO really thumped his chest to the leadership team to be stoic about the theft of AIP from employees. I am sure they may be allowed to change the agreed upon pay model after the fact through some * in the formula, but this is insane to do at this time. They also intentionally hid it from everyone after Q3 so we could not see the results. Don't worry though, they are telling us now in the spirit of transparency.
With any last ounce of trust being completely eroded, it leaves one to wonder why. Is it to keep the people from that little bit of extra financial cushion that may allow them to realize how bad everyone is being treated? Is it to hope more people leave?
I would love to know the total amount taken from employees from this manual reduction in bonuses from the published formula. It will never happen, but that would be a baseline of the opportunity attorneys could go after. Again, I am sure they have their clause they can do this, but it sure feels like a breach of agreement with the employees. At least an ethical one.
What the…. Is this place seriously flipping out? Scary.
@ar WTF???
Are you serious?
Stoic rules to live by: Instead of changing the culture they want you to put up, shut up and be "resilient" which makes their life easier. The senior leadership do not have the ability or the the intent to change the processes in place. SNP was initially very poorly set up and no one has ever done anything about it. The same applies to most H departments.
Don’t judge other people.
Study the lives of the greats.
Forgive, forgive, forgive.
Make a little progress each day.
Journal.
Prepare for life’s inevitable setbacks (premeditatio malorum)
Look for the poetry in ordinary things.
To do wrong to one, is to do wrong to yourself. (sympatheia)
Always choose “Alive Time.”
Associate only with people that make you better.
If someone offends you, realize you are complicit in taking offense.
Fate behaves as she pleases…do not forget this.
Possessions are yours only in trust.
Don’t make your problems worse by bemoaning them.
Accept success without arrogance, handle failure with indifference.
Courage. Temperance. Justice.
The best revenge is not to be like that.” Marcus Aurelius
Be strict with yourself and tolerant with others.
Put every impression, emotion, to the test before acting on it.
Learn something from everyone.
Focus on process, not outcomes.
Define what success means to you.
Find a way to love everything that happens (Amor fati).
Seek out challenges.
Don’t follow the mob.
Grab the “smooth handle.”
Every person is an opportunity for kindness (Seneca)
Say no (a lot).
Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
Find one thing that makes you wiser every day.
What’s bad for the hive is bad for the bee (Marcus Aurelius)
Don’t judge other people.
Focus on what you can control.
You control how you respond to things.
Ask yourself, “Is this essential?”
Meditate on your mortality every day.
Value time more than money/possessions.
You are the product of your habits.
Remember you have the power to have no opinion.
Own the morning.
Put yourself up for review (Interrogate yourself).
Don’t suffer imagined troubles.
Try to see the good in people.
Never be overheard complaining…even to yourself.
Two ears, one mouth…for a reason (Zeno)
There is always something you can do.
Don’t compare yourself to others.
Live as if you’ve died and come back (every minute is bonus time)