Thread regarding Giant Eagle layoffs

I have noticed the tension of the employees that are still here now. The jobs look like they are very unhappy. There are some things that I see that I never paid attention to before when I was a customer and it is very expensive. Not to mention they push some toxic things that are not good for the environment.

I worked for GE a few years and hated it. Regionals just point fingers and bark orders but dare they help give a hand regardless if it is Covid or the holidays.

Sure Marc’s treats their employees better to be honest.

Absolutely horrible company to work for, horrible! After working there several decades and moving out of state, I found that they truly do rip people off. Even the little hobunk country IGA stores are cheaper than Giant Eagle. Now that’s sayin something about their greed right there!

Giant Eagle (back to the days of david) was built off of the backs of some very hard working people who many of times were creative and got things done. They always got a lot done with small teams and while rarely leading the industry with ideas, was always fast in their efforts to respond to industry leaders. When you work for Giant Eagle, you take it personal and feel as though you are part of the bigger picture and part of the family.

The unfortunate thing is, the far cats on the ELT don't see you as part of their family. You are just a tool to help them earn their million dollar paychecks. They will work you to the bone and milk you for everything you have. They'll thank you for missing family and personal events for the good of the company because it helps them hit their bonuses. These guys at the VP level cash in about 80% bonus payouts (40% bonus + 40% LTI). So you can do the math on how much they make. Cutting you and your low 6 figure salary is well worth it for them to cash in.

The other part thag hurts is their arrogance. They treat the company as if it's the only place you can work. That you won't survive at another company and will eventually come back begging for your job back. This attitude actually is believed by many employees and they don't think they can get a job outside of GE that pays them this well (see a post a few down from this). What you all who still work there is, you are smart and hard working and other companies will be happy to take you on. With hard work, you'll be successful at any company you go. Every company has it's +'s and -'s, but you don't have to stay locked in to GE if you are not happy. Life is too short.

Hello friends. I walked away from GE after 22 years. It was a very difficult decision. I expected to retire there. But after countless layoff scares, no upward mobility and being treated so poorly I decided to jump. I took a job that was barely a pay raise ($2k year more) and I lost a week vacation. But, please believe me, you can’t put a price on quality of life. My LIFE is genuinely better. Stress will shorten your life. I am more well rounded mentally and emotionally. My relationship with my spouse and children has improved in ways that can’t be measured. Since then I’ve received several promotions and make far more than I ever could have realized with GE. That company will only care about money, nepotism, and Senior Executive privilege. Period. You can’t treat thousands of people so poorly and expect anything less than an unbelievable toxic culture. LK did more damage than anyone could have imagined.
Update your resume, shine up your LinkedIn profile and just go for it. You’ll be surprised how much you’ll thrive professionally when you join a team that actually cares about your wellbeing. Good luck everyone, I truly wish you all the best!

I’ll never understood why anyone applies to work in the store or a Giant Eagle or Getgo. That has to be the must under appreciated job EVER!. You are treated like garbage by both the company and customers. You are paid a slave wage while the company is making HUGE profits.

Regarding the person asking where, to be completely honest, I’m not going to put my new company on here and apologize for sounding rude.

My advice, get your resume together and apply for anything that sparks your interest regardless if it is in another industry or not. I personally left to work in a completely different industry as companies are looking for new talent outside their industry in hopes they bring a new train of thought into their organization. I personally went into a field that I never imagined and is NOT a sales related industry that I mentioned because anyone can land a job in sales these days, it’s keeping that job is the hard part if you don’t deliver results.

So my one word of advice to anyone considering leaving, do NOT take a sales job with big money promises as your better off at Giant Eagle, as awful as that sounds, unless you can truly sell and accept repeated door slams. I have tried selling in my early years and absolutely hated it, constant rejection that rival's your acne prone high school rejection days.

Make the jump, you will not regret it, trust someone with decades at that sh-t company.

Amen. I am so much healthier now that I am gone. Not just because I am away from the layoffs, drama, abusive supervisor, and ridiculous Helping Hands shifts that kept me away from my family - I work for a company with much better health insurance and I can actually afford doctor visits and my medications.

I left GE after a little over 2 years ago. I saw the writing on the wall when a certain CTO began dumping jobs overseas.

I saw the writing on the wall when our tech "leadership" decided to go with a b2c system that no one in our entire engineering team knew because... it was a little cheaper. So we spun our wheels for months trying to get training from the manufacturer and me trying desperately to get something...ANYTHING running that we could show.

I left soon after and my team was dismantled, laid off and scattered to the winds with the usual "in-crowd" doing just fine.

I hate GE and go out of my way to not support their business.

If you don’t mind me asking, where do you folks work now? I’m looking to get out of the toxic, nightmarish, micromanaged disaster this place has become. I’ve been promised a promotion for years now and all I’ve gotten is the measly standard increase. The ONLY reason I’ve stayed this long is I do get paid a decent wage. I dread going to work each and every day. Every. Single. Day. there’s some major crisis. It’s a joke. Selling groceries should not be this difficult!!!

I worked for that he-l hole for 7 years in an entry level executive position before realizing I would have accomplished absolutely nothing as a result of the sheer volume of nepotism and arrogance. Honestly, I left a much more successful company to join Giant Eagle and regretted it the entire seven years I was there. Eventually, they laid my entire department off to ship work overseas without realizing I was still under contract. Needless to say, I walked away with 3x my annual salary due to their negligence in breaching my contract. Boy did I enjoy the next two years in a consulting role without a care in the world. Now I work for a great company that pays better and offers a much better quality of life.

Not that I am looking to boast, but each Christmas we give every single staff member a $1500 Visa debit card, free turkey dinners at Thanksgiving that will feed 8-10 people, every bank holiday off and paid, team building expense account that rivals Google and Apple, paid child daycare, paid pet daycare onsite, free Starbucks in the commissary, and so much more. Talk about working for a company that ACTUALLY cares for its people, unlike Giant Eagle who thinks they can compete against the wegmans of the world. FALSE!

Get out while you can, otherwise they will find a way out FOR YOU.

Couldn’t agree more with everything you say