Ever wondered if Karma applies to individuals only or Companies too ?
Last 5 years Nike GT has been infested with blood su-king leaders who have time and again built their empire to grow themselves and then laid off all in the name of "win now".
Everyone has to pay a price for their actions. Karma gets everyone - individuals and companies !
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Any reader of Machiavelli will know that, no, “karma” does NOT always prevail and sometimes (too often) bad people DO get the last laugh.
I understand it makes people feel better to believe “That person will eventually get their due!” But that often isn’t the way the world actually works.
Just the past 5 years? I’ve only known GTech to have what you speak of.
@np I smell lots of sociopaths around here
@jk people like you should have been laid off a long time ago and when you hit the market to realize how other companies will let go after first week when they realize how toxic you are. Nike is the only company I ever worked for who allows so much toxicity to bleed everywhere. I cannot write enough posts on how toxic the environment is at Nike.
@np are you complaining about or encouraging more toxicity at Nike? not sure I clearly understand your post.
@ja oh wow classing Nike culture! yep you are the one I'm writing about.
Coming to GT from the operations side, I can see why GT needs more layoffs with the number of toxic minions running around here. Everyone complains about "a--hole leaders” but that's amateur hour. Come spend some time on the business or ops side. The backstabbing is Olympic-level, and leadership is so polished at it they'll have you feeling inspired, valued, and fully aligned with the strategy right up until the kn--e goes in.
@ja written like a GT VP who wants people to stop pointing out how terrible and incompetent they are in their role. Classic case of deflection common in those remaining GT leaders. Good luck protecting your own interests. Many want what’s best for Nike while you and your peers try to focus on what’s best for you only before you leave to ruin the next company.
It's always amusing how the self-appointed corporate geniuses on anonymous forums seem to have all the answers. From behind a screen name, every problem is easy to solve and every leader is incompetent.
This is according to people who risk absolutely nothing and contribute even less. If you're that miserable and convinced you know better, there's a simple solution: leave.
The endless entitlement and whining are far less valuable than the self-proclaimed experts here seem to think.
How was the VP level of GT left largely intact? Not like that org has executed well at the top level. They do a big layoff and leave all the leadership intact?
When credit constantly flows upward, and employees are treated as disposable, it becomes easy to internalize a company’s behavior as a reflection of your worth. But I refuse to measure myself through the lens of weak leadership that minimizes people, takes credit for others’ ideas, fails to recognize real talent, and turns outspoken employees into scapegoats.
At Nike, many people were let go, some deservedly and some not, while others were shuffled around afterward trying to convince themselves they “won” in a deeply unstable and dysfunctional system. Watching people brag about new roles in the middle of all this says more about the culture than anything else. In the end, nothing really changed. The same people still step on others, take credit for everything around them, and try to make themselves look taller than everyone else.
For me, the most important thing now is separating my identity from the way this company treated me. I was under-recognized, minimized, mistreated, insulted, overworked, and watched others benefit from my ideas for years, yet the company still benefited enormously from my contributions.
The difference is that I know my worth. I know my skills, I know where I’m headed, and I’m building my own path forward. No toxic environment gets to define me. Karma eventually catches up with everyone, one way or another, good or bad.
That's not how it works. It's not karma.. It's incompetence and hubris, plain and simple on the part of senior leadership to read the writing on the wall. Doing the same thing on repeat and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work like that at Nike, imposters are still around. Faking it, pretending they have the experience and never been caught for years. I am coming to think there is no karma in this world.
Karma comes for everyone. If you were mistreated at Nike, your reward is finding something far better elsewhere. After how badly I’ve been treated there, I’m more than ready for my next chapter and the rewards that come with it.
Just look at their decisions the last cycle. Pretty clear cut anyone who is a threat vs do what is best for Nike.