Trimming muscle not fat

Year over year they cut our low level staff, and teammates leave with no backfills. Leaving us remaining to take on more work.

I'm getting burnt out big time, while our VP is all smiles, giggles and bullsh-ts all day.

Another monthly Pulse meeting where we're told there's no budget for promotions even when the rest of us are dying over here. They just cascade and delegate any pressure onto us.

So many high profile projects that us at the ground level are expected to actually lead while these guys are aloof and decide our fates as numbers on a spreadsheet. While collecting 3-5x our salaries.

Here we trim the muscle, not the fat while these execs all keep their jobs. Citibank and other places are flattening their orgs, cutting executive layers while these guys sit on top and continue to do nothing and su-k the organization dry.

I'm fed up. You might say, "you don't like it. Leave" I am. I'm trying. 10 interviews this past year and no offers. Competition couldn't be more fierce. But I ain't giving up. I want out.

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Dear @khl+1pDvVmvj,

Do us.all.a favor.get lost.

Been applying internally, and have been offered positions but they considered them lateral moves.

That keeps up and I will be applying externally.

*10 applications

I should proofread these before submitting.

@khl+1pDvVmvj

If you have 10 interviews and a bunch of interviews, you could be a star or have cultivated a great network, but it’s also possible you’re overqualified or applying to jobs with zero competition (which can happen in this job market).

I’m not defending OP, but you don’t seem to know much either.

if you've had 10 interviews and no hits, you must be a low performer and thus you're not the muscle, you're the fat. be better. complain less.

*at-will world, not at-work

As someone who left USAA, I agree with everything you said until that last paragraph. A sure sign that someone doesn't know $hit about desperation and competition is when they do something like claim they've been job hunting and that competition is fierce, but then they say they applied to TEN WHOLE JOBS over the course of a year.

Unless your target company is desperate to fill a role/set of roles, it's very easy to get beaten out, even in a strong job market. That's amplified if you're cold-applying vs leveraging a network of contacts/people familiar with your quality of your work who reach out to you with exciting opportunities.

At the moment you need to leave, it's usually too late to desperately build a network or try to increase the visibility of your work quality. You need to do that throughout your career. That's the reality of living in an at-work world; you need to have strategies to survive layoffs, re-orgs, and roadblocks to professional growth/earnings. It's not easy, and some jobs can be more unstable or harder to promote yourself in, but that's just the "unfair" world we live in.

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