What question would you ask management on slido if there were no repercussions?
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Vibrating mouse pads are cheap from Amazon. Keeps your light green while WFH, or I’ve used it while working from office. Just put DND light on and you’ll look very busy.
Was called into Division Managers office on Poydras back in 90s. DM had HR in office. Dropped a printed email from me to a colleague in which I had been critical of a DM decision. Colleague did not share this email with anyone, nor did I. Of course I noted to DM that it was a personal email. He stated that the company owns the computer system, therefore owned all emails. Me, I survived, although served a week off w/o pay...
They have, can and will monitor emails, usually on keywords. No way is there the manpower to monitor everything.
I’ve been placing electrical tape over camera since on board cameras came out years ago. Are you saying some folks don’t? Take off for mandatory video meeting, otherwise just join on audio and mute.
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Do they really do all of this?
@hts+18iMl1CR, because your manager wants to pay less money and and the contractor count for all four, but the main point, your coward manager will not want somebody more intelligent than him. Because your manager does not know anything about the business and he needs to cover his failure, because he can not train the other four guys as suppose to be and according to EM. That's your answer.
Do the chickens have large talons?
Why do you read all of our emails? Why do you watch us via the laptop camera when we are working at home? Why do you track where we are via our company cell phones? Why do you track everything we do from our keyboard key strokes to watching us on our laptop cameras to reading all of our emails to where we travel to when we are logged on and logged off?
Have you no human decency, sirs? Have you no decency?
What is the plan? In plain language what’s the end goal for 2021, 2025, and 2035?
If they cannot clearly answer this on the spot the. You know there’s a problem and time to jump ship. In my first two years as an engineer I had a goal for my unit through five years. I had projects listed and cost estimated. No excuse why any management can’t.
How did the Company ended up in this desperate situation and don’t we foresee this is coming? It cannot be due to the COVID? Was the Company too aggressive in expanding or there were other reasons that should be discussed here?
If "courage of conviction" is valued, why are those who speak up mysteriously let go a few months later?
If caring for your people during the layoffs was actually one of the core values, why did you not offer a voluntary option for those under 55 to minimize the pain and suffering inflicted on your workforce?
Considering management is almost completely inbred, do you truly believe you are capable and will make the necessary changes to make the company efficient to survive in the new low price oil environment?
I asked my questions and they lied or avoided my questions.
Why was four EM employees in our group laid off, and the contractor kept?
What are plans from management to retain talent in an environment when outside opportunities are more attractive at this time (i.e. 401K match, pay raises/bonuses of EOY)?
I’d say (not a question) that it’s pretty damn clear they retaliate
Can we ship Darren’s job to India?
After seeing what happened to people a few years or even months away from being NRE, why should anyone in their 20s or 30s consider staying for a career?
I would ask if they have ever read the boards in thelayoff.come