It breaks my heart to say this but it’s the truth. There are some really good leaders here but they are being overruled, suffocated or pushed out. There are some wonderful professionals who do amazing things here despite the extremely poor leadership above them. PL is rapidly becoming a more toxic environment. Some of the leadership (mostly old guard and some new) has a 1940s micro management toxic style of management. The paradox is that Pacific Life proclaims they want to be more digital and agile, (trying to pretend they want to become like Google or Apple) yet many leaders (AVP and above) have styles that are totally contrary to this approach. So what do they do? They pretend to be agile and digital but in actuality they are micro managers who wouldn’t know how to become digital or agile if it hit them in the face. Many of these leaders (AVP and above) wouldn’t be able to handle a staff worker role at other companies. The place is filled with a bunch of paper pushers protecting their turf by coming up with new flashy tag lin programs that waste time . Pacific Life is run like a 1940s mom and pop store. The new Chief Risk Officer has the executive presence of a second grader. To make up for the lack of true leadership and talent, he oversees a bunch of long tedious confusing risk management polices that make no sense and just wast everyone’s time. I have no idea how this guy got this job. The inefficiency of this company is unfathomable. If you have little skills and lack talent you will rise in this company. If you really are digital or agile, many at PAcific Life will be threatened by you and either force you out or prevent you from doing anything meaningful. If I were a PL member, I would strongly consider finding a better insurance company. Pacific life is becoming a toxic place to work. They let go or undermine some of the best workers and leaders. They promote or give more power to incompetent mo–ns who play politics and micro manage. The best people will end up leaving this place. If you want to limit your growth and potential come to pacific life. If you are good at pushing paper and wasting a lot of time, they will love you here. If you are good at wasting money and resources on initiatives that have little to no value, they will promote you fast.
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PL have become a complete sh–t show of a company.. Good luck everyone that is left, because they are focused on eliminating all US jobs “ specifically high salary employees, employee age, with tenure at the company” and outsourcing as much as possible to save money. Let’s see how well this turns out with the recent pandemic hitting India recently. All good, I’m sure executive management has another ace up their sleeves right?
PacificLife is a toxic hazard that is chasing the next big thing, but will always be one step behind the competition. There is no careful thought or analysis to what we do. We simply copy whatever the competition is doing. That is PL’s idea of innovation.
Pacific Life has a serious FOMO complex. To the point where they ONLY promote predatory charlatans. The bigger the BS you spin. The sky is the limit. If your an attractive female BS fountain reporting to a middle age white male enjoy it - employed for life. “We eliminated that whole team it it was a business decision” - um no you kept one, Jenny tight jeans wiggle hips who got promoted twice in a year.
Basically - they spend millions trying to solve problems they don’t have. And in doing so hire endless unicycle riding “story” tellers who get in the way of people doing actual valuable work.
Toward the end some of those town hall meetings sounded like an acid trip “growth mindset of the digital first sales enablement predictive analytics scaling our partners to meet the epic of the telling of story and agile driven by data leverage and parallel path the product chain”
What the heck dude did your cat walk on your keyboard to write that blurb? You paid a consultant 300k for that junk?
Swim lane.... haha NO! I guess it bothers them that life insurance and annuities is not as exciting as a silicone valley party. Oh well.
Any outsider comes in as a consultant and smugly states how your doing it all wrong = HIRE THAT ONE FRED! Where is he going to sit? I’M GIVING HIM YOUR OFFICE - HE’S WHAT PACIFIC LIFE NEEDS.
Accenture Jedi mind tricks senior leadership to dump hundreds of IT people just so they can - give that money to them. Wow money saved.
5 million in cloud consulting - yay we moved 5 apps to the cloud.
Best of breed! Punch above our weight class! Dude we sell funds and insurance how much sports center do you watch?
And the best thing about it. The toxically positive brainwashing that they are the best company in town. If your browse this layoff board plenty of other wealthy and ages complies give generous severance packages. They act like they are the only ones. Don’t forget to come in every day and smile like skippy mc skipper knowing your team is being eliminated.
I’ve been gone a while and I honestly think they are coming for finance, operations, marketing next. IT was just the beginning. They need your salary to hire more circus acts.
Meet the new leadership
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hNboV7Uhg-8