Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

Infrastructure e is such a mess!! Non-leadership who talk one game and then do something totally different or worse yet, DO NOTHING. Terrible old-style hires who love to hear themselves talk and are the masters of getting nothing done. Lots if useless documentation though! Their excuse this week for not moving forward? "No idea what will happen with the reorg so let's just wait." This org needs to be disbanded. WRONG "leadership", wrong time. Oh, and have you counted how many Sr Dirs and Dirs are in this org???? What a waste .... and the people doing the work suffer.

Let’s talk about how the VP Infrastructure. Treats his own staff like sht, and coddles the mo--ns that he has as direct reports, and throws everyone under the bus to save his own as. Name drops our CDIO and CEO in order to get his way. Completely not self aware and it’s shocking that this man continues to exist in this company. Oh that’s right he has people in his pocket at higher levels to wipes his tears from his eyes when people use an anonymous forum (like layoff.com) to tell him he’s an ash-t. Our current CDIO favors his friends clearly. He also has made disparaging comments about women leaders. Women leaders who he managed to have canned even though multiple women spoke out about his behavior. It’s fcking joke. Who cares anymore?

What do we have to lose? How about our f—ing minds

Employee votes don't determine who gets a Maxim Award or any employee award for that matter. ELT decides based on which rising leaders they want to boost and which ones Comms can write the best story for.

Raises and bonuses are decided before your midyear. The feedback loop that supposedly factors into your yearly rating is a farce.

There are more than a dozen compensation levels above V-A-L-U-E-S. They are the same as the bands, but HR doesn't brand them as such, to make leaders feel more special than their VALUES-banded worker bees.

The kool-aid drinkers believe the company exists to solve childhood obesity in a fast food nation, stop global climate change with private jets, and end discrimination with hashtags in a country that's never been more divided. ELT is above t-shirts, tennis shoes, and trinkets.

damn, this thread is lit

No need to allude to titles or initials, but the restructuring internally at Jordan has been so caustic and clueless that it's all people are STILL talking about. Whether it was designed by McKinsey or whoever, they've made an absolute mess of putting non-experts in positions that they have no business being in. One guy brought over his buddy from another category to work with him in a very senior position and of course dumped an array of folks below him. The boy's club is still alive and well. It's just masked better with some promotions here and there and a smarter execution.

Let’s face it, folks: Nike ELT members are the most incompetent bunch of people on the planet are living off of the brand name. How else do you explain one scandal after another? Yet, the keep parading the 5 Maxims. The “do the egg right thing” one makes me laugh (more like makes me scratch my head in disbelief)! I despise Nike!

Cheers,
A good person working for a horrible company and a horrible manager.

I have no doubt that Neymar leaving Nike was due to some dirt. He still had time on his contract, so it was terminated early.

What caught my eye was calling him the #1 soccer star for Nike. Wouldn't Cristiano Ronaldo be the #1 soccer guy for the brand since he signed a billion dollar lifetime deal with Nike in 2016 and is supposed to be one of the top 5 most marketable athletes in the world?

Of course, Cristiano had his own rape charge in 2018, just two years after signing that deal. It seems that whole situation was put away because Ronaldo didn't lose any big sponsorships and still brings in big bucks. Regardless of consent, it did show his rock star lifestyle and treatment of women as disposable s-x toys. Just like Kobe in his prime, who everyone has now annointed to sainthood because of his tragic death with his daughter in the helicopter crash.

At least the only building on campus named after a soccer player is for Mia Hamm. Hamm never raped, cheated, or hurt anyone. She was just a great player and a good person off the field. You know, the kind of athlete we all want to admire.

Nike pandering to both consumers and employees through the veil of their employee networks and advertising, then turning around and behaving the exact opposite when the spikes hit the track. Nike has cashed in on its social responsibility causes far too many times. If they think America and beyond sees Nike as some sort of beacon of equality, well, they dumb.

If people want to see just how horrible the HR and legal teams are at protecting innocent employees from assault and intimidation, wait until the story breaks on why we let our soccer star #1 go to competitor for megabucks. Maybe to avoid the press of dropping him and having a substantial contractual payout as a result? Perhaps because we are talking out our a– (marketing) regarding being champions of women's rights? Maybe assault is forgivable if it hurts the brand image? It will be a happy day for many when this laundry is aired out, as it will lead some of our fake feminist leaders out to dry. Leaders that made some really sh– decisions on how to handle this one, surprise surprise. Not like they won't make 100x your salary on the way out the door, ala TE’s $500k me too bonus.