I've been here for over 10 years. I have always been mostly focused only on my own specific job and I was not very interested in the business strategy of this company. Then at one point I looked back and realized that this was no longer the same company I started working for. I wonder when everything went downhill...
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To PL from those of us left behind…
It is not our jobs to compensate for the fact you have not hired enough skilled people to keep the company running.
See also “I got mine, good luck everyone else”
I was in RSD Technology and under Phil Teeters leadership I mean I get it, maybe you have a trusted strong person or two you always take with you.
But to have a 12 pack of stodgy silver haired friends you’ve been stringing along since the college years and working for senior leadership salaries made our entire department an outsource target.
His buddy K Brown used to open a high ticket once a month that she couldn’t log in. She would then send out her monthly newsletter hours after we helped her. Repeat every month. That may have been the only thing she did the last three years until retirement from her Sonoma home. That’s quite an expensive monthly email.
They all got to retire while any functional human over the age of 40 got the axe the next 3 years “hot chicks exempt as always”
Thanks boomers hope you enjoyed working for the firm for 35 years while the rest of us have a forced life reboot every 5.
See also: entire staff of 20 eliminated except flirty hot chick reporting to middle age white men. Hey Mike the new Asian babe got a bo-b job! Yup Fred she sure did, let’s promote her to VP. High 5 on that one good buddy!
Hate to break the news but PL has always had an age limit for their execs. Jim has likely reached that age and it’s time for him to find another pasture. One caveat to note here is that Mary Ann Brown reached the age limit in her tenure at Pacific Life but was viewed as highly valuable to the company and the board granted an exception and she continued with the company for 2-3 years longer. Perhaps Jim’s performance isn’t viewed as favorable to ask him to stay longer. How is VIP looking this year….? Sorry to all of you who are still there.
It went downhill when Sudbooty got her first promotion. She is a self serving tyrant.
Jim just announced his retirement. Guess he sees the writing on the wall. This is the end folks. The CEO, who was plucked from a crop of interns and nurtured to lead the company didn’t stay very long. I guess his timid, pushover personality didn’t fit with the current crop of over achieving fresh from college, theory based millennials now running the jo--t.
I noticed all the 150-200 year old financial and insurance institutions are losing their flipping mind and have a serious FOMO complex and have to copy everything their competitors are doing even if it leads to impending doom.
They don’t even let people make lateral moves anymore. RIF & Replace. Overeducated think tank zealots and consultants are influencing all the decisions.
Board of directors also has more soulless ex mega corp people on it than it used to. “Well Jim when I was president of bank of the _____ by 2015 we offshored every last job to overseas white collar sweatshops let’s pick up the pace good buddy”