Thread regarding Enbridge Inc. layoffs

Hey any comment on LUG leaders promoting LUG employees, you seem pretty detailed give it a go!

Harmonized pensions screwed us a UG with the db buy up.
Will never forgive and never will give an ounce xtra.

Nobody took away your pension. In the background your pension is divided into two - one encompassing your entire historical accumulation, which will continue to exist in it's original state, and the other encompassing everything post-adjustment. For instance, your accumulated historical pension will remain adjusted indefinitely.

Yes, the terms changed, and not in your favour, but one thing to note is that they didn't do away with defined benefit altogether, which most companies have done. Defined benefit was one of the things that ki---d GM.

I was fortunate - I ended up in DB back in 1999 despite having no idea how, or even what it meant at the time...

Many people I speak to have been "Quite Quitting" since ENB has been taking stuff away from us like our pension, benefits, larger work loads, 3% pay to the dividend increase.

"People have just woken up to the fact the advancement to upper ranks is more a function of luck and being in the right place at the right time than hard work."

Add to the list: "it's who you know"

The psychopathic types at (or near) the top are always going to promote their friends to become the newest puppet.

The greatest lie told to the workforce is: Hard work is rewarded with wealth and career advancement.
What is not said, is that the previous statement is only mostly true for those that own their own business.
For the majority that have chosen to work for others and to trade Dollars for Hours; those rewards will never be achieved.
The bottom line is that there is NO loyalty between Employers and Employees, and that we are all just replaceable COGS in the Corporate Machinery.
Take care of yourselves, because no one has your back but you!

"Going the extra mile doesn’t reward anyone but shareholders - and unless you are one of them, use that time to be productive in other means."

Seems to me that every permanent, full-time employee at Enbridge is a shareholder.

“I do suggest that anybody engaged in quiet quitting should understand they've given up any significant wage increases or job advancement. It's part of the path, and baked into the title, "quiet quitting". So, no option to complain when a coworker gets a promotion and they do not.”

As someone who regularly went above and beyond and performed better than the peers, only to be burned out and not recognized, I say Fu-k that! I’m a huge proponent of job hopping because if Enbridge won’t give me my promotion, some other company will. And that’s exactly what I’ve done :)

I just heard this term recently and think it is the d-mbest criticism of doing your job I have ever heard.

What people are rejecting is the idea of going over and above as the norm.

This is not specific to enbridge bit a wake up call that careers aren’t as satisfying to your life as guidance councilors in high school ads them out to be.

And no going the extra mile does not guarantee promotions or appropriate raises - especially for salaries folks.

People have just woken up to the fact the advancement to upper ranks is more a function of luck and being in the right place at the right time than hard work.

I say good riddance to this stupid old school career culture paradigm. Do your job well and with professionalism. Going the extra mile doesn’t reward anyone but shareholders - and unless you are one of them, use that time to be productive in other means.

Not necessarily. Anecdotally but I have been doing this since 2015. Probably depends on your team, but neither of my bosses cared as my work was always completed on-time and of quality. When I am in the office, I'm there to work. The only negativity I ever received was from the non-productive members of my group who stay late for optics saying that I wasn't a team player, however the people who held authority never mentioned anything in performance reviews. More to your point, my bonuses were never negatively affected and went up YOY. Always received my modest raises as well. Also, not everyone wants to climb the ladder. I'm perfectly fine where I am, know the value I bring, and enjoy going home at a reasonable hour to be with my family and recharge to do the same thing again the next day. Unless it's an emergency, no way would I work ~10 hrs a day and potentially miss out on my kids sporting pursuits. To each their own.

If I was laid off, I would take the short vacation and would have no trouble finding another job.

I'm sympathetic to the idea, although I think unless you're turning out widgets on an assembly line you probably can't actually write down a truly accurate job description for anybody.

I do suggest that anybody engaged in quiet quitting should understand they've given up any significant wage increases or job advancement. It's part of the path, and baked into the title, "quiet quitting". So, no option to complain when a coworker gets a promotion and they do not. It's "opt out" for everything except the immediate status quo, as well as being immediately selected for termination instead of lateral movement when the business structure changes.