Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

I wouldn’t mind being laid off at the next opportunity

I'm a designer, and the past two years have been incredibly exhausting and demoralizing. Nike no longer resembles the company it was when I first joined. I've been actively looking for a role elsewhere, ideally at a smaller company.

The corporate environment has become increasingly depressing and chaotic. Every reorg, round of cuts, or wave of layoffs is followed by a drawn-out period of “settling,” only for the cycle to repeat itself without pause. And yet, nothing meaningful or inspiring seems to come out of it.

I don’t know how the rest of you are feeling, but I’m tired and completely unmotivated.

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Is Rob still your VP? lol
Turning down artist or designer roles at Nike is now seen as more respectable than actually working there.

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Post ID: @k8+1jvd8fh82

So now being laid off is an opportunity? Pathetic.

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Post ID: @j7+1jvd8fh82

It seems this is impacting your mental health, so leave. You have a plan, continue to apply and move somewhere else.

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Post ID: @j4+1jvd8fh82

Literally roles are getting 3x the applications they were a year ago. Not sure the “wanting to work for Nike” has changed

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Post ID: @fj+1jvd8fh82

Interesting that people think that YOU should just leave! I remember the days when nobody wanted to leave and it was hard to get in because Nike was where everyone wanted to work! Cr-ppy leaders that are micromanaging their team intentionally because they want them to quit! They “eliminate” roles and then the roles are posted a few months later. The favoritism and ageism is disgraceful!

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Post ID: @ez+1jvd8fh82

@a4+1jvd8fh82 Exactly this. This is what happens when the place is run by politicians and yes-men and women who only care about self-perseverance and looking good on paper. They’re all about saying the “right” things and putting together slick decks and stories, but when it comes to actually running the business or understanding the consumer, they’re completely out of touch. This is an outcome which Nike well deserves.

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Post ID: @dn+1jvd8fh82

Leave. You are the problem.

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Post ID: @df+1jvd8fh82

So leave, then. Seriously not helping the situation if you’re just coasting waiting for a payout. So many amazing impacted people from the last RIF still looking for work (or from the resent VF, saucony, adidas layoffs) who would happily trade you!

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Post ID: @b2+1jvd8fh82

You’re not alone.

It’s a sh-t show, run by a bloated, phony, incompetent layer of management that somehow seems to survive. Like roaches.

But fu-k em. I’ll wait until they push me out and take the severance.

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