How have things been since the September layoffs?
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@2nq "FE has changed but not everything is negative"
Enlighten us. What is positive about the state of FE.
@2nq You put too much confidence that your job is "solid". Wait til they pull the rug out when you least expect it. Arrogance will get the best of you before too long.
This is exactly where your credibility disappears—using low-IQ language and arguing points nobody made. Who said this was a “great” company? That came entirely from you. Most of what you throw out there is guesswork and conspiracy nonsense that’s been proven wrong over and over.
Honestly, you sound like an underperforming employee who thinks they’re owed something they haven’t earned. FE has changed, yes, but not everything is negative. I’ve got a solid job and a paycheck—more than many people have.
I thought you found the collaborator? Another fail on your part.
@252 Looks like you're the person su-king Brian Tyranny's di-k. How does his c-m taste. You have got to be mentally ill if you think this is a great company. You have got to be even more of a psychopath if you think that more isn't to come.
@29e I doubt that.
@252 found the collaborator.
@1a0 something major is coming? It was already supposed to happen. The people crying for conspiracy are always the lowest of performers and blame everyone else for your lack of advancement and decent raises. Probably raised the biggest bi--h fit for RTO. Keep believing in be boogeyman because you are the minority.
Can someone please explain what on earth is happening here in these threads?
How are there this many downvotes for pointing out the obvious decline of FirstEnergy due to BXT?
It’s like half of you are living in some delusional bubble where everything is sunshine and spirit-week positivity. Is it denial? Or did the pizza parties and ice-cream socials during RTO really scramble your sense of reality?
You seriously think FirstEnergy is going to “normalize” and everything will magically be fine? To any sort of point it was in the past?
If that’s truly where your head is at, you might want to call EAP and have an honest conversation with someone qualified to help you reconnect with reality.
Nothing being discussed here is rumor. It’s not speculation. The writing is on the wall in neon letters, and yet some of you insist on squinting at it like it’s optional reading.
Something major is coming, and FirstEnergy is on a trajectory straight into the ground while the “better days are right around the corner” crowd cheers from the sidelines in blissful ignorance.
Say what you want about Chuck—whatever his flaws, at least his moves were framed as protecting FES and keeping jobs in Akron.
But what’s happening under BXT and the current regime? It’s nothing but self-serving maneuvering dressed up as leadership. They’re not steering the ship—they’re stripping it for parts while smiling for the company newsletter. Their pockets are being lined, while they prepare to take home three times their salary when their position is eliminated post-merger while the rest, well, BXT doesn't care about the rest.
@11s this. Tyranny thinks we are all stupid. Lying by omission is our management’s most beloved pastime.
@tz FE made filings that if a merger were to occur the CEO would get paid out 3x his annual salary should his job dissolve in a merger, those changes take effect in 2026, of course there was no merger announced, Brian needs to wait for his payout, his comments at the townhall say everything, he could say no merger, but he legally can't say there's a merger until it's finalized do to investing regulations, him not saying no essentially is a yes, he's just waiting for the right moment, mergers don't appear overnight.
@yr I can see you're "that guy" of your department. Get off FE's nuts. Open wider. Keep working for a corrupt company. TYRANNY is going to continue to fu-k everyone over.
I’ll have to agree. I think people were just scared/nervous and that precipitated the rumors.
Maybe a wait and see approach now?
Never said I trusted the guy. But all the fear mongering was just that.
NO MERGER, NO SALE, NO BELOW 10,000 as you have all said is going to happen. Little piddly sh-t like food trucks and people crying because they actually have to work now. Big deal.
@vc Lol. Flex4u. As if it was a gift from BXT. I love that The C Suite narcissists actually branded it. They had to brand, us getting permission to work from home after 4 years of it. This is who we work for. Oh. Don't forget the food trucks and the little parties earlier in the year. That was so genuine.
Who wants to bet they’ll be taking away flex4u by next year? Tyranny said he wouldn’t trust any studies about WFH benefits unless they are long term 10 year studies. It’s all a smoke screen. Knowing how he operates he probably never intended flex4u to be permanent.
There's a lot of FE boot lockers in this thread.
@tz Come on now, pal! You actually trust the guy who said in April there would be no more layoffs...then in September there were more.
You trust the guy who, when pressured about return to office, said there was not enough data to support remote work being successful? When literally every study shows it makes employees happy.
You trust the guy who, "coincidentally", came from Blackstone to run the same company which Blackstone purchased seats on the boards and steaks in our transmission business.
The guy who laid people off by email in March. Many of whom didn't get the email until late at night, and some didn't even see it and showed up to the office and had no access due to credentials being revoked.
Him and his smug a-s smile.
Go ahead and live in the clouds my friend.
@tt did they what? None of everyone’s rumors materialized. More layoffs down to 10,000 employees, merger or buyout by AEP, Duke, etc.
There have been operational changes here and there.
Stop the fear mongering. People here act like they are in the know.
@q1 lol. Did they?
@tq where is your proof? All these rumors since September. Nothing has materialized.
@tg Private equity is buying in alongside consolidation mergers. BXT lied by omission.
All of your conspiracies can be put to bed. No merger, acquisition or layoffs.
The financials are strong, and it’s all about the money. There will be no more major changes.
Be happy you have jobs, allot of people do not have well paying jobs.
@qv I wonder…or passed to the customers
@q6 Look at that 250 million dollar fine. Looks like Mr. Tyranny is going to announce more layoffs.
@q7 I have never seen him in person. I don’t work at that building but I have been inside before and in the Akron area
@pe I wonder what it's like at FE HQ over on White Pond Dr., does he (BXT) actually show his face in the halls? How do people react to him?
It's going to be a great STIP... You're all fired.
Is it odd they extended the Q&A session? Seems like they will be announcing something but not sure
C-Suite have pull cords ready to launch their golden parachutes.
FE became the punchline to the latest Private Equity joke. Tomorrow's FE Live will be a doozy. Maybe the cowardly loser, BXT, will make Field Marshal Wade drop another major announcement almost under his breath again.