Right? I mean, who needs people proven in the field, skilled veterans, and invested employees with real passion for the product or the brand, when you can bring in random outsiders who just hopped over from entirely different companies, industries, and set of issues to tell you what to do and how to do it. This whole obsession with clueless consultants will remain a mystery to me until the day I die. And it’s not like they’re cheap, either.
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@ee hopefully you have enough savings to switch careers…..
Is the future that grim? I really don’t want to hunt for jobs in this market. Portland looks dead.
Look at the pedigree of the remaining VPs across tech. Tech will be moved to majority ITC with a small number of experts kept in NA. SMALL.
Oh. And it goes without saying. The “leaders” that pushed to destroy Christmas this year don’t practice these American holidays. Nike is already an ITC based company even if our taxes don’t reflect it yet.
@ax They are 25% cheaper on average and cannot leave their role.
That lack of mobility means they have the opposite of ‘leverage’ in discussions about promotions or annual raises. Analyze HR’s books for junior roles, the people that have sat stagnate for 3-5 years or more are ALL H1B.
These poor souls are forced to work whatever hours demanded or accept that they have to pay for their own flight home.
This is almost entirely the reason why SEC is able to demand every team at Nike provide 24/7 “eyes on laptop” coverage across the Christmas and New Years holidays. No sane employer or manager would pull such a bone headed strategy. But when you have a modern whip in your hands you can get away with whatever you like.
Regarding H1B:
A plentiful amount of locally trained US citizens eager to work in IT with good communication skills and good programming skills culturally adapted and ready to take companies to the next stratosphere.
Truth is, workers that struggle with english, struggle to co-exist with the local culture and have a communication gap that, quite honestly, would take near a lifetime to master, offer what again?
You hire consultants to take the blame for whatever your business plans are. If the plan pays out you take the credit. If the plan fails they get let go.
The indentured servants (H1B) are an entirely different contracting game. A generation ago they would have been called scabs. Two generations ago, slaves.
And speaking of them… the market knows how addicted Nike is to underpaid labor. In the factory and now in the office.
The new $100,000 visa fee is actively destroying the company’s corporate workforce. It will be sold as “layoffs” & “cost savings” but this loss of critical experienced personnel is entirely out of our control. I’m not surprised we’re tanking. Bills are coming due from a decade of taking the cheapest option.