It's just a waiting room until they walk you out. Our manager actually complained that we're not invested. The only reason people didn't laugh out loud was because they need the money.
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Why care about any of the work?? We’re all getting kicked out eventually, either by layoff or this “firing for fake reasons” nonsense.
If you are ln’t selling products/services, or speaking directly with regulators, your job is going to India before this is all over. Writing is in the wall
My peer still hasn't figured this out yet - they work in STL, have already been notified that STL will NOT be a hub next year, and they are not able to relocate. Despite all that, this person is online after 9PM, and then back on again at 7AM M-F, and constantly freaks out on their staff about things going off track all the time because we have cut 50% of the group with no material drop in workload. It all looks really silly to the entire team since they're in STL too and they 100% loathe this place.
People are no longer emotionally vested in the company. People know that it is a waiting game. Waiting to be let go for cheap overseas labor or AI. People are delusional in believing they matter. You don't, not to the company. If you ldecide to leave, they replace you, and people forget about you. Your labor is worth free pizza and donuts on occasion. That's is what you mean to them.
This is a place to work and get paid. It's a transaction- there's no emotional connection. Corporations broke that fantasy years ago. I'm only invested as long as it's serving my interests.
Not invested? Ask your manager how can any employee be invested in a company when the CEO makes such a harebrained statement like this:
Wells Fargo CEO talks layoffs, CELEBRATES 23 consecutive quarters of headcount reductions!
People used to be focused on bank success, then after years of downsizing it shifted to survival mode. Now that people recognize that there's no future here regardless of what they do, they are either finding other places to work or are simply here to protect their severance. Either way, it's not conducive to long term company success.
Oh, I'm fully invested. And once I'm no longer employed here, that fully-vested investment is walking out the door with me, into a significantly better basket of fund options.
I think you're confused. That's exactly what a job is. What is not is a career.