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Corporate profits absent shared prosperity for employees is wage theft by the global oligarchy that pledges allegiance only to itself and its insatiable greed. Corporate leadership must rebrand, Un-American Electric Power.
@2taa Snarky comments are not helping your case. We know they are the result of haughty arrogance and guilt deflection.
Have you had anything to drink today sir? How much is a little? We talking one... two hundred...?
@2t9n Without the company we built and maintain they could not convince shareholders to invest a dime. It is the same as someone stealing the deed to your home and selling the house you spent a lifetime buying and maintaining right out from under you. It is time to take back our sweat equity and run these highly educated and lowly raised thieves to ground.
@2t9n Growth for their bank accounts not ours, Americans do not tie their individual identity to their employer the way Japanese workers do. Apparently, when AEP leadership is getting richer we are all supposed to be excited even though we are struggling to feed our families, keep the bills paid and try to save a little for retirement and emergencies. We are not buying into their BS when the boss is doing great we are all doing great and now their mortgaging our future to provide for their 7th future generation.
Remember we are their legitimate beard so they can con people, including us.
Wow we secured a $1.6 billion loan from the DOE. Didn't we just get done raising a bunch of money by selling a stake in one of the opcos? Not to mention all the rate increases. How are we so strapped for cash? Leadership keeps telling us that we should be so excited for all the "growth" but it appears that we have to go into massive debt to chase it. I hope they know what they're doing.
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DB, is that you?
The bigger question you all should be asking isn't about money or culture. These things will always stay the same at AEP... but now a great leader has made peace in the middle east will we the people at AEP finally invest in their utility sector?
@2t0b Fealty based.
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I was shocked when he said that 40% of transmission got a raise. I certainly didn't so I instantly started wondering who got one and under what rationale.
The question was laced with poison though, the guy said that he can never get top shelf hires because AEP can't compete, and what is being done to change that.
I think he was put on the spot and was fumbling the question so he just put the 40% figure out there to take the pressure off. Because in reality he knows AEP has nothing to offer.
Bill shredded a lot of good will with the RTO debacle. What a mo--n. Anyone else notice how we rarely hear from Bill anymore? For a little while after he was hired you couldn't go a day without seeing his face on the homepage or getting a mass email from him. Now crickets
What happened Bill? Realizing everyone hates you now? You ruined a lot of lives.
AEP should not be advertising about career oppurtunities. It is just not true from my experience. I woukd have been way better off at another utility like Duke. Instead I believed in AEP lies and wasted a majority off my life. I really hope younger people are reading these posts before joining this company. Biggest disappointment in my life.
@2szt Don't let these b-ms wield control over your financial situation. Get another job offer, don't talk about the money, politely tell your AEPA manager that you have a serious offer but you want to stay at AEP. IF you get paid more then great. ELSE get the bank you're worth elsewhere.
@2sxn ok but is AEP leadership even equipped to have that type of conversation? We are getting lapped by organizations that have robust, well established comp and succession plans. I can tell my leader what I KNOW I’m worth but unless leadership understands how to receive and navigate that conversation, it’s still a “does my manager like me enough to shrug and say ok” type conversation.
@2sz9 Managers don't want to improve and develop their teams to any serious degree. They just want a clean record of management so they can get the next opportunity. Most managers spend all day in meetings and just network for their own benefit.
A good manager, not many at AEP, would know who is getting work done and who is not. You shoukd not have to be a salesman to be treated fairly. Not every utility will be like that. A lot of companies do whst they say. AEP is just not that kind of company. Jusy look at your leaders. Was there neopotism involved in the position they have. Merit is not part of AEP.
Whoa Batman. No wonder we the people at AEP have tried to reduce our California presence. You all see those clips of that former congressmember running for governor?
@2sxa On the same coin though I have seen incredibly underpaid expert talent get slow walked to at-market wage. A lot of people are just not good at telling their leader "I think I a worth X amount of money and here is why" so they never get big boosts.
I worked in a department for almost a decade. New people in the department were making thousands more a year. AEP leaders are not truthful. 'Equity'. I bet the raises went to friends and families. There is no merit. The sad part is that the narcissitic leaders dont even realize right from wrong.
Heard on the Transmission town hall today that 40% of transmission employees got an out of cycle raise. I certainly didn't get one! I wonder how they chose the groups to provide them to. I am surprised they even announced that with such a large audience. How do you think that makes people feel that didn't get one?!?!?
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Something is not adding up about that story. You're saying Interns get a stipend from AEP to live in a house? You sure it's not coming from a contracting organization, a college, a government program?
Are you at starting pay and interns off the street are making your wages plus a house stipend that's probably not worth more than a couple thousand a month?
A few lawsuits settled out of court for multi-million dollar damages would eliminate a lot of bad management in this company as it has done in the past. Consult with an employment attorney. The more documentation you can produce, the more attractive the potential settlement will be for a representing attorney. If you can prove the manager responsible financially benefited from discriminating against you for raises, bonuses and/or promotions that may allow you to sue him personally for damages, especially if he violated Human Resource policies and procedures. If the attorney can establish a pattern of unfair labor practices, it could become a class action law suit with far ranging ramifications. Stick it to the man as he has set the example for us to follow.
@2ss2 Whoa! That’s actually insane. I know I’m just a lowly fellow employee, but I’m truly sorry! That’s mind-blowingly unfortunate! Usually I’d say hope that improves for you, but I have no hope when it comes to this organization. We’ve been milking false hope for the last decade and it does nothing but fatigue long tenured employees :(
We see and hear you over here!
Just found out today that when you factor in the housing stipend, the interns here make more than I do as an engineer. So basically during my time here I've done nothing but go backwards. And I can't even rationalize it and say "well at least I have hybrid" anymore.
Working here is really brutal. It's always just one blow after another.
Any updates on 1RP?
@2rz2 Congrats!
You're right about this place, it su-ks and always has su-ked. Bringing in the retail store master that has never built anything in their life to fire everybody and then Billy boy changing his mind and clawing everyone back is BS.
2025 will be my last year with AEP, started here in 2000 and I'm done. Good thing I get to retire and not have to look for another job.
I thought I was going to miss it but looking back over the past 6-7 years, I'm looking forward to getting away from this place.
It's been a lot of little things and they add up, not one big moment in time, just a lot of paper cuts.
I think Bill and RTO was the last straw.
2 1/2 months and my misery is over.
GL to each of you, I hope everyone can survive. I'm done looking at this site as it's turned into the same as work.
Some things never change. Shaft a group of employees and then go post an award.
Did it right after each set of layoffs, and after yanking flexible policy and barking RTO mandates. If they announce an award for best pension, I'm grabbing mine and running.
No wonder we the people at AEP don't do business in Illinois. You all see the Chicago mayor's speech?
As Riky Boby would say, “if you are not 1st you are last”. At 272, AEP is hardly a great place to work let alone one of the best. Just look at all the open positions. 150-200 is pathetic in this economy
Progress and Poverty by Henry George. We have been here before and we find ourselves here again because Americans have not been good stewards of the Founding Fathers' extraordinary American experiment. Our weakest shall destroy us, if our strongest fail to define us. Celebrate your weakness while you can.
@2ree Get a Bohemian Grove membership and have a wa-k in the woods with the elite you hate so much. It'll do you good to get some fresh air too.
Yes men and yes women empower and enable you to be your worst-self. So little aspiration for so much outrageous ambition. Truthful men and women enable and empower you to be your best-self. It requires hard work and commitment but you earn what you achieve instead of stealing it from everyone else. I am your conscience and I am relentless because I do not want to be destroyed by your failures as a human being because I failed you.
Superficial leadership diminishes the authenticity of American Electric Power employees. We are AEP and you are pathetic pretenders seeking a virtuous beard. You su-k, you know it and we know it. You are now and forever more known as electrofaultsiphon.
@2rcn "Soulful" is an adjective meaning full of or expressing feeling or emotion, especially deep, tender, or poignant emotion. It can describe a person, a performance, music, or even the way someone looks, suggesting an inner depth and expressiveness. To be called soulful is generally a compliment, indicating a person who is compassionate, deep, and authentic, rather than superficial
The truth can be adjusted. There's always a greater good. Progress must march on.
How in the world could a supposedly reputable business media outlet disseminate such a outlandish bald face lie and hope to have a shred of credibility. That is obviously why I do not read Forbes content. Propaganda arm of corporate America. Groceries are best consumer value in America would be another great pitch for Forbes. Prescription Dr-gs, Health Care and Health Insurance are cheap and comprehensive would be another whopper. I miss the days when truth had value and contained corruption and collusion to the unsavory parts of society.
@2ra8 Thinking about it more now. Obviously someone (Billy Boy?) used their rolodex of financial connections and asked Forbes to run that story about AEP. No one on my team believes this is the hot spot to work in the industry lmao.
@2ra3 Damn. The C-Suite must have snatched the editors of Forbes off the street and gave them a few hours of enhanced collaboration if they're printing that lie.
AEP named one of America's best places to work for tech workers by Forbes!!!