Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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Pumped for this town hall!
How do you know people have not left? Do you have ultimate say in which how the company is treating people? You get to say for us all whst is tollersble or not? Your experience must be more important than others experience. Your reality is the only reality. TOXIC
POS, su-k azz
Did the targeted pay bumps go to the deserving employees. AEP is full of slimy leaders that would use the chance of tageted pay bumps to help their family or friends. There is no merit, equity or fairness in AEP. That is whst stsrted the toxic decline of the company. How many people have witnessed AEP lowering or bypassing quallifications to allow for friends or family to recieve a promotion over much more deserving qualified candidates. AEP su-ks.
The noxious toxic work culture becomes more concentrated and caustic with every employees departure. Eventually, corporate will be swimming in a vat of sulfuric acid and we will see how long they last.
@28fc
Well what is the point of targeted pay bumps. The people who have the skills that AEP needs, can go anywhere at the drop of a hat. They have the skills and the knowledge that employers want. Turn the sc--ws on them and they will bail first thing. Just don't have to put up with that garbage.
The giant middle of the bell curve has more options if the economy is booming, but if it is slower, they have less. So they will stick around and just endure in times like we have now. Management knows this. They want concessions from the workers, but they can't keep things afloat if all the talent leaves.
So hand out money to your solid performers. Make your senior technical people grade 11 consulting engineers and you just might keep enough people to keep the boat afloat.
That is the only real option management had since they decided to turn the sc--ws. They had to stem the bleeding somehow. I don't lose a wink of sleep bailing on AEP. I don't tolerate being je-ked around and the constant upheaval brought in during 2024. Lots of employers out there that need solution people. I would return to AEP one day if they had something I wanted to do at an acceptable pay rate. It is just business in the end and in the end, we just wanted different things.
I hear complaining from so many here, yet thats all it is. Leave AEP and let AEP try to salvage what are great company/work environment they once had long ago. There are jobs out there especially for you in IT, so do the work and leave. Take all your knowledge, experience, and delete your documentation so the next clown force they hire has to figure it all out. The few wanted this ao they could line their pockets more and yet has been over budget on the whole org each year. Also nice that they always sugarcoat why they finally get rid of percentage point of sc-m in charge. Sanjay...going back home to focus on his family and yet eventually has his own consultant company linked to TCS. Then the lebo who couldn't afford a real mic and had to wear ear pods during meetings....same excuse lol. Feel sorry for folks who still think imma retire from aep that isn't approaching said time now.
When they take your freedom, ask them why. They will tell you because you allowed us to.
For what it’s worth I’m in transmission and got a pretty big raise, I was told it was based on my PMR
I never want to hear from management ever.
Every time I hear from management, it is something that will make my life worse, while they also pretend it's something exciting and good.
What if one of these super-important AEP people ever actually e-mailed me about anything other than the PAC? That might resonate a bit more.
Oh look!…another PAC email. 🙄
So sounds like everyone got something except me, in other words, typical day at AEP.
Don’t know about transmission but distribution engineers got good additional raises a few months back… if we are worried about money they shouldn’t be taking their vehicles home then though.
I'm in transmission and didn't get anything and I'm one of the lower paid people for sure.
@28dk not sure what all the back story is but yeah transmission folks definitely got a lot of raises.
What raises?
Last I remember they were hyping up their "market analysis research" back around March and were basically promising that raises were coming to keep people from leaving, then a few weeks ago the SVP wrote an email saying that our compensation was actually aligned with the market and we weren't getting raises except a few isolated cases.
What’s with all the transmission dept raises? Mid cycle raises were pretty rare last I remembered. Are they afraid ppl will continue to leave? The timing of the raises being done right around the RTO date seems to indicate they are afraid ppl will quit so the raises are a temporary bandaid.
I’m glad that Bill is getting out into the field but at 1RP he never leaves his lair (or any of the execs for that matter)
I can’t wait for the welcome back breakfast for New Albany! Free pancakes will surely improve everyone’s mood and increase collaboration! I even heard we might get MERCH and SWAG if the funding is there!
@286k you can bet 1 of 2 things happened. There was a breach and their not talking about it and it was because of a short easy pw. Or some government entities is now requesting all companies comply with a longer pw. My guess is on the first. Last few years there have breaches that cyber has not said anything about but friends have told me there were a few, some dealt with TCS and others, like Bill clicked on bad links. I've been using 16-20 character PW for years so it doesn't affect me.
Pick something easy to remember, song, movie titles, add years and special characters, could use car names, site names, you name it.
Then write it on a post-it and put it on your monitor. 😂
It could be more on the emphasis on trivial or meaningless things that are easy to implement (like RTO without planning or password criteria) instead of things that truly enhance the business or work on bettering the employee experience that annoy folks.
It is people like you, complaining about a relatively simple password length requirement, that are the reason leadership makes decisions to RTO.
Isn’t it funny how people can go from accepting their job as part of their life and being OK with it to all of a sudden dreading work? And that just happens to coincide with Carl Icahn and Bill Fehrman and the “leadership” change? Funny.
Be sure to swing by the lobby today and get you some of that AEP merch.
I am right there with you. My house and land are paid off. And I don’t have kids. The more demands that are placed on me, the more I feel like typing f**k you and disconnecting. I am tired of not getting my fair share. I’m 43 btw. I’m tempted to go work a part-time job, stocking shelves or something.
I literally cried on the way home yesterday and today. Searching for a new job, but the market is tough right now, especially over 50. I hate Bill and AEP for putting us in this situation!
What's going on with security? on a call with Kristin, she's not the brightest bulb in the pack and now a 16 character pw - d-mb.
Wow. I am on my 173rd manager in less than two weeks.
On my 45th manager in 3 months …not sure when things will settle down
I’m on my 17th manager in about 8 years. IT of course.
My manager left early this year and now I’m stuck with the most incompetent person in our department. No experience, no interest, no support.
@280f I am on my 6th manager in 2 years as well. Unfortunately they probably rank as the 5th or 6th worst out of the bunch and I’m afraid the carousel has stopped.
With all the comments on just quit if you dont like it. Has anyone informed the leaders, if you dont like the results, look in the mirror and then quit.
Welcome to Bill's Wild Ride. Please keep hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times.
I’m on my 6th manager in less than 2 years. I’m so tired in the chaos. This is a failure in leadership.
@27wn The legacy pension is lonk gone, it disappeared with the merger with CSW. It was replaced with the Cash Balance plan which most people should have by now. 30 days after you leave, you can have the CB funds rolled into a Traditional IRA and not pay taxes on it. Whatever you do, DO NOT take the annuity from it.
If you do and pass away a month later, the annuity stops paying unless you have it set up to go to your spouse which will be at a lower amount until they pass.b
Take your money, all of it when you leave AEP. I would also shop around for health insurance, not sure if AEP plan is worth it. You pay it on top of Medicare so it can add up.
Takes 30+ days to get the funds transferred so make sure you work that into you plan GL
I agree with the last post! Throw their culture back in their face. “Be Here Now” the minute you leave and whenever you’re away from the office! With RTO, we are actually in the position now to physically detach at end of day. Let’s mentally detach too!
Stop caring, and the dread will decrease or disappear. There is no reason not to enjoy your entire weekend. Then, when Monday arrives, accept that if you're in IT and still working remotely, enjoy it while you can. If you have already RTO'd, enjoy the fact that the office is a less productive place, and you ki-l a lot of time with the nonsense of an office environment. I'm not a Lean Six Sigma person, but if someone cared about eliminating waste, sitting in a building where you MIGHT put in 4 hours of real work/day, they would step back and reassess the 5-day plan.
The Sunday night dread is setting in. Hating the thought of another Monday in the soul su-king shithole AEP has become. Welcome to their Making America Great Again for rich corporate arseholes and their Big Beautiful Bill robbing us blind.