Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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I'm curious how many employees have resigned or will resign due to RTO. It keeps getting posted that folks are leaving, but I'm not in a position to see an approximation, nor do I know anyone who has. Does anyone have intel on what has been happening?
Sure. Go find a new Remote job like many of us have done already. Not sure what is so hard?
anyone have tips or plans on how to make RTO not the worst thing in the world after getting hired for a remote job and working 5 years remotely lolololol
Does AEP have the veteran wall, where if you are a vetersn your name is put on it. I wish they would remove my name. Azz wholes
“So stop complaining about it and do something about it, either bring it up to your boss or HR. Or leave.” — exactly what I’d expect a tone deaf member of leadership to say. Stop with the false “empowerment” illusion! You’ve fired people for less!
I’m not going back. I’m working from home and ignoring RTO. They can fire me.
I'm so stressed out all the time here I never know what is going to happen. I wake up every day expecting to be fired or something. I feel a total disconnect from management and leadership. I have no insight into what they are thinking. It's like being trapped in a cave with a wolf.
How many employees will quite quit? I think a lot have already. Most high performers have already left. Employees that wont leave for certain reasons will do the bare minimum. How is AEP going to keep heigh performers? If there was not a problem at AEP, this thread would not exist. AEP is not a company that I would want to waist my whole life working at. So much better places.
Looks to me a lot of people already took his advice and quit. The ones that stayed behind either can't or won't leave for various reasons minus those folks that were forced out. Maybe for a lot of you, the point where you tell AEP to shove it has not been reached. So stop complaining about it and do something about it, either bring it up to your boss or HR. Or leave.
@25xp
"If you don't like it, quit" was something a lot of women like me heard in the eighties (or earlier) when we started working. If we had followed that advice, how hostile would work environments be to women now? Give me a break.
There are things that don't happen in the workplace anymore for a reason, and things like discrimination, unwanted advances and shtty managing have hidden behind that "if you don't like it quit" BS for as long as I can remember. Get b*nt.
Why should we all have to quit just because some dum--ss CEO made a completely unnecessary decision that makes our lives worse. Here's an idea how about Bill quits.
@25xp @25xp I just have to say this: “Recourses” doesn’t make the statements in this forum less true or valid. Yes there are hundreds of alternatives at any given time, however, that doesn’t invalidate the experiences of good people who show up to work and have to deal with power plays from leadership. (And don’t even get me started with Bill thinking everyone is crying victim) I get so put off when people say “just quit”. Me quitting doesn’t make the reality everyone is experiencing right now at AEP less true!
@25x0 Don't like it, sell your stocks. If you don't like it, get a new supplier or go off grid. If you don't like it, get a new job. There are always recourses to companies that you have an issue with
If shareholders profit from the crimes committed by the CEO of a corporation, are they accomplices in his crimes? If they condone and encourage the behavior of a Hedge Fund manager, who conspires with the CEO of a corporation he holds stock in to defraud employees and customers, are they not accomplices? If the CEO commits crimes by defrauding employees and customers and federal and state government officials do nothing and accept political campaign contributions from said CEO and Hedge Fund manager, are they not guilty of collusion and profiting from the criminal activity they condone and empower. At what point do private citizens and constituents have no choice but to seek their own justice?
This company is becoming an absolute nightmare. Losing employees left and right. Understaffed and overworked. Not the culture it used to be either. Everything is downhill at an exponential rate. Bill and the board stripping it apart for every last penny they can take and will dump AEP in the end. We all know Icahns past and I see him doing it to AEP right now. Let the job search begin…
@25kg
I'm not so sure, if the company was healthy, we would not have had the turn over in employees as well as senior executives. We seem to be rudderless, we don't know where we're going or how we're going to get there.
Explain to me like a young child what Bill or any of the new leadership team is doing to actually make the company successful. I don't see it, I really don't.
I'd take Draper or Morris back before having the likes of Bill running the company.
The other guy was right, it's like a slow death from cancer and there is nothing any of us can do about it. The levers of power are with Bill and the Board. Based on what I've seen, it's now if the company will fail, it's just a matter of when
To have confirmation that AEP executives are the antithesis of patriotic, selfless Americans and serve only themselves and their insatiable greed demonstrates their unworthiness and unfitness to lead our employees and to serve our customers. For virtue-less un-American corporate tyrants like you to control a monopoly providing an essential service to Americans is the optima of tyranny, injustice and criminality. It illustrates the abhorrent moral decay of corruption that pervades our government and corporate institutions. AEP employees and customers deserve better than highly educated common criminals and thieves.
Actually, the cancer analogy is spot on. When you prey upon your employees and customers with the same callous indifference untreated cancer demonstrates to its human hosts, you are nothing more than a malignancy that weakens the host until he or she expires. It is time to remove this malignancy from the body of AEP for our own survival.
There is an interesting article out there from BI questioning if companies are enforcing RTO knowing that it will lead to many employees exiting the company, thus avoiding layoffs. Have a read, a lot of things make sense.
https://trib.al/aTVtAsO
Cancer analogy is a bit much.
The webcasts are essentially victory laps for leadership. They know you are defeated. And they think it's funny.
Something that stands out to me is that the only topics emphasized in webcasts are safety, the scorecard, and RTO. None of that is strategic or moves the company forward. Safety is a given. The scorecard is a tool that can be found on the internet and has likely been used elsewhere repeatedly. RTO is just a ruse. So many words said about things out of IBM's 1975 playbook.
As a new engineer, I chose AEP because I always heard utilities were great places to work because of the "stability." What a nightmare.
Watching this forum is like watching a relative deal with stage 4 cancer. Not much you can do about it to make things better. Waiting for the end to come as peacefully as possible but everyone knows it will be a painful death as systems sh-t down. Doctors will tell you, we can try one more thing, maybe that'll make it better. AEP is in stage 4 but it doesn't know it.
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@25gz
Oh great so it is the 2004 US election again. I get to choose between a tu-d sandwich and a giant bottle of dou--e. Pass. They both su-k. I'll take Bill over those two choices.
Bill I formally embrace you as the best of these choices and if I had not already bailed on AEP, I would happily RTO and enjoy my reduced 2026 ICP.
I started my job search on January 23rd the day of the RTO leak/announcement. I landed a new fully remote job offer by March 7th. I gave my 2 weeks notice March 17th and got what might be the last ICP ever. I am really thankful for the people who made the leak possible. Otherwise, I fear Bill was planning on only giving a few weeks notice on RTO. In that case I’d still be working for what Bill has turned into a crony capitalist Goldman Sachs like utility company. The new Berkshire fraud hire named Doug Cannon has me laughing hysterically from afar. Bill hires a guy that made a career of fraudulently ripping customers off. What a f****ng joke. Bill is not even trying to hide his intentions anymore. It further confirms that I made an excellent decision to leave.
Loving the vibes at AEP nowadays
For employees in West Virginia, Southwest Virginia and Kentucky, I am sure you recognize AEP Corporate's strip-mining campaign. Extract the maximum amount of wealth from the communities we serve and abandon them. How many ghost towns will be all that remains when Hedge Fund Bill moves on to his next mark? Strip it of all its worth and have a fire sale.
Yep salaries are great and so is RTO. That is why no one is leaving AEP! Nothing to see hear. Move along.
SVP of transmission sent an email today announcing the results of their "market analysis" for salaries. Was quite vague on details but the gist of it is that our current salaries are in line with the market and there will be no general salary increases.
The timing of this seems really interesting. They've been hyping up their "market analysis" of salaries for like 6 months. Now a week before RTO starts they say we make enough and not getting an increase. Anyone else thinking the entire thing was a scam? Just another fake carrot on a stick to try and get people to stay, now that it's too late to find another job before RTO starts?
Crooks like sticking together.
He redid the internal Corp page so that all of the top 'featured' articles are always about him. That and the crony Bill Jr immersion program is the product of a needy and fragile micro-managing ego. He did a bailout instead of a real Transmission hire, because he doesn't like any opposition to his own ideas. This was not the best candidate, and that's not why he picked him.
He claims to be data driven, but never uses actual data. This is not about AEP. This is about Bill. We are not watching where we're going, and that is very bad for the company.
1 more week of hybrid schedule
tik tok wagie, back in the cagie
Unbelievable they hired that guy and announced him as President of Transmission and then that article came out. Bill says we must put customers first and that article states he does not. It will be amazing to see how this plays out. What a total PR nightmare. Grab the popcorn this is one to watch!
The timing of that NV Energy headline and the President of Transmission announcement occurring on the same day is insane. Was this just a lack of due diligence? That is terrible from a PR perspective, even if he did nothing wrong.
I am very curious if anyone with insider knowledge has a timeline of when they plan to transition the ERCOT team from Tulsa to Corpus. I know it’s voluntary at the moment. But I believe it will eventually be forced (relocate or resign).
I'm so sick of this culture of infantilization that pervades corporate America.
Wow, donuts on our first day back...with sprinkles?!? Uhh, can you say YUM? drooling face
AND a scavenger hunt??? RTO is going to be FUN!!
It's so tedious to listen to these people try to put such a pathetic, positive spin on this.
They can't even let you endure Bill's torments with dignity and stoicism, they have to take away even that.
They’re getting ready to move everybody in the ERCOT region in Tulsa office to Corpus Christi, its starting as a voluntary thing but of course it always starts out the nice way! no pay increases, but cookies and donuts will be provided as a token of gratitude
Seems like a chill hire