Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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@3110
No hiring, just more work. Our team is minimum 50 hrs/week and most of us do more. We're tired. Going to the office has been horrible. Constant disruption. Also, it's not very clean. We do talk about retirement quite a lot.
@2ytp this is 100% accurate in AEP Ohio.
@3253 Hope is waning and despair replaces the passion that built AEP. Rigged outcomes inspire no one and discourage everyone to accept mediocracy as the reality of our tormented and tortured existence.
@330v Famous people famously telling the truth that certain people do not want to hear.
A record number of Americans turn 65 in 2025, marking a "Peak 65" for the baby boomer generation.
The new wonderful corporate leadership is beginning to see the consequences of their smug arrogance as the number of employees electing to retire early rather than endure any more of this crony conservative narcissistic B/S continues to rise. No longer is 65 or even 62 the average retirement age. It as soon as you can marginally afford to leave and escape this crony conservative concentration camp. No Republican Gilead for us.
@32xc First J.K. Rowling visits our little corner of the Layoff Board and now Mark Twain resurrected? Man. This is shaping up to be the best Christmas ever.
@32xa Conservative cronyism at its worst.
@32jz Let’s be honest, this isn’t a mystery. One office gets a flashy renovation because the head of that office has a long-standing reputation for reckless spending and no real oversight. Other groups are left scraping by because they don’t have the same unchecked latitude.
What makes it worse is that this same office has consistently driven people out , including long-tenured employees, and instead of that being treated as a red flag, it’s effectively rewarded. When someone can burn through budgets and burn through staff with zero accountability, the message is clear: leadership behavior doesn’t matter, only who’s protected.
@32rk Fewer employees in the corporate realm means greater profits, greater shareholder value and greater Corporate Officers' compensation and less chance of an ICP for OPCO employees as OPCOs will most certainly have to absorb the additional employees into their current budgets. The system is so absurdly rigged we should all just walk away and be better off for doing so.
I am surprised no one has mentioned the recent KPI added to every shared service group’s 2026 scorecard to review and report on why their work should continue to exist centrally instead of in the opcos - due at the end of Q1.
Threats to tank ICP before payout.
Make phish tests so difficult the average person will fail.
Go overboard on O&M.
All things the everyday employee can control 🙄.
@32kn No point in arguing among each other. It's who we work for is the problem.
@32ka Maybe one groups budget actually exceeds its annual needs while other groups are short changed, who have more variables like weather patterns, terrain or larger cuts to their right of way trim budgets and staffing. It is never apples to apples. It is always apples to blackberries, mushrooms or ginseng. Seven disperse operating companies are not the same and neither are their budgets, revenue or challenges.
@32jz may one group is better at managing their budget and timelines?
I really don’t understand the disparity between groups in terms of budget. Last I heard, there was a huge, ostentatious renovation planned for one of the satellite offices, yet other groups don’t have two nickels to rub together. What kind of message does this send? I guess you get what you get and don’t get upset.
@3280 that was on your old manager. I quit in September and got 50% of the ICP in the mail the following year. My old manager made sure I got the ICP. If you didn't get it, HR didn't know it and would have had an issue you not getting it.
A Christmas bonus on top of the largest ICP payouts, really? All your secrets shall be revealed.
@31zn Bill cannot fly commercial, the consequences of being in a confined space with the general public would be a great risk to his overall well-being. The corporate class are terrified of being brought down to size by their betters. That is why the spend such enormous sums of wealth on political campaign financing to ensure they are well insulated from the consequences of their misdeeds.
@325z
You have to retire in January to get your bonus in March. If you quit, you won't get it. I quit in January (less than 10 years of service) and I did not get any bonus in March.
@3226 What about resignations and retirements? Carefully worded to obscure the truth, terminations are employer initiated. Resignations and retirements are employee initiated at times under duress like being asked to take on a third or fourth employees job duties for no more pay.
@3253 We don't deserve it because we are not going along with the latest version of the corporate confidence game. It really is sad and pathetic to see the same carrot at the end of a never ending stick B/S year after year. The employees that work the hardest and sacrifice the most get the least because no one manipulates CO's compensation. Perhaps it is time employees had binding input on CO's ICP the same way they do ours. It is about time we gave as good as we get.
@3253 you quit after Jan 1st to get your vacation time and 100% of the bonus. Add any vacation carry over and you can walk away with $10k or more. When I did it, I had 100 hours and my 200, plus they gave me another 80 on top of it because of some miscalculation from years ago. I walked away with over $25k.
Seems unlikely that many people would rage quit in December. At this point, you get through the holidays and then hope for some ICP in early March.
@321p there has been no noticable change in total employees.
Constructive dismissal tactics to thin the herd.
Nobody’s leaving, in fact employee terminations are lower than normal.
The foundation of any organization is its employees. Institutional knowledge takes decades to acquire and as more employees choose a future elsewhere that knowledge is depleted. As the mortar falls away from the stones the foundation becomes less steady and certain until it fails and all built upon it comes crashing down.
@31zs Condoning insanity only enables its manifestation within the organization. Employees are voting with their feet as they shuffle out the door. Exit signs are like off ramps to a vacation destination.
This is the way. Self-preservation, you give a 5 and go on.
Personally I want to see the PUCO reject the latest rate increase. The company doesn't need it, they can cut areas first. Do we really need a corporate jet. Honestly do we really need one. Bill, you don't like Columbus, take another job. In fact everyone of the executives need to move to Columbus, Don't want to, get a new job, just get another job where you live. Don't want to leave MN or TX, fine, get another job. Make me come into the office, FU, get moving to Columbus or get another job.
Now I feel better, now to head to my car for the drive in while some Directors up my chain get to stay home because they happen to live in another state. I can't wait to leave this place.
@31ks spot on. Every year after the survey my group would have a meeting to see what question had the lowest score. Most years it had nothing to do with our group and we had to make something up that we would do to improve. It was a joke, the only decent thing, our manager just made cr-p up and turned it in and kept us out of it. We just started giving things 4 and 5s and ignored the survey.
Just give everything a 5 and go about your day.
All the org chart shifts is just rubbing it in our faces that this place is propped up by the employees and the people at the top don't do sh-t.
Why is it always up to the workers to improve the damn culture? The poor employees are just doing what we’re told for a paycheck. The leaders are NEVER part of the culture discussion. What they can do better, etc. etc. I hate this company. I can’t wait for spring because that’s when I’m leaving. Expecting us to do so much work for no additional pay. It’s unfair and I ain’t having it.
Survey creates the illusion employees have input, nothing more. We have to fix the problems we bring to light, as if they are ours to correct. The only way to correct what is wrong is to remove oneself from unfavorable circumstances as many shall do this year.
Survey… there’s no way it’s good but not sure it matters
Leaders at AEP have no empathy or emotion. Have you ever heard of narcissism in leadership. Look up through the chain of command. I gurantee the majority have strong traits of machevelanism. They will exploit there worker to benefit onky themselves. The survey is just a cover.
Anyone know the results of the employee survey?
What's happening in IT? Is Johannes planning to do some hiring?
@30n9 turnstiles are bad fuggin azz. I also am loving the big Christmas tree and music in the lobby.