#morale

RV has brought us to the flourishing Netherworld.

Everything in our business has withered and died.

What was a great company has turned into a heartless bag of cashless Pennies!
This is what happen when investors buy and they want to make money!! All you can do is hope those silver lined parachute pants are useless after this!! They’ve ruined soooooo many lives in 3 years!!

AC not working in Burlington everyone is complaining, its so miserable. We're all jammed into these smaller rooms I'm sure all the body heat is not helping. How about let us leave an hr early instead of having this 1 hr social hr!!! The A side is working of course because no one is working over there.

Just some honest feedback — there’s been a noticeable amount of negative talk about coworkers, and it’s affecting the work environment. Also, there’s a tendency to get involved in things outside of your role, which can come across as overstepping. It might be worth focusing more on sales, staying in your lane, and keeping things professional.

I FINALY RELEASED WHAT THE MOTO MEANS.

I heard this moto many times in All hands meetings, they essentially say "Do More with less" in the context of AI, to encourage you to feed your work details to AI so they can train capable models to replace you eventually.

BUT from talking to many engineers in EMEA, which haven't seen a promotion in years now despite having good reviews.

I do not know why should I be surprised to see same a$$ kissers in receiving EIA.

Sick to my stomach, after yet another year / quarter where the efforts are not recognized or appreciated.

And no surprises where only the pets in the same location getting all the recognition.

Call me narcissist or petty, but no denying now that all the posts I saw about how managers have their own pets who get all the recognition were true.

The plan is that there will only be a skeleton crew in the US once ALL the cutting is done to still claim we are an American company. Farewell Five9, you were once great.

Budget cuts and no new programs - people afraid to talk about the fact that they are just idle. I’m a SD been here 15 yrs and never seen it this bad

Budgets cut, no new programs - everyone scared to admit (I’m not working on anything) out of fear.

I’m a SD here for 15 years this is as bad as I’ve seen.

It would be a welcomed change to be layed off.

Teams have been gutted, some repeatedly, by layoffs and reorgs that solve nothing. Yes, talent is expensive. But when you're too lazy to cut strategically and just go for the simplest savings, you shed the people you actually need. Meanwhile, the endless turmoil ki-ls morale, ki-ls commitment, and ki-ls any chance of long-term planning. Chaos like that always turns out to be far more expensive in the end.

In 2024, when we were hybrid, I used to be genuinely happy going to work. I was energized, motivated, and excited to contribute to the largest telecommunications company in the United States. But after nearly a year and a half of the five-day return-to-office mandate, I feel completely drained.

Every day is a battle — fighting traffic, searching for parking, and then scrambling to find a desk. To make it worse, people schedule meetings during my commute, which makes no sense.

Back in 2024, I felt bright, energetic, and enthusiastic about the work. Now I feel like Squidward, doing the bare minimum just to get through the day. Whenever I am asked to go above and beyond or deal with some ridiculous request, my response is basically that I am commuting or that I will get to it once I can actually find a desk. The whole thing feels like a joke.

To make matters worse, everyone on my immediate team and in my department seems endlessly enthusiastic about chasing more wireless and fiber gross adds. Maybe some of that excitement is real, but a lot of it feels rehearsed. I look around and see people acting energized and engaged, and it is hard not to wonder whether they actually feel that way or are just playing the part. Honestly, the only place I ever see people expressing what this experience really feels like is on this site. In person, people seem scared to say it out loud. It often leaves me feeling like I am the only one being honest about how exhausting and demoralizing all of this has become, especially because I am overshadowed by so many coworkers who seem enthusiastic about their jobs and about taking AT&T to the stars.

As per the -3 Chief HR Officer a few years back, Clap Now. Eat your slop, little piggies.

there was some kind of huddle meeting with each pod. d-mb a-s manager used an analogy of fast food drive thru employee. lol

Is this how they view us? fast food drive thru employee? what a d-mb bi--h.

yea... I mean employee who has all customers information from their ssn, dob, cc #'s, chk # information and ready to be sold off.

would you like bbq sauce and upgrade it xl size?

what a fu-ken clown leadership is.

Curious has anyone been around long enough to remember the last time corporate gave the employees some good news? Feel like its been nothing but bad news the last 10 years. Offices closing, forced moves across the country, returns to office, replaced with people overseas, forced realignments due to corporates unwillingness to staff and retain properly.

Id say the last "good news" was us working from home during COVID, which wasnt exactly good news but maybe the only positive change I've seen in like 15 years. Ok i guess they did the math and so few people were having children they increased maternity benefits like 5 years ago.....

Cant wait for this weeks bad news meeting either way.

Can anyone explain why such high turnover in claims has been acceptable for so long? Assuming they will be moving people from jobs that are not 100% horrible to a claims department that is.

Forget about the layoffs and the impending doom guys , the toxic culture seems ok when we are minting money isn’t it ?

What the title says.73

Never used to get this, but now it’s every week. GK has got to go.

Good luck all. Doesn't it just make you sick that our CEO got a 30 million bonus but people still keep getting laid off? Makes me feel gross to work for this company.

This is a company that is slowly losing its identity. Rent-A-Center is now forcing their employees into becoming a Amazon drop off hub. This a desperation move to attempt new blood into Rent-A-Center. This means additional responsibilities for employees without any additional pay. So on top of begging clients to buy something, chasing after past due clients that just hide behind their doors, employees are expected to ship out a unrelated companies packages. Is it even Rent-A-Center anymore or just a company on life support?

Prepare now. The official word will be passed down shortly for a dramatic increased requirement for Connect Week attendance come September. NO ONE on my team (FI) or others I run into in office feel that connect weeks benefit them at all and I’m sure that is one reason why it’ll be put into place. Forcing senior people out? Dragging morale even lower? Flexing hollow upper management muscle? What have you heard?

They've got us stressed out constantly. No breaks, no rest, no relief. This company has completely taken over our lives.

It's not even just Verizon anymore. I'm done, period. Been here too long. I can barely drag myself into the office these days. I need out. And I'm willing to take the risk in this market. I'll survive a few months, the big financial stuff is behind me. Mortgage done, kid almost done with school. I can afford to coast for a bit. Frankly, I never want to hear the name Verizon again after this.

"Do more with less" and "we're all in this together." I don't want to hear any pep talk. None of us are here to clean up leadership's mess, only to be dismissed with a generic email. I'm staying until they show me the door. For now, it's about what I take from this job, not what they squeeze out of me.

I'm always worried about going back to work on Monday. Always wonder if this is the RIF week. I can't be the only person feeling this way.
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For six long weeks, the air’s been thin,
A waiting game where no one wins.
From Calgary’s frost to the Houston heat,
The sound of shadows on every street.
We’ve scanned the halls and watched the clock,
Waiting for the final, heavy knock.
They speak of "assets," "reorgs," and "flow,"
But forget the people who made the thing go.
In Denver, the Woodlands, and Permian dust,
It’s hard to find a place left to trust.
The "sinking ship" is the story they tell,
While we’re the ones ringing the warning bell.
But listen close through the fog and the fear:
The value you hold isn’t what’s written here.
A title is ink, and a badge is just plastic,
The toll on your spirit has been truly drastic—
But you are the talent, the heart, and the spark,
You are the light that survives in the dark.
Tuesday will come, and Wednesday will go,
The dust will settle, the bitter winds blow.
But whether you’re staying or finding the gate,
You are the pilot, the master of fate.
This office is just a place where you stood,
It doesn’t define what is "great" or is "good."
So look at your neighbor, give 'em a hand,
Help each other find a place left to land.
The logo might fade, and the building might fall,
But your human spirit is bigger than it all.
There is life after Wednesday, a sky clear and wide,
And a much better world on the other side.

The Bently Nevada division has already gone through multiple layoffs in 2026. It’s all about making sure the almighty EBITA is good and no longer focusing on making sure the client is being taken care of.

The sales team is shrinking without backfilling roles. When a rep leaves all of their clients and spread out under another sales rep. Increased responsibility with no increase in pay.

Technical Account Managers are being laid off without being replaced. The remaining Technical Account Managers are spread so thin that no one has the bandwidth to fully support the sales reps.

There are also less Sales Directors now. Instead of backfilling the roles reps are just spread out amount the other directors. Each Sales Director has too many reps to be responsible for now.

Quotas have been unrealistically increased and the bonus structure has become even more difficult to reach your 100% pay.

Company is trying to become a software company and has put all of its eggs into the “cordant” basket even though the hardware is the meat and butter of the business.

All of this happening despite the fact that we break record numbers in sales every year. Overall team morale is the lowest I have ever seen and I have been with the company many years now.

Just wanted to vent on the whole connect week policy for regional centers- I'm quite frankly embarrassed to hold client zoom meetings when in the office- that clients have to hear the background noise of loud talking, laughing and coughing. I understand the loud talking as we are all raising our levels to ensure our clients can hear us over our colleagues. I wonder what client's impressions would be if they could actually see behind the scenes. All the negativity I see & hear from co-workers on the fact they have to go into the office isn't helping my morale either. At the end of the connect week I continually ask myself why did I need to go into the office? Not only did I not gain anything from it other than another cold/ flu virus but feel demoralized & with less money in my pocket after filling up my car.

There's no rock bottom here. There's always one step lower to go.

And I have to say, I'm looking forward to watching what happens next. Not in a mean way. Well maybe a little. They mistreated me for years and seeing them struggle, make bad decisions, slowly fall apart, it will be enjoyable after everything they put me through.

Why is leadership teams so unnecessarily large? What real value do they actually add? They hold fancy titles but contribute nothing to product strategy or execution. Most seem obsessed with impressive job titles, posting on LinkedIn, and organizing pointless town halls that drain everyone's energy. These aren't leaders,they're overpaid parasites feeding off the work of G5/G6 employees.

We've hit the point where cutting your way to a higher stock price no longer works. The cracks are showing, reality is finally catching up.

From truly enjoying my work here years ago, to all the stress from waves of layoffs throughout the decline, now I've reached the point where I have no hope that Nike will ever again be a great company to work for, and I'm looking forward to being on the next list. I've been here too long to cut the cord easily, so the sooner they make that decision for me, the better.

It’s getting ridiculous!

For those remaining that we want to target, let's make it difficult and wrong, until they quit.

I will never stand up for this company again.

Unappreciative ba----ds.

Leadership needs to get their act together.

Shouting, pressure, and creating a climate of fear in engineering won’t fix anything: in fact, it only makes things worse. Right now, people are acting out of fear instead of making rational decisions aligned with actual goals.

That’s how you end up with poor outcomes, short-term thinking, and teams that stop taking ownership.

If the goal is better performance, this approach is doing the opposite.

We’re eliminating a lot of people. The round of layoffs like always are getting swept under the rug. We’re just expected to keep our heads down and focus on generating more revenue.

Sudden Friday afternoon meeting for my entire department! The day of reckoning has come! The end times are at hand!

Am I reading right? I guy who makes more than 10 million a year USD offers 6.5k USD as a means to homeownership in the US?

Dear BNY employees who are eligible: how do you feel on that initiative?