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Just an average Joe at Shell that stumbled across the Confidential Leader Guide for Offers and Regrets. It's great to find this so called guide prior to my meeting with my manager.

Here is what country superstar Sturgill Simpson thought of his former employer. https://www.facebook.com/SturgillSimpsonSociety/posts/and-then-the-former-railroad-worker-added-if-you-drive-by-the-union-pacific-rail/726714884121267/

what does uis/cds really do? looks like a bunch of non-playing captions and baby sitters and very few worker-bees. i also heard that some senior technical guy boasts of being a technical author whilst he actually wrote a book about developing a toy... —  read more 

The new hit sitcom from Discovery+/Warner Media - "How to Lose a Company in Three Short Years", starring Randall L. Stephenson and John Stankey. I laughed till I stopped.

The quote of the day. Yammer ready. Confetti on the creator's desk, though of course his supervisor will take the credit. External consultants are running this company now. DW never lost power that winter day, guaranteed, but he thought for a... —  read more 

We all know it’s been a crazy last 400 days, well those of us that actually RTO everyday do at least. While they basked in the sun we saw our hazard pay get sunset. While they virtue signaled and manipulated stock prices we had our hands tied. The... —  read more 

Watched a playback of the aero isc townhall and when Ken was presenting the results and comments from the voice of the employee survey I was taken aback as to how a notable leader such as himself can be so oblivious to the concerns of the employees... —  read more 

Someone told me the coaches are loosing the ability to do schedules but the frontend coach will still have access is this true.

She's a useless S-B who has destroyed shareholder value and eroded employee confidence beyond measure Why oh why did she even consider buying APC? She should have seen the warning signs when CVX withdrew with their $1 billion windfall How did she... —  read more 

I was let go last year and just got rehired. Feels good to be back at a great company. I hope to retire at GA… lots of work to catch up on!

I think we need even more bean counters to jamb up what’s currently functioning too well, so that they too have a job, and guaranty that ours takes twice as long, bogged down in mindless, needless minutia, so as to guaranty our continued employment... —  read more 

As recent as a few years ago, anytime Sears or Kmart were closing a bunch of stores, you could tune in to your favorite channel for news and catch a blip mentioning Sears Kmart closing more stores again. Lately it seems like you have to really do... —  read more 

The minute this clown pronounce to Hollywood that he knew more about television, destroyed TW and the talent all left it was over. He finished himself off going after big Hollywood and it’s unions when he decided to sc--w them all over with direct... —  read more 

Hearing that the MN location could close. Will all offices shift to Toronto w/ everyone else working remote?

It just happened last week. A very key player in a modestly high position announced he would be leaving. But instead of the "In three weeks" or "In six weeks" or even later, it was "In 3 days"! I have seen the "leaving and my last day will be... —  read more 

Mandatory vax As a condition of employment is the rumor

So what is next? People are dropping like flies. Either finding new roles or a new company. Why? Is it the work, the change or something bigger?

Have been seeing lot of new folks (hire up and ICs) joining from BofA (happy for all of them, but asking out of curiosity)..

Who else but an over 20 year vet could flush 50 billion dollars down the drain Failed merger with t mo Failed purchase of direct tv Failed purchase of Warner media At a minimum Stankey Stephenson and Stephens should lose every bit of golden... —  read more 

What happened to SR? Last day today - after just 3 years and no IPO? Is this part of the SBA merger?

Like the rest of the world human respect demands vaccine cards. Nothing is fair about the neglect of the honor system.

So they bribe us to get the vaccine but if you work in fresh , it’s an empty promise? Covid isn’t passed through food yet I am hearing fresh cannot dump their masks vaccine or not. Little discriminatory if you ask me

When the dividend gets cut by 40 - 50% and the share price gets hammered by approximately that much, then hopefully the exec compensation and exec headcount will also get cut to reflect their performance.

A lot of frustration on this forum, a lot of "the Old way" when PHK was directing the company. Who told you he isn't, he fought for two classes of stock, the Swoosh Trust was established as part of his retirement, Jasper Ridge toils away... —  read more 

June 1st marks return to work and hurricane season as well. I am sure this hurricane of employees to office will flood our coffers to the brim. What y’all think ?

I have been busy since our 11am meeting this morning that I referenced in the thread below. There were no layoffs to announce however 45 of us auto adjusters are being repurposed and moved to roles in the CCC and will report to the CCC as of Monday... —  read more 

Windstream created ERGs for specific societal segments. Today 6 new Directors, 5 belong to one of the special Employee Resource Groups. How far does it need to go before we can call it biased and discriminatory??

I am looking for 20% increase in pay, manager doesnt speak english; does anyone know how I can complete my raise ?

As far as I understand it, we have Xerox Direct, Authorized Service Providers(ASP), and Third-Party companies tied to Xerox's systems(such as Wings, Call Handling, Parts Management). All provide Xerox device service. Xerox Direct and ASPs can even be... —  read more 

"WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, who was appointed to the role in April 2020, is negotiating his departure from the company following AT&T’s announcement that it would be merging WarnerMedia with Discovery, according to The New York Times. Kilar was... —  read more 

A reliable source told me the company is planing to reinstate 401K match on July 1st. Anyone else hear similar information.

Dish's 5G Network, to be built on Oracle Cloud https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-wins-cloud-contract-dish-124636086.html

A long line of people with their hands up for next layoff.

Has anyone here ever submitted a Code of Conduct report? How did management and/or HR handle the situation?? What was the outcome?? Have you observed any positive change??? Someone in my department is covering some deep deep dirt. I wanted to report... —  read more 

did randy and john make one good decision for att...really?

Honestly, I don't. Serious posts please. How does AT&T buy, then sell TW, DirecTV, Tmobile, and a host of other companies and sell at a loss while the executives keep their jobs and the board remains? How does selling these mismanaged assets... —  read more 

Oh I see. Dump the darling Warner Media for half what you paid and cut the dividend in half. BAD MATH !!!!!! Oh and those stockholders are dumping the stock since the company is run by buffoons !

I have been working here for over ten months now and the laziness that comes from this company and its leads and management is terrible.. The leads put off their job on people that don’t get their pay they don’t want to hop on the registers... —  read more 

Okay so theyre going to force us to do cold calls to businesses because smb numbers are down? Maybe if someone can get their head out of their a-s and fix B360 so that it doesnt take 4 fu----g hours to process a simple transaction that i barely make... —  read more 

"I don't think that people realize that ATT is going to have at least a 50% dividend cut which is why if you want income it should be sold." https://twitter.com/jimcramer/status/1394310172999290882

Been gone for 5 months now, and still no word on returning my monitor and laptop. When do they usually reach out? Could they just be so unorganized that they don’t know what equipment I have??

At least the entertainment value from the carnage created from the dividend cut will make good TV for them.

AT&T’s Dividend Payout Stands to Be Cut ‘Nearly 50%’ in WarnerMedia Deal Barron's

What is the atmosphere like in your store? I moved last year, left Nordstrom and found a job in a completely different industry, but I occasionally come to this site to see if there are any improvements. I would never go back, but I am interested in... —  read more 

I’m sick of their unrealistic goals that are impossible to meet no matter how hard you work. I tried for a while, however, I was given such expectations that I don’t know how anyone would fulfill them. Maybe the goal is to make me leave or to... —  read more 

Experience, skills, persistence and number of applications sent, willingness to change industry, connections, relocation...? I’m glad to see posts where many are announcing a large departure of people from the company, because that generally means... —  read more 

I worked in several companies before I came here and I think it is necessary to differentiate which problems concern primarily retail, and which specifically these companies. There’s nothing much worse here than it is in most other retail... —  read more 

There are people who always think they won’t be the target and are very confident that they won’t be on the layoff list. Such is the story of my former colleague here. Taking his hard work into account, he was by no means supposed to be laid off... —  read more 

How many times have you witnessed that the same rules do not apply to everyone at Belk? For something that a regular employee would normally get punished for, others simply get away with it. I hate such double standards. Those who get the worse end... —  read more 

I went to my local dying , dead , Deceitful Macy’s. And had a great cashier who spoke her mind. She said there was no manager working on a Sunday and there was zero help in the store. They got a new store manager who is trying to push the credit and... —  read more 

What do you think about this statement? https://video.cube365.net/c/908740 120 billion ARM CPUs sold for Edge computing. True, but how Dell will capitalize on this trend? I fail to see. Dell does not have neither good CPU designers nor... —  read more 

I know in advance that anything IBM touches will be destroyed. Acquired companies, something that could have been good ideas... nothing survives IBM. Is it possible that there is so much incompetence at the top?

I have been working at SF for a long time and the changes for the worse started happening much earlier, but it is terrible how much this company has collapsed in just the last year. I can't even imagine what everything will look like in a few... —  read more 

Does it seem to you that this company is not doing anything to repair the damage caused by poorly made moves? It's sometimes fascinating to me that Allstate isn't doing much about it. Even if they try sometimes, it obviously doesn't work out the... —  read more 

Every true leader knows how important it is to listen to their employees, to make decisions using employee inputs, to know what employees expect from them, and so on. Still, it seems to me that Nike has decided not to listen to its employees, so... —  read more 

How often are you asked to do more than is reasonably expected of you? Let’s face it, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing extra work sometimes, however, in my case, I’m constantly expected to do more. I accept it because I still... —  read more 

Honestly, I would love to get a chance to train my replacements, because I would be very happy to get a package and go. I do remember, however, the experience of my colleague who was shocked with the amount of disinterest in the job of the person he... —  read more 

Finally, after months of looking for a job, I got a good chance and I need to give a notice. Friends find it weird, but it’s hard for me to give notice as well. Instead of looking forward to my new job, I'll probably have stomach cramps until I'm... —  read more 

How often does it happen that you have to correct someone else's mistakes? Do you have such experiences? I'm tired of fixing errors and redoing someone else's work. It is not clear to me how a company can allow one to be so irresponsible towards... —  read more 

Is it even possible to care less about employees than is the case at SF? This company doesn’t care at all about what should be its most valuable asset. Why this is so, I do not know, but I know for sure that the future is doomed and gloomed with such... —  read more 

Why is it that people who weren’t good enough for IBM later got jobs in much more prestigious companies where they also got promotions very quickly? I'm not talking about not the people who quit and went for greener pastures, they are a... —  read more 

I absolutely agree with someone who said that the way out of everything is learning new skills. I envy everyone who has that opportunity, but I don’t. I come home from work too tired and don’t have the time to dedicate to learning new things that... —  read more 

What do you do when you have so much to do and you don’t have enough time? This has become a huge source of stress for me and it used to happen that I have very little time to do the job even before, but now it happens so frequently that I just... —  read more 

why you would advise everyone to leave Teradata as soon as possible?

I didn’t want to wait for them to give me layoff so I gave them a notice. In any case, anyone who gets laid off or leaves this company will certainly do better than Staples. It has become unbearable to work here. I can’t wait to look at this... —  read more 

Anyone else on autopilot mode? I used to wake up dreading the workday and after a while I lost all motivation to work. Now I only work the bare minimum. There is no longer any hope that Allstate can motivate employees to be more engaged. As for me... —  read more 

I think a little competitiveness is always a good thing because it can be a good motivator for improving performance. However, I think that it no longer exists here and that BofA has long since become a place of disruptive and selfish competitiveness... —  read more 

Lack of faith in the products. Lack of career growth. You get to learn some things and then realize that you will not be able to do anything else. Why stay with Verizon when someone else will help you grow? Attitudes have changed. It is no longer... —  read more 

The company looks much better from the outside than from the inside. I was aware that this company was not ideal even when I was looking for a job, however, I did not think that the situation was so bad. Unfortunately, my opinion is that only those... —  read more 

Retail is changing rapidly and the pandemic has only accelerated the paradigm shift. BBB is not keeping up with the trends and the future of the company looks very doomed. However, I no longer care about the future of this company, but only about... —  read more 

I am actively looking for a job and I have had several offers, but none of them seemed to me to be much better than what I have at HON. I mean, working conditions are slightly better, but not enough to miss the severance pay here. I've heard that... —  read more