Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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So what I’m reading here is exactly why a united and aligned communication was crucial and should have come from the top with this RTO. Rather than pushing the iron fist off to direct managers to enforce imaginary expectations, and side stepping clarity, the C-Suite and above should have made a decision and said it with their whole chest. Now, this soft “do whatever works but stop blaming us” approach is blowing up on their face. It’s certainly something to watch! (I think clarity is a federal offense at AEP) lol.
@2myv Your dogma Bernie beliefs are the same stuff that TR and JS preach and believe, your kind. They're on your team. And look how your team nearly crumbled the company. Thank god for Bill.
@2myb What exactly is “my kind”? Yes, offshoring is a problem. No, communism isn’t the answer. Why are you sticking up for rich people that are out of touch with the working class?
@2my8 We have genius people at AEP deciding what a fair share of taxes are for everyone else? #Blessed
Don't forget the people that did all the offshoring and nearly ran things into the ground were cut from your kind's cloth. Remember all the hair bobs that were running around like TR and JS? Let me guess, "real communism hasn't been tried yet"?
@2my6 rich people that don’t pay their fair share of taxes and use money/influence to have laws changed in their favor to avoid paying their fair absolutely are the problem. But keep licking them boots!
@2mxy I'd rather be a rugged individual if the opposite is being soft and demanding "remote worker rights!" Too soft for me, just like blaming rich people for all the troubles in my life is too soft.
@2mxx
Fair enough but don't have it both ways.
If you want to be a rugged individualist then don't start crying when someone has something you don't, like remote.
@2mxk I don't want a union, I don't want to be "standing" with any of these Bernie types that made their way into our glorious MidWest.
@2mvt agreed! I don't resent any of them. It's probably more jealously, honestly.
Regarding unionizing, I have thought about that before but I have little faith that we could get enough people to commit to it.
I don't resent anyone who is remote, I wish I was too. Good for them. Maybe if you all stood together and refused to go in together they would have had no choice but to let us all stay remote. But it's hard to get engineering super geniuses to unionize I know.
@2mvh I don't resent my teammates that are still remote. Good for fu--ing them. What would you do, drive 50+ miles to be "one with the office"? Get over it.
@2mrz there’s major inconsistencies with RTO on our team. Not to mention half of our team doesn’t even live in Columbus, so they were allowed to stay remote. It’s caused a lot of resentment.
Whatever makes us miserable and uncomfortable is what this company is going for. Such a great culture. such inspiring leaders.
For anyone who is in an office, are you noticing some or many people are not coming in all 40 hours? Many in my building are doing some sort of flex schedule (4-10's or 4-9's and a 1/2), but I am noticing some groups are consistently not here all 40 hours. There are some that just flat out never come in, but they are all listed as "Office" so they're supposed to be here.
I'm not sure how this is happening without repercussion. My management is fairly strict on making sure you're in the office. It seems others aren't at all and it's infuriating because most of us don't want or need to be here 40 hours. It's such a waste of time and is making my team less productive than when we were remote or hybrid.
What's the point of RTO if it's not enforced? It's creating quite the culture of unfairness and it's pi----g off a lot of people.
@2md6 No, you aren't being tracked. Emergency GPS location is far more precise than anything else.
The company has always tracked our computers
@2mcr This is Microsoft Teams phone for emergency 911 services. As far as I know that doesn't mean the company could not track you with it
Exactlt promoting from within is a lie for a long time at AEP. Developmmemt programs seem like a neopotism program. It is realky dad when you actuslly beleived in the company and found out it was all a lie. I applaud Bill if he is gettingvrid of old AEP croonies.
Bill would not be here if the company was being ran correctly. Karl would not have sinken his teeth in this company if it was being ran better. The culture at AEP was all a lie. The company should be broken up. Hopefully a cimpany thst truely cares for their customers and employees would take over.
Was our location always being tracked on our computers?
Noticed a new icon today and clicked on it and it's for location tracking.
@2m8b nothing new, Therace did it when she came into the company. Sanjay, Heather, Ann, Kim, they were all from her previous stints at other companies. Bill is doing the same thing. When he leaves, half of them will stay, the others will go back to some BH company or BH buys AEP and they all get a golden payday. If he didn't do it, that would have been a big surprise.
The Board is telling him AEP is poorly run, fix it. So he brings in his people. Until the Board and Bill leaves, nothing will change.
@2mby pick a long phrase like a song title, movie title, car name. Add some special characters and a year. Start with 1900 and work your way up.
I only change one or 2 characters every 3 months and been doing it for decades.
@2ma6 Sadly “Promoting from within” has never been real (unless you’re someone’s favorite). HR is not interested in true strategic development and multi level succession that actually lasts. You’re incredibly lucky if you get a manager that actually cares and creates a plan for you. Because I 100% guarantee you, no one else will. Case and point: how many “varieties” of corporate development programs have we had? Better yet, where did those ACTUALLY get you (if you participated)?? They’re just fancy acronyms at this point. I have no faith in what they’re churning out from the top.
@2mby Use KeePass, my nword.
Hope everyone is having fun with these 16+ character passwords. I hate logging in and out all the time. Then to change every 3 months is a bit much...
RIP "promoting from within." We must not have anybody that already works here worthy of any of these roles. Sad state of affairs.
Plant manager at Cook really does not have much experience. He failed the ops testing. No engineening degree, was moved around after failure upon failure. He came from money and that helped him compete in the egoism leadership.
@2m8b
Agreed. These are just cronies.
Our peers wouldn't have people leading the new nuclear entity with no nuclear training or experience.
Reckless.
Two executives announced today and both are from Berkshire. Does nobody else find that weird??? Is it possible to have a real opportunity to lead at AEP if you’re not from Berkshire? This is incredibly alarming. What has happened to this company?
He didn't have to say it that way. He could have highlighted parts of the scorecard where there were improvements, and kept quiet outside of that. We didn't have to be an ugly headline for weeks on end and anger everyone from the customers on up into the political sphere.
Isn't a BIG part of your job knowing WHEN and WHAT to say?!?!
You keep telling everyone to stay focused on the customer, but I just assumed that also meant not royally pssg them off.
Happy Labor Day to American workers, who are the creators of our nation's prosperity. The toiler class is the only majority in America and yet our elected politicians fail to represent our interests in favor of immensely wealthy political campaign contributors.
@2kkj perhaps the first energy layoffs are to get rid of the fat ahead of a merger (with aep even?). Look at the volume of ex aep leadership drones that have found their way to first energy.
@2kqm CEO’s have been having quite the year, huh? (Not to mention the response from the one at the US Open, yikes!)
Has anyone seen the US open. A famous player gives his hat to a young kid and the adult next to him takes it away. This is the leadership team at AEP. Self centered narcissm at its bests.
AEP corporate officers have become so unpopular with employees and customers they are desperately seeking a less conspicuous corporate headquarters. Perhaps, they should consider a underground bunker in the current economic climate. 1 Riverside Plaza has become the headstone to AEP's grave.
The corporate war on workers continues as First Energy is laying off more employees. Not much for American workers to celebrate on this Labor Day weekend. The toilers are sacrificed to satiate the greed of the corporate exploiters. A weak and corrupt government sacrifices it's citizens to appease the avarice of its self-appointed elites.
Labor Day is the day set aside to recognize all the mothers and fathers, who diligently toil to give their children a better life. Yet, corporate bully boys and corporate shareholders prosper while hard working and honest Americans grow old and tired witnessing their children struggle in a free market economy where they are not free to prosper by the sweat of their own brows.
IT IS TIME for the corporate bully boys to get their beat down. They have over played their hand for decades and it is time to call their bluff. They can claim they are unarmed victims but we all know immense wealth is the most dangerous we-pon of all.
Employees are not going to pay for corporates' bougie aspirations. Stealing from employees to feign or excessively amplify financial success is a loser's and failure's weak not woke strategy.
It is time to overmatch the arrogance and bellegrence of corporate bully boys and make them cower before their betters. We are Americans and we shall prevail againsedt all who seek to subjugate our right to a free market economy that includes wages. Wage suppression is the theft of the rewards of honest hard work. Corporate theft must not be rewarded by our representative government, our free market economy or our society! No king, no crowns, no corporate fiefdoms in our America!
No mention of Labor Day on the Corporate propaganda page, is an affront to every employee of AEP, who sweats and bleeds so shareholders can have a richer life. It is time for a company wide strike. DENY, DEFY, DEFUND.