When I realized that, despite all my efforts, I won't be able to progress here any time soon, I started sending applications.
Guys and gals, why is it worth staying at Nike?
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the original poster's questions has been asked a million times on here. the answer is mostly the same: people are scared of losing their source of income. this is the same as an abused husband or boyfriend who is scared of leaving his partner.
The answer to your questions depends on the color of your skin and/or your genitalia, unfortunately. Nike is a racist and s-xist organization. If you’re a white male, GTFO immediately.
@6iwe+1jROuQPV I never understand why people who don't work at Nike come onto this message board
You are right! Leave instead and start a fake forum like this one with plenty of adds. Make sure you post a lot of questions pretending you are a concerned employee to drive traffic to your site (well ads really). Stay in touch with some ex colleagues so you can mix a few current topics in with the usual layoff, non compete and campus drama. Oh and also mention JD a lot, really rings the register here! Good luck !!!
My husband works at Nike and mostly enjoys it. He has occasional bad days but those are far outnumbered by good days. I’ve met a lot of his coworkers and most of them are great people. Nonetheless I need to say something and it’s not intended to offend anyone. Especially since it doesn’t apply to everyone.
I’ve long thought that a certain percentage of Nike employees suffer from an employment version of “Rich Kid Syndrome”. What’s that? It’s when a kid grows up rich, has an easy and luxurious life, and little to no understanding or appreciation of how lucky he actually is compared to most others. There was a famous YouTube video a few years ago later confirmed to be real. It seemed totally fake because it was so ridiculous. Nope, it was real. A teenage girl was given a new Range Rover for her 16th birthday. Her parents were really excited to give it to her so they filmed it. When she saw the car at first she looked confused, then mad. Then she started crying. Why? It wasn’t the color she wanted! Then things got even better. She started yelling at her parents, asking them how they could be so clueless as to have chosen that color. She was red-faced mad!! She ran into the house crying like someone had just told her Becky Marshall would be the prom queen rather than her. It was all simultaneously funny and mind-blowingly unbelievable. THAT was what rich kid syndrome looks like.
I see lesser versions of this all the time with Nike employees. You guys have a chill workplace, really good benefits, a lot of perks that don’t exist at most companies, you can go to the gym in the middle of your work day, and most recently they’ve even started giving you an extra week off for “mental wellness”? You DO realize that isn’t even a thing at like 99% of employers, right?
But I come on here sometimes and read about what a dreadful, backwards, oppressive, awful place it is. Basically there’s a certain number of you who are exactly like that girl with her wrong-colored Range Rover. And you don’t even realize it.
If Nike isn’t your thing that’s fine. In that case quit and do something else. Maybe you’ll find greener grass. Maybe you’ll find that the grass often isn’t greener. In any case I don’t understand why anyone would stay someplace where they weren’t happy. I understand even less why someone who wasn’t happy would gripe about their unhappiness on a message board. If you don’t want to be at Nike but you still are, that’s entirely on you. So maybe do something about it? And hope you don’t later learn you were being that girl and her Range Rover.
It's the devil you know.
What @4gci said. The types of people that post anonymous messages claiming they’re going to quit, usually don’t. They are fantasizing and publicly venting because it makes them feel better.
The people who actually quit don’t make a production out of it and don’t feel any need to tell everyone beforehand. They get their ducks in a row, quietly apply for other jobs, and resign when something better comes along.
How do I know this? 20+ years of seeing people threaten to quit, who almost never do. With matters like this talk is cheap and actions speak much louder than words.
Truth.
Everybody has a different plan that might or might not fit what Nike has to offer. If you dont feel like this is your place to be happy and feel accomplished, why waste time asking? Just do whatever and GTFO.
Worth staying for: cushy and relatively stable job without many demands, gyms, discount, easy hours
That’s about it. If you’re a motivated individual looking to grow professionally then you don’t stay at Nike. Get what you need and then get out after a few years before you’re stuck.
It isn't. Also, where can you go from here? what do you want to do? where do you see yourself? plan accordingly, and then exit. I know where I want to be, im prepping hard to GTFO.