I was in a meeting and management was trying to make us feel better and excite us by sharing how well the company is doing financially. It just left people more angry as we still don’t have benefits returned and there is no willingness to make us whole for cuts over the past year. The more they talk about how great the company is doing the angrier I get. We don’t all have RSUs.
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The smartest of the managers actually understand the glaring gap between celebrating company’s much improved financial situation and continuing to submit the employees to a Hunger Games regime. When the entire economy was tanking and the price of oil was negative it made sense to ask everybody to make sacrifices.
Continuing to have the bloated PIP now looks exactly as what it is: an act of managerial dementia.
I was in a meeting and a dude presented his resignation letter to a manager 3 levels up in a semi-formal curtsy style. A dip of the knee.
Then he walked out of the room and out of the building.
He had already removed all his personal stuff a week earlier, they tell me.
This is the kind of people I like to work with.
You don’t understand business, it IS all about the money. Lose money and people get laid off, keep losing money and everyone gets laid off. You say you are the “working class”? With a ChemE, ME, or other degree? Who are you trying to fool? You work from home when in reality you are doing nothing but collecting a paycheck. At the same time you are paid more than 99.999% of the people in the world! And yet you complain as if you are forced to work for the great ExxonMobil!
You begged to get hired and now you complain? You hotshots can quit anytime you want. No one is making you stay and collect a paycheck for doing NOTHING! Your such a great hotshot? Prove it and go complain about working for someone else!
Sorry about the rant, but I’ve had a few and am sick of hearing all these self proclaimed prima donnas complain about their job. If it is so bad, it is simple, go away!
I was in a meeting and our Division Manager just pulled it out and whizzed all over the table. That's honesty. I respect that.
This just continues to underscore the disconnect between management and the “working” class. They think everything is about ROI, profits…all the financial metrics you want to throw at the board. It was apparent throughout last year and this year they’ve used every excuse to decimate the employees all in the name of the shareholder and reputation.
Odd choices for PIPs, Layoffs, benefit cutbacks all the while market trends were improving and expectations / forecasts showed oil price increases. Always about the all mighty dollar and shareholders…health, happiness, culture, etc. of their employees be darned.
Stock options and gifts don’t guarantee “safety” in the corporation. Know one person who had a few of those a few years in a row, but ultimately was let go…politics.