This job has been pure he-l. I don’t care that the job market su-ks or how long it might take to find something else. We all have our breaking points, and I’ve reached mine. Anyone who survives here for more than a couple of years and stays sane deserves a medal. What’s the point of making the workplace so unbearable?
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@e9 I appreciate it must be tough, but why can you not exit without a severance if you find a good role somewhere? Surely better than staying at a place you feel stifled in? All the best in whatever you chose!
How is life over at WL now? Sure was good 2010-15 at WL4 then everything changed.
I was hoping to get laid off. Didn't. Can't really leave without the severance.
Gonna have to start figuring out an exit strategy now, and upskilling/re-training on the side. Shift of my role to India can't be too far into the future.
I have reached my breaking point of being over worked in a toxic environment and cannot wait for my end date to arrive to collect my severance check. Every day working there is a nightmare. Get ready for the next/last? round of layoffs all.
17 yrs in bp and exactly the same feeling. This is not the same firm that joined then. Professionalism has now be subsituted by sycophancy, nobody is ashamed of just following the latest trend and leaving a trail of destruction behind. There is no ownership of the work and no recognition for anyone that doesn't spend at least 90% of their time advertising how wonderful they are but they don't do anything else.
In general middle managers only look up and don't give a toss of the people that actually know the business and make things happen... They only care about the pupets that they'll carry with them to their next gig after they messed up another project. Cash those paychecks and retire in role until get redundancy pacakge for me now
This is the sentiment amongst quite a lot of office staff; including some senior folks who I thought were "bp-forever". Many have past the point of caring, pushed by the rhetoric of deliver deliver deliver...this is what we have been doing all along, it's LT that set the erroneous strategy. When tsi stutters and fails then the rehiring in usa & uk will come full circle. Descent from a once decent company to toxic and unhealthy...