I’ve been here over ten years, and I’ve witnessed a growing carelessness in selecting people for layoffs. Whatever criteria they claim to use, the reality is they disproportionately target the people who hold the institutional knowledge, understand the work inside out, and are critical to their teams. The complete loss of any long-term perspective by leadership, who have been driven purely by short-term incentives, is a fascinating and depressing spectacle.
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@gs What real talent has been hired by walgreens the last decade. Go into the stores, its embarrassing.
@gj What "real talent" is going to sign on with Walgreens at this point?
Departments are disproportioned to begin with. Some are too heavy and protected while some run on skeleton crew for years. This layoff needed to correct that. Balance it out and let’s get real talent hired again.
@OP I resigned after 25yrs in November. The officially broke. Pharmacy itself is not for the weak. Being in pharmacy the whole 25yrs
Mandatory distribution of performance reviews will always lead to cutting those with institutional knowledge. As one moves up, the number of people you are distributed against becomes smaller and smaller. At some point, you are no longer talking about high performers and low performers, but those who are liked better. When the company then uses those reviews to decide who to cut, they are making a big mistake. It results in cronyism. As you already pointed out, this is rampant in this company. Here's to hoping I get chosen for severance next time. This company is headed for the trash heaps of history.
@c3 What you said is so correct. Hsiao and Neal did the same with layoffs in IT. Really incompetent Neal friends are still here in 'leadership' positions.
Friends of management are always protected. Those who voice their opinions are targeted. Performance never matters. These are universal laws for layoff at Walgreens.
@OP They will ask you to type a document about question “Can you give examples of your institutional knowledge?”. They will make their decision based on that.
I agree layoff those tha voted democrat. They ruin the “institutions” you are referring to.
Completely false. I would never agree with someone losing their job. But the bottom line is we ‘once again’ had become too too heavy. The terrible decisions made by the last 2 leaderships lead to this. I still am not convinced the current leadership knows what it’s doing.
"institutional knowledge"
probably not the best choice of words given that most institutions are corrupt