You moved me to Portland offering tons of cash and laid me off, putting me in a flooded market and I have yet to recover. Two years in and i am wondering if my career is over while I can’t find a job and watch you squeezing out talent and promoting the worst of the worst for taste level and vision.
Coming to Nike ruined my dreams, my career trajectory, my finances, and my hopes for a family.
You deserve what comes. I hope it’s worse than Nokia.
@j4 the ship wasn’t sinking when i took the job , it happened shortly after. And while no one “forced” me to take the job, i WAS RECRUITED, in a way that included conversations about a path that involved growth. and there was very much a selling of culture and opportunity that turned into a facade. Putting that on me is honestly absurd. I question your ethics and, if you’re still at Nike, understand completely why things are the way they are.
FU @OP, you took the job you get the consequences. It's easy to blame everything else, but no one forced you to take the job and be to silly to jump ship before it started sinking
@OP I’m sorry. Although the job market is horrendous, a small tip I have is to put your current location on your resume/application wherever each position you’re applying for is. It makes a difference for recruiters. Good luck
@az Shouldn't even have to justify gaps in employment at this point. I wouldn't want to work somewhere that expects an explanation for it.
Every company is the same. When they say it’s employment at will it means we are all temps. Save your money. I’ve worked for fortune 100 companies far worse than Nike. To them we are just costs.
Boohoo, makes sense why you can’t find a new job
@a8 How about accountability for giant corporations like Nike who get to rake in billions? The social contract is that we let these people get all the cash as long as they provide workers a way to live.
How can a worker have individual accountability if the corporations are laying off by the hundreds of thousands while making hundreds of billions?
@a8 You chose to sound like an a--hole. You can choose to put the keyboard down no one I mean no one wants or needs toxic advice
@as unfortunately severance is done as is unemployment and the gap is becoming harder to justify. I’ve been open to moving , applying everywhere, leveraging network. Re wrote my resume a thousand times.
To those “you chose to move” trolls are part of the Nike arrogance problem. Nike recruited me. I turned down multiple companies at the time to come.. Only to lay me off shortly there after. Now I watch leaders who are mediocre at best be promoted and run the company into the ground. It’s honestly disgusting.
Sorry this happened to you @OP. I'm hoping the severance is decent enough such that you can relocate to a more promising area. Negotiate severance to help you get through it financially.
@others: WTF are you saying ? Is that what you do when you see someone let down?
There are thousands and thousands of families and children dependent on these jobs (including “foreigners”). I never got paid any amount to relocate. I am still grateful for a job. However we feel about our leaders.
Being laid off su-ks, but blaming all of your misfortune on a company seems like you are deflecting accountability. You chose to accept the job, you chose to move, and now you have the choice for how to proceed next.
What org were you in?