The fact that in this very moment many people would gladly volunteer to be laid off says a lot about the company. Am I right?
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@3zxf - 100% guarantee that if you were visible to JD you would be out the door next week.
It's not that you're not a nice person, not that you aren't important, nor that your role is no longer needed.
It's just that you don't fit the right image; Aren't content to be shuttered in a windowless office, away from family and doctor visits, for 1/3 of your existence - to toil and slave and to crave to but catch a glimpse of the corporate royalty someday as they pass by. All while making 50-100% less than your market value.
Likely that most of the folks who are volunteering to be laid off are in tech. I've been in DSM, operations and merch and so far can say that everybody is enjoying the fancy work life balance offered here especially ppl with kids. As long as work is getting done, nobody has an issue with me coming in at 10am and leaving at 3pm. I dont feel embarrassed to tell my team how much time i had to take off to go to my ridoculous number of doctor appointments. And I still got a very healthy raise last reciew cycle. Nike might feel like a completely different cpmpany depending on who you talk to. At the end of the day, save yourself and protect your values.
I hate to say it. But Nike isn’t the company you left 2 years ago. Not anymore.
The benefits & perks you remember don’t exist for many teams.
And ending my job at 5pm sounds like a dream these days with how many teams have been replaced by cheap offshore contractors.
Talk to your manager
Re-org / layoffs coming in April - June
@2dqm+1lKiOyNe
Thank you for this. It’s both a healthy reminder of how good some of us have it and how fragile all this is.
I hope you’re soon able to find something that puts you in a better situation
There’s a saying OP: “Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.”
I was laid off from Nike 2 years ago. Even with a great resume, unique experience, solid references and good interviewing skills it took me much longer than I thought it would to find a new job. I finally accepted a job not even two months before I was going to need to apply for public assistance. The job I took was at a mediocre company at 30% less pay. Working at this company makes Nike look like Disneyland in comparison. There aren’t any perks, no travel, no catered meals, no offsites, no parties, no swag, no gyms, no two hour lunches, no “campus”, none of the stuff you begin to think is completely normal when you work at Nike. We work at our desks all day, take two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch and go home at 5:00. Everyone is polite but no one is especially friendly. It’s a job and it pays the bills. And it is what MOST jobs look like. But hey, I did get a $300 annual bonus last December along with a $50 gift card to The Cheesecake Factory. My colleagues thought that was awesome! I didn’t dare tell them I used to get a five-figure annual bonus, profit sharing, a 5% dollar for dollar 401(k) match instead of my current 50% match up to 4% (so a 2% match), etc. They wouldn’t even be able to comprehend that kind of corporate generosity.
As someone who had always been considered a high performer and high achiever the entire ordeal of being laid off from Nike was massively humbling, humiliating and stressful. Don’t let anyone tell you different…there is a stigma attached to being laid off. Even if it wasn’t your own fault and your entire department was let go, the stigma remains. Either consciously or subconsciously employers think “If this person was valuable enough there’s no way he or she would have been fired.” Employers always want to think they’re hiring the best. If you were laid off then by definition you aren’t the best. Even when that doesn’t make sense human nature is what it is and you aren’t going to change it.
I would do anything to have my old job back at Nike. Show me someone who wants to be laid off from Nike and I’ll show you someone who has never been laid off before.
Be careful what you wish for buddy.
Natural response to frozen headcount & a “do more with less” zeitgeist pushed from leadership.
The thing is people will put up with a lot before making a move. Changing jobs is incredibly inconvenient after all. But once a critical mass of bullsh-t has been reached there’s no easy turning back once people start leaving.
What we have right now is a bunch of people saying “It feels like you don’t want me here Nike, you make it miserable to work for you after all. If you’re kicking me out, at least respect my years of service like any decent company would do”.
And make no mistake. People are leaving. Good people are leaving. I only started applying for other jobs once my entire network of “good managers” left. The snowball is halfway down the mountain at this point.
Yea right. Also says alot about those individuals.