Lots of IT people cut in Columbus
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@40pz Many AEP Employees know their true value and know they are under paid but also have the integrity and virtue not expect or accept more than they have earned and deserve and that is the difference between authentic AEP and phony win it in a minute AEP.
@3zyq End the pathologically narcissistic tyrannical reign of private equity firms and their greed allegiance CEOs.
@408t Are data centers a massive hassle besides being eyesores or eminent domain? Seems fine to me girl, what's the problem lady?
Did AEP OH take the sign off their building intentionally?
Don't try to tell me about data centers. If the rich people and politicians won't live next to them, then why should anyone else.
Put them at waste dumps, abandoned malls, failed factories, brownfield sites, or any of the 100 other possible places that exist now, are hooked to the grid, and won't annoy the f out of 4k residents. D-mb×sses.
@400z You talking about the computers? Yeah I noticed too.
Everything works like sht now.
One big, stupid bottleneck.
@3zyt We are not descended from cowardly and fearful men. Their courage and indominable spirit made us free and only WE can surrender our Liberty, Equality and Justice for ALL. Fight or you shall lose all that you hold dear!
@3zyq How rich is rich enough? How miserable are you allowed to make everyone else to absurdly and obscenely aggrandize yourselves? Why are we allowing ourselves to be subjected to such ignominious tyranny and contemptible injustice? We are Americans and We must begin behaving like it!
No matter what industry you look at, the top shareholders, and therefore decision makers, are the same: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and/or Berkshire Hathaway
A disturbance in the farce, I sense. Eclipsed the empire shall be. Inevitable the rebellion is.
Its amazing that the only qualified high end IT people are coming from COX.... Seems like I've seen this before somewhere......
@3ywa
Go rent a wheelchair, navigate 1RP in it all day while they're hogging the freight elevator for the upgrade, try to get in and out of a packed garage with an accessible vehicle, and then -maybe- be 2% less of a self-absorbed prck than you were before that.
@3ywa Superior at being inferior.
@3wqj Some of us are just superior specimens Bubba, why don't yall unionize like someone said a year ago. "Right to WFH!"
@3yqh Yes, we all know about the RIGHT people, they can do no wrong because they have no morals and ethics but demand that everyone else does. Makes oppression, exploitation and subjugation so much easier and puts their victims in a moral and ethnical conundrum. How do you fight pure evil without becoming pure evil?
@3xfh I guess thievery is an accepted practice at AEP as long as the RIGHT people are profiting based on the number of down votes.
@3xes You earned what you have unlike some people, who have stolen what they have from everyone else.
@3xes May retirement be everything you hoped it would be and a great deal more. Long life, good health, good fortune and best of luck. It takes a lot of sacrifices to be able to afford to pay yourself not to work but in the end it is well worth it.
@3x62
Retired after 65.
Gave 2 months notice.
Vacationed out till one last day to turn in all company property.
Took this vacation time to activate medicare for seamless coverage.
They really want three months to do that.
Still have not activated pension or social security.
Was offered extras to stay, but said no thanks.
Any retirees lurking around here? If so, what is your experience leading up to it? Did you wait until late in your planning to tell your manager? Has anyone experienced AEP showing you the door early?
As demand for skilled energy professionals rises, industry veterans are retiring in droves, taking their valuable institutional knowledge and experience with them. The plutocratic corporate amateurs do not value the long tenured electric utility professionals and their resolute work ethic. They shall pay dearly for their ignorance, incompetence and hubris. We are the light and they are the darkness.
@3ws5
You gave me a great idea for Ask Bill. Follow me carefully.
For 2026 we do Pluto the Dog and ditch Louie the Lightning Bug.
BASED AF.
🐶🍟🍔
@3wqj THEY make the rules and have no intention of abiding by them. The plutocratic hypocrisy is provocative and appalling. Perhaps their sense of superiority needs to be challenged and disproved.
Work remote and show up to meetings whenever you want, call in from your phone from anywhere you please, and make your own hours. Work in the office and you better be on time, at your desk, and be there during required work hours.
He, who must steal success to achieve it, shall never be anything more than failure and a cheat, who lies not only to himself but also to everyone else. Your falseness can never be outrun. Like your shadow you can only hide from it in utter darkness.
- Sophism argument. "The gasoline industry has to contend with 330,000,000 voters that want to raise taxes".
- Not participating in the "rigged economy" means no paycheck, no phone, no internet. You want to go back to bartering with pelts and horseshoes or what?
- Work at your local business, take wages that are low, and then complain on their board.
There are more than 60,000 trade and business associations in the United States that collectively represent corporate and commercial interests at various levels. How many labor associations are representing your interests as an employee? Don't participate in a rigged economy. How long have you been working to make rich people richer? The more they make the more they spend to make sure you remain their loser and su---r.
@3vw0 Successful employees threaten their superiors, who are comfortable in their mediocrity. The pursuit of excellence requires a resolute determination, too much effort and attention to details. Mediocrity is baked into the corporate culture that is why the lazy and incompetent get promoted over their more qualified, deserving and proficient peers. Cronyism at its best insuring the absolute worst work environment and accelerated occupational exhaustion.
Core ethos of all the corporate cultures we have endured: REWARD FAILURE AND PUNISH SUCCESS.
Knock, knock. Who is there? Karma. Karma who? Karma is coming for you and she is livid. There is no greater wrath than the universal law of cause and effect and much like gravity it cannot be denied. No one defies universal law and gets away with it. All that political campaign financing cannot and shall not save you. Ohio HB6 was the warning, you failed to heed. Answer the door, Karma cannot be denied, its inevitability.
Broken trust and lost faith are draining the vitality and wisdom from AEP one veteran employee at a time. The value you are driving away far exceeds the value you are stealing from dedicated employees with decades of tenure and their families.
@3v2c Political campaign contributors are controlling both parties, so the priorities of We the People continue to fall on death ears. Until Citizens United vs FEC is overturned the American People will continue to be in the back of the governance bus furthest from the driver. The more We the People aspire to make strides to true political equality, the further political campaign contributors drag us back to political inequality and plutocratic privilege.
@3v0w
Why should I leave? They're the ones who su-k. It's 38 percent of the population making everyone else miserable right now. That math won't hold for long. Even their own party is pssd and divided. Wait it out.
Leaving or retiring from AEP is only the first step in a journey to escape authoritarianism.
There are travel agencies and relocation companies that will help you become more informed about living abroad and surrendering your US citizenship to break all ties and tax liabilities with this authoritarian regime. Why exist in America under the oppressive and inhuman rule of corporate America when you can thrive abroad and wash off the toxic culture poisoning you and your family?
@3v0r According to a February 2025 Harris poll, 68 percent of Americans considering leaving the U.S. cited unattainable home ownership and a sense they were “merely surviving instead of thriving. Meanwhile, 49 percent cited high living expenses and disagreements with the political situation in the U.S.
@3tz0 According to a Brookings Institution study, negative migration in 2025 stood at about 250,000 people, with estimates that at least 400,000 Americans voluntarily left the United States. Gallup data shows that nearly one in five Americans wants to leave permanently. Thousands are also giving up their citizenship, moving to Europe and Asia and even seeking better quality of life and quiet in Mexico and Central America.
@3tyy Denmark is recruiting American workers to move to Denmark where you will be valued as a human being and an employee. They are offering a humane alternative for burned out American workers forced to do the job of three employees to increase shareholder value. You can choose to be exploited and subjugated by CEOs and major shareholders in America or you can give them your middle finger and accept rewarding employment in Denmark.
American prosperity distribution since WWII shifted dramatically from a highly equitable expansion (1945–1973) to extreme concentration. While overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and wealth grew exponentially, the lowest- and middle-income tiers experienced stagnating shares of that growth, allowing wealth to pool disproportionately at the very top.
The Golden Age of Broadly Shared Prosperity (1945–1973)The three decades following the war were defined by rapid, equitable growth where incomes roughly doubled across all rungs of the economic ladder. Middle-Class Expansion: A robust industrial sector, strong labor unions, and a booming consumer culture created the modern middle class. The GI Bill: Unprecedented government support funded veterans' higher education and home mortgages, catalyzing suburban growth and homeownership.
The Great Divergence (1970s–Present)Beginning in the 1970s, economic growth slowed down while the income gap widened significantly. Prosperity distribution became highly skewed, with income and wealth concentrating among the top 10% and, more acutely, the top 1% of earners. Wealth Disparity: Federal Reserve data shows that the top 10% of households hold roughly two-thirds of the nation's wealth, while the least-wealthy 50% of households hold less than 4%. Income Stagnation: The median household income share shrunk. Economic models suggest that if the equitable growth rates of the post-WWII era had held steady through 2018, Americans in the bottom (90%) of the income bracket would have had an additional ($2.5) trillion in aggregate income that year alone
@3sg9 Abominable Ignominiousness