Ratnakar brought in a lot of incompetent and grossly overpaid people from the Bay Area. New groups were created just to bring these people in. They are staffed at all levels of management (VPs, Sr. Directors, Directors), and they brought their culture of intimidation and nepotism with them. This is Nike's chance to restore some sanity and get back some of the much needed budget. Will management do the right thing and right this ship? Laying off even one of these useless people could save 2-3 people in WHQ.
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@ues not really the whole picture. Nike only has to make sure its actions don't discriminate against protected classes, including age. People with poor personnel records (notes, plans, etc) especially young employees with these marks are some of the best weight to balance the scale with against the core layoff goals. Without knowing how this will unfold, if you are on a pip, don't have a positive track record in CFE, have harrassment complaints and so on, you should be looking yesterday. Nike is very obviously doing more inside homework this time with how much of an unrecoverable shitshow the last consultant driven layoffs ended up in. Be prepared always but especially if you meet the easy choice criteria.
Let us not forget about all people with six harassment in their files that were protected by their buddies and HR. The riff has to balance these amongst other people with nothing in their file. They cannot just get rid of the bad dead wood as it looked targeted without balancing the data on all categories of people that were let go.
@lvz i wish
Almost all of these people are in enormously overpaid management roles. Nike has been investigating the rat rot for more than the past year. We are in a cost cutting exercise. Connect the dots, it's coming, and justifiably undoing the corruption will be a large part of impact these layoffs and reorging will have in GT. I would be sweating right now if I were part of the rat's disease.
Definitely, please, let them go! Those people know nothing but talking pretty, get Bay area pay and do mediocre work. I cannot believe Nike would hire from Kohl's, such a joke.
A lot of them are remote employees so we are basically paying Bay Area salaries while not getting Bay Area talent (or any talent for that matter). What a sweet deal!
Get rid of them and good riddance. They destroyed Nike from the inside out. Ratnakar’s damage runs deep. This is another example of JD’s poor leadership. It was a disaster to hire Ratnakar and allow his cronies to infest Nike. The level of corruption is so deep. The only way to get rid of it is to get rid of the entire group.
We went from like 5 VPs to 40 VPs under the RAT, so yeah
absolutely...thats what its going to happen.They close out the BATC location. then outright they save 300-400 million $