I'm the newest person on my team, and the only one not freaking out about losing my job nonstop. Everyone else seems robotic and submissive, just going through the motions. Everyone is scared to say anything and keep everything to themselves. I can't wrap my head around how people can work here for years under this kind of treatment and never think about leaving.
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Some of them are not willing to work, under educated and just waiting for the maga free ride😁
Me too until they give me a package to replace all the benefits they scr@wed me out of.
I'm still kind of pi---d about the vacation cr-p. If they wanted to give more to the newer employees or let them earn it quicker, fine. But to take it away from employees who earned more based on longevity was cr-p. I don't WANT a mandatory day off 3 weeks into the new year as part of my "benefits."
I never enjoyed the old school way the company ran. Their metrics drive and then reward bad behavior. And heaven forbid you have suggestions to change things.
170k to do nothing can’t complain
No other options.
”No, I’m milking this company for every cent possible.”
Now you’re all getting it.
Bout time.
I’m milking this company for every cent possible.
Me too until they give me a package to replace all the benefits they scr@wed me out of.
Until then, they get bare minimum and I'll check all the boxes that I conformed to their policies. Want more? Then give me a package and then I'll happily let you replace my job with someone overseas like you want to do anyway..
This is what happens when you create a toxic culture and you think you'll get the better of the employees.
Then you have people who stayed 30+ yrs passing up other opportunities because they liked the baby bell they hired under and the retirement benefits were just too good. Then T buys them and the CEO virtually laughs in their faces. “Su---r! You really thought those benefits would still be here after 30yrs!” All the while, benefits he could easily afford are guaranteed by contract. No, I’m milking this company for every cent possible.
C-Suite, I haven’t forgotten and I’m not going to stop bring it up. I want my 3 PTO days back.
Union office worker here. I make $120k pushing paper. Have platinum job security language. Get 8 weeks off paid a year. And I am looking at a $700k lump sum pension when I leave after I turn 54. Life is good over here.
I have been surplussed, worked many different technical jobs with all technologies. Went a 10 year stretch of having psycho managers. Finally have a sane manager again in another technical group. As much as I may hate the company for what has been done to me, I stay out of spite. I refuse to leave any of my pension money on the table. I can make more outside the company. In 6 years that be the new plan. For now myself and others are biding our time to retire until our time and interest rates allow for it.
There are many technical employees who are very marketable. Most are more than half way to the pension payout. We are not giving up on that free money.
"It has not been like this for years. This is the new culture that Stankey and his team have cultivated." -- truer words have never been spoken. Randall was bad, he created the debt. But Stankey was his #2 for that period. AND, since 2020, when Stankey took over it has just gotten worse and worse. Culmination being the 'very popular' RTO policy which was ham-fisted, shoved down everyone's throats. Ill-conceived, ill-planned, and the most non-conducive policy to enhance morale and the so-called 'collaboration'. Everyone hates sitting in a temporary, over-crowded office with Team meetings exploding all around you. AND, many of us having to travel over 50+ miles one way to get to this over-crowded office whereas we never had to or only had to 1 day a week before the Great Stank. He seems to revel in people's misery.
Cool story, OP
“A majority of T employees around for over a decade have no realistic comparable employment options and are fully aware of this fact. They have nowhere else to go in terms of jobs that would pay anything close to their current salary.”
This assumes something laughable. That all of us were celebrated and treated fairly over the years, rewarded with gobs of cash. Blow off dude. We have plenty of places to go for these below average salaries. Why though. We don’t have to swipe in but for more than a half day.We use up that caregiver freebie cash, call in sick, take off early, gobble up the vacation they threw at us to lure in DEI and us young people.
Just give me my cash and don’t rub me the wrong way in the office because you know I’ll call you out on upit right to your face. Yes, even you avp dog.
A majority of T employees around for over a decade have no realistic comparable employment options and are fully aware of this fact. They have nowhere else to go in terms of jobs that would pay anything close to their current salary.
Oh, everyone wants to leave. Q4 is a freeze period for all companies. Don't be surprised when much of your team leaves or moves into different portions of the organization. Everyone hates it here, no one is happy and unfortunately, you'll get the advice of "just focus on yourself".
It has not been like this for years. This is the new culture that Stankey and his team have cultivated.