Recent remarks from our EVP outline that sentiment exactly. Without ever addressing the layoffs directly, he told us to stop "the worry, gossip, rumours, paranoia and assumption of negative intent." Pardon me, sir, but you've laid off about a dozen of my friends and the husband of the lady who sits next to me. Meanwhile they've redone how PAR works and have gone back to keeping the score from you until it's already too late. The lady on my other side got the lowest score and it's locked in for a year, so it will keep her from changing positions. How do they expect us to NOT assume negative intent?? I used to show up early and stay late and bust my butt, but did it show on my last three evals? No. I got the same score on my eval as miss poor performance. Then they hired someone at a higher level to do half of what I was doing at this time last year. And I had to train her. So I'm done. I don't care anymore. I'm hoping to be laid off at this point, and looking for something else in the meantime.
Exactly, @PkI6kfo-yqz. It's the audacity of expecting us to train somebody for something we have been doing as part of our everyday work, and knowing they will be paid more to do ONLY that that gets to me. At the same time, we are kept down through false bad evaluations. It's infuriating.