When I landed my next job after Nike, I figured that I had to suddenly work much more, although I was thinking I already worked hard at Nike, but that was not the case at all, I had to literally double the amount of output in my new job. I guess you figure out where I am going with this! I definitely do not hint that laid off people deserved what they got, but the contrary! However I realized that Nike is so nice that you can get by with your 50% thinking that you are hardest working person and you deserve to be next great thing in the company becoming manager, director, vp etc, many people end up burning out, depressed, not fairly treated even cheated. My humble recommendation in this case would be "consider embracing this as an opportunity to really become the best you can be, even though Nike is a great brand and good company, it never gave you the opportunity to become the best you could be" And next time make decisions about your career yourself, dont let someone else do it for you" especially that someone needs to protect his own back!
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I don't agree the fact that you copied it here promoting that it is bad, this is definitely not a bad one, I believe that it's telling people like you to wake the hell up and face the reality! You did not have the courage to control your own career, assuming that your long lunch hours and work out sessions at the gym are OK to scratch a few hours here a few hours there, then a few big boys made the decision for you! all you could do is watch and complain about it! what hurts you is that those big boys showed you what you already knew inside! you are not as good as you think you are, therefore you are out! This guys at least made a decision to leave, now he seem to have a good career, you might be even asking him soon to hire you!
couldn't agree more
I’d put it a different way: that there are few really cool or interesting jobs at Nike. Most roles just require one to do the largely valueless work to support the inefficient matrix.
And this fact seems to wear on the otherwise bright, earnest people who join the company. Eventually most seem to just regress to the mean and focus on their own narrow interests & survival.