Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

ER is awful. They say they have your back, but they really don't. Don't trust them. I contacted ER once and told me it was totally confidential. I contacted them, b/c I wanted advice on how to talk to my manager. I felt she was unreasonable in her demands...when I already was going above and beyond and doing things for her personally outside the scope of my 'job'. ER locked into a totally unrelated issue about my hours and how that would be an issue potentially (for the company mind you) as I was hourly and doing things to support my manager outside 'work' hours. (It made the company at risk). Then 2 weeks later they told me that HR wanted to know who I was...they already knew in my estimation. From then on...HR and ER would reach out to me and see how 'they could help' me. Riiiiight. Help me leave the company.

That's the f-ed up part in all of this...Nike talks such a big game about the culture and who we are and our voice matters and do what's right for the 'team' and the consumer, but then they just empower the same a-holes to act the same way. For a business modeled on sports. It's the worst 'team' in the game.

Maybe that's every company today, but the abuse of power, blindly protecting the 'management' and allowing a-holes to keep getting promoted and protected is the f-ed up part about this company. There's very few of the good people left who truly care about their work, their people, etc. But that's the nike way. Promote people who are awful people managers.

I say...raise your voice. Be brave...and at the end of the day...'do the right thing.'

Maybe just maybe...MP is gonna do something bold to fix this f-ed culture. Maybe... Maybe...

Or we just keep using this forum to speak truth to power. If we gotta out the bullys and bad people...then so be it.

There's plenty of media members who are chomping at the bit to have someone go on record...

It’s not a third party. It’s nike employees who are screening the calls and then passing to ER and/or Legal. I would be more impressed if it was an outside firm auditing. Somehow per other news I was under the impression it wasn’t being run by Nike internally.

I went to senior leadership many times about harassing behaviour I received from one Director. This man was good friends with both my director and our HR director, and he has many friends in high places. Others went together as a group to HR about him and were reprimanded for doing so. He's been promoted many times, by the people knowing and witnessing the things he said and did to myself and to others. No I don't believe its worth calling the hotline. I'm no longer at Nike, if I was, I wouldn't even risk posting this.

I've met a lot of douche bros who work at Nike. This surprises me zero.

The ER process is terrible. They need some sort of ombudsman like ESPN has. There is no way ER can be fair. They have one job. Protect Nike at all cost they don’t care at all what you say.

Yes, call or email. The hotlines are being processed by an outside company, not Nike.

ER is quick to tell you that retaliation is not tolerated. But the reality is that things don't work that way. The minute you raise your concern or stop drinking the Nike Kool-Aid or go against their way of thinking, you're career is done.

You need to go not cause waves otherwise you're career is over with Nike. You can thank all those careerist who feel they are superior and aligned with Senior Leadership.

I love that Mark Parker if finally catching wind of this and saying, "Uh no, you are not aligned with our values..."

I called the hotline and was retaliated against. I would never recommend doing this unless you have an attorney. Document everything. Realize they will investigate you. Your phone, your computer, your ipad. Everything. They will wreck you. My .02.

I had a horrific experience reporting to a man who knew nothing about my job, and constantly berated me and patronized me, bullied me, stole my presentations, and asked me to stay quiet in meetings. When he hear di had complained about him, he totally lied on my review, and did not give me a raise. I wanted to quit so many times, but my family obligations prevented me from doing so (sadly). I went to talk to his boss, who was my boss before they inserted an extra male layer in between us, and i was told i was being too emotional, it was not a big deal, to grow up and deal with it like an adult. Nothing is ever going to change, this Nike folks, the culture of Just Do It is alive and kicking!

I was told by my boss that if I raised my complaint I would not work in the industry again. (As a scientist, it’s a small industry so that is not an exaggeration.)

What would you do with this advice?? As an L band in a group run by a known bully who discredits and slanders anyone that challenges him? You shut up and hope that karma is more effective (and faster) than ER and HR?