-Poorly handled RTO implementation and turnaround. At best leadership came off as sheltered and micromanage-y.
-Once you pass a certain level of the company your budget to bring people where you want is unlimited, but below that and hope you can get approval for teammates to go to an office in their state (the company won’t reimburse the commute) and sit in a room to all dial in to a Teams meeting in separate states and try your best to do team building that way.
-Someone I know joked earlier this fall that they didn’t know how morale could fall any lower. Surprise, the layoff announcements a week before Thanksgiving did it!
-speaking of, the layoff/offshoring announcement feels like leadership broadly sees us all as replaceable cogs that they’d offshore to get a dime increase on stock price. Great feeling guys.
-I know that we’ve been limited on company parties because of the pandemic, but guys, maybe a holiday party and literally any indication that leadership sees us as something other than walking salary expenses might do something for the morale problem.
-while this is the first company I’ve worked for that actually does regular raises, 3% as the best you can hope for isn’t great, and most people seem to get raises by doing stints at other companies and getting hired back
-I’m realizing as I’m typing this that between poor pay, underesourcing, and leadership favoring micromanagement that it’s starting to feel like I work at WalMart, and man, that is not what I signed up for.
