#badmorale

What the heck was that?

A kickoff neatly three months into the year?

It’s hard to take a company seriously that preaches productivity when they waste a half-hour showing slides of updated organizational charts since the big layoff.

It was the same old tired, “more communication”, “career development”, and “employee recognition” promises that never happen. Oh wow, cheap junk from the Canon Spotlight catalog site, just what everyone wants! Career development = more time to watch cr-ppy courses on Canon Learning, seriously? The material on that site is absolute garbage. More communication = monthly mass town hall meetings that nobody understands what is being discussed.

Over the course of the last year, I watched as my friends were blasted away. A feeling not unlike sitting in a trench, the sirens begin, foxholes are filled, and some unlucky chosen never make it back. While dramatic, this is the feeling I get with every announcement, email, and report.
Today, my friends were sold like property. Some spent their lives here, only to be told the work and time they put in is worthless, that they’re no longer with us. Offered up like it wasn’t their lives being affected. For what? So some disgusting rich pig can get fatter? So some greedy corporate demon can keep feasting on us?
I know this place is he-l, but I pray we aren’t so godless that justice goes unserved. Imagine sacrificing people just to pad your pockets.
I have nothing to say about what happened today, no news, nothing. My words are gone, and every day here is filled with apathy.

Another 30 minutes of my life wasted. Blah Blah Blah AI Blah Blah Blah. Stop wasting our time!

Wow! This year’s employee appreciation week is an absolute joke. An article that links to a viva engage post with no engagement. A cr-ppy ecard from the CEO. Way to phone it in and check the box. That’s an HR fail.

We used to have a slower season, a time when you could catch your breath and actually think. That doesn't exist anymore. The pace is relentless now, and the workload has become the baseline. Everyone is exhausted, but pointing it out feels pointless because leadership seems to think this is just how it should be.

You’re either still here because you're new and have no idea you’re now on a 747 on its way into the ground, retiring soon-and praying you can last long enough to make it out, searching constantly for another employer, or just an id--t and think all the screaming, smoke, and flames around you is just special effects for the awesome music video starring you and all your greatness! In that case-thumbs up-you truly are the best of the best!

Gotta love a meeting where they announce $12B in revenue and also continuing layoffs.

Coming from Ansys, every single thing about Synopsys is comically bad. It's no wonder they mostly hire H1Bs and people overseas, as they're the only ones happy to put up with this cr-ppy work environment.

This company is a big fat tu-d. Specifically, it’s HPE Networking within a tu-d.

I'm an id--t for staying this long. Now I desperately want out, but there are no jobs. I'm stuck, thanks in part to my own laziness.

Coachella Valley Unified School District plans to eliminate about 80 positions. More than a dozen teachers at Seaview Elementary School will be laid off. The district is addressing a growing fiscal crisis. The Coachella Valley Teachers Association shared news of these job cuts. The union warns of impacts on students and staff morale.

Salton City, California

https://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2026/03/10/teachers-at-seaview-elementary-in-salton-city-face-layoffs-as-coachella-valley-unified-cuts-80-positions

Oy with this cr-p company for 7 months so prob wouldn't severance but I can't stand this place, I dread every day

What are my chances

Welp, there goes my raise. Gone before I even got one payment.

With tensions in the Middle East pushing oil prices up again, gas is likely heading higher. For those of us forced to commute five days a week, it’s money straight out of our pockets.

Do the math. A pretty normal commute is 25–50 miles each way, or 250–500 miles a week. In a typical car getting about 20 MPG, that’s roughly 13–25 gallons of gas every week just to show up and badge in.

If gas jumps from around $3 to $5 a gallon, that’s about $25–$50 more per week, or roughly $1,500–$3,000 per year in extra fuel alone.

And that’s before tolls, maintenance, wear on the car, or the second vehicle many families had to buy because five-day RTO made sharing impossible.

At the end of the day, five-day RTO isn’t just inconvenient. For a lot of people it’s effectively a pay cut for work we’ve already proven can be done from anywhere.

Big F-U to the “leadership”. I hate this place.

Please keep looking do not work for this company as they do not care about you as a person or employee. They only care about the members who call in and speak to you like trash and doesn't really care about your mental health it's all about metrics, metrics, and metrics! This was a mistake working here! Not what I expected!

Management loves to brag about perks and post about balance, but ignore a late night message and suddenly you are the example in a meeting. The whole wellness message rings hollow when the expectations never switch off. You can see who gets protected and who does not, and it is not subtle. I would take blunt and direct over this polished version of pressure any day.

This place is insane! Every Monday... I can't sleep the night before and just dread this place. State Farm has absolutely no clue what it is doing. There is always a systems problem, always some update waiting to be downloaded messing up some application. Over the last 13 years the people they are hiring are just absolute trash, bottom of the barrel burger flippers. 2040 and DEI outcasts. The agent's are completely useless and cause so many issues you can barely do you job due to their meddling. Training is awful, traffic and cost of living is horrendous in the hubs and we get paid the same as fully remote workers but have thousands of dollars in additional expense. Now it's all about emotions and feelings and surveys asking you about things they never have any intention of changing. You need to better manage your health to adapt to all the stress they are going to cause and never offer anything to make the work environment better.
State Farm is like a bad dream you never wake up from and the madness never stops. Just constant organized chaos and it's hard to believe this company is even in business. I still can't believe they destroyed this once great company. This place continues to be a soul su-king sh-t hole. They are basically openly hostile to anyone that tells them their baby is ugly and keep doubling down on a completely failed business model. I wish they would offer some form of voluntary severance. Just stop the suffering. Pathetic really, JF and his minions are joke for an era and legacy that need to be removed like a cancerous growth and they just continue to stain and destroy everything they touch. Mo--ns, just absolute mo--ns!

For anyone thinking about employment at Optum, don’t do it!!! Run!!!

It's so disheartening to see what a pathetic state we are in, where are we going, what exactly do we want to do?
There are no leaders , there are no lead by example, everyone doing bare minimum thinking they are giving their best, no enthusiasm, no excitement, going to campus is so sad, staying at home is 9 hours of continuous meeting, no output, no value adds.. such a sad state of affair...
Arrrrrgggghhhhh!!!

ICYMI - In another attempt to drive the morale of the WTS sales employees into the ground, it has been rumored that the once prestige honor of making President’s Club is no longer an option. The service and hardware increases were not enough to drive comp down. Now they are taking it all back, very slowly.

However, other divisions like CSG now run by PK will celebrate their successful reps at Baha Mar in the Bahamas.

Apparently this was the decision of Mason Olds. Safe to say that he is making quite the impression on the WTS reps with a bold move like this.

Canon has truly turned their back on the reps of WTS.

It’s official. After over a decade committed fully to this company I think they have broken my morale irreparably.

Between being told in my performance review I went above and beyond and could not have done a single thing better but could not get an “exemplary” rating because too many were given, to layoffs and AI looming, and not being valued or appreciated at all, I’m going to start applying elsewhere. I miss the old Usbank. I loved this company, I loved my job, I thought I’d retire from here. They really just crushed me.

On my team especially after 1/29 layoffs. Anyone else?

I feel like I'm wasting away here. No growth, no recognition, no point. Just dragging myself through each day. I'd leave in a second if I had anywhere to go. Truist is making me hate everything.

Not far! Growth of 1.8% ? Why even wake up and go to work. Oh wait, I work for infinite. I work at home. Let’s continue to milk this dead company.

Loyalty is gone! I don’t give a cr-p, I just collect a check.

I feel sorry for those who wake up and go to work at Fiserv, or still hold the Fiserv stock in their M Lynch account or Fidelity account.

This is all because of Frank and his “leaders”

of a company

Gets worse every year.

Among current and previous employees. Current workforce mostly has quietly quit and Dell is going to be squeezed by current suppliers in 2026, deaths by a thousand paper cuts.

Your salary is past the mid point. Just another FU from this sh-t a$$ company. Can’t wait to leave

At least there was severance provided. So many employees this year got fired for cause (so no benefits no severance not eligible for unemployment). Does the company su-k for this? Certainly. Will they repost our same jobs for 80% less in 6 months. 💯. Take your severance and run. This bank is a sinking ship.

Anyone else’s excited for their Sharing Success award! Such a thoughtful thing our company does, rewarding us with a whopping 65 units….
The RSUs and cash bonuses are pathetic.
Meanwhile, BM (Bowel Movement) unloads nearly 17k shares for just under $1m in the middle of each month.

Worst company in the world. Should not be part of the FAANG group

There’s a particular flavor of workplace dysfunction that thrives in Chicago offices, and it’s the kind everyone pretends isn’t racist, s-xist or classist because they call it “fit” and “professionalism.” But we see it. Who gets promoted. Who gets visibility. Who gets coached. Who gets written up for the same thing someone else gets praised for. HR isn’t confused; they’re complicit! The end! IF you dare say something about the disparities—how certain faces always rise and certain others always plateau—you get the corporate sermon about “opportunities for development” or “taking initiative,” as if the issue is your work ethic and not the rigged ladder. Meanwhile the pay here is an insult with direct deposit. They tell us morale matters, they tell us culture is important, and they host a lunch once a year to prove it. But when people burn out, get vocal, or simply ask for livable raises, suddenly the budget evaporates. Funny how it returns every time a favorite gets bumped up a level.
The worst part is they know morale is low. They’ve known. They’ve done surveys, held town halls, launched committees, ordered branded mugs and stress ba--s. The answer is not a mystery. People are tired of being underpaid, undervalued, and watched like suspects while the chosen few glide. And don’t come at me with the classic “If you don’t like it, leave.” Leave to where? They are all hiring at the same salary and running the same playbook? The whole ecosystem is built on keeping people grateful for scraps while pretending the problem is our attitude. We shouldn’t have to contort ourselves into silence or gratitude to survive a job. We shouldn’t be expected to normalize racism dressed up as “professional readiness” or favoritism dressed up as “high potential.” We shouldn’t be made to feel disposable while being told culture is everything.
Morale doesn’t matter here!!!! People matter here only when they’re useful and only when they look like the archetype leadership already decided on. And I’m tired of the lie that this is just how corporate life works. It doesn’t have to be. They just choose it.

Stock down to 28. U-k!
We have no mega paid people that actually provide leadership.
No motivation, no nothing.
What a terrible start to 26/

I was hired on and the future was bright.
High salary, good options, good bonus. Lighter work load but very interesting work.
That became the status quo for the first 2.5 years.
Then onto a project that had legs but should have been completed in half the time.
The excuse in length was, don't #$%@ up the brand. Valid but the program still took entirely too long.
All the time the better than avg salary/options/bonus arrived.

The next 4 years flew by but the work was not mentally stimulating. In the back of my head I knew I should leave to stay sharp but those golden handcuffs kept me.

The last 2.5 years have been terrible, still a great pay package but at this point in a career there needs to be more. There is not.

No bright future for the company, no groundbreaking tech to boost a new footwear line.

Just backstabbing and cliche high school atmosphere which does not fly in the FAANG corporations in which i have previously worked for.

Its a shame as I loved Nike in those early years and would have bent over backwards to forward the corporate agenda.

I'll stay but no longer have that fire.
Too many VPs to count and absolutely no clue what some do. How a corporation can justify the cost of VPs that barely contribute but a slide deck now and then. Slide decks do not keep the lights on.

Nike is down, Portland downtown is down, that 2016 vibe is long gone.

I am just planning to milk the Nike te-t until my day arrives. It eventually will.

People will say then just leave. Not a chance in this Portland job market. My family would take a hit and that is not happening.

All time low. I’d say I hope senior leaders see this. But I also suspect it’s by design. Low morale = high attrition

Moral is so bad and everyone is so miserable that i fight to log on and stay on daily. This has to be intentional by these mo--ns running this place into the ground. Holding out as long as possible because of the pay and the fact so many are struggling to fund other jobs but dont know how much longer i can do this

You can tell the state of a workplace by what people joke about. The only time you hear people genuinely laugh or smile is when someone's making a joke about how terrible things are or complaining about management. It's the one form of morale we have left, I guess.

It's a con game. The company has no incentive to care about your feelings. Any and all morale boosting is just managing useful distractions. They dangle carrots, or vague promises they have no intention of keeping, or soft reassurances of your job security only to stand there at your desk as you cry and put your belongings into the banker's box they've graciously provided to you.

Just like the managers that pit their employees against one another, it's all about keeping you occupied so you don't notice the water creeping up to your ankles on the sinking ship. Go rearrange those deck chairs, this Titanic will look presentable!

Just stop. Leave. No notice, no new job lined up. Do whatever you can to expedite the implosion of this company by removing yourself from their clutches. Go sling coffee, bag groceries, start an ebay reseller gig, anything but continuing to enable your abuser. They won't realize anything until they are forced to and when they only have overseas cheap labor to depend upon, it'll really be fun to watch this place crater. If India wants these jobs so bad, let them have 'em. Watch what happens.

Go. Be happy. Be anywhere but here, your mental health will be better, and you can leave this bucket of tu-ds in the rearview mirror.

“I hope you spent Christmas and New Year thinking about work and not enjoying yourselves.

It is your duty to work harder and longer hours for the company, we own you and you will obey.

Do not expect any acknowledgement for doing a good job or going beyond, it is the minimum requirement we expect from you.

There will be no raises in 2026, if you have a variable income we will find any way possible to minimise any bonus or commissions due to you.

Happy New Year ( although it won’t actually be happy, as we will be laying lots of you off ).”

Synovus will ruin Pinnacle IMO. Sorry for anyone that works there.

CEO and Vps like Shankar was begging customers not go for alternative products . Toxic people.. selfish leadership., Employees weren’t not taken well in this org. CEO should resign Nilesh Arora or fire Prisma BU leaders

This is by far the worst of all the jobs I held. A total nightmare. Two years here were two too many.