#worklifebalance

Is anyone else's weekly shift changing to a rotating by the week? Is this company wide?

Dear Team,

As we gather with our families this holiday season – or, more accurately, as those of you within 50 miles of an office get your butts back in here to maximize collaboration and real estate utilization – I want to extend my warmest wishes for a prosperous and metrics-driven New Year.

The winter holidays remind us of timeless values: giving (of your maximum effort), receiving (higher margins for shareholders), peace (on earth, as long as your business unit stays well above the Line of Doom), joy (in hitting quota, even if it means public call-outs in all-hands), and goodwill toward all men (provided they contribute tangible value and don’t just “make air” like those software folks).
Remember the miracle of the season: just as one small acquisition can multiply into trillions in market cap through ruthless simplification, your continued sacrifice of work-life balance turns our portfolio into evergreen revenue streams.

Family time is wonderful, but nothing says “holiday cheer” like knowing your RSUs are vesting while underperforming divisions get divested faster than you can say “perpetual licenses are dead.”

To those celebrating Christmas: may your stockings be stuffed with stock options – contingent, of course, on office attendance thresholds.

To those observing Hanukkah: eight crazy nights of efficiency gains.

To everyone else: focus on what really matters – Q1 targets.

Thank you for your obedience dedication.

Let’s make 2026 another record year of cost-cutting and shareholder delight.

Happy Holidays,

Hock Tan
President & CEO, Broadcom

Don't forget! Don't end up on the naughty list

I work in downstream engineering. The company Im interviewing with is in commodities trading. I’m not positive if I want this potential job or not, but I do want to do the interview and evaluate the potential offer. But for some reason I have this nagging that Exxon will fire me for looking at other jobs. Is that true or am I just being anxious?

Relocation is insanely costly these days, and the chances of keeping your job after uprooting yourself and your family are extremely low. It’s just another attrition tactic. Refusing to relocate plays into leadership’s hands, but going along with it is even more senseless.

Treat yourself to something you truly enjoy, cherish time with family and friends, and do everything you can to forget about work for a day or two. It does wonders to not let this place monopolize your time and mind. It’s not worth it. We can’t control what’s coming next, and more often than not, things sort themselves out with a bit of luck and effort.

Treat your job as a lease, not a mortgage nothing is guaranteed. You’re given a space to contribute, and in return, you receive compensation. I’ve been there nearly 30 years, and that’s how I’ve always approached my role. This mindset helps you keep your sanity, and when you’re no longer needed, you can pack up, move on, and find something new and challenging.

For once, I’ll treat myself to complete detachment from work. I’m not going to think about it, I’m not going to get anxious about what might happen next, and I’m definitely not going to get wrapped up in the idea of possibly losing my job. I’ll spend some quality time with family and friends, watch a good movie, or read a book. This whole drama be damned. My reserves are at zero, and I’m just going to be good to myself.

I feel relieved. Last night I had a lot of beverages, been years since I could drink as I was the only one on call for over a year. Wife and I laughed a lot.

I have a traeger I’ve never used that I’m breaking in today.

Thank you Dan. I don’t realize how much life I was missing. To the others, try out this crown royal blackberry!

I keep seeing people say “we are returning to working in the office because that’s how it always was”

Quick question - who had issues finding assigned seating, food, and stocked bathrooms with good toilet paper before covid?

Answer - nobody. Because RTO is not a return to how it was. It is way greedier and designed to be humiliating on purpose. Quit licking boots and be honest.

After working for this company for over 30 years. I plan to have a lot of FAMILY time during this period.
I sacrificed valuable time just like many others and in return what did we get? Dancing Dan, what a joke he is. You'll soon find out.

What is the Board, Executive Management, and HR doing to improve the employee experience ? It seems like the only thing that is being done by overpaid executives is to hold monthly webinars on the topic du jour.

Mutual of America has an average employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars on Glassdoor, with only 32% of employees recommending the company to a friend.

Common complaints include poor management, lack of career mobility, and declining benefits, while some employees note competitive pay and good benefits.

Overview of Employee Feedback for Mutual of America
Glassdoor Ratings
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 5 stars

Recommendation Rate: 32% of employees would recommend the company to a friend.

Positive Business Outlook: 31% of employees believe the company has a positive outlook.
Employee Reviews

ASPECT RATING FEEDBACK
Interview Experience 48% rated it positively; average difficulty score of 2.8/5

Management 34% would recommend management to a friend

Career Opportunities Limited mobility reported; some employees feel stuck

Work Environment Mixed reviews; some praise benefits, others cite poor morale and management issues

Technology Outdated systems causing operational challenges
Common Complaints

Management Issues: Many employees report deceitful practices and lack of transparency from upper management.

Work-Life Balance: Concerns about excessive workloads and project mismanagement.

Employee Morale: Reports of low morale, nepotism, and a toxic work environment.

Benefits: While some employees appreciate the benefits, others note they have declined over time.

Summary of Employee Sentiment
The feedback on Glassdoor indicates a significant divide among employees at Mutual of America. While some appreciate the benefits and recent changes in leadership, many express dissatisfaction with management practices, career growth opportunities, and overall company direction.

Can we just work harder?

2026 is my year.

After years of tireless devotion, my boss has graciously informed me that all my sacrifices may finally be recognized. You know, the late nights, the early mornings, the thrilling experience of being perpetually on call regardless of day, time, or basic human decency. The way I consistently put Truist first, always ahead of my family, my health, and any lingering sense of self-worth.

I never once let something as trivial as time off interfere with productivity. Not even when my mother died this year. Thankfully, modern technology allowed me to stream the service online, so there was really no excuse to disrupt deliverables. Efficiency matters.

And now, at long last, the payoff is in sight. I’ve been told I should be an AVP by the end of Q1!

4 days in April will become 5 days in July/August.

Or is Office First policy being quietly ignored now…seems so many folks have reasons not to come into the office that the whole policy is not really being enforced

After the several rounds of layoffs and Intel using performance management to reach their final HC:

If you get put on a PIP, consider it a paid interview process… don’t even bother with burning yourself out at a company who is trying to wear out good employees.

Does anyone know when we are closed the next two weeks? If we are being asked to work do we get overtime pay or 2x for a holiday week? I asked my manager but didn’t get any response. I want to work OT as I could use the extra cash and it seems like this would be double pay. Can anyone tell me what the policy is?

Someone on my team left and took a pay cut, which honestly surprised me. The work here isn’t terrible, the pay’s fine, and the people are decent. I get the anxiety around layoffs, but I didn’t realize it was pushing people that far.

Fido has made it clear it will not go the extra mile for employees. Acting accordingly seems fair.

Looks like next year will kick off with the merging of BFS into AFO. This is aligning with the one title tech as mapped out earlier. As a previous DT I hate to hear this because AFO does not treat people well. If I was a DT still I would move to construction asap. Otherwise be prepared for a lot of residential work and a whole new set of guidelines you will NOT like.

Judging from my immediate surroundings, most people feel the same way. Fear makes us all trip over ourselves to perform, as if that’s somehow going to save our jobs. It’s a frigging trap. Every time I lost a job before, I regretted wasting so much energy trying to prove myself. And here I am, doing the same stupid thing all over again.

Why are store managers and/or H.R. need to be in the store at 6am if they are not picking, packing, or on a call?

Shouldn’t H.R. and the store manager be in store when the majority of associates are actually working ? It makes no sense for an H.R. or store manager to leave the store by 2 or 3.

There are rumors that something is changing in current work model. For example that work from office will be more strict - not like now where no one is checking this. Do you have any other insights?

All of the boomers on here will tell you that you are fortunate and should be grateful for the opportunity you have to work for a company, blah...blah. The reality is that none of us matter to any company, and none of us have ever mattered. The entire system is built to keep us indebted to, and dependent on, corporations. I consider myself politically very conservative, and I am not afraid to admit this. America was sold out long ago. We haven't had a true free market economy for at least 50 years or more. Everything that is done now is done to enrich corporations and political leaders. Banks and financial companies are some of the worst exploiters of the American people in existence. As long as we are indebted just to live, we can't ever be truly free.

I hope we get to go home at 2:00 on Christmas Eve this year like in years past.

Forty hours feels like a fantasy. Everyone I know is logging fifty plus, and that is treated as normal. At what point did this become the expectation?

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This place operates like a spreadsheet with badges. If you are not part of the small group steering decisions, you are just a cost line waiting to be adjusted. There are companies that still treat people like long-term investments. T is not one of them.

Y'all. Optum/UHG/UHC whatever you want to
call the entity is a giant joke. Utilize your benefits and get a new job lined up. Do not sacrifice a relationship with your spouse
or children or friends for some weirdos across the country or world behind a computer. I promise the grass is greener.

My mouse cursor suddenly disappeared on the screen and will not come back on.

This is surely a sign from God that my workday is finished.

I don't see how they are going to replace the workforce with AI when we can't even get 50 year old technology working as it should anymore...

Ok, let me get this straight, Walgreens wants employees to donate to a fund to help under paid coworkers? Am I understanding this correctly? That can't be what it truly is. No company would expect its employees to make up the pay gap for them not paying their employees a living wage? Am I missing something or is Walgreens really that out of touch???

This has always been a job. If you are lucky enough to move up the ranks good for you. I always put in the time to get my work done and if that included extra time occasionally so be it. However if I got my tasks done at 4:59 I was signed out at 5.

I’ve never had it this bad in 26 years, across several workplaces. I honestly don’t know whether this is WF or just exceptionally bad luck, but it’s almost impressive how many incompetent and petty people have been assembled in one place. What makes it worse is that every time layoffs hit, some of the last decent and capable people are the ones who get cut. Negative selection at its finest. It truly boggles the mind.

Then I’ll just put in less effort. I’ve always been responsible and usually gone the extra mile, including being available well beyond official hours. I’ve helped resolve plenty of crises and messy situations. But if this is how it’s going to be, I’ll simply stop being available after hours. I’ll coast until they lay me off. That’s probably coming anyway, for all of us, so why bother anymore?

HC had a meeting to talk about feedback on the new policy and out of our 7 wealthy white SLT GP's FIVE were working from home, one was even taking the call from the car??? It's Tuesday, isn't Tuesday a required in office day? So for you marginalized peons with four kids working a part-time job because we don't even pay you enough, be in your seat from 8-5, we will do whatever we want.

Hike is coming in Q4.

Just don’t ask which year.

Meanwhile keep giving 200% effort.

Structure w/out trust just feels like punishment.
The people you are chasing will still hide, just now from a desk.
The rest of us lose flexibility that actually helped us deliver.
Thats why this feels like optics- not strategy.

I get it, times are tough here at AT&T. You might live really far away from a hub and now you have to drive for hours to get here. Maybe you are even sleeping in the parking lot over night. I feel for you. But for the love of God, if you are going to be hotboxing cigs for hours in your car, keep some fresh clothes in a bag and think about using the showers on the first floor. No one should have to smell you all day long.