Thread regarding American Electric Power Co. Inc. layoffs

This company has did a complete 180 in the last 5 years. The future is not as bright as it once was and everyone can feel it. With the closers and retirement dates of plants, unjustifiable layoffs lots of people are starting to realize this is just a job and the once days of careers is over. This last survey has open the eyes of many and some are in disbelief that so many people are feed up with this antiquated management system.. The favoritism and Constant nitpicking of mundane tasks shows the old habits of a generation that’s past. The younger generations that enter this mentality will not stay and the pool again is culled and lower expectations are established and lower skilled people are employed. This nonsense has lead to a new reality at AEP a spinoff from an upside down world we once knew where good is now wrong right is now left and being a flamboyant id--t is desired over a competent employee . Why has this occurred because the old system has stomped out the new systems and the culture can’t change only seeks more of the same mindset to validate the current failing system. AEP su-ks it that simply.. We can celebrate that yet again a dinosaur is leading our company but don’t let that fool you… its different this time …as the brown paper sacks are passed and the kickbacks are being made we can all agree that AEP is being sold off to the highest bidders.. We can put all the lipstick and buttermilk we want on Ol Wilber but he’s still just a pig.. This economic hitman CIA style governance we see emerging from the depths of the bowels will show its self very soon. Take the money and run! Cash out before the bankruptcy and Drained Pension lawsuits start.. The spinoff of these assets and environmental regulations to clean up Among any catastrophic failures.. we fail to realize our eggs are in one broken basket..

Investing in physical capital without making commensurate investments in the human capital operating, maintaining, troubleshooting and upgrading the physical capital investments is unconscionable.

As an older veteran, we never thought to ask exactly whose freedom we were defending. The freeloaders, who never served, never sacrificed and never cared about anyone but themselves. Perhaps, our greatest enemy was always behind us at the butt of the shaft while we were risking it all at the tip of the spear where the metal meets the meat.

The Shame and LIES are coming to AEP corporate from Cook.

One of the biggest groups sc--wed over by this company is 911 veterans. Served our country came back to the usa. Just to give most of your adult hood working life to a bunch slimy ba----ds thst would make good leaders in communist Russia. This is for any veteran thst was lied to by leaders of this corporation. Sc--w you asswholez

Message to AEP leadership. Upon the holidays please take the time to reflect on your desicions the past couple of years. Remember if you made it to the top of the organization and the people who helped you out are not around, please ask why that is?
If you are a vilian in your employees homes, then the only thing you are a leader at is your own ego. Merry Christmas everyone

Oppressed people must choose
To band together to affect positive change
To right the wrongs of the past
Postponing the coming of Judgement Day
We the people must form the perfect union

There's a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
Can't keep them down
If you listen carefully now you will hear
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air

There's a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
If you listen carefully now you will hear
This could be the first trumpet
Might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer

Unearned privilege is a poor substitute for proficiency, professionalism, experience, cultivated customer relations, decades of dedicated service and sacrifice. Stop letting ego strokers and servile sycophants jump ahead of deserving employees, who have paid there dues and earned a promotion or bonus. This is precisely the reason why our culture is mediocre and broken. Too many privileged freeloaders looking out for each other and pulling down the organization, we are striving to raise up.

Employees need to elect their own corporate board to represent the interests of employees and retirees, who have invested decades in making AEP and its OPCOs' major shareholders immensely wealthy. We treat our investments of time, effort, sacrifice and talent the same as major shareholders treat their investment of wealth. The future favors the bold.

Privilege has no place in a nation founded upon the Principle of Equality. Privilege is the very thing Colonial Americans rebelled against. Embody virtue, defend liberty, demand equality, define justice, vanquish tyranny thus live the American dream.

No one said anything about unearned privallege. The comment is about fairness and equity.

It is only peoples lives. Who cares right.

Maybe you should learn how to spell correctly first before talking about how other people have unearned privilege.

I think anyone who is here complaining about AEP has a right to. Many employees have relocated their families, to work for AEP. My kids grew up away from grandparents. My wife did not work, because the job was so demanding of me, she could not. In the end I watched leadership fail many employees as they walked away winning big. Promoting friends and family that did not have shared sacrafices for the company. These are tge dame leaders that Bill will leave in charge. How do you expect to change things around. If this leadership team dr-g AEP down, it will do it again. Why would they try to change anything that is working for them. Promoting all yes man into the powerful privaleged club needs to stop if AEP wants to be fixed.

Shared services and workplace services are getting their demotions now with a sprinkling of layoffs. Decentralizing what they do so the oppcos can pay for the staff that regularly has to tell them no to ridiculous requests. Should be a lot more puzzling spending trends in the coming years as over a decade of standardization and operating the facilities on a shoestring gives way to keeping up with the Jones mentality. A lot of run to failure of critical equipment so you can use your budget for swanky furniture upgrades in empty buildings. I can't wait to see the plethora of vanity projects that get pushed through in the coming years.

My precious, my precious, my precious consumes me.

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I’m not sure what this person was trying to say, but he/she seems to be a low IQ poster and it shows. They make bad assumptions and then ramble on for several paragraphs to say ‘companies have issues’ wow, really? Now who would have figured that out? For some reason, he/she typed all that like a 13th century peasant.

First, stop with the JR Tolkien writing, it's weird and you lose everyone after the first sentence. Second, yes I want Bill to succeed, I really do. I have worked in multiple industries and for numerous companies so I've been on both sides of the fence. Spent time in management but mostly technical side of the house. I can say without hesitant, Bill needs to fire Therace sooner that later. She is a cancer in IT and I've seen it before. Yes one person can sc--w up an entire organization and she has done an excellent job of it here. She is without a doubt, the d-mbest EVP that I've ever had to pleasure to work for. And that's saying a lot considering the number I have worked for and with over the years. So before you go blasting the guys in the trench, they know they have 0 control over what they do. They have little to no say. If they do say something, they are retaliated against and are not in control of their own destiny. Easier said then done to move from one job to the next on your own, family comes first so you keep your moth shut and suffer like the rest of us. For me, F Therace, just another liberal with a worthless Master's that she thinks she knows everything.

When we must endure 13th Century tyranny in the 21st Century, what do you expect. Not everyone forgets their past, ignores their present and fails to see the future that their past and present add up to. Old souls are witnesses of human history, who have seen this scenario play out time and time again. The end result is always the same. The immensely wealthy refuse to repent and the human suffering continues in a never-ending cycle of misery. Serfs do not forget or forgive the nobles, who unjustly diminished them to elevate their own stature.

Some of you have never worked anywhere but AEP and it shows. Or you haven’t actually looked for a new job in a really long time. Your problem seems less about what AEP is doing and more about general corporate issues.
Is everything perfect here? No. Good luck finding a place to work that doesn’t have issues of some sort. More good luck finding somewhere that compensates as well as AEP, and if you find it why are you staying if it’s so easy?
The issue seems to be that a lot of people got away with questionable behaviors and decisions for a really long time. Yeah we see you and you will downvote this confirming the statement. Just because you have been doing or not doing something for 20 years doesn’t make it right.
The company has to remain solvent in order for you to get a paycheck and keep working. It’s simple. You may have to change a bit, who doesn’t have to over the span of a career?
Perspective is everything, and some of you are missing a giant dose of reality. I think Bill is pushing and doing the right things to fix some of the long standing issues. At least he is willing to try.
Complaining is fun, but you all know there are things you just can’t change. Getting on board with what you can change might bring you some fresh perspective.

Also, is it really necessary to type out these posts like you are a 13th century peasant?

The pharaoh has no robes and he can build his own pyramids.

Corporate officers and major shareholders do not accept woefully inadequate and insulting compensation and returns on their investments, why should employees and retirees? Where is the shared sacrifice and suffering for the good of the customers? Corporate officers and major shareholders are not satisfied with empty and valueless praise, why should we be? They are not slave owners and we are not slaves. Two unjust and unequal economic systems cannot coexist and there be harmony in a culture of equals.

Who does the American Dream belong to? Corporate officers and their major shareholders? Politicians and their political campaign contributors? Hedge fund managers and oligarchs? Active duty service members and military veterans? First responders and medical professionals? Working, middle-class and retired Americans? American Taxpayers? Our children and grandchildren? The American Dream belongs to all of us and NO ONE has the right or privilege to restrict access to the American Dream to any American citizen. Are you an American patriot or just another un-American tyrant stealing our American Dream for your un-earned, undeserved and obscene self-aggrandizement.

Wow. Lots of stinky poops at work today.
Very stinky employees at this company.
Stinky, stinky, stinky.

Why are people not open to the possibility that we are bloated in certain areas? How great could beam and kerns be with performance in the toilet. You can’t have it both ways

The lights grow dimmer with each passing day as employees realize this is the same old song and dance routine, we have heard time and time again. Corporate management crushes the platitudes and su-ks at execution. Young and naïve employees are full of hope of a brighter future but you have to be in the spotlight to enjoy it and last time I checked all the spotlight is on corporate managers. They only cast shade on their hard- working employees, derisions about O & M budget costs and all injuries are the employee's fault. Whose fault is it that employees compensation has failed to keep up with inflation? Whose fault is it Quantum wreaks havoc on insurance claims costing employees more money? Whose fault is it employees with college degrees like technicians have been denied progression raises? Whose fault is it this company has no soul, Satan or his debtors?

The clock is ticking, before you know it Jan 1 will be here and nothing will have changed. Yes, there may be fewer managers on paper, more people will be reporting to the same manager. Load will increase at the expected rate and we'll post a number in Q4 to meet or beat the expected number. Come ICP time, they'll make some excuse that we didn't do as well as we should have and will lower it just enough to make people feel like it's not enough to leave. I for one am no longer looking forward to the ICP, I just don't. The bone they throw out has no meat on it after the Executive branch gets done with it. Bill talks a good game but he's in it for the money just like the rest of them. Bill is not the second coming, don't expect miracles from the guy. He puts his pants on just like the rest of us. I get a good salary, somewhat decent benefits and I put in a full 40 each week to earn it. If any of those change drastically, I will leave.

Done soon with this company ! Thank god !! I wish yall the best, as this will be my last post, I’ll move on- wishing, praying and hoping for a better life and career 😊

I love reading the job description for the community engagement consultant. They are asking for non profit experience. AEP has an activist investor on the board, who is only looking to raise the shareholder value. Nobody who is truly intetested in doing non profit work would want to associate themselves with this greed.

America will neverbe grwat again while corporarions act like AEP. They have to be one of the worse utilities this country has to offer for employment. They never do what they say. It is all a lie.

I think we can all agree the problem is self-absorbed, self-serving, selfish management that licks major shareholders boots. We are playing by the rules management made up so they always win and we always lose. We need to stop playing by managements' rules. We dig thousands of power pole holes every year. All we need to do is dig the holes a couple of feet deeper and drop our problems into the holes. The weight of the poles will solve our problems then we receive the rewards we have earned and deserved because the customers and employees win and the major shareholders get our leavings and instead of us getting theirs.

ATTENTION!
THE DAILY FLOGGINGS SHALL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES.

MANAGEMENT

OR UNTIL MANAGEMENT TEARS THEIR ROTATOR CUP.

EMPLOYEES

TCS now maintains theracerisch.com. Temper expectations accordingly.

Can someone go reboot the server with theracerisch.com running on it Monday is right around the corner and it needs to be back online

What employees need to understand is indoctrination in the reality of crony cliques begins in primary school, continues in middle school and high school. The children of those phonies elevated far above their earned and deserved station in life by the crony clique are taught to begin the indoctrination early, so their classmates are assimilated and subjugated by graduation. It continues in college to insure the next crony clique generation achieve their unearned, undeserved and obscene self-aggrandizement. Reject the herd mentality and be the mavericks our Colonial ancestors chose to be when they rowed across an ice choked river, half frozen and nearly starved at night on Christmas to attack and defeat Hessian mercenaries he-l bent on subjugating them at Trenton, NJ. We are not descended from fearful men and we must not allow ourselves to be subjugated by lesser men, who are.

Bill please chop Therace with the next load of wood.

Who would choose a decades long arduous journey that ends in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual exhaustion and poverty?
Who would choose to endure humiliation and degradation to provide for their families?
Who would engage in sadistic dehumanization and pitting employees against each other for their personal enjoyment and enrichment?
Who leaves this company with the greatest compensation for the least suffering and sacrifice?
Who are you and why are you here?

@4Vobr+1qB6FXi3,

Who talks like that? Sorry, let me rephrase.

Henceforth, we find ourselves pondering the deepest depths of our mere mortal minds to uncover profound answers to the age old question, “Why doth ye speak in such a manner?”

Only vile and wretched creatures revel in the torment, anguish and misery they deliberately impose upon their fellow man for their unearned, undeserved and obscene self-aggrandizement. They determinedly forge the links in their chain of sins that shall bind them and imprison them for all eternity. Their words and deeds hasten their arrivals to their all but confirmed appointments with eternal damnation. Forewarned, no more, shall the be.