Rant

FE leadership accountability?

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·13d ago·2 comments

How much longer are they going to keep blaming 'market conditions' or 'operational optimization' for these consistent RIFs? We keep losing institutional knowledge every single cycle, yet the C-suite bonuses seem to stay perfectly intact. I’m tired of the all-hands calls where they lecture us about resiliency while half the team is wondering if their badge will work tomorrow morning. It’s getting impossible to do actual work when you're looking over your shoulder constantly. The morale is in the basement. If this is the new normal for FirstEnergy, I’m not sure how much longer I can deal with the stress. Is it just me, or is the toxicity hitting an all-time high lately? Curious if anyone is seeing actual investment in the grid or if we are just cutting bone at this point to pad the quarterly reports.

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0x532e…653d

·13d ago

It is the same old script every quarter. They talk about efficiency and cost-cutting while executives pad their own pockets with massive bonuses. We are the ones actually keeping the grid running, yet we are treated like disposable line items on a spreadsheet. Every time a RIF hits, we lose the people who actually know how the legacy systems work, which just makes the next outage even harder to manage. The hypocrisy is deafening and it is clearly driving all the talent out the door.

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·13d ago

Honestly, the constant anxiety is exhausting. You can feel the tension in every department because nobody knows who is next on the chopping block. Management loves to preach about long-term goals and operational excellence, but they clearly only care about the share price for the next earnings report. At this point, the best career move is just polishing the resume and getting out before the next round of 'optimization' targets your desk. Leadership has completely lost the room, if they even care to look.