Kenvue results suck

[anonymous]

What’s the over/under on Thibaut’s exit? 3 months? Another quarter? Last earnings call was all about the weak cough-cold season, not much about other segments.

 

[anonymous]

Results suck this morning …. Discuss

We all got double-dinged. My manager said that the individual performance ratings bell-curve was moved down with “inconsistent” needing to be the majority of the bellcurve since Kenvue itself rated as inconsistent. Someone said Kenvue is emotional gaslighting your individual performance and that description is dead-on. You could’ve worked your ass off and done everything right within what you can control and you’re still automatically forced to a lower bellcurve based on company performance. Then you get whacked again with the company multiplier. It’s really demoralizing. But hey - let’s spend the money on summit and shuttles and relocation and making sure everyone’s work life balance suffers by forcing them into an office no where near their existing one.

 

[anonymous]

We all got double-dinged. My manager said that the individual performance ratings bell-curve was moved down with “inconsistent” needing to be the majority of the bellcurve since Kenvue itself rated as inconsistent. Someone said Kenvue is emotional gaslighting your individual performance and that description is dead-on. You could’ve worked your ass off and done everything right within what you can control and you’re still automatically forced to a lower bellcurve based on company performance. Then you get whacked again with the company multiplier. It’s really demoralizing. But hey - let’s spend the money on summit and shuttles and relocation and making sure everyone’s work life balance suffers by forcing them into an office no where near their existing one.

What do you mean? Did they change your rating from strong to inconsistent post full year result?

 

[anonymous]

What do you mean? Did they change your rating from strong to inconsistent post full year result?

As described to me, the bell curve was shifted down prior to the review process.

Curve described to me wasn't anywhere close to "inconsistent" in the majority but idk it might vary between groups. Anyway, the the rating process isn't actually an objective measure of your performance, it's a comparison against your peers. A leader of a universally strong team still needs to pick a few people to screw. The screwing quota was increased this year due to poor company performance.

 

[anonymous]

What do you mean? Did they change your rating from strong to inconsistent post full year result?

They knew at calibration that Kenvue was going to rate at inconsistent so they told people leaders that the majority of their bellcurve for their people also had to be at inconsistent.