RPD 24

[anonymous]

That's really bad. plus there's no recognition or even an appreciation. We've been pushed to the boundry. There's clear & visible favoritism. We work like a robot day in & out & people who enjoy all benefits are those who're in her inner circle

I met her during the aimless aim program. She's dumb. She didn't answer our most questions. I'm not impressed with her!

 

[anonymous]

That's because AZ doesn't care for the experience people bring. They put experienced & inexperienced people in the same bucket & demotivate people. Nobody is happy with the peer equity talks & you can see the result. Experienced people are leaving AZ.... Soon will be the time when AZ will be left with only those who can't do the job....

Nobody cares about experienced people. What's with the CLDP & management favorites? We took yrs of hardwork to become director & a CLA with 2-3 yrs became sr. director!!! What's going on???

 

[anonymous]

Nobody cares about experienced people. What's with the CLDP & management favorites? We took yrs of hardwork to become director & a CLA with 2-3 yrs became sr. director!!! What's going on???

We share the same pain!!! I came in AZ from CLADP. When I posted for jobs, they pushed me aside by telling me why I couldn't be director or associate directors, but look where a few 'chosen ones' are!!! This is what AZ calls evolution???? All CLAs have been talking about this & no one is happy!!!

 

[anonymous]

I met her during the aimless aim program. She's dumb. She didn't answer our most questions. I'm not impressed with her!

Aim is a shitty program! They simply made us do part time marketing rotation & then made a big deal with graduation event! So much money & time wasted. No one from our cohort is interested in becoming a marketer. I don't see a reason for making a big deal out of it. HR coordinator Caroline did a terrible job with providing no context of where aim would take us. She was fake & pleaser to the LT. All the time ready to take pictures & talking big with our managers. Fake smiles & fake talks. My manager told me there's no difference between aim and rotation. It's the same shit with a new package!!! Well done HR with just creating a new aimless aim. You're good with that shit.....what're you upto now????

 

[anonymous]

That's because AZ doesn't care for the experience people bring. They put experienced & inexperienced people in the same bucket & demotivate people. Nobody is happy with the peer equity talks & you can see the result. Experienced people are leaving AZ.... Soon will be the time when AZ will be left with only those who can't do the job....

Peer equity is a mechanism to push experienced people out of AZ & bring young crowd in. AZ doesn't care about the experience. They're making them frustrated & hoping they can leave so AZ doesn't need to pay for them!! AZ was much better place than this until few years!!! Things've changed....

 

[anonymous]

That's true with many AZ leaders! But the head HR is the worst! AZ deserves better option than her! No one on her team likes her.....

The HR Vice President is surviving only because of her team

 

[anonymous]

Peer equity is a mechanism to push experienced people out of AZ & bring young crowd in. AZ doesn't care about the experience. They're making them frustrated & hoping they can leave so AZ doesn't need to pay for them!! AZ was much better place than this until few years!!! Things've changed....

This is correct. They want younger, cheaper employees who check DEI boxes. They got away with pushing out a bunch of tenured white men in onc 2 years ago. It’s gonna keep happening across the organization because the top leaders get rewarded for it. Just like they did with electrifying fleet.

 

[anonymous]

Aim is a shitty program! They simply made us do part time marketing rotation & then made a big deal with graduation event! So much money & time wasted. No one from our cohort is interested in becoming a marketer. I don't see a reason for making a big deal out of it. HR coordinator Caroline did a terrible job with providing no context of where aim would take us. She was fake & pleaser to the LT. All the time ready to take pictures & talking big with our managers. Fake smiles & fake talks. My manager told me there's no difference between aim and rotation. It's the same shit with a new package!!! Well done HR with just creating a new aimless aim. You're good with that shit.....what're you upto now????

HR is good with introducing meaningless programs & aimless aim looks like a new addition. I've gone through so many leadership programs in my 7 yrs & guess what I'm still where I was 7 yrs back when the 'preferred' lucky coleagues have moved into big roles! They go on telling me I'm doing gr8 & have been developing & getting ready for the future & what not! But when it comes to offering leadership roles, they've other 'preferred' candidates!!!! Nobody wants to be a lifelong learner, we want bigger positions, job titles & salaries too!!! HRVP is not a good listener....she never inspires us

 

[anonymous]

Aim is a shitty program! They simply made us do part time marketing rotation & then made a big deal with graduation event! So much money & time wasted. No one from our cohort is interested in becoming a marketer. I don't see a reason for making a big deal out of it. HR coordinator Caroline did a terrible job with providing no context of where aim would take us. She was fake & pleaser to the LT. All the time ready to take pictures & talking big with our managers. Fake smiles & fake talks. My manager told me there's no difference between aim and rotation. It's the same shit with a new package!!! Well done HR with just creating a new aimless aim. You're good with that shit.....what're you up to now????

The reality? Hr is unable to hire experienced professionals in their own department in the last 2 yrs. No one wants to come to AZ & work for a headstrong head of hr so they've hired inexperienced kids who they're claiming to train for future....which doesn't exist!!!! These inexperienced hr individuals who don't even know what leadership is pretend to coach us on how to lead!!! R&I hr is messed up. She's all show off absolutely no leadership experience very poor support to us too busy working on aimless programs

 

[anonymous]

HR is good with introducing meaningless programs & aimless aim looks like a new addition. I've gone through so many leadership programs in my 7 yrs & guess what I'm still where I was 7 yrs back when the 'preferred' lucky coleagues have moved into big roles! They go on telling me I'm doing gr8 & have been developing & getting ready for the future & what not! But when it comes to offering leadership roles, they've other 'preferred' candidates!!!! Nobody wants to be a lifelong learner, we want bigger positions, job titles & salaries too!!! HRVP is not a good listener....she never inspires us

It's the common problem AZ always had & still continue to have. I've been seeing it for 11 years & I know that's not it!!!! Most hr team doesn't know there's a world outside of AZ so there's no intellegence. I don't know much about the hr VP but she's non effective

 

[anonymous]

This is correct. They want younger, cheaper employees who check DEI boxes. They got away with pushing out a bunch of tenured white men in onc 2 years ago. It’s gonna keep happening across the organization because the top leaders get rewarded for it. Just like they did with electrifying fleet.

It's not about race but unfortunately when a person of color gets hired for the role, we (white people) automatically think it's not fair to the person who is white, but why? What if those men just happen to not be performing and happens to be white? Stop victimizing yourself just because a female, or someone of color got the role over a white man. If you want something go and get it by working hard and stop complaining. Everyone has a chance and maybe get in good with God and start treating people better and you can finally live the life you want to live.

 

[anonymous]

Those that see people getting F’ed also check out. The only people left who are motivated are those who reap the benefits of DEI. How the smart people at AZ and BlackRock can’t figure this out is astounding.

can you walk us through how DEI impacts RPD? I’m asking as a manager who did not have to consider DEI at all when I was doing salary and bonuses for RPD. There is a general mandate that you should look at MRP and try to get those that are lower in MRP to a higher range. I can only speak for the guidance my HRBL gave me.

 

[anonymous]

We share the same pain!!! I came in AZ from CLADP. When I posted for jobs, they pushed me aside by telling me why I couldn't be director or associate directors, but look where a few 'chosen ones' are!!! This is what AZ calls evolution???? All CLAs have been talking about this & no one is happy!!!

The CLDP is not well designed if the expectation is that people will automatically graduate with certain senior level opportunities. I did a similar program at another company for MBA grads and it was clear to us that we had to find our permanent role upon graduation by applying to a role via the normal application pool process for a posted role.

Every person that comes through a leadership development program is not ready for a certain level role. This is based on prior work experience and ability to deliver while in the rotational roles and it depends on the roles that are available when you’re graduating from the program.

I think that 3 years can be difficult for someone to be ready for an Associate Director or Director level role unless they have high performance, prior work experience, did 2 rotations in the same functional area or some other factor that I’m not thinking of. I know that the MBA counts toward experience but, I say the above as someone who went through this process at another company when I was graduating from my own MBA rotational leadership program.

 

[anonymous]

The CLDP is not well designed if the expectation is that people will automatically graduate with certain senior level opportunities. I did a similar program at another company for MBA grads and it was clear to us that we had to find our permanent role upon graduation by applying to a role via the normal application pool process for a posted role.

Every person that comes through a leadership development program is not ready for a certain level role. This is based on prior work experience and ability to deliver while in the rotational roles and it depends on the roles that are available when you’re graduating from the program.

I think that 3 years can be difficult for someone to be ready for an Associate Director or Director level role unless they have high performance, prior work experience, did 2 rotations in the same functional area or some other factor that I’m not thinking of. I know that the MBA counts toward experience but, I say the above as someone who went through this process at another company when I was graduating from my own MBA rotational leadership program.

CLDP program is ill managed & that's because it's been managed by a group of amatures who don't have experience & interest in running the program. The admins don't contact or understand business leadership, they don't know what's happening with us in the rotation. They're only there to talk big & give us unnecessary advices which aren't practical!! Many CLAs are failing in the program because of the admins. Many got frustrated & left. Many want to leave!

 

[anonymous]

Aim is a shitty program! They simply made us do part time marketing rotation & then made a big deal with graduation event! So much money & time wasted. No one from our cohort is interested in becoming a marketer. I don't see a reason for making a big deal out of it. HR coordinator Caroline did a terrible job with providing no context of where aim would take us. She was fake & pleaser to the LT. All the time ready to take pictures & talking big with our managers. Fake smiles & fake talks. My manager told me there's no difference between aim and rotation. It's the same shit with a new package!!! Well done HR with just creating a new aimless aim. You're good with that shit.....what're you upto now????

Aim aim aim! We didn't understand purpose of the program! It doesn't make sense to add more to the bag when it's already full. We've so many programs which don't lead people to nowhere!! Aim is one of those! HR needs to do a better job on hearing business out! You're wasting our budgets & time on shitty things when we can concentrate on more important work! Leave us alone!!!

 

[anonymous]

HR debacle knowing if MRPS are increasing and we are expanding our sales force, then help us bring new people in more commensurate with where MRP is going to be so we are not having to pull from our reward pool for the loyal employees who worked through all the disruptions in 2023 to continue bringing in profits to adjust a new hire salary for far less time in field/impact. Shame on HR for putting all of leadership in this position and for pulling rewards from tenured, loyal AZ employees who carried the load all year, going above and beyond despite the changes we knew were ahead. We all recognize this is no longer a Rewarding Performance activity, it’s a Salary Adjustment activity, but hurting people who put all the effort in during the year just doesn’t land well.

HR talks big about equity when they don't get it!! How can they put people with 20 yrs & 5 yrs experience in the same category pay them the same??? Where's the common sense gone? There's no value in hiring experienced people!! Soon AZ will become a training center for the pharma industry! Shame on HR for experimenting with people & their careers!!!! You've proven again how inefficient & inexperienced you're!!! I don't know the head HR but whoever that is doesn't know what they're doing!!

 

[anonymous]

It's not about race but unfortunately when a person of color gets hired for the role, we (white people) automatically think it's not fair to the person who is white, but why? What if those men just happen to not be performing and happens to be white? Stop victimizing yourself just because a female, or someone of color got the role over a white man. If you want something go and get it by working hard and stop complaining. Everyone has a chance and maybe get in good with God and start treating people better and you can finally live the life you want to live.

All well and good in your imaginary fairyland. However when you see white men only let go (made redundant in AZ speak) at the end of 2021 you have to admit that merit had nothing to do with it, and DEI quotas did. Do you really believe that they alone had performance issues while those who check a diversity box didn’t?

It should be obvious to all that AZ leaned hard into DEI post George Floyd. Those that think it solved a problem are too blinded by their ideology to see that what they’ve really done is turn people against it. People today shouldn’t have to pay a price for past injustices they had nothing to do with. And that is exactly what DEI aims to do.

 

[anonymous]

All well and good in your imaginary fairyland. However when you see white men only let go (made redundant in AZ speak) at the end of 2021 you have to admit that merit had nothing to do with it, and DEI quotas did. Do you really believe that they alone had performance issues while those who check a diversity box didn’t?

It should be obvious to all that AZ leaned hard into DEI post George Floyd. Those that think it solved a problem are too blinded by their ideology to see that what they’ve really done is turn people against it. People today shouldn’t have to pay a price for past injustices they had nothing to do with. And that is exactly what DEI aims to do.

Regardless it be favoritism cause of kissing a$$, all boys club, female, or a minority, or age related... (whether they got the job or they didn't get laid off, or got promoted) and it wasn't you and you happen to be a white male (of course you as white male will complain and moan about racial inequality)... but for centuries it's been well documented that females get paid less than men and it still exists today that men get paid more but women had to speak to in order to be treated fairly, so just because there are projects or programs to help give more equality in the workforce doesnt mean the white man is losing his importance in society. Look around you, there are many white men in leadership roles, so my point is, stop blaming others who happen to be female or minorities getting the job or being promoted. If you're meant for something, it will happen and your work ethic determines that and If your job requires you to kiss a$$ then stop hating on the non white person who happen to do it better than you. So, put the work it cause at the end of the day, you have the same opportunity as everyone else.

 

[anonymous]

Aim aim aim! We didn't understand purpose of the program! It doesn't make sense to add more to the bag when it's already full. We've so many programs which don't lead people to nowhere!! Aim is one of those! HR needs to do a better job on hearing business out! You're wasting our budgets & time on shitty things when we can concentrate on more important work! Leave us alone!!!

True that! Frustrating to see such meaningless programs being developed & people who want to grow being fooled! What's the future of those who went through the program? Instead HR needs to work on promotion programs. There's one for field but not for others. Why? Only favorites get through job postings. Those who kiss a$$ succeed. WHat's the VP doing about it? Nothing. SHe's very busy doing nothing! We need Head HR who can bring energy & motivation. Not the one who only busy with nothing......

 

[anonymous]

HR talks big about equity when they don't get it!! How can they put people with 20 yrs & 5 yrs experience in the same category pay them the same??? Where's the common sense gone? There's no value in hiring experienced people!! Soon AZ will become a training center for the pharma industry! Shame on HR for experimenting with people & their careers!!!! You've proven again how inefficient & inexperienced you're!!! I don't know the head HR but whoever that is doesn't know what they're doing!!

Paying experienced & people with no experience the same! Is it legal? HR is totally messed up. They only follow some idealogy to save some bucks but has no value in the market. They don't know what they're doing! Thank you AZHR for screwing our livelihood & career with your experiments! God bless AZ!