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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you please expand on "giving up trash cans"?[/quote]

Last year, MITRE took away individual trash cans in offices, requiring staff to use centralized trash/recycling in the common kitchen areas. We assume this was a cost-cutting measure to reduce custodial staff, but leadership guised the change as part of a “green” initiative. Leadership often does that, for example framing “return to office” as an effort to increase innovation instead of leveling with employees that we have significant facilities expenses within our wrap rate that need to be justified to our government sponsors.[/quote]

This was justified as a pursuit of some sort of LEED certification to reduce waste. To be fair, private sector companies do this, or try to, as well. In reality the money was just funneled to sustainability, etc. The “sustainability” vp and HR nutcase who dreamed up this and other mad schemes while giving themselves massive raises were fired by the new CEO who is trying to cleaning house and bring back sanity.[/quote]

I don’t understand how the same finance team that got MITRE into this mess hasn’t been impacted at all by the “cleaning house”[/quote]

I’d like to understand why they still gave out merit raises to senior managers this year. What targets did they meet? Tone deaf company.
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The decisions of Senior Managers are not crippling the company, it’s Director and C-Suite level finance decisions that are the backbreaker.

And Merit raises are 3%, which is almost insulting. As if you get no raise. [/quote]

What percent do you think people get? That’s not very different from what we’ve given out for consultants on federal contracts especially DoD work for years.[/quote]
In industry, 3% raises are typical but you also get a bonus. Mitre supplements a bonus with a higher merit increase. Given the terrible year Mitre had, the lack of bonus isn’t surprising. [/quote]

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