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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Freddie Mac - used to be very family friendly in 90's and early 2000's, but with latest management, the focus is on "culture" and changing the "culture".

in my group, what that means is that you are a target if you are not in the office everyday. fixed hours are gone, it is working until work done.

people are periodically "disappearing" and you find out they were fired.   they never have huge layoffs, just continuous firings group by group.  
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My husband used to work there and there wash;t enough work to do ever. So boring. Is that still true? 10 years ago[/quote]

I couldn't agree more. I used to work there and one day I just stopped going to work. A year later I came back in to quit.

Total voicemails in that time: 0
Total emails addresses to me specifically: 0

I literally could have kept the job and probably still be getting a paycheck.[/quote]

Wow. Did you get paid the whole time?[/quote]

Yea. It was pretty humorous actually. I even got a birthday card from people I worked with saying stuff like "Can I join your team?" And the like. I tried many times to get involved in things but I was regularly rebuked - don't get involved in recruiting that's Susys job - that kind of thing. I tried expanding my workload by offering to take on other projects in other divisions but they all ended up territorial (one called my boss asking her if she was trying to take over her work). After a few experiences like that, I stopped trying. I started going to work M,W,F .... Then I just did T,TH and then I just stopped going at all.

When I came in to quit a year later most people assumed I'd already left - a lot of folks asked me "Oh hey man! Long time no see - where you working now?". I was basically Milton from office space. To their credit the HR lady seemed genuinely interested in why I was quitting; she said a lot of folks had been leaving and she was struggling to get honest answers why, so her superiors were beginning to question what was going on. I told her flat out that in a year I'd probably done 15 minutes of actual work, I'd tried to find more but got my hand slapped continuously whenever I stepped outside my box, and I was so incredibly bored I couldn't stay at the firm any longer. We ended up doing a 4 hour exit interview which was surprising. I felt so bad for that lady, her job was to build this office and it was crumbling.

Six months after that they shuttered the office; I heard that folks were offered stupid retention packages to hang around and transition their work (which for many was literally nothing). I had been transferred to VA so I don't know if I'd have kept my job but I sometimes wonder - what if I still had it and just kept collecting $100K for the last decade? Me and my damn ethics made me quit, but I probably should have just stayed.[/quote]

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