At some point, something shifted. Insane amounts of money were being spent on frivolous stuff. Upper management seemed to have formed an elite clique in which greed festered. Raises became minuscule despite knocking goals out of the park. Restructuring of teams happened. “Transparency” became lip service. Policies changed. People started recognizing patterns and bringing concerns to leadership… concerns that we were all effectively gaslit into believing were unfounded. We all talked to each other about our worries and so the COO scolded us all during a monthly briefing for spreading “false rumors” about coming layoffs. He said it wasn’t true and to stop talking about it. And then, just a couple months later, the layoffs started. Droves of people who gave years to this company were dropped like trash in the middle of the day without warning. Barred from entering the office to collect their things. Shunned from attending the holiday party as guests of current employees… All the while members of leadership were posting photos of their vacations and expensive new trucks on social media in true tone-deaf fashion.
Business is business but NLS has failed at their own mission statement.
