Aon plc (AON)

Black Thursday Anniversary

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Black Thursday, otherwise known as Joe's Big Lie. Ten years ago today, Joe Propati walked into the Houston office and announced Aon was closing the Houston ACS - after promising twelve employees from LA, and twelve from NY who relocated there to keep their jobs with Aon that "Aon has no intentions of closing the Houston ACS".

And...Joe and Aon made no effort to make sure these twenty-four employees were given jobs elsewhere in the Houston office.

That's how good Aon treats their employees.

Aon "India" isn't too happy either -

Below is a recent posting from Glassdoor dot com


Doesn't Recommend
Negative Outlook
Disapproves of CEO
I worked at Aon (More than a year)
Pros
No pros in configuration work. You are dead in IT if you do such a work even as a fresher. They are making fresher's sign bond now lol as experienced people don't join them and fresher's also leave in frustration because their life is made miserably hell using continuous bombardment of emails.

They pay some experienced people a little more so that they do not get other job as they won't already as skills accor…
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Cons
Seniors if biased from you irritate people to an extent that they are mentally tortures, if the person still copes it up,they kick people off using Improvement plan wherein they kick off people in 1 month if they do not improve. Obviously they don't improve.

If you don't work 12 hours u are not working good, if you work 8 hours i.e syandard time your performance is zero according to them.
Advice to Management
Go to hell you managers.. who are eating Aon from inside since past 10-11 years.. these people are very old at AON and in ground reality their job is to irritate most of the subordinates to show their performance.

My annual share of a holiday classic .....

HOW THE CASE STOLE CHRISTMAS

Every colleague at Aon liked Christmas alot.
But the Case, who lived just north in Chicago, did not.
The Case hated Christmas, the whole expense driven season.
Oh Please don't ask why, I don't quite know the reason.
It may be because his belt was too tight.
It may be because his head was McKinsied all right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
Was that that it meant Holiday Bonuses, not small.

But whatever the reason, his belt or McKinsey
The Case stood there Christmas eve hating the whimsy.
For tomorrow he knew they were all expecting to see
Quite rather large paychecks expressly from ME.
Of writing those checks he could not allow.
Of that he was certain, the problem was HOW.

Then a thought came along, an evil idea.
Another restructuring program justlike last year.
The numbers were good, but stock price was up
But those expense items still had to be cut.

So he called in dear Christa,
a woman of fact to find out new ways
to trim down the fat.

"The Payroll is down through workforce reductions,
eliminating many redundant job functions.
We've cut here and there, and cut through the night,
wiped out whole departments, yet nothing is right.
For thousands are still on the books, don't you see.
We've got to get it down to a count of just three."

So the very next day at the quarterly call,
the Case made an announcement ending it all.

"The jobs here are gone, we'll offshore the lot,
to India and China and maybe Bangkok.
Of here there is nothing, and once overseas,
it's cheaper and faster and better, you'll see."

And with safe harbor statements legally binding,
the Case closed the call while others were finding
That if Christmas carried slightly less cheer ...
they could afford to be patient, there was always next year.