Gone away following their own processes. HR is toothless, does not advocate for their employees, and does not bring checks to upper leadership. For me specifically, after 9 years of employment the process that has always been the same was not only not followed but directly disregarded the process and said so to my face. After receiving a yearly review of just shy of an exceeds expectations for my role, 3 weeks later I was made aware that my leaders had been in discussion for “months” to remove me from my role and demote me to something else with no prior conversations. Words in the meeting like, “this is going to be surprising” and “I know I just dropped a bomb in your families lap” would have never been allowed when we first were hired. Sadly it appears to be more common place at Life.Church as I have talked with current and former employees that have experienced the same thing. I believe leadership is getting tired of dealing with the problems of ministry at the scale that Life.Church is now at. Couple this with many tenured people leaving or being let go, the internal culture of consistency is beginning to break away and heavy handed leadership of “my way or the highway” has begun to take hold. I wish nothing but good things for LC, but I am afraid that if some internal structural change doesn’t occur then in the not too distance future, we will be listening to the podcast, “The Rise and Fall of Life.Church: how the largest church crumbled from the inside.”
