#administration

Is it really the elephant in the room anymore? Is it a value add when you just create extra work to validate your existence and add work to teams that are already understaffed? We all know it’s to validate the existence of SB but this is just getting out of hand. Every week they recreate work that our teams are already doing. We have to pivot and adjust to keep up with this nonsense. WE don’t want your “help.” They create processes that aren’t efficient just to “look busy.” BTW - we have a procurement team that will manage POs from start to finish. In fact they do this for the ENTIRE company. I prefer to go to them! It’s simple. So why does SB want to hoard unnecessary work that creates a layer for everyone else? One guess - JM could never admit that her team doesn’t add any value. Instead we all have to drop what we are doing when they pull something new and inefficient out of their hat. They’ve run out of work and now they are digging for things. Get over it! Admit the work is fake and you are trying to take other peoples work to make yourself look “busy.” Insert eye roll here!

Headed to the Deerfield site? Request badge, accessing guardian. Stop reaching out to your peers and admins because it’s obvious that you’re just being lazy as everyone in the company has the ability to request bad access for any site and floor that they need. This goes for admin as well stop reaching out to you fellow admin to ask for bad access because you know darn well you can get Into guardian and enter the request yourself. An ACR on site will see that come through their inbox and approve as long as you provide the correct justification in the comment box

Everyone is very busy and doing the job of three people, especially administrative assistants - it’s crazy when one lazy admin asked another to do something that they are capable of doing and they know it.

If you request a meeting that includes an executive leader, then confirm their availability and you send the invite! Don’t turn around to my admin assistant and ask them to send the invite. It’s your meeting you own it and my assistant is very busy doing other things that I have asked them to handle (plus, I don’t want all the invites coming from my calendar).

Why is it that in this company when people are called architects they're nothing more than admin assistants or when they're called engineers they're nothing more than non-technical analysts and why is it that these architects are performing administrative actions for these engineers while being denied access to provide valid implementation instructions?

Why are such efficiencies continuing to be the status quo and not replace by automation to remove these unnecessary administrative task items let alone the non-technical analysts who provide no value other than following steps on how to push buttons?

How is anyone supposed to be employed on this model for long periods of time let alone be considered a valid representative in their tradecraft?

This looks like a house of cards that's waiting to fall down due to a gust of wind or somebody walking by.

So many posts are being removed even when they aren't offensive and don't violate the content rules.

came into the office today to find my microsoft account has been disabled… said it should be back in 30 minutes…. 4 hours ago

Excerpt from this site (well worth a read). https://healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/flash-drives-and-funny-numbers-what

“buried inside the same earnings release was a $935 million charge — the company’s “best estimate” of what it may owe the federal government for years of improper Medicare Advantage billing.”
Based on “February 27 notice from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services:
Medicare Advantage insurers are paid by the government based on the health status of their members. Sicker patients generate higher “risk scores,” which generate higher payments. Insurers are required to submit accurate diagnosis data to CMS through its electronic systems — and if they discover that a diagnosis code isn’t supported by medical records, they’re required to correct it and return any overpayment within 60 days.
Elevance didn’t do that. According to CMS, from November 2018 through October 2025, the company submitted data corrections for unsupported diagnosis codes not through the required electronic systems but via encrypted external USB flash drives — a method CMS had explicitly rejected. During that same period, the company sent CMS seven letters stating it did not intend to use the required systems. CMS sent six letters directing it to comply.
The agency’s language was unambiguous: Elevance’s conduct represents “substantial and persistent noncompliance” that “has persisted for over seven years despite repeated clear directives from CMS.”
The result, as CMS sees it: Elevance collected government overpayments it never returned, and repeatedly certified the accuracy of its data submissions while knowing that unverified diagnosis codes had not been corrected through the required channels.”
“That is not a paperwork problem. That is a description of a company that — for seven years, across multiple administrations — chose to do things its own way with Medicare’s money.”

Moderator?

guarantee bny will do all this work and will get stiffed when it comes to getting paid by the administration

How is Intel more efficient when I spent all 8 hours today approving entitlements for people in this AGS system. Is this efficiency?

Fiserv’s latest “innovation” is making everyone track their daily location for tax allocation. Because obviously what we all needed was another pointless workflow. Nothing like turning basic payroll into a DIY compliance project. If this is efficiency, I’d hate to see complexity.

If you are a PO, PM, scrum lead, BA, RTE in P-M - how are you not losing your mind? The amount of administrative BS we have to do is pure insanity. I have no other word for it. How, on gods green earth, is this an efficient way to work?

I wanted to see what the global experience is with admin staff? In my local office, there’s an assistant that complains all the time about having to take cover multiple teams (a bit over a dozen people). On paper it looks like a lot but it’s often very low touch, even no touch for some.

She says she only had to take care of a few people a few years ago. Which seems crazy. Is she being dramatic and inefficient maybe? Or is low touch assistant work for a few people with doing expenses for a dozen people too much?

What 3 things does Meg need to initiate and accomplish in her first 90 days will set the tone for her administration and direction.

Does anyone know what the he-l is taking the company so long to issue the new picture ids, that they demanded back in October that we needed to do it or face discipline. No1 knows where or when they r getting sent out. Once again rush rush rush with this company n the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.

Kentucky Sen. Julie Raque Adams filed Senate Bill 2. The bill aims to cap pay raises for JCPS administrators. Administrator raises would not exceed the average teacher pay increase. This follows a 27% pay bump for a former JCPS superintendent. JCPS teachers received a 14% raise over the last three years.

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/bill-prevent-pay-raise-percentages-jcps-administrators-exceed-teachers/417-75aa8b20-7922-495f-9183-f2623396fcc3

Germa producer of acetone cyclohex and others goes into administration.

Quite a few layoffs happened in November 2025, right before the U.S. mid-term election day so it would get buried in the news. It affected administrative and IT positions not only at hubs but smaller airports. "People were being immediately escorted out in large groups of ten or more." The 2025 third quarter "dog and pony show" right before those layoffs was completely out of touch, per usual, and they reported spending millions on a "grab-and-go" food section at CLT, a new alcohol partner for first class, and a yet "really bad" earnings quarter. Their Station GMs had a mandatory in-person "training retreat" the week prior and were told of the layoffs, but told not to tell their staff. As someone who's seen AA's lack of oversight and poor spending decisions from as far back as their US Airways merger days up close, and attempted to put an end to them, I am not surprised. "AA is an 800-pound gorilla." Money was/is overspent right and left. Accounts being auto-paid for services no longer rendered or properties no longer occupied, etc. simply because it's too big and no one is watching. Rather than practicing natural talent attrition from the COVID days, and truly evaluating work supported by operational, administrative and IT positions for already skeleton teams, they resorted to these drastic layoffs. I would not be surprised if non-hub mainline stations will all transition to partners starting in 2026, corporate's out-of-touch management and spending simply can't sustain both them and the field.

UNC-Chapel Hill Seeks $25 Million in Administrative Cuts

UNC-Chapel Hill leaders are requesting budget changes. They target $25 million in administrative cuts. These cuts should be implemented by summer. Layoffs are still a potential outcome. This decision impacts university administration.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2026/01/23/unc-chapel-hill-budget-cuts-administrative-staff.html

The administration laid off 30 full-time faculty members on Dec. 29 as part of Rider President John Loyack’s March to Sustainability Plan. The move comes after the administration went to arbitration with Rider’s faculty union over how to layoff faculty.

https://theridernews.com/breaking-rider-lays-off-30-full-time-faculty/

The CEM tool in ServiceNow is just something to keep you busy and something you can get in trouble for if you don't enter your time. They use it under the guise of wanting to know what you're working on. But when you're assigned to one customer and bill your time in GPS against that customer, you know what I'm working on. The kicker on this tool is that you can't show more than 40 hours in a week against it. God forbid you actually show real hours you work, then there might be a lawsuit to pay management overtime!! It's just a time waster, and honestly, they don't track it. I didn't hear any issues until the end of the year, when I had a gap in time on the tool.

Seems like 6 Admins retiring at same time, one with 52 years and one with 51 years others with 30+ years. Those seem like amazingly loyal employees and all leaving st same time. Coincidence?

Every year they remove support services. Every year they want more. Next year we will be fixing our own computers. It will be literally diy everything (hr services, it, travel, hse, visa) oh and don’t work from home you get a roaming cube with no locker. At least it’s equitable, psg21-27. Would blow my mind being a 27 and using weeks of your annual time doing it, hr, admin services. Time value or money!

How poor are personnel and career management at Shell, really? That’s a question, not a statement.
Doge fires 1,000s on bogus poor performance allegations; many having to sue to get their jobs back.
Ford warns employees they risk firing for not complying with RTO orders.
Meta and GM terminate by impersonal, surprise emails and/or texts, after blocking intranet access.
Many staffers at lots of companies agonize over cutbacks and layoffs.
Is Shell actually so much worse? By comparison, how different can Shell be at personnel management and career offerings? Is the grass really greener elsewhere?

Received and invite for tomorrow then it disappeared. Came from the VP coms person. Am I dead or am I safe?

Do we think they are changing the reporting structure for admins to a higher amount of leaders per person? If your an admin, and you have a open role (vp, SVp or sr) are you getting let go too?

Administrators are on standby this weekend to handle the collapse of Petrofac, the oil and energy services group - an insolvency which could threaten the future of more than 2,000 jobs in Scotland.

Sky News has learnt that directors of Petrofac have lined up Teneo for an administration process which could be confirmed as early as Monday morning.

Is Exxon moving all admins into a pooled model? Our team’s assistant was recently moved into the pool, and we’re struggling to see the value. After speaking with the admin supervisor, it became clear they aren’t able to directly support our team or guide our assistant in a meaningful way.

As a result, our assistant has even asked about moving to another group since she feels unable to provide us the level of support we need. Instead of being able to rely on her, we’re now asked to submit tickets — and even simple tasks often get routed back to us, creating extra work.

This change has increased overhead for engineers and reduced the efficiency we had with dedicated admin support. I’d like to raise this concern so we can find a better balance.

Who is removing messages?