#badleadership

Too much management, too many trackers, no direction.

don't trust this company too much; they start hiring in massive while firing and laying people off. Start looking for a new job, not a good management. they will give you last min surprises that you haven't performed well. Don't even know if they pay severance.

He is the absolute worst CTO of all time.

Even when there's good news (revenues up) Dell somehow manages to turn it into bad news (stiffing everyone on raises, IBPs, promotions, more layoffs, etc).

FU-K this sh-t hole company!!

My manager plays favorites openly, and if you're not in the clique, good luck. And God forbid you push back, suddenly you're on their radar in the worst way. Toxic doesn't even cover it.

Not until I walk out for good. But I still do my work, still do it right. I just stopped playing the games. No more kissing up, no more pretending to love meetings, no more acting like I care about things I don't. I do my job and go home. That's enough.

We have VPs who can't manage and directors who can't direct. No wonder everything is so messed up.

Managers here have one talent. Protecting themselves by destroying other people's careers. You'd be better off doing construction than working here.

Is it just me or is everyone in or that they promote to leadership roles resemble the dudes in college who would do keg stands? A totally weird chest thumping group of dudes. Many who seem to be clinging to the good all days when they were athletes and now dress like guys that are competent, but really just brown nosed all the right people at all the right times. Bird brains with serious bravado. Not one that can actually solve any problems, they are just real good at deep throating. They certainly never disagree with the big wigs. So many bad decisions made by the EC and no one with a backbone to disagree with them. Not entirely their fault I suppose. The big X let go of anyone who openly disagreed with them long ago. Obedience is the standard, not brains!

Gotta love a meeting where they announce $12B in revenue and also continuing layoffs.

Coming from Ansys, every single thing about Synopsys is comically bad. It's no wonder they mostly hire H1Bs and people overseas, as they're the only ones happy to put up with this cr-ppy work environment.

And Oracle is tops

https://youtu.be/a1Vd85ilWiI

Worst decisions to have leadership reigns outside the U.S.

Pointed out something that saved my boss from major embarrassment, but instead of being grateful he's upset at me for correcting him? Should've just let him walk into it. Lesson learned.

This place is a joke, plain and simple. The company is run just like the American Government. Mismanaged, wasteful, overpaid leadership and top-heavy org chart, excessively outsourced, process bloated, disorganized, inefficient, zero trust, poor communication, on and on. Its one big milk cow and everyone's vying for a te-t. If you're an overachiever or results driven, get ready to tow the line for your coworkers. Everyone will run to you for help because there's so much dysfunction that any productive employees gets inundated with help requests until they are burned out and either leave or quiet quit. The existing employees learned that hard work isn't rewarded, so the culture is to not care too much and milk the te-t as long as possible. Talented and productive people see the writing on the wall and bail after a few years, leaving behind the riff raff. C-suite execs get inserted sideways into the organization without any idea about how things function in a heavily regulated company like BD, resulting in multiyear multi-million-dollar projects getting abandoned at the whim of new VPs in lieu of their new vision. Communication is poor, syncing between teams and depts is such that workload and project tracking, pre work documentation, and process bloat are the norm. Resulting in inefficient workflows, delayed timelines, stagnated projects, unnecessary time sinks and frustration, just so management can attempt to have visibility and traceability while sitting in meetings all day. There's waaay too many meetings, and waaay too many people who do nothing but sit in meetings all day. Theres's people who exist solely to sync information between workers and management because everything is so disorganized. This place is a total circus, and its no wonder were in the position were in. The sad thing is BD is still a pretty good company to work for, which says a lot about the state of America as a whole.

This company is a big fat tu-d. Specifically, it’s HPE Networking within a tu-d.

For the past year I’ve done such a little amount of work it’s comical. Maybe an hour or two per day. I call into meetings and then play on my phone. I ignore pretty much everything exec management tells us and then cash the paycheck. I’ll continue this until I get canned and if not, I’ll quit once I can’t do this anymore. Two things they’ll not get from me anymore are effort productivity. I’ll quit before I have to do any actual work that would benefit the company. I figure I’ve clawed back about 90k of free money so far from Oracle. Take care of yourself.

If you were looking to move internally, what are good departments? What are bad? I heard enterprise COC is one to avoid due to bad leadership at the VP levels. Appreciate any thought

The stock is at a multi-year low today of $118.40. No leadership, poor morale due to no leadership and no competitive advantage. The best and the brightest are jumping ship to competitors or just outright leaving as they are making less money year over year. WTF are we doing? There is No Plan coming from the Executive Team. There is poor messaging coming from the Executive Team. The Executive Team has negotiated their own severance packages through 2029. The Executive Team needs to go now.

Years of poor mergers, awful stock performance, and a massive data breach have left the company weaker, less trusted, and increasingly irrelevant. Instead of owning these failures and investing in real product improvement, leadership has done almost the opposite.

The products have stagnated. Customers know it. That’s why they’re leaving. And rather than fixing what’s broken, leadership’s answer has been blunt-force cost cutting and pushing a ~30% SPI increase onto customers who already don’t see the value. It’s not strategy — it’s desperation.

While customers churn and employees are asked to do more with less, Mike and the executive team have quietly extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from the company. That money didn’t go into innovation, security, or customer success. It went into executive pockets.

The most insulting part is the attitude. When concerns are raised, the response isn’t accountability or respect its dismissal, contempt, and sometimes outright laughter. Leadership hits paydirt while employees hit the breadline, and we’re told this is “good for the business.”

It isn’t. It’s short-term financial engineering at the expense of long-term trust.

Shame on the leadership team for hollowing out a company that once mattered. And shame on anyone still carrying water for decisions that have clearly failed customers, employees, and shareholders alike.

This didn’t have to be the outcome. It was a choice.

Well said, @ad+1keshgf86.

First, alignment doesn't exist. Ask three managers the same question and you'll get three answers, maybe four. Then when you actually need support, when you raise your hand because you're stuck, they go blank. No ideas, no resources, and no help. Just a lot of blinking. But God forbid you make an error. Then they're everywhere. Suddenly they have all the time in the world to watch you and question every step, just to make sure you know you sc--wed up. They can't help you succeed but they'll definitely monitor your failure.

Toxic place. Work that means nothing. Long days. Constant stress. Never feel safe. Old tech. Nowhere to grow. Raises that don't keep up. Bad bosses. Same thing every day. Skills going nowhere. What am I missing?

Wayfair states that it offers a great work-life balance. Sooooo not true. Their training is inadequate. Overseas employees are non-compliant. Shift bids are BS. No matter what you choose, they will give you the schedule pertaining to company needs. So you can forget about being a parent, kids will have to raise themselves! You cannot just use your PTO when needed. You will accrue attendance points for using it for emergencies or same day illness. Metrics change in the middle of the quarter. Employees know how to wrap to manipulate their metrics so it doesn’t pay to do honest work. Religious accommodations are only given to non-American employees. There are plenty of other places to work that will definitely appreciate your dedication and work ethic. Do not give more than your pay grade, they will say thank you and expect for you to keep doing it w/o being paid for it!

Oy with this cr-p company for 7 months so prob wouldn't severance but I can't stand this place, I dread every day

What are my chances

Was a good leader. Stayed off my back and allowed me to perform. Thanks Sycamore for laying off the good ones…..

Increasing bill didn't work
Matching paper bill didn't work
Delaying port outs didn't work and Dan had to back out

That organization cannot solve churn, they need expertise ASAP!!!

Let me explain how it works here. First, actual performance is irrelevant. The people who work the hardest and produce the most are seen as threats, so they get cut, while the mediocre ones who keep their heads down and do not rock the boat stay. That is the goal: mediocrity across the board. Second, if you refuse to bow to a manager who has no business leading, you are done. They will find a way to get rid of you, and when there is no legitimate case, they cheat. They will lie, plant stories, and turn your own team against you. I have seen it happen to three people, good people who simply would not accept abuse. This is not an exception. This is the entire system.

This whole place is embarrassing to be part of. Top to bottom.

I spent years at Humana and genuinely loved chunks of it. The mission, the work, some of the people. But the last couple years were rough. The workload became impossible, the appreciation dried up, and the manager we had, I've never seen someone less suited to lead. He ran through good people like they were nothing. I went to management repeatedly, told them I was overwhelmed, and offered solutions that would help everyone. Each time they found a reason to say no. It was either too hard, or too different, or not how we do things. Eventually I left. Now I'm watching what's happening from a distance and all I can say is I am so glad to be out.

If you work for DXC you are right where you belong.
The good people have long ago left leaving behind groups of dead wood.
Sad part is, the dead wood are the ones that don't leave and are whining..
If you are working for this company in the US, you are on borrowed time. But if you are just hiding there, ride it out. Your next job will no doubt be a mimimum wager anyway.
Probably at Wal Mart or its equivalent
Glad to be gone after 10 years of carrying deadwood. ON ALL Levels!

Was fortunate to get VR last year after 10 years of no pay rises and broken promises. The annual drudge of appraisals, getting feedback, self evaluation etc was mind numbing, knowing nothing would ever come out of it. My manager was worse than useless. A total waste of time who blagged and lied his way year after year. I know why people stay as it’s a cushy number and no one cares. Projects drag on and it’s amazing how clients put up with the incompetence. I’m just interested to know what actual accounts are still going in the UK. Not much on here is posted but in the last few town halls I attended there was always a ‘positive pipeline’ so just curious as to what current employees are actually working on - or more pertinent what codes are you booking time to for doing next to nothing? My last account was Defra which died a slow and painful death!

You get to experience favoritism, nepotism, and exploitation. No growth at all. Leaders who only care about themselves and face no consequences for anything. Great place.

I came to AT&T believing in things. Hard work, learning from sc--w ups, helping my team. This place broke all of that out of me. When you make a mistake here, they don't use it to teach you. They use it against you. Teamwork means watching your back while management races you toward deadlines. Initiative isn't welcome. You do what you're told and nothing more. There's no real culture. Just constant watching, constant correcting, and always the sense that they're looking for reasons to cut people.

The top people here don't actually do anything. They just collect checks while toxic behavior runs wild. It's changing everyone. You watch people turn into versions of themselves you don't even recognize. It's honestly frightening.

Please tell me why she’s sticking it to us even more with this ecard? It’s employee unappreciation day here. We all feel stressed, abused and unappreciated. Thanks, Gunjan for nothing and for no merit increase. Ugh!

Is it just me, or did they literally name the flagship product to rhyme with Titanic? 🚢💀 At least they’re being honest about the iceberg. 🧊

While the rest of us are getting "The Email" 📧👋 and watching the rolling layoffs like it’s a Netflix horror special, "Leadership" is out here doing the most:

The Strategy: Selling vaporware that doesn’t exist.

The Pivot: Sprinkling "AI" on the trash fire to hide the smell. 🤖💩

The Grind: Posting "Inspirational" LinkedIn thought-leadership slop while the actual product hasn't been updated since the Stone Age.

And we HAVE to talk about our favorite "30 Under 30" Queen. 👑✨ After absolutely nuking the Product Roadmap into the sun, she’s been promoted to "Head of Strategy." 🤡

WTF does that even mean? Is the strategy just "How to fail upward while keeping a curated aesthetic"? Asking for a friend. 💅

Meeting-

1. So no mention of serving the athlete.
2. Key focus is serving the biz. The biz often doesn’t think big picture or with logic. Not to mention shipping jobs to ITC means a 12 hour time difference. Biz never works outside of 8-4 pst. ITC never starts until 10am ITC time.
3. Not gonna work my dude.
4. Glad our leaders are so intelligent.
5. TPM sr director in the chat offering to train folks on agile. Embarrassing all around.

Yall were right! I just got my raise last week and pulled in a meeting to get let go this morning. I am apart of the team that is one of the merger companies. Damn!

Just saying

This will come as a surprise to Chevron management; respect is earned and not deserved due to title or legacy. It has been a long time since I worked with a Chevron manager who actually earned respect. Management drafts way too many entitled individuals into their ranks who have little to no regard for the workforce, do not have a reasonable understanding of the workflows they are responsible for nor a comprehension of the industry as a whole. Sad to see the company that I have worked for over twenty years start to cave in on itself due to poor leadership and decision making. Management ranks are full of nepo-babies, one hit wonders, and TikTok influencers without a clue. Experience, skills, and hard work are no longer valued here.