#culture

Might as well enjoy myself in this remote meat grinder.

Cheers!

It looks like the social media team finally got bored with this site.

The irony that on layoff day O posts on Linked In that they are having Def Leopard play at O World in October. Maybe take care of your employees and READ THE ROOM.

Havelock will be shutting down. The reason it hasn’t been done yet is because the powers that be don’t want to pay labor protection claims. So, if they slowly make cuts and claim an irreversible decline in business, their chances of having a favorable argument increases.
The writing is on the wall, see it or don’t. The people running BNSF don’t care about culture, heritage, or history. They only care about one thing… money.

Can't we just pretend we're ok, like the good old days? Get the flywheel effect back running?

The EC sends out an email today reminding everyone about the principle of "Thrive Together."

Well, let's review the principle and how it is defined on paper vs. what it means in practice.

On paper: "Our culture is built by all of us, and we lead by example. Doing the right thing matters and trust is earned. Creating an environment where everyone belongs is essential - that's how we succeed."

BNY associates are not stupid and don't appreciate being lied to or kept in the dark. That's the quickest way to erode trust, confidence in leadership and culture. In fact, these are the main reasons why people are on this site and commenting about BNY workplace and deplorable people management behavior.

Not that it matters but The People Team (or EC) would be better off to communicate early and often throughout the change process. This means acting more intentionally with greater transparency, by showing receptiveness and responding to feedback on really important people concerns, and providing clear organizational direction on people management matters. So why all the secrecy? It only leads to more fear, uncertainty and doubt.

In practice: EC wants us to thrive together by working together in office 4 days per week. The only natural consequences of this mandate are to intentionally make work-life more difficult for those not living nearby a brick-and-mortar office location, to recapture corporate control and to increase work-life inflexibility.

The EC and HR communications, micromanagement, and the lack of collaboration by 'all of us' are in direct contradiction with the written definition of how we 'Thrive Together,' do the right thing and earn trust.

Where does this leadership by example come from? Come on man!

The old boys club of Ric, Adam, Rob and Glenn getting rid of anyone that challenges them!

Looking at the stats today.
Eliza Pulse
Own it. -37%
Stay curious -17%
Thrive together -43.13%

Engagement with Eliza is tanking.

Intel "Corrupted Inside" acronym

Incompetent
Non-Talented
Engineering
Lackies
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The Good Inside has since long gone.

​Welcome back to the office lackies!

Hilarious.

The culture’s assessment? Terminal.

Let’s hear some of those responses. I don’t think they’re ready to hear what people really think.

Don't forget to go to Glassdoor or other sites that potential talent might use to peek behind the curtain before interviewing and light them up. Be sure people know what a toxic place they've become.

Discuss......

If the firm expects or wants remaining associates to stay with the firm, you’d think they would give them a reason. Where’s the enhancements to comp, benefits, profit sharing, etc. that were dangled nearly two years back and mentioned again a few months ago? Haven’t heard a peep about any of that for a while.

The firm’s below-market pay already made it difficult to attract experienced talent. Now it has a bad reputation which will make recruiting even harder.

If leadership doesn’t act quick they are going to find themselves in a talent black hole. Attrition is going to spike through the roof which is maybe what the firm wants but who is going to fill those vacated roles? Candidates the firm wants aren’t going to accept mid pay AND a toxic culture. The money they’ll spend course correcting to attract talent will greatly exceed whatever savings they just captured from these layoffs. I’ve seen it before and it is not pretty for management’s pocketbook. The clock is ticking to get ahead of this disaster before it’s too late.

Hi y’all
I hope you had a good weekend. As we look to start this week in our new reality, I feel so energized and proud to see our progress that we made in the last 6 months. We’ve managed to cut away less useful roles, brought in people that we love into those vacancies despite their lack of competencies. We expect these people to exercise growth mindset to continue our progress. We managed to find savings through these layoffs which will definitely add to my bonus next year. I am just glowing after finding those valuable $. As you know, money is my god! 😉

Lastly, for folks that are still having difficulty adjusting to this new reality, remember that I am with you in this journey. Please drop by my secret garden to enjoy the tranquility and the peace it provides me every day. I know I’ve benefitted greatly from those moments of silence. Off to my tailor as I get ready for the GP meeting to charge up those that are thinking of voting me out.

Have a great week!

https://canadafreepress.com/article/shell-buries-itself-with-dei-and-no-ones-digging-it-out

Life is too short to carry the blackness. If you are feeling this way all the time about work, I would suggest you take a good long look at yourself and decide what you want to do.

Sometimes the harder thing is to walk away and start over somewhere else, but it would be the best thing for your soul.

Recent Corporate Officers and Board Members did not define AEP. Our attractiveness as a take over target is that we lend credibility to these charlatans. We are the value and they are the flimflam confidence men looking for a beard to attract investors. They are not the men, who create a successful business. They are the parasites that siphon off the value they never served or sacrificed to create. Do not empower freeloaders to profit from your exertions.

When it comes to layoffs there is no finish line. Just Do It? Apparently that only applies to cutting headcount. Always chasing the shiny objects while the basics get benched. Somehow MD still has a job, and HR is running around like it’s a team-building offsite. Help us.

If you take out the emotion of what the Global Brand leadership is doing, you are left with incompetent people that know nothing about financial services, managing teams in a large corporation and treating their people fairly. These are the facts. It’s quite obvious all of them are in it for themselves. All have worked 3 or less years at a job and continue to fake it to make it. They let amazing talent walk out the door to only bring in their circle of friends and family, no knowledge of our business and continue to have the actual doers train them and then treat us like pions. It’s time for positive change!! How is this allowed??

One reason for Intel's failure is people telling lies. Cheating beomes a norm, without any publishment. If the manager tells a lie, everyone agrees loud even though they know it is a lie. People are trained to be slaves, because objection to managers will result in layoff and revenge.

I'll start - basking in the fact that they have no idea whatsoever (or care) what goes on in the CO's and garages. I have to laugh at the tonedeaf corporate videos. Life is good for some people, but the customer is not being served properly.

After getting the RIF in Nov 2018 (65 age, 44 yrs service, only one in my position) I have realized there is no rhyme or reason.
My best opinions are;
1) It’s not business, it’s personal
2) The ELT always look out for themselves
3) What you know means nothing. Who you know means more.
4) It can and will happen to anyone at anytime.
5) Be loyal to your family, never a job. The 60’s and 70’s are gone and not coming back.
6) Trust and respect are a 1 way street and not from leadership, so don't give to them unless the earn it.

No wonder her daddy didn't want her to takeover the company and instead tried to direct her toward leading Fidelity charitable.

We should be proud of CA making it to the Time100 Acute Incompetency list, yaay.

I'd not have believed the rhetoric if I hadn't first hand witnessed manager blocking my promotion, sidelining me into oblivion to clean up the mess in another squad.

What is the point when managers are shutting down actual performers to give opportunities to less deserving individuals just coz they're in the same region as the manager????

Another MW Fluff piece. The guy says we do culture better than Exxon. The guy is wrecking our culture and made it a dreadful place to work!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/business/chevron-oil-mike-wirth.html

As Phil scuffles into the sunset, leaving the company as weak as it's ever been, welcome Sanoke.

Welcome to a company struggling with bad leadership, no strategy, and unfocused product decisions. Organizationally a mess and one reorg away from a buy-one, get-one reward at BCG. More turf wars than West Side Story with enough passive-aggressive energy to power any high school drama.

FactSet needs a reset; you can be that change agent. The rot reaches at least L3 as the blind lead the blind(er).

Please give us an idea of why you're here and what you're hoping to achieve. Give people some hope that something new will happen.

Is TSS IBM GLOBAL SERVICE or whatever they are called these days. What is the plan for that?

4 day RTO to turn the company around!

On this labor day I just want to tell all of my employees that I cant wait to lay you off! I wish you would work made up holidays like this as what is most important in life is pleasing the shareholders and me! Get back to work and do better!

MW

Absolutely astounding that the few people left here at xerox, have no clue what is honestly happening, or they just don’t care …about anything.

Digging ditches in the rain, would be considered an upgrade ☔️

But when you don’t care about anything and you are stubborn as can be. Well.. that says a lot about you.

Only a fool fights in a burning house, as you may win the battle but loose the war 🔥🏠🔥

It’s always pi---d me off looking at those people that immediately have 30,000 steps at midnight. Ain’t no way you’ve covered 30,000 steps. Also those that have 30,000 steps everyday of the challenge

Those are the people with no integrity and ought to be the ones let go.

Penny’s internet watchers putting their lists together trying to figure out who we are since we don’t believe in their reimagining. Get on the app and take note there.

FF had promised to release a plan at the beginning of the year.
Now we’re in September, and still waiting…
Does anyone know when it will finally be delivered?

Penny - why pay a speaking fee of $200,000 each to hear their motivational speeches? You should have hired them to give us pep talks about “Dribbling up the middle on our resumes” and the “Uneven bars of life”.

Something quite sus going on, as they kept moving this call and now it falls on the dreaded date.

Don’t know what to expect as they haven’t shared much info with us “regular” employees.

All I see is frustration, anger, and disarray. Morale wasn’t great before, but now it’s completely tanked. Yes, I still have my job, but I feel sick just thinking about coming in tomorrow. Things can be done well and for everyone’s benefit, or badly, serving a few for a short while but damaging everyone else and the company’s future. Why leadership always chooses the latter is beyond me.

They got me reporting to 2 managers, and fielding requests from the layer above them. Each of them wants to have a 1:1, each wants a status update, each is dead weight that gets in my way from being productive. They really need to do away with management and make those with the most knowledge just rise to the situation at hand. Such a waste of shareholder money. They also need to start firing these Indians who email 600 people for the smallest task they completed, only email people directly involved. The manager of these people should be fired.