#culture

I've been asking myself this a lot lately. Would I rather be unemployed and stressed about money, or stay here and be stressed about work every single day? Neither option is good. But if you had to pick, which would you choose?

I used to love working here. Now I hate it, and I can't pinpoint when the shift happened.

Let me list what seems impossible here. Having executives who aren't a complete clown show. Keeping talented employees. Having a work environment that isn't toxic. Recovering from the gross negligence we've seen. I could keep going but you get the point.

Every single person on my team is. Every single one.

Some companies have favorite departments or favorite people. Not Oracle. They seem to genuinely dislike everyone equally. From the newest hire to the twenty year veteran. Nobody is safe from the bad treatment.

I've been through a few layoff rounds now and I've started tracking who goes. The pattern makes no sense. Hard workers, people with great reviews, people who consistently deliver get cut. People who coast, who hide in meetings, who produce almost nothing stay. People usually explain it as being about salary. High performers have been here longer and make more, which make them targets, and the cheaper people survive. Which makes sense only if you disregard the fact that this sends a message not to be too good at your job. Just be average and cheap and you'll be safe. How is that kind of workforce good for the company?

That's why we keep losing the best people, the real backbone of teams. So don't kid yourself that performance will save you. When your number's up, no amount of effort is going to change that.

BP has seen a suitcase parade of clown CEOs enter and leave the company. How will Meg be different and what actions and results will she be remembered for? Legacy starts now…

Really? You are that unhappy being so well paid, having world class facilities and being associated with great athletes? Things are so terrible.

Also, no one is ever specific at all. Bot much?

Why are bots after Nike?

I worked at Nike for close to a decade, and the first 8 years were the best professional years of my life.

It’s bizarre that you complain, complain, complain here…but don’t seem to have the cajones to stand up for yourself, have an honest conversation with your boss, or just leave if you are so terribly unhappy. Of course this is giving the benefit of the doubt that you aren’t bots and trolls.

Nike was built on people that had the courage to work through this type of pettiness.

How ya’ll doin’ on this fine Sunday?

Me? I’m feeling’ a little ‘spicy.’

On this Mother’s Day, I was just thinking how much better the world would be if Mickey’s mummy had just taken a pill. Could have spared us all the disgrace that this POS truly is.

Now I've seen them cut a friend who broke his back for this place with no warning. From now on, it's just a paycheck.

Culture is about how employees feel about returning to work Monday.

Sam Hammock CHRO: love your company, set the foundation!

To have a modern workforce, nimble, ready to work at anytime and anywhere, and now they return us to our father’s old fashioned office drudgery.
We aren’t “liberated” we’re back to being pawns and cogs whatever you want to call it!
All that investment in tech just to have it wasted with commutes into the office wasting time on traffic on delayed subways or the MBTA commuter rail.
“We’ve come a long way baby”
Fools oops you didn’t think licking us down for three years in Massachusetts would have a deleterious effect to the local economy real estate and restaurants?!!
Now six years into it all of a sudden it’s back to work slave.

All these teammates flying into Charlotte for 2-3 days. Hilarious and bad look. Par the course as they say. Never seen more butt kissing since merger.

It seems oxymoronic, doesn't it? When asking for updates or other changes, the answer is no, every single time. Even when requesting changes to efficiency or just plain common sense. No, that is not desired. Just. Plain. No.

Despite moving hq to Houston will CG be courtside during playoffs?
Commitment runs deep!

I mean, this site is a gold mine for the management. I am assuming they care about what's in the employee's head (and I might as well be very wrong) - reading this board paints that picture fairly well. Figure out what main themes on layoff.com and measure engagement, do the same thing with LinkedIn. If you were to average the two that would give you a much better picture about what's going on on the ground. The board should mandate execs to do this instead of fake survey's that are massaged to the Nth degree. Food for thought.

Why is elt so narrow minded that they want to make the environment so vile, most talented people quit. And all you're left with is geriatric, brainwashed boomers, or offshore low level talent?

If you want to be #1, don't use the excuse "well Exxon is doing it!". To be first you set your culture and company apart, not the same, mo--ns.

were you forced to get it to keep your job?

if so did management/HR push this upon you?

i keep hearing people were forced to get vaccinated.

We were first introduced to these ‘traveling’ resources when the Spotify model rolled through. Are they the ones leading the “next re-org” too? If not, were any of them impacted in this? Or are they the ones pushing the enablement lead lingo…

The company probably paid an additional surcharge to the consulting firm to heavily alter the results and put a positive spin on management perception.

Don’t believe the results to be shared.

I can survive wave after wave of layoffs, RTOs, and offshoring to India as long as they let me rip darts on the front steps again

My colleague was fired today, apparently she was coming into the office 4 days a week but only stayed for 5-10 minutes..

Not sure how they noticed but watch out.

But being treated like a human being instead of a soulless number throughout the process shouldn’t be optional.

My manager told me for years that I was the backbone of the team. Then I asked about a promotion and got told I was too important where I was. That's when I realized that being valuable at DXC doesn't get you ahead. It gets you stuck.

But by now I know the systems, I know the people, and leaving feels like starting over. So I stay. It's stupid but it's honest. I think there are many stuck at IBM with a similar mindset.

What the heck was this boring useless and common sense drivel?????

Hot mess….

Nobody knows whats going on with it…

Doesnt usaa know that a good portion of employees do not deal or interact with members?????

We are a much worse place with significantly more terrible, weak, shallow, and insecure leadership than when the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020. Im nervous that if the hantavirus becomes a pandemic that these human skinsuits will not react well or empatheticly. Anyone else feel the same?

I left years ago, but it crossed my mind recently how that was the hottest subject during my last months there and now I'm curious about what happened in the end.

I know that probably sounds strange, but when layoffs actually surprised people, it meant they happened rarely enough that nobody was constantly expecting them. These days, layoffs feel so normal that there’s barely even shock anymore. We’re always waiting for the next round, so when it finally happens, it just feels like more of the same.

Go to sparq and go under career and learning on the right hand side.
Select “request feedback from colleagues.”
You can see who is on leave of absence paid and unpaid and everything. Wow. Good going that HR in India sharing all the personal details of people smh.

Few monkeys were caged with a ladder and a hole to escape at top of cage. Whenever any monkey tries to climb the ladder and escape through hole, Huge force of Water is sprayed on them. Slowly all the monkeys tried to pull the climbing monkeys and hit. No monkey climbed even if cage was open.

Similarly, even when employees try to use their skills, management is pushing towards AI. eventually employees will lose their own skill and when they are out, they feel like they are lost in market and will try to go back to Oracle cage.

Shameful Peanut Monkeys

Just one inch of power in this job market and they have become the mean girls from high school again.

I find it unbelievable how many VP's Optum has. One thing I learned was that when Optum acquires a company they assign them a title based on the money that they made in their last company. Hence, so many people having titles that significantly outrun their skills. Optum's VP's are a great example.

It makes everything so much more stressful. Not that I expected them to care, but still.

I come on the site to see what people are writing and thinking. I think is hilarious how most of you just complain and some of you call MD and JC names and how they are id--ts. You do realize MD created a $100B company and he is one of the richest Individuals in the world and JC Is the COO who has made millions. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!

You guys are brave coming on this platform with no ideas, no solutions insulting individuals hiding behind your screen. If you are so miserable then quit. You know why you don’t leave, because you probably realize no one would want to hire you.

Can anyone explain why employees are still being required to complete their PDS even though they’re already being laid off in 2026? HR is saying it’s mandatory if an employee doesn’t yet have an official termination date. Honestly, what’s the point of going through this process when performance results won’t matter anymore—unless IOL just wants to rank these employees at the bottom to boost the ratings of those who are staying.

Efficient workers got punished with more work.

You will never get paid what you’re worth.

The exploitative people in charge are paid for their cruelty.

People who don’t care are the happiest at their job.

They hired for this yet laid off the most important people that had teams fall apart.

What even is this role?