#culturerot

Big disconnect between Cisco's public statements to the financial community—that the company is "rightsizing efficiently" to optimize performance and the observed outcomes of the LR process. HR is non-existent - they don't care about preservation of talent and institutional knowledge. I feel an increasingly toxic culture and diminished trust in leadership.

It’d be great to see the real numbers. Anyone who’s actually used AI knows it’s nowhere near reliable enough to replace human work outright. And yet we keep hearing that “AI-driven layoffs” are the future, when most reports say many of those jobs aren’t being replaced at all, or they’re being sent offshore. It feels like nothing more than old-school cost cutting dressed up as innovation. At the end of the day, it’s plain greed and leadership completely out of touch with the people who actually keep the place running.

What a puppet guy come in just threw people out. Not even understanding of any sentiments who needs to removed . He’s not only a joker but he’s entire circus

To start with, John Gibbons, Patrick Davie

One of the amazing things about working at Progress is that every November you get to wonder if you are on the list to be laid off. Yup, an entire company culture built around who gets let go this year right before the holidays. And to make it even better, none of the c suite executives responsible for the company doing so poorly ever get let go. The c suite boys club continues to bring in millions for themselves while investors (stock down almost 50% this year) and everyday employees get the brunt of their non existent management acumen.

I regret the moment I decided to join QCOM. My health is getting worse every day I spend here.

Leaving is not a simple decision. I have been here for a year. Jumping ships would me look unemployable and the job market su-ks anyways.

I feel trapped.

Anyone else on a team that has a leadership change every few months and given very little direction? Seems like people are constantly disappearing and we’re all expected to work in a “matrix” environment which basically means the manager has no clue what you work on and is not expected to provide you direction on projects so there’s no one to provide support…and these are all being framed as efficiency changes which I have seen no efficiency at all

Look I’m not even mad anymore. just tired... Every week it’s another round of whispers about realignments and optimization, and we all know what that means. People disappear from the org chart, managers act like it’s business as usual... and everyone else pretends not to notice while secretly refreshing job boards.What’s wild is how leadership keeps calling this progress. They hold some all hands to talk about leaner operations like we’re supposed to clap for losing our coworkers. Then they tell us to stay positive and embrace the change. I’d love to, but it’s kinda hard to embrace being disposable.... and don’t even start with the we’re one team stuff. One team doesn’t keep cutting off its own legs. One team doesn’t keep asking people to train their replacements. You can call it efficiency all you want, but what it feels like is betrayal. I used to think Verizon was a place you could build a career. Now it feels like a place where you just wait your turn to be streamlined. Maybe the saddest part is how normal that’s starting to feel.

Bumping from @a6+1k9qp9myj.

Trying so hard to get job permanently. Her latest LinkedIn post trying to be vulnerable is so fake. Your lack of experience showed last week so do not try to cover up.

This post will disappear as she has people remove any posts that are critical of her.

Leadership in my organization is useless, indecisive and incapable of making sound decisions. When I asked to provide direction, they complicate things by giving you more work, even when you provide them with everything they asked for, they still don’t do anything. You will come out of the discussions/meetings more confused. This leads to ambiguity and tension between team members who end up confused not knowing what to do, not to mention the time and resources wasted on the endless calls where sometimes all it takes is a strong leader to say “yes” or “no”. They do not care as long as you don’t bother or challenge them. The moment you do, you will be rewarded with more work!

Nothing more to add. It'll continue to get worse as long this is the case. We'll continue with cuts, 1% here and 2% there. If you look at what they are doing, we are destroying ourselves from inside. It's hubris, mismanagement, egos, lack of skills and common sense. Lack of emphaty and any concern for the employee.

Target perfectly fits the description of a company experiencing culture rot. Bad leaders that are more interested in promoting their own careers than they are developing teams. A working environment that feels competitive, not collaborative. Increasingly confusing “shared” values internally and externally. An in-store experience that is confusing and disjointed. Items out of stock or locked up. Nothing feels unique about Target. The company continues to alienate its key consumers. Target is a company rotting from the inside out. It is impossible to change the direction the company is going without acknowledging its current failings.

My boss spends her entire workday talking. All day, she is “stakeholdering” with people, then comes to us to get all the actual information. After that, she passes that half-baked information to superiors behind our backs, making it look like it’s all her work.

Many times, the leaders above don’t even know that we have spent countless hours solving problems or working on a solution. On top of that, she is too lazy to even put it together in slides — she expects us to do that so she can go behind our backs and present it to her VPs or what not ?

Do we need her ? I do not know but she will stay and people who are doing actual work will be fired.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/frank-bisignano-fiserv-stock-price.html

there isnt any fairness here.

lower managers are incompetent and self serving.

divisional, office, and regional folks back them... barely less incompetent, and they double down on bad calls. period...

the same troublemakers get protected all the time - that's the culture.

ive watched awful managers, bullies and bad at the job, stick around for years.

nothing changes, just more of the same.

this place is a lost cause.

I have be with Macy’s over 20 years. My people leader towards me has an attitude towards me by saying I am not pulling my weight . Thats she has the same people doing everything. I working on merchandise. I also do the signing and markdowns on my floor. She wants her girls in my position. I work in ready to wear. They is no one in my store I would trust to say anything.

my manager are delusionally promoting and spending a project which has no value or use. millions have been spent and there is no use case or demand for it. when i try challenging, they start commenting on my capability and character. when anything fails, which it is bound to in many steps, they say its your fault. can someone please advise how to deal with such a psycho in EM speak? i do want to keep my job, but it ki-ls me inside to hage such a stupid egotistic manager. and fee others around them who just keep promoting an obviously failing, money down the drain project.

a decade+ of bad calls have wrecked the org. period...

Merch is an utter mess. It used to be elite - now it is junk. sooo hard to see how they recruit.

The brass tanked the stock valuation with suic_idal blunders.

This is a great YouTube channel that will help you understand why Canon has deep-seated cultural issues.

https://www.youtube.com/@salarymantokyo

Just discovered this term and it describes my last 2 years at NCR. Look it up, do you agree?

I've been working at Jones for nearly my entire professional career, right out of college, for the past decade. I worked hard to prove myself in the eyes of leadership and my peers. Copious amounts of overtime, volunteering for more work repeatedly, going above and beyond in every capacity I could with a ratio of 9 "Exceeds" to every "Meets". Promoted numerous times with several lateral moves, always "working my way up" however I could, because I believed in the company and wanted to be a part of something truly great.

But in that time...

I was hired with a title and grade two below the role I actually filled, told I had to work my way up only to watch others be hired directly to the higher title at higher pay than I made when I was eventually promoted. I was repeatedly paid less than the minimum for my paygrade, with more than one "Bring to Minimum" increase. I was denied increases outside of annual reviews, despite being below the minimum. I was never offered a partnership. I was converted to salary without my consent, with the expectation I continue working heavy overtime, in addition to regular weekends. I was denied opportunities for promotions due to my volunteer projects. And now, I have been ISP'd.

I stayed all these years because I felt secure, and I truly viewed many of my coworkers as friends. When I first toured the campus, in my interviews, even in the lunchroom I heard repeatedly how Jones was "one of the best places to work" and "never did layoffs", "the culture is incredible", and that "the happiest feeling in life is feeling safe and secure in your job, never worrying about putting food on the table" (exact quote). The older associates said this is somewhere you don't have to job hop, you want to stay here your whole career, it's that good. And, like an absolute mo--n, for the past decade I believed them.

This past month I've felt a lot of things... Anxiety. Shock. Frustration. Fear. Depression. Unappreciated. A number on a spreadsheet. Like my whole career has just been reset. But most of all? I feel betrayed. I've been stabbed in the back, and I feel sick to my stomach for it. And it's not only me - I've spoken to a dozen of my friends who all got the same news, and a dozen more who are heartbroken to see us all leave so suddenly (many of which received demotions). Being locked out of the building, having our names scrubbed from projects and tickets, being forgotten and shown firsthand that we never mattered. Thousands of years of cumulative experience purged in the name of profit for the select few at the very top.

My world view has been shattered. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to treat Jones as a stepping stone and take the opportunities presented elsewhere along the way. Instead, I was walked all over for years and the only thing I have to show for it is a lovely pink slip, and a crippling fear for my family's future. I've put out dozens of applications in the past month, putting my all into finding something new, and haven't gotten a single interview. They let us go into one of the worst job markets they could. At the start of this year, I thought I was going to retire from Jones... Now I don't know what my life will look like 6 months from now, let alone 10 years from now.

My faith in the firm's direction is gone; the company culture is dead.
If you're still there and thought you were safe, you will never be able to feel that way again.

No clear direction on any front.

Remember when Humana was THE place to work in the Louisville area? Far from it now.

Doubt it would be this way if David Jones was still living or the current slate of 7-figure senior leaders lived in Louisville. A lawsuit based on the Tower’s pre-existing condition, STARS ratings in the toilet and company’s ever-shrinking hometown footprint … and it continues to be all rah-rah and rainbows from the top.

Packing boxes with bean soup won’t boost morale or change the sad truth we all endure everyday - the once mighty Humana is pretty much a sinking ship. Or at least one being primed for the highest bidder.

Glad my exit date is scheduled. It is definitely time to go.

…the fish rots from the head.

Well, the mrns on the 20th floor are at it again. This time sockless Jim has invited everyone to celebrate that the company has survived yet another year of inept leadership, layoffs, and falling share prices. Woohoo!!

They plan to go to NY to celebrate and to take a bunch of others with them. They will party in the city like it’s 2029 and then most likely come back and lay off another 1000 or so to help pay for it, but this makes sense because they can only cut their way to profitability anyway.

Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if they all get run over by a bus while crossing the street to the exchange.

These clowns are worse than Bill Nuti ever was, at least he had the guts to stand in person and deliver the bad news, these cr33ps send out a video or post some bs on the bridge and then hide on the freight elevators. They might take some questions at the next all hands meeting though...something to look forward to I guess.

Can’t wait to see how they spin it though, should provide a lot of laughs!! Go Team.

In two years I had to deal with more cr-p than during ten years at my old job.

Please State Farm, pay us to leave! I've been here 30 years and do not even need a years pay or the enhanced severance plan which has a maximum of 78 weeks pay! I would take 6 months worth of pay which is basically what UPS is doing for its 20,000 people. Find the reta-ds that still want to work here and let the rest of us go. Go out and finish hiring that 2040 workforce but please please please stop the torture. I hate this company and any and everything it stands for. Please understand that your workforce is not going to do anything to help you when you torture and bully them. It is just better to start over a new! Executive you have absolutely no credibility left so stop trying with the huddle points, special announcements, 3-year plans to torture, or any other drama and attempt to f-ck with the workforce. Do what you are going to do and get it over with. F-ck off seriously!

Destroyed our great Company !

Where bold aspirations, creative ideas & careers goto die. Got this from my boss who is leaving this circus on Friday for a FAANG.

Our annual reviews has been corrupted into a system of favoritism.Ratings and promotions are no longer based on contribution but on connections—both personal networks and , more importantly , the networks of managers who push cases through on the strength of goodwill rather than merit.
This has turned AR's into a negotiation of influence , not an evaluation of performance.Technical expertise , and tangible results are consistently sidelined , while visibility and relationships dictate ratings and promotions.
Replace current calibration practices with a transparent framework grounded in measurable outcomes , 360-degree evaluation, and objective criteria.

Worked in intel in the early 2010s and I get to see the same thing here in QCOM now. Hiring friends of friends ; friends son. Not sharing information, misleading on purpose.

As in intel , the people who did such practices made it out unscathed.

as evidenced by employee reaction to the hiring of external executive personal ...

1. Employee Reactions: Resistance, Skepticism, and Morale Challenges
   Many long-time Wells employees — especially those outside of senior executive ranks — reacted with:

🧱 Resistance & Distrust
"They don’t get us": Employees felt that JPMorgan and Wall Street hires lacked appreciation for Wells Fargo’s traditional customer service culture.

The “new guard” was seen as imposing foreign priorities — profits, performance pressure, aggressive restructuring — without deep understanding of how Wells operates.

😐 Morale Issues
Many employees felt demoralized or marginalized, especially as:

Longtime internal leaders were pushed out or sidelined.

New hires brought in aggressive cost-cutting and cultural changes that made Wells feel less like a traditional bank.

Surveys and anecdotal reports suggested a decline in employee trust and loyalty during this period.

🧠 Talent Drain
Some long-tenured employees and mid-level managers chose to leave rather than adapt to the culture shift.

Others were forced out, leading to disruption and loss of institutional knowledge.