#incompetence

The mess we're in is because of incompetent leaders. They got their positions through connections, not skill. And it shows.

Middle Aged white male. No tech skills. No leadership skills. Incompetent and ill advised. Lap dog of VP.
Middle Aged middle eastern woman. No tech skills. She lasted 3 mos in our unit after some type of lying to senior management.
Middle Aged middle eastern man. He had skills. He was competent. He was complimentary. He used my work, commended me on it and than stiffed me for a raise when I got promoted. Not even 1%. Said “talk to HR”.
Middle Aged black woman. No tech skills. Really no computer skills at all. Very much delegated. Loud talker. Tried to be a people person, but that was hard when you’re discriminated against other races.
Middle Aged asian woman. Zero tech skills. Got her job cause she was friends with VP. Had no idea what the role entailed. Literally just stole a check. Did nothing but give friends roles and get friends promoted. Left Oracle to work for start-up.
Middle Aged white male. Came from acquisition. No real tech skills. Only knew the one app that we bought his company for. Totally arrogant. Thought he was more important than everyone and everything. I was light years ahead of him, but our GBU promoted new acquired people over people who had been there. Put him in his place several times and finally was able to get away from him. He actually got promoted. Totally incompetent.
Middle Aged white male. Got promoted to his team. He was on my old team and actually came to Oracle about 11 years after I did. Like many other managers, towed the company line. Absolutely no tech skills. No real skills other than being a yes man and not being healthy. Got promoted to his team, about to accept offer and then ask about the raise and he said there was no raise. “VP wouldn’t approve it….” Sorry, I can’t help you.

On my last day at Oracle, I scheduled an email to go to the VP, my manager and the stiff director of our department. Telling them all what I thought. For the VP, I broke her off a huge piece. She was a lousy VP for many years, stealing money, overbilled the federal govt, stole, and was an even lousier human being. I said, “how pathetic of a person are you to not even give me a 1% raise after I have put in 15 years at this company for you?...you are truly pathetic….you don’t care about anyone but yourself and your little circle.

That woman will leave a company she worked at for like 40 years with no friends and no one who will be sorry she is gone. In fact, many have a number of interesting stories on how she “climbed” her way to the top.

It’s sad. It really is never about the product or the processes…it’s solely about the people and those that are morally and mentally corrupt and should not be around other human beings as they are a direct threat to their well-being.

Why, as a leader in the field, am I now having to do the work of this team? The math is strange - I generate revenue, the firm allocates my revenue for this home office work yet I’m the one doing their work. From what I hear - the GP running it is inadequate and the directors are incompetent and have created a toxic environment where their staff left their area leaving us to do their roles. How are they still employed?

They keep promoting young, inexperienced people into management positions while the people with years of experience and real qualifications get passed over. So we end up losing our best talent, and replacing them with people who don't know what they're doing most of the time. Solid business strategy. /s

Fiserv is the most inept and incompetent company on the planet. If you want to watch a circus, it’s all here. My advice is don’t let anyone at this organization lower your worth. Stand up for what you believe and don’t settle for anything less.

Does Sammy Sun not believe that CFS needs to “collaborate” as much as CUSA?

What happened to “One Canon”, “Transform as One”, “Lead as One”, “Grow as One”, etc….Whatever regurgitated slogans they come up with the word one in it.

This company is filled with hypocrisy and incompetency. They should make CFS come in to Burlington on Thursdays & Fridays. Simple fix.

But oh no, boo hoo, they don’t want to make them come in on Fridays. Or maybe, Wednesdays are to be designated as the big pow wow day for CFS & CUSA to get together to sing “Kumbaya, My Lord” around the campfire and do the Limbo Rock?

Whether it’s Google, office consolidations, pricing…this company botches everything.

Why does IBM hire and retain so many leaders & mgrs who are clearly unqualified for the technical areas they oversee?

Many have no relevant experience, and their lack of competence is evident in their decisions...

I just do not get it.

No wander we have problems.

Hey everyone. Through all the myriad of changes at AT&T since John Stanks reign of incompetence he is still underperforming terribly. His ego has him delusional and he speaks like he is the smartest person to walk the earth. The company will flourish when he leaves. John you haven’t been doing well !

I know you are feeling sad and tired. Exhausted from having to actually do work. It’s okay, that’s what a resignation does. It helps eliminate the toxic waste in a company and allows you to go to other publishers and su-k the life out of them. If you can’t make your numbers, resign. If the pressure is just too much, resign. If you’re just plain old incompetent, resign. Resigning is good for everyone - you don’t even need a new job, resign so you can use your full set of high quality skills and apply them to landing your next sale - making your future employer believe that you can deliver. Happy resigning!

How do any managers in this clown show have a job?. Now, I understand why managers who left had to crawl back. Cyclone of incompetence.
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As expected, my LinkedIn feed for the last 18 hours has been filled with former colleagues announcing they had been kicked to the curb by OpenText.

But in a new sick twist, a number of remaining employees have taken to LinkedIn to crow how they were promoted over the past two days. The posts all read the same as if they were told or highly encouraged to post and what to post.

In addition, there were posts (on the same day as their colleagues being dumped) celebrating the addition of new employees.

There is no doubt that ELT and HR have orchestrated this to cover up the nasty truth that a number of talented, hard working, productive people were sacrificed to almighty Canadian dollar to make amends for the sins of Tom Jenkins as he leads this company to ruin.

OpenText under the leadership of Jenkins, the clueless BoD, Bell, Muhi, and the rest of the clownshow ELT has become classless and hopeless.

Unwittingly, OT is showing what it really means when they say the company is "Canadian by design" ... Incompetent, fractured and losing relevance.

I would imagine they used to hire bright people, has the push toward lowest cost left this company with nothing but bottom feeders and incompetence?

I laughed out loud when I watched KC's video message last week saying SF is now decided to slow the rollout of the Agent contract changes. Just another evidence of the incompetence of this executive leadership team. Sounds like someone didn't do their homework or anticipate how badly agents were getting sc--wed. #eggonface

Ajay from Oracle and Adobe? I guess we like dinosaur companies that move at a glacial pace and nickel and dime their customers for legacy products running on fumes from the glory days.

Panos was a Infra Leader? He had no experience leading entire eng orgs of backend, API, frontend teams. At best he's a SRE/Data Center guy, no wonder.

Tuckness started as a Five9 intern and every 1 or 2 years got promoted? He could not possibly have been that good.

JDR was at Skype? You know that team who's own company replaced it (Teams) because the product went downhill so quickly.

Does Dell have one competent leader who didn't come in through nepotistic channels? If so, name one.

Why does no one in our benefits know anything about our benefits since they closed the Operation Centers? Any time I call with a question they don't know. I want to retire at 55 and they can't tell me if I do if I can start withdrawals from 401 with no penalty. One person told me yes i can. Another said no, and that person should not have told me that and its up to the IRS. Wtf? Never seen such incompetence. They're only job is to know our benefits inside and out. What a joke.

that if you’re handsome and halfway articulate you will get many opportunities to fail upwards.

Only way to explain it for how incompetent he was here

https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@OP+1ktenpssz

Sorry to hear, but incompetent managers is not unique to belle chasse. Wait a few years and hopefully they move on and things will change for you.

All my friends and former engineering colleagues laugh at Dell.
Now, before all you nepotistic so-called "leaders" jump on and say "Fine, go someplace else then..." let me get ahead of that and simply say, Go FK Yourself!! You're ki-ling this company with your incompetence.

I have never seen a place where making big mistakes gets you promoted faster than doing your job right. Until I joined Ally.

Heard something that made me laugh out loud. HR talking about not “buying” technology platforms as we can build everything ourselves via Citi Stylus. Citi Stylus is a good tool but is it to the level of building enterprise level AI platforms? Not a chance. Good luck to us all and dealing with these HR muppets who sit in their glass towers having no idea what’s actually going on. Delusional. Watch the layoffs start as a result of poorly built internal AI tools to only go on a hiring spree to try figure out how to fix it. Incompetence at its finest.

long time veteran journalist Scott Pelley has been fired by a set of incompetent baffoons at CBS. The ? is now: which institution will last longer: 60 Minutes, Mutual of America, or the Titanic ?

For my second assignment rotation, I scheduled a meeting with the manager of the proposed team to understand their work. He repeatedly said he was not technical and redirected me to a senior team member for any meaningful discussion. Once I joined the team, the actual dynamics became clear.
The team was composed of a handful of senior employees who had been in the same roles for many years, and a large group of junior employees. The senior members were effectively running the team: assigning projects, controlling opportunities, and shaping the juniors’ career paths. They were doing this largely unchecked because the manager's lack of capability .An unhealthy power structure. The senior employees had formed small internal cults and were actively recruiting juniors into their groups. Their influence came not from leadership ability but from the manager’s incompetence and dependence on them. When evaluating his own team members, he relied entirely on the same senior employees who were controlling the work and saving top ranks for themselves.

What, exactly, did they pay a consultant millions of dollars for? Let the incompetence continue

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I’m pretty sure my boss is a re--rd and lacks the judgment and skill set for the role. He has a very childlike mindset and doesn’t seem to understand that putting people’s personal information into AI is a serious violation of trust. I go into work with the best intentions, but my direct manager consistently makes the experience frustrating and unprofessional. Basic decision-making, communication, and common sense seem to be a struggle for him, and it’s hard to see what qualifications or actual expertise got him into the position in the first place. It honestly feels like the rest of the team is constantly compensating for his lack of competence instead of being led by someone capable.

CSSC New York

This is crazy.

In a meeting, they asked some questions! While they can be business oriented, how can a CPO & VP of product not know the core product's capabilities / limitations but state that their goal is to make it a market leader?

A database company's CPO doesn't know about their own product and now I understand why unrealistic asks are coming in from them.

Executive incompetence (or incontinence) is truly the root cause of all of this.

Gross mismanagement of spiking costs for flash ki-led margins, awful roll out of UCPQ, project ocean was a disaster that is still the gift that keeps on giving having to pay a 3rd party to fix it.

I had an American Airlines card from Barclays. Two days back, Barclays switched off my account saying i should deal with Citi now via landingatciti.com. Of course the website doesn't work. I would have been shocked if it did.
Then Citi sends an email about account having been migrated and payments should now be made to Citi blah blah blah. Click the link to set up the account...nothing. That website doesn't work either

Absolute d-mb@sses. Of course, I saw the incompetency from way too up close when employed at Citi. The ONLY thing that seems to work without a hitch at Citi is A) Board approving billions in share buybacks every year despite heavy layoffs and B) Jane getting salary bumps and bonuses every year. It will soon fo from 42M to 45 and then to 50.

Anything else is a total mess at Citi

It's genuinely amazing how so many incompetent managers have gathered in one place and figured out how to drain the life out of thousands of talented people. One bad decision after another, and they keep insisting they're turning things around.

Honestly, it feels like there’s some next-level scam going on between Deloitte and Kroger leadership. Half the time it feels like I work for Deloitte instead of Kroger.

They hire one senior person and fill the rest of the team with clueless recent grads, then expect everything to run smoothly. The leadership is weak, disconnected, and completely out of touch with how much extra burden that creates.

Better to find another job than keep working under incompetent leadership.

Have any of the Legacy Hess employees with prior service at Chevron had their service record updated properly after submitting the required F36 form in the first 60 days of rehire? I am still fighting with the offshore Benefits Connection team. They are truly incompetent; what a great way to save the company money.

The biggest past baggage is still heading the testing and that is resulting in every day deterioration of Coupa quality with many escalations coming every day. Now next list of layoffs is ready just after the current events and she is destroying everything just to save her job. All strong performers under her have left because of her incompetence. Every one in testing team is trying to move to development or leave the company and only people left are those who are not getting anything else. Worst to come for Coupa quality and the remaining people !!

Yes - I am talking to all of you incompetent VPs, Senior DIR and DIRs. That's the post.

Where bad ideas go to become and AFE and a pds that was done 3 yrs ago and people who should never ever get promoted. What say you?!

... and the number of cell sites probably tripled. In most cases, VZ will fire you quickly if you are not cutting it (and replace you with a contractor, not backfill). So if you have lasted over 3 years or so, you have shown you are adaptable and are getting your work done (excluding outliers who may be competent, but hard to work with, so should maybe be cut). But, in the Nov 2025 firings (they are not layoffs), MANY people with 10, 20 and some with 30 years of experience were kicked out. This shows the utter incompetence of VZ leadership. They have no idea how to run a long term business (kicking out the most effective employees to make a budget look better). Leadership looked at the cost of those employees and MAYBE whether they took an AI class here or there (even though there were no AI applications available for that particular job and still aren't) and made uninformed decisions. Completely CLUELESS. If/When an AI tool became available for those employees' roles, those people would adapt, just like they have done for 10, 20 and 30 years.

And for those very few people who talk about a lot of dead weight being cut, you are showing your ignorance. Of course there were a few employees who "earned" being cut, but you are delusional if you think you are somehow more valuable because VZ chose to keep you over someone else. You are just a line item on a sheet that was overlooked by some BOZO higher up.

I'll be brief - almost all of them are always performative, vague... overly scripted and fu--ing unable to execute...

Been at DXC UK a couple of years and just started on my second account. Thought the first one was bad enough but this one I started on recently is unbelievable. I started off with 2 managers. We then raised the issue of not enough technical staff to then receive 2 more managers. So instead of addressing our concerns, we are now being micro-managed by utter incompetent non-producers who fill our day with continuous ‘stand ups’, ‘wash ups’ and data requests for their pointless spreadsheets. How these buffoons feel they are ‘adding value’ is beyond me. Anyone else in this boat?

First layoff I get it. Oops over-hired.

But second and third. No. You can't consistently make mistakes and be competent as a leader.

The architect for our organization keeps using Gartner reports , online research and chatgpt to command what the devs need to do. He has no clue on real software development, has not written a line of code and woefully incompetent. Our MD loves the BS this person produces with power point slides. EA org loves him as they are equally incompetent. My head hurts and I am losing all will to try push for coding the appropriately designed software stack for our business.