#leadership

Can’t believe she didn’t even announce it herself and had someone else speak for her. She’s probably just done with all the ** and called it quits.

Soon company ( I think Nov 18,2025) will have its Annual Stockholder virtual meeting. You are more than welcome to ask tough questions to uncle L, aunt SC & rest of the old horses.

This is how we’re hitting back? I don’t think this is making the TMO leadership sh!t their pants. The cellphone equivalent of Wi---e Horton this is most definitely not.

I say this with love to all my fellow brethern. I think it has become quite apparent that omnissa has no interest in its staff or its customers and there are a lot of reasons which many have covered but we serfs must look at the facts. The management said the books are in great shape but nobody that I know got 100PC of their bonus. They are clearly lying. The products are worse now and have not evolved. They dont have enough staff and they refuse to hire more, opting to create more management. Product managers are terrible and have been there for years feeding from the troughs. Staff are now leaving including myself so its only going to get a lot worse. There has been clear open corruption and clear violation of law. There is no integrity, morality or humanity and frankly the place is being run into the ground like a third world sweat shop. Management and the shhep who feed from their teets are going nowhere and KKR is clearly a crack pot organisation that likes throwing money down the drain. Its time to move on folks. It would take millions of dollars to bring this company back to relevance again. All ourcompetors have their own self hosted offerings on their own cloud infra and we dont adding extra costs for customers. Our products have no USP to draw in customers and frankly engineering are a complete disaster with bugs galore, putting sticky plasters on their disastrous code which normally regresses by the next version because there is little to no qa done. The company complies with Indian standards which as we all know are really low. My advise is to another job before you become another casualty of Ben and shankars circus act. Next year they are going to try and off load this car crash, pull the rug and run with their dividends. You will be the last thing on their minds, not that you were ever there in the first place.

Just overheard a Sr. Director say that on 10/28 BC plans on tossing the target Lego dog from the C suite lobby onto nicollet mall and then shouting "good luck with this mess everyone" and then retiring early.

Just saying. It's just my gut feel given the direction and how lost the execs are. Zero strategy, poor direction, poor execution. The executives are the ones who should be let go, not the worker.

Take a look at the FI price history for all years. If you know FI (FISV), you would know that FI has always been a slow and steady stock with 8 splits starting in 1991 and the last being in 2018.

Fiserv was the slow, ever increasing, dependable stock with splits that realized compounding value. It was a great stock to own inside or outside the company.

Look at the odd outlier behavior starting in 2019. It's almost like the stock was severely manipulated because it does not follow the historical trend. Remember, the stock price graph doesn't lie. Even if you don't believe it was manipulated, you can see the fingerprints of something other than a normal Fiserv at least in historical terms.

Some important quotes we can ponder to assess the caliber of our past leader:

"What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security? What am I going to do?”

“You know, one of my great skills, I’m one of the great Googlers on the East Coast," he said. "Put that as the headline for the post: ‘great Googler-in-chief, chief-in-Googler,’ or whatever."

Has anyone heard of any big leaders "retiring" or leaving the company?

Check out the link below to read a story from a whistleblower. This is exactly what has been happening at HCSC since ITOM in 2017. Don't believe me? Take a look at the ORG chart sometime and tell me this isn't happening. There has been a replacement of not only leadership, but all levels inside HCSC. Stories like this are just the tip of the iceberg too. Do you want to know who is responsible and allow it to keep happening? The Board of Directors that oversee this company and most likely the first two levels of our ORG chart.

They don't care about any of the people that have built this company or the people who work hard day and day out to support it. This post is not about politics and this is not about race. If you offended by it - take a breather, calm down, and try to process the information logically and not emotionally.

Loved how on yesterday’s internal earnings call Stank opened up with T missing its cashflow plan so bonuses may be impacted. Seriously? You can’t manage cashflow so make the employees pay? Also loved the comment about using corporate tax reductions for “other purposes”.

Stank - it’s time to go.

Is our new CMO advising these terrible LinkedIn posts for raoool and the rest of his "leadership". Bold face lies made worse by the fact that 90% of "likes" coming from his management. Looking so desperate and pathetic. How can so many incompetent people be running one company?

Amdocs was founded in Israel in 1982, and partially acquired by SBC in 1985.
What they don’t tell you, is the project that led them to being acquired so fast, was actually the first android project in the world, called Project Stank.
It’s not publicized, because the android they created, could only sh-t out of his mouth, and not his a-s.
However, there was a problem with Project Stank’s gastrointestinal system, leading to the android only being able to say the word, “Fiber”.
Amdocs sold the project to SBC and it is now our CEO

AT&T loves to talk about connectivity. The “AT&T Guarantee,” the shiny ads about “bringing people together.” But the only thing they seem to connect is frustration and disappointment.

Check the reviews — 1 out of 5 stars on Trustpilot. One star. For a 100-year-old telecom giant. You’d think after a century of selling phones, they’d have figured out how to answer one.

And it’s not just customers they can’t connect with — it’s their own employees.
The CEO’s new motto might as well be: “You don’t like it here? Leave.”
Inspirational, right? Nothing says “leadership” like threatening the people who actually keep the lights on.

Meanwhile, T-Mobile — the company they keep mocking — sits near a $200 stock price, while AT&T’s stock is doing the corporate version of buffering. Maybe arrogance doesn’t sell after all.

A century in business, billions in ads, and still can’t connect with the people paying the bills or the ones cashing the checks.
Maybe the “AT&T Guarantee” means they’ll drop your call, your signal, and your morale — all at once.

It is very easy to see the UM Centralization Leadership is realizing they have messed up! Easy to see they are reading these post! Take
Some responsibility and admit this is a mess!!!

Any truth to that? Wouldn’t they announce that?

Payoffs this month in legal and strategy dept aka “SEAL” this month after their new CLSO is slashing jobs left and right. Horrible morale for those who stayed. The way the layoffs are handled is stone cold and heartless.

Whenever we have these off sites for our division, I always feel like we leave with more questions than answers. Just once , it would be good to have GPs that can answer questions directly vs wishy washy unclear responses.

I was laid off years ago from a different company and felt like I did something wrong,
but it wasn't me it was a company much more dysfunctional than CMCSA.
This was not your fault.

However...
Some observations from a former national engineer who lead a team that built a system intended for divisional and DCF usage;

1. Other national and 2 of 3 divisional teams HAD to build their own instead of collaborating with national and all divisions.. e.g. Power hungry.
2. Upper management permitted this to happen. Heck, the west pretty much encouraged it.
3. DCF rolled out new systems with poor naming strategies and a ~70% ability to match names in existing systems.
4. Cable is dying !! And Brian Roberts has realized that the monopoly is over and hired a co-CEO since the next 10 years will determine if CMCSA survives.

Point is, we had too many people building the same system(s) and management let it happen. Upper management was all about power and not about cooperating.

The last semblance of segregation of duties and independent oversight is gone. Not that Citi is the only one to do this. But well....

• No bonuses because you didn’t do Stankey’s job for him
• Pascal and Stankey should be in a home
• The AT&T Guarantee cures cancer
• RTO works but doesn’t work because of employees and we’re starting new hubs
• Be mad at T-Mobile ads, not us

Why does he hate the upstream so much when they make the money. Many of the underhanded tactics are focused on making the profitable upstream like the low cost / low margin downstream. Did he hate Liam so much that he is f us now Liam retired. He has handcuffed any upstreamer that can challenge him. Can upstream ever come back or we on the downward spiral now forever

I know some Senior Leaders have been meeting this week to get updates. I'm not sure how many details they shared with you, but would you be willing to share some general thoughts here?

I don't have a lot of context and I can't go too into detail without giving myself away. I recently overheard a discussion. One party in the discussion was in a leadership meeting and an anonymous site "full of toxic complaining" was brought up. I'm assuming it is this one. They probably won't change anything but at least they may see it when we tell them what awful people they are. haha

during the ATG “live only” event this afternoon.

You never know what illegal / immoral/ offensive stuff will come out of the CEOs mouth.

And that stuff needs to be shared.

At the global town hall held on October 22, a very courageous employee rose to ask the first question. Stating that he "was not a VP yet," he proceeded to ask Bryan Hanson to explain the rationale behind adding additional layers to the ranks of senior executives while engaging in yet another round of Q4 layoffs.

By my recollection, counting our pre-spin days, we had layoffs in 2019, received US government pay during the pandemic to avoid layoffs in 2020, and then followed with layoffs in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Now in 2025, we are sacrificing more people upon the altar of growth, while making room for more executives to augment the ranks of our C-suite. That makes the question particularly timely —Hanson fashions himself as a leader, and historically, leaders who can both speak and demonstrate shared sacrifices tend to earn followers. Hanson says a lot of the right things, but his actions indicate otherwise.

His answer was supremely unsatisfying. He provided corporate doublespeak about how we will continuously evolve, and occasionally, that evolution will cause his leadership team to eliminate jobs. That answer is the standard boilerplate C-suite talk that those folks have been spewing for many decades now. But it did not answer the question. In fact, it did not come close.

As a leader who came in claiming he wanted to flatten the hierarchy, he has significantly thickened it. The tie that binds Hanson to his clique is that they all worked with Bryan in years past. Hanson justifies his decisions by explaining that he needs people who have experienced spin-offs before. This argument, however, begs the question. Are Medtronic and Covidian alums the only people who fit that bill? At what point does this become cronyism masquerading as a meritocracy? And given the huge severance packages (Barry, for whatever personal struggles he is facing, likely earned a two-year severance package when his good old buddy Bryan figured out how to eliminate his position instead of accepting his resignation. No bad for declining a job offer.)

Despite all his flash and polish, it is hard not to wonder if Hanson is simply a pirate, out to pillage as much as he can while throwing some bo--y to his inexhaustible supply of friends. It is hard not to conclude they are feeding off what will eventually become the carcass of 3M's health care business group. And no amount of slide editing at 11 pm can paper that over.

This company is pure garbage. I've never witnessed such a debacle in my life. Everything about it is toxic, the commercials, the service, the agents, the cr-p workforce and leadership. I talked to a customer recently that said the same thing and said it appears we are only interested advertising stupid commercials, putting our name on stadiums, stupid Bateman commercials, and paying Patrick Mahomes more money. She said after 30 years with SF she is moving all of their policies because we have become like every other company and could care less about the customer and its employees. She said that she could tell everyone she spoke to sounded absolutely miserable and hated their jobs. She had heard MT got a $24 million dollar bonus while she is getting a 17% rate hike. I couldn't say a word but she couldn't have been more right! Place is a sh-t hole!

Survey; are they any GT teams left that feel supported and content with their leaders, VP’s and above? Or is that a thing of the past?

I'm Former 3M/Solv employee.

3M has been doing so well - Look at their Q3 results! They are growing faster than SOLV and expanding margins.

SOLV just constantly seems to downsize and make excuses.

It is hard to manage these complex portfolios - that is the job right now with SOLV margin issues. Dental and Medical are basically industrial companies.

Be interesting to see if this new hire from Baxter can make any progress. Problem is probably similar to Tyco, maybe Baxter.

Things can't get any worse.

Stankey tried to put lipstick on a pig but wallstreet isn’t falling for it.

Down another 5% at the open.

When will the dysfunction end?!?!?

They tell lies to us through official channels. Remove Corwin and Donley.

How has SAP grown in employee numbers since 2019?

Average employee turnover is 6 to 8% add in redundancy numbers.

Is there any credible leadership in this company?
2023 107,602
2022 111,961
2021 107,415
2020 102,430
2019 100,330

GF's stock and market cap continues to shrink. The analysts finally caught on to the same BS story TC continued to give as CEO, they bought the story long enough for TC and DR (former CFO) to cash in a bunch of their stock at higher prices. So where does GF go now? At around $35/share their market cap would be like $17.5B. Intel offered $25B before the IPO, Mubadala is probably wishing they took that deal now. Let's be honest, GF SLT is like a retread tire, they landed here because nobody else wanted them, none of them were really successful elsewhere. So, what is the solution? The only solution in my opinion is hoping the US govt gets involved, redirects most of the US mfg chips bill dollars to Intel. Intel then spins off foundry as separate company and then with govt funding buys GF and makes them a US owned company. Get rid of all the GF SLT, bring in a totally new set of execs for the combined company and climb the mountain of making Intel Foundry a great company that can battle TSMC. TSMC is good at mfg ramping, but they aren't great at R&D, the engineering staff is technically much stronger and brighter in the US. Intel and IBM were way ahead of TSMC in the past. If things are done right Intel foundry could jump past TSMC for technology competitiveness. However, when the US gov't can't even stay open, the probability of them putting together a smart Chips Bill is very unlikely. I see this scenario as the only way out for GF, otherwise the ship will just continue to sink and eventually submerge!!

same as the old boss?

October 23, 2025 there will be a No Queen's rally on public property at 12555 Manchester Road. St. Louis, MO at 2 pm protesting Penny Pennington's terrible leadership. Signs and petitions for a vote of no confidence will be provided.

If you’re not in the inner circle, your ideas get crushed before they even leave your mouth. They protect each other at all costs and make it impossible for anything new or useful to actually get done. I'm about ready to walk away because this has become unbearable.

For managers with >10 direct reports, are you able to see who it was on your team that answered a question a certain way, or provided a comment, on the employee survey? Or is it truly completely anonymous? I'm trying to determine if the survey is simply "confidential" or if it's "anonymous", and whether managers with a lot of direct reports can narrow it down to who said what.

SAP keeps getting rid of all the seasoned employees because they’re too expensive and wants fresh, young people to fix the company. Problem is, nothing about the way SAP works changed after any layoffs. They just swapped people and called it innovation. And now it's shocking it's not working out.

That is all. Thank you.