#lean

For at least a decade now US Bank has been in need of actual pro-disciplinary policies. Current HR policies are enabling their retention of bad employees. Evidence and documentation no longer hold any value when attempting to discipline and or terminate bad employees. If the managing committee or higher-ups in human resources are reading this, people leaders in this corporation need better support from human resources when it comes to dealing with employees who are clearly taken advantage of company and federal policies. I understand this company wants to be lean. Let us use the tools that we have get rid of the dead weight.

I keep hearing management say we're now "leaner and stronger." Leaner for sure. Stronger? Ask me after I've slept through a full night without worrying about my inbox.

Not sure what if anything can be done but..
VZ has continued to have union workers serve as “set up” managers before and after RIF (still as of today) in same exact management job. Is that getting leaner or simply a cheat day for Schulman Inc. is there a discrimination case there??

. . . was the mentality behind the execution of RTO, forced relocation at employee expense, and seemingly random surplusses?

Are we a leaner, more cohesive and productive work force? Did it create a brighter future for AT&T?

You've had 2 years to experience and observe. Would you have executed it differently? Share your observations.

Verizon plans to cut jobs as Dan pushes for a LEAN COMPANY. He said it... Employees in the Potomac region have already been offered voluntary separation packages which are listed on the local union’s website. Those interested need to apply before December 12 2025.... One of them said they were notified by email about a month ago and told to expect the package by mail... soooo the process began before Dan became CEO. If his goal for a leaner ops continues, more and more and more job cuts are expected next year.

I'd love to know how the heck we get any leaner out here in the CO's. Can't get the most basic stuff needed for years, and covering an unrealistically large geographical area ALONE when on OT. My suggestion is to start the "leaner" process with the redundancies up at the top, Dan!

The survivors of ER are all going to experience the consequences of “lean” teams that have been the unfortunate reality for areas that have been operating lean for years already. Doing the job of 3 or 4 is the best you can hope for. Doing 5 or 6 jobs is the norm due to attrition. The worst though is when you have a low performer on your team that does essentially nothing and everyone else has to pick up the slack and there is no end in sight because the role is occupied and management/HR are too incompetent to get b-ms out and backfill the position.

Once your area is hollowed out by ER pray you don’t you have a deadweight in your group that causes everyone else to be overworked, crushing their vitality and morale. Leadership will do nothing to save you and the most you can hope for is some tough conversations with the do nothing colleagues, extra coaching and maybe a PIP after an extended period of inactivity/bottom barrel performance. Yet, leadership will still hammer you all to produce high quality product on priority lead times while shoveling more on your plate each passing quarter as if you don’t have an anchor dragging you to the depths. I’ve seen workers do basically nothing for YEARS except collect salary and bonuses with little to no consequences while leaders/directors/GPs work everyone else to the bone and dole out meets expectations.

I’ve not see leadership one time correct a resourcing issue or solve bandwidth problems effectively. In fact, I’ve rarely seen them do a thing at all except sit in meetings or write single sentence performative emails designed to appear like they adding value that more often than not cause confusion or re-work. In my experience, these high grades mainly exist to dump the work downhill and demand results. The best of them might tell you some encouraging lies or give you an attaboy once in a blue moon to muster some motivation. Most however are too lazy, stupid or self-absorbed to even do that much.

I swear, I wish I had one of these leadership roles where I got paid many times my current salary to nothing all day except soak up kudos work product I didn’t lift a finger to produce and point the finger at anyone lower than me on the org chart when things go wrong.

Sad to say all the worthless higher-ups in my sphere made it through ER unscathed with their ridiculous salaries intact. Now I’ve got continue putting up with their nonsense until I’m sh-t-canned myself or through the grace of the maker locate a new job externally.

We’ve truly lost the plot and us plebs are paying the price. Everyone else is laughing as they drink spicy margaritas out of fu--ing Waterford Crystal carafes at their 6000sq foot summer homes. FML.

Sperry conducts more layoffs, now that they are not going anywhere, the PSL will be stripped down to bare bones. When your a "Radio Shack" PSL, the future isn't bright. #lean&meaningless