#management

Our manager is making us come in, seems ruthless. I’d like to have the option of sobbing in the privacy of my own home. For the love of god, what is the obsession with being in the office. Give us our dignity during such a high stress time.

My manager was let go.... does the new person that i report to who knows nothing about my work do this?

VP's, director's and managers do not lead, they spread their toxic behavior and all they care about is employees that follow their lead and cut costs. While knowing HR and lawyers will cover it up. This ends up costing more in the end. Hold these people accountable for their actions, inactions, tactics and improve the moral of the entire team. Start investigating HR and move on through the VP's, directors and managers. Time for the trustees to make moves to remove these toxic leaders and show employees they are respected and cared for. Talent, experience and leaders are being lost. The system failed all employees.

If you’ve experienced five years of consistent outflows, you need to examine the root cause: leadership. Start there to fix the problem.

FM lifted, what’s the prognosis amongst the crew? Is it worth à chat with my manager?

I have to say, the leadership at Verizon has done some UTTERLY stupid things. Yet nothing happens to them... For example this Frontier debacle. Buy Yahoo/AOL? Really? Blue Jeans? No one even knows that that is? Why buy Blue Jeans when Zoom, MS Teams, and Google Chat were already well established? Just d-mb...

Really bad decisions and the employees are left with the fallout. Mr. Hans gets his golden parachute... just like those before him.

Dan is simply using Elon's model of slash and cut (e.g. Twitter/X). The problem that Dan doesn't understand is that an application only has so many facets. A network the size of Verizon is extremely complicated and can't be compared to a phone App, but he doesn't care. He's a short-timer.

Best of luck to you people. The job market is good if you live in Texas. If you don't, it is more challenging. You'll find something but maybe not at the pay you're currently making.

I’m in VZ Connect but my manager is terrible and doesn’t communicate well. Can anyone tell me if Connect will be impacted?

That was fast. On another note, I can’t believe we paid over $3B for that business. It’s probably worth $500mm at most.

Looks like there’s a meeting with a lot of managers at 10 today. I’m going to assume it’s the HR call coaching them on RIFs…

It has become prisoners of Mckinsey. Mck folks have more info than employee. on an average there is 1 (employee) to 10 McK person in meetings.. think if McK people charge 400 an hr. how much they are minting. I am sure Mr CIO gets the kickback. This company is going to go down.

The reality of SOLV financials is gruesome. Revenue just north of 8 billion. Debt north of 5 billion. Bryan is a grossly incompetent and overpaid clown but he was dealt a bad hand thanks to Mike Roman. How 3M saddled a HC spin less than 25 percent of the original company was a master play in financial engineering.

Even after the only smart move Hanson could do in spinning off Filtration, his card deck is full of low cards. No aces of trump left. He's being pressured by a rich guy who may not live out the next four years of the "Solventum Way" given he's already 83.

The poster who wished SOLV had never been spun off is right. As bad as 3M is being run, at least the stock price has doubled under Bill Brown.

If you are still working at SOLV and see things differently, please pass the gummies. The layoffs will accelerate and not just be a Frank Shirley Christmas bonus special. No way can Bryan grow the top line when he's obsessed with cutting costs. The one good chance HCBG ever had of being special died when Bryan listened to the guy on the yacht instead of going all in for growth.

Meanwhile, cousin Eddie is getting the long desired management position he's always wanted, reporting directly to Heather. The two would make a great tag team in the WWF of overpaid and overweight execs.

Q used be be better than this.

i really mean it. Unfortunately no one is going to try to fix. some says 'leave company'. but those are just less than 5 or 10 yrs. and yes CA really need to do something about middle managers than asking all these useless feedback thing.

i see a lot of ppls to have zero loyal to this company but money.

A manager asked me if I would be interested in management. lol! What a joke. I’m a rental agent. I make more money than operations managers, sales managers, senior operations mangers, GMs and I didn’t even go to college.

You have to be extra special to take a pay cut to work those ate hours and around the clock to make half the pay.

Plus I get paid weekly. Don’t be stupid ig you’re approached. It’s all lies.

How often is your manager doing 1:1s

This person was kind enough to let me know even though they weren’t supposed to. But seems like this forum hit on the headed. Praying for you all. I still don’t know what it means for me

The number of regions is changing. Management will be downsized accordingly.

If they're telling you they don't know they're either lying or they're on the chopping block too. Calls will begin on Thursday (100% no doubt).

This is THE worst kept secret in Verizon... and elsewhere for that matter. Upper management is ticked off that this leaked. Honestly, what do you expect when you "whack and hack" 15% across the board without really knowing what you're doing?

I am feel sorry for those let go because the job market right now is just not great. There is life outside of Verizon, you may have to look for it ... for quite a while.

Good luck people...

I guess when the thought of losing your job is gone, you can go back to being a POS

https://www.tipranks.com/news/honeywell-stock-forecast-gets-slashed-drastically-by-bank-of-america-analyst-heres-why

Anyone surprised? I'm not. This place is an inept joke. What are the worst management decisions you've seen this past year?

My manager is giving me same copy pasted comments since past 5-6 quarter.

Why do we need to spend hours putting thoughts into how our work impacted our teams when the manager simply just adds one line and copy pastes same sh-t from previous quarters?

Is this normal?? What's an easy way to confront about this?

I have tried asking "I see some comments which overlapped previous quarter,
Would it be fair to say I'm not improving considering same commentary "

To which they blabber about something totally irrelevant to my performance

How are you already telling me as a fresh managers my hours will be cut for Thanksgiving week how is that even possible and as a produce lead I have to make sure produce, deli, and freezer cooler looks good everyday smhhhhhh.

Are managers notified when you apply for another role internally? Or are they only notified if you are selected for an interview

I’m pretty sure by time end of week notifications go out most of management will need straight jackets from all the stress .We are all probably gonna be less useful after all this knowing if we made the cut we still may be on the next cut .Dan has made it very clear that these layoffs will be a way of life as a Vteamer .I mean go team go

Verizon employees have been advised (through management) not to speak on any social media or face being pulled into 'review meetings.' We're not even allowed to post group outings, literally nothing.

What in the world is going on?

https://nypost.com/2025/11/14/business/ousted-verizon-boss-could-still-pocket-most-of-20m-salary-as-company-cuts-15000-jobs-report/

If we get a RIF notice on Thursday, during our remaining days with Vz, will mgt give us time to focus on job search, or instead have us continue BAU, close out projects and train our replacements?

Any insights as to what the future holds for R2B? Only a couple months into my tenure (Sr Mgr) and very concerned.

I left PepsiCo place because it felt like managers outnumbered the people actually doing the job. Meetings were packed with folks who barely contributed while a handful carried the load. It was all title collecting and empire building with no real value added. Watching layers pile up while workers got nothing in return was exhausting. I see very little has changed in the years since I left. I hope leadership eventually wakes up and fixes the mess.

in R this week. Tell mgmt how much you hate Viya. Meetup workshops for directors and VPs on how to write vague linkedin posts about wanting a new challenge. Everyone else can attend a session about applying for unemployment during the holidays.

Manager meeting tomorrow? Any one know for what ?

Just received a 1:1 with my manager tomorrow. It’s been an honor serving with y’all. You people are the ones who make this company tolerable. Not management.

I have heard that it was about the same as last year.
No faith in upper management, no clear direction etc….
Anyone see the results yet?

Do you think Billy is so out of touch that when he says things like ‘all in’, 'know your brief' and ‘lead from the front,’ he genuinely thinks we’re inspired and in awe of him… when really we’re just thinking ‘bellend'?

Same with old man JC and his 'cool' teeshirts. Cringe off the scale.

They're rich and won't give a sht what us minions think. It's like when an old person stinks, or has food on their face, you hope someone close to them tells them for their own sake.

Working at this bank feels like watching a reality show with no script. Ideas fly around, half of them make no sense, and somehow projects still move forward like it’s all totally normal. I just sit there wondering when someone will notice how crazy things actually are.

And in parallel Naga's fault we still have these id--ts around tanking the foundries

And you can tell. Not exactly the best setup heading into the holiday season. Some Belk stores look amazing, and I know that only happens because people behind the scenes are ki-ling themselves to keep things together. But there’s only so much you can pull off when you’re short-staffed and the manager seems more checked out than actually concerned about performance.

Many directors and senior managers are not really doing anything meaningful. The Cisco Jasper management is the worse in whole Cisco.

Chevron has appointed a new Vice President of Exploration, bringing proven success from outside the company. This is a welcome change, as the performance of most current exploration managers has been consistently poor. Teams such as ERT, Excellence Exploration, GOA, and New Ventures between others, have not delivered the technical or leadership standards required. To move forward, Chevron will likely need to replace most of its Chevron's managers—up to 80%—to ensure stronger results. With new leadership, better times for exploration are ahead.

I've been with Aetna for 7 years in Network; been given more territories to manage while no direct reports or any additional support to manage the inflow.. for example, I have 50 contracts to complete, yet receive 20 emails per day asking me to complete tasks that are emergencies.. I am months behind even if I wanted to catch up, I would work 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no hope.. every year gets worse.. I have essentially given up.. Is anyone else in this same boat? Upper management also is a joke.. those who su-k the best di-k get promoted regardless of their abilities.. It's laughable..

There are no management positions posted on the job board. This time the RIFs do not allow you to look for something internally. If you’re out, there’s no positions to look around for. The only positions posted as of Friday were in retail stores. I’ve never seen this before, it makes things final.