#management

The ones you fire and hire back is a joke. Such a game you play with your financials so the owners get paid on the backs of the Staples slaves. And you wonder why the ones come back in the first place, it’s not for the great culture.

ISG Engineering leadership, the SVPs and above are abject failures. They have absolutely no clue what’s going on are talentless and got to where they are either because the talented people left or they got a package. Going to meetings with them and listening to the philosophize about S@S is ridiculous or hearing them bicker about the d-mbest thing is just embarrassing. You are embarrassing yourselves and your too stupid to know it.

They’re in capable of changing and being any better than who and what they are today. You try to raise the bar, get them to improve and they absolutely cannot. The engineers can but their leadership just can’t get their mind out of their myopic way of working. They think they’re top notch engineering leaders but when you try to challenge them they just fall apart and complain.

They’re incapable of creating anything innovative, and getting them to actually invest in anything is a chore. They’re 100% manufacturing and operations leaders and that’s about it.

The culture these leaders have built in the short time they’ve been in place is horrible. They’ve put in place a micromanagement structure masked by “S@S” which is just a control mechanism because they have no talent. When you have talent you need much less process. By putting impediment processes in place they’re putting a culture of blame in place.

They’re too arrogant and ignorant to even know they’ve taken the organization backwards at least 5 years. At the end of the day, you didn’t earn your role. People left and had nobody else. You play politics instead of having talent, people with talent intimidate you so you sideline them. You polish your rock, thinking you’re a varsity team, while in reality you’re still in a freshman league.

Our manager just raised our quota again, like we’ve got unlimited hours in the day. I’m pretty sure he thinks he’s boosting performance, but all he’s really doing is making it impossible to provide decent service. Can he even do that? I know for a fact this isn’t a company-wide change, and it’s not the first time he’s pulled this stunt.

Anybody have experience working with them?

Layoffs are coming because that’s what a short sided company does when the stock is down so Ed can’t retire. All the needless marketing VPs won’t be impacted. It will be those that management considers expendable, those that give up their nights and weekends, those that actually do the work.

Extreme will never rise above mediocrity with its bottom of the barrel management team. No one wants to hire the CTO who has been looking for a new gig on the sly. The CMO was fired after 9 months at her previous gig. Ed. Extreme peaked a long time ago and just rides the industry tide and picks up the scraps.

No we don’t play in AI data center because we laid off that team the last go around. That’s not just missing the boat - that’s bad management.

Verizon better lower our quotas or pay me extra bc I am not wasting my time on nonsense and spending hours on fixing account issues, billing, resets, etc on the phone since now we are mandated to take calls

It's not my problem you incompetent folks at BR chose to eliminate competent CS reps and send everything to India

I get paid to sell. Watch if this happens all the top sellers will bolt just like when Verizon went to team commission.

You reap what you sow.

Still can't believe how useless 60% of the LL5, LL6, Supervisors are at Ford.

Received a farewell email from a band 6 employee this morning. She is with corporate finance - enterprise risk management based in Lake Mary, Florida.

It’s not entirely surprising to see these results when a company that’s neither growing nor shrinking decides to place relatively inexperienced people into senior roles across different parts of the organization, all at once. From one group to another. The decline in EBITDA and EPS speaks to something deeper — a lack of true leadership, professionalism, and understanding of how to steer a business forward.

What’s more concerning is the culture that seems to celebrate losses — where layoffs are treated as a sign of “efficiency,” masking deeper issues and compensating for poor financial performance. It’s an organization that appears more focused on politics than outcomes.

At this point, the “P” might as well stand for Party — because for some at the top, the rewards keep flowing regardless of results. The irony is that leadership likely recognizes these systemic flaws but continues to indulge in a system that benefits them. In the end, it’s the long-term everything is eroded including their own proposed values.

Honest question, why do you like working at Schwab? There seems to be so much contention about poor management, legacy technology and vast pay differences. What is it that keeps you here? Especially those of you that have been here for so long. Are you hoping for things to go back to the good old days?

From 6 to 8th largest bank. Management reshuffled. Worker bees fired. Morale in the toilet.

#ChampionMindset

When is Wayfair going to learn that you get why you pay for. We need to stop with all these oversea agents. They either don’t have enough training, don’t care, etc. The majority don’t help the callers and just make matters worse.

The situation in the GIST department has become absolutely horrible. Everyone is completely burned out and depressed. There are always tons of calls waiting in the queue. We’re the third shift, only about 7 to 12 people working for the entire world — the US, the Americas, Europe, everywhere.

We’re not allowed to have more than two minutes of after-call, and we can’t stay “away” on Teams for even a second. It’s just nonstop calls, one after another, for eight hours straight, with no breathing room. We barely have time to write proper notes on the cases because two minutes simply isn’t enough.

Each of us handles more than 30 technical calls a day, and these are not short calls. I’ve worked in other call centers before, but I’ve never seen anything like this — this one is pure madness. We’re treated like machines, not people.

We’ve been complaining to management for months, and they know exactly what’s going on, but they still refuse to hire more staff. On top of that, we’re taking calls in all languages — English, French, German, — and it makes no sense. Half of the team is depressed, and people are so desperate that they keep calling in sick. It’s absolutely impossible to move to another department.

This place has become unbearable.

Heard from 5 people in different departments that that 25% number being floated around is basically accurate.

Has anyone gotten in trouble for using too much in office exemption time - Whether that is weather related, or for the adhoc flexibility option.

Specifically referring to upper management less direct management.

Why is every leader managing a team they have no experience in? Lots of fail-up leaders, PH being led by a president with a BA in Journalism, KW, the list goes on. Feels like we’re all on a sinking ship.

Hi All,

Does anyone have experience with a medical exception that can change their working arrangement? Are they lenient on the conditions that may qualify for this? What is the process? What was the end result? Was documentation needed? Did you experience discrimination from management after?

I personally have a condition, that although is not life shattering or major, would greatly benefit from a relaxed work arrangement.

Nothing else to explain.

I know folks in tech, HR, and management who were impacted.

Anyone else catch that 7% of our Q2 “adjusted” EBIT 8% margin is non-operational fluff? Strip that out and we’re running on fumes. Once management wraps up their usual end-of-quarter buyback of 10 to 12 million shares, the stock’s going to dip right back down. DXC engine’s smoking, all gauges are red and management’s still smiling for the cameras on LinkedIn. This place is toast.

Man, Control Management was banged on.

I didn't believe it, but this site actually had legit info. I see approximately 270 were severanced this week. I say approximately because the total count of severees went up by that number compared to a week ago, but every 60 days names drop off the list so some could be excluded from the count. I didn't do a full name comparison.

Of course the "proof!!!!" posts will come. Look up D Jank and his tree. Looks like he alone lost 8. 270 is not a huge number by any means, but they keep carving away.

Why fire individual contributors- layers of managers is what needs trimming in finance, it’s seems a a lot of one sr manager has 4 managers reporting to them who have 1-2 employees each. A lot of “management” of the few doing work -

All of them getting kickbacks to outsource to only Indian
Sampat and Shankar took Han’s to Indian te------t PM and they promised more jobs for Indian
Now new CEO same with old plan
Can we replace CEO with AI?

Gotta love how the management that got us in this mess are left untouched while the common men are affected.

Prayers for those affected, remain positive... Control your thoughts, don't let them control you. There's light always at the end of the tunnel

Anyone else ever receive a request for feedback about their Manager/Director from the VP of the chain of command? I received a request but no one else on my team received one. Wondering if this is a screening for them or for me ahead of the rumored January layoffs?

First you have to search for a parking space.
Next after the parking lot experience, your search for a desk will be pretty much fruitless so you work in a break area.
Then when you have to go you have to search for an open stall.

Three hours at a ballpark is manageable but 8 hours of trying to find a usable toilet is utter craziness and then to have your manager ask where were you I see you were away from your computer for 20 minutes.

I haven’t been here very long, but have had nothing but issues since I started here. The ageism, cronyism, favoritism, nepotism, s-xism is off the charts. Sprinkle in widespread ineffective management who do not give a sh-t about developing out your career if they view you as a challenge…yep, this is corporate he-l. Suggestion for survival is to completely disconnect your identity from what you do here, if you haven’t already. Good luck.

And clueless management to boot!

Is a selling lead a manager without the pay? Why don’t they just call the position a selling manager? Any input would be helpful

anyone have any intel on Phase 2 / timing? Will all remote workers be required to relocate close to an office ? Wondering if any management has been asked to prove the necessity of some of their remote people. Do we think exceptions will be made for those who were originally hired as remote employees ?

This has been the well rehearsed blueprint.

Why does a RVP nitpick small things when the tile flooring needs to be repaired/replaced and the cases in the beauty department need new lights?!

The remote workers not performing should be the first to go! WFH doesn't equal watching Jude Judy and going to the mall or getting your hair done etc. Those acting like that did put themselves on this list while those that preferred to be in the office and PERFORM should prevail as well as the WFH employees that actually do their jobs! The lazy as--s are ruining it for the legit WFH employees. Just watch! The WFH 3 days a week hurt us bad! Complacency is through the roof! We also have too many damn AD's. Everywhere I turn there's an AD making $150-$180K. It's stupid! Get Russo out!

Heard a bunch of layoffs going on today. Is it true? What’s the management criteria!

Interesting article published by MIT Sloan

https://archive.is/bPmXE

Does Dan realize that the real problem in verizon is the over paid huge management hierarchy.I mean come on the amount of money and red tape spent on Managers is unbelievable.Every manager has a higher paid manager above them that does even less.That worked in the ma bell monopoly of endless cash not now!!!The only real value in verizon anymore is the only people that actually know or do anything.That group is the associates union and nonunion on wireless & wireline side.All jokes aside most managers are really clueless.Some where hired from pizza delivery places because their daddy was a executive somewhere in verizon.How about we get rid of the timesheet signers who only job is to bother associates over meaningless things instead of focusing on the customer.The people who matter need to start being cherished more and listened to more .Time to squash the Management pyramid of Verizon and focus on moving forward

I’m seeing a culture of if you are a manager who is not interested in college football, other selected store managers, RVP’S and GvPs are not interested in talking to you. Has anyone else noticed this? # Bizarre

With this new system, and unattainable goals: how can a goal be set if management doesn’t allow you to meet it? It seems like a very complicated way of saying gotcha!