#officepolitics

What is the purpose of RTO - just to burn gas, tires, increase car insurance, increase carbon emissions, stuck in traffic - and again on Teams call...

The slavery mind set of the CXO suite is mind blowing

Heard a big announcement was coming next week ? Anyheads up ?

Office politics are so much worse when you have to navigate them in person. From micromanaging to bullying to being put in the middle of arguments... It drains people in a way that's much, much worse than just hearing about it or dealing with it from a distance. I'd take a pay cut to avoid it.

Outside of ignoring problems until they get worse?

I report to someone, but after they flattened the hierarchy and got rid of all the middle managers I ended up reporting directly to the director in my org.

He's not interested in or capable of leading a team. I never see him except during our monthly 1:1 (which is basically just a monthly recap so he can tell his boss what I do).

There's no leadership here at 3M anymore. Just a bunch of disinterested, self-important jagoffs having meetings because they didn't know what else to do. And nobody can get promoted, so it's never to change.

It stupid to have security under FTS/FAST to begin with. I don’t get it!…MD and that CIO guy were two of the worst hires in the history of the company. Idk think they know what they were doing.
He only did a year then left!…he wanted everything to be engineers. Nonsense

This is what is being repeated in the tower. How accurate is that?

Wake up Mike. Wake up

Please provide what was discussed. Not all Wellmed folks were invited . Managers are nowhere to be found and my whole team is having computer issues.

Hey, we used to have a pretty good way to track headcount, they stole that from us and the current way I think is not accurate at least for me.

Does anyone have a semi accurate headcount?

I was selected for a in house project to replace a old computer system. Being old we had low on parts, also the reliability was very low. If I’m going to do this right why not find out where the bottlenecks are and get a wish list and try to do my best.

When the system was ready for testing I set it up next to the system that was on line and testing can be done. Some people were excited and others started claiming I was planning on taking peoples jobs.
Needless to say the rumors got started. The system did go on line and worked well.

so have they officially eliminated opps for contribution statements and feedback from peers (things that supposedly used to mean a lot). any office notice of the change in performance management or is this a big steamroll?

He has no clue how to run Fiserv. Dhivya has too much power and is useless. Takis is out and about and never acknowledges he works for Mike. He is plotting to take over. Mike is losing power every day, he is doomed as much as the path he has Fiserv on!

not best moves by the executives.

but nobody cares, right.

What happened today? Why are there so many meetings today? Any announcement coming up ?

Sorry to the dedicated people of NJ as your leaders let you down. Come join NJ’s #1 tech brand!

• WF will drain your patience
• We're all just headcount lines
• revews are always hanging over you
• Formal warning = slow exit
• One mistake will follow you
• RTO is control, not collaboration
• Badge reports replaced trust
• Office hours matter more than output
• Commute is your problem
• Morale is your problem
• Town halls are performative theater
• Location strategy keeps moving the target
• Offshoring is omnipresent and has no end
• Politics always beats merit
• Silence is safest
• Speaking's risky
• Everyone is trying to look essential
• But... Everyone is tired
• C-level lineup = the grift brigade
• Trust is long gone
• The job is no longer doing the work (it's surviving)

We were told every day is a drop in location at Bedminster. So why do people have personal stuff (including plaques) at "open" desks? Name plates also....

It really, really feels and looks like we work for Globodyne. IYKYK LOL

Anyone going through that recently?

I got this fu--ing annoying member from another team, who is good for nothing.

Yet, I can see behavior which always cause chaos, trying to step on everyone’s toes.

Matter of time when someone asks them to “calm TF down”

Why is it that more than half the employees on my floor come in for 2 hours then leave? Do you think Executives don’t know you’re trying to manipulate the data they are collecting for RTO? I’d be careful. It’s not worth it to lose your job over it, is it? Of course, the choice is yours. I need my job.

Penny’s profile image on Amplify news stories feels like she’s laughing at us.

Management said that people are more productive at the office. Why would they start telling the truth now? Senior leaders are as trustworthy as a politician.

I have noticed a pattern that is driving me crazy. The people who are best at dodging work and shifting their responsibilities onto others seem to be the ones getting promoted. At the same time, the dedicated employees burn out and leave, and eventually nothing gets done. Is anyone else seeing this, or is it just happening in my corner of the company?

What is it with these Delaware alumni and their entitled attitude? They sit in rooms dividing roles among themselves like it’s their private club, acting as if they’re better than everyone else.

just realized it's the same guy who so proudly said he had chatgpt draft up a 6-year college admissions plan for his 11 year old child, down to which private school to go to lol

Place your bets on how long we have to put up with this loser.

Especially if you're right or your idea is actually good. You'll either get punished for it or watch someone else take credit. Learned that the hard way. Just let leadership, your manager and above, wallow in their own bad decisions. None of it matters to you anyway.

Just from an ethical perspective. People who feel entitled to clean out the snack bins are demonstrating the quality of their character. It is like the wait staff test - how people treat wait staff is telling you a lot about who they are.

People are really on edge lately about the ranking/layoffs.
Employees look at each other as competitors as we walk around campus.
People feel compelled to speak up in meetings to state the obvious in an effort to show their knowledge.
It is really awkward.

What other stupid observations have you seen?

When are the ranking sessions? When are all ranking sessions completed?

Are you kidding me, you show up to the town hall wearing skinny short pants and ankle top sneakers ?

You spend more time managing personalities and approval chains here than actually doing your job. Leadership still operates like it is twenty years ago, with constant micromanaging and politics attached to every tiny decision. Why does every simple task have to turn into exercises in control?

Our group runs on pressure, politics, and people watching what they say, but the second somebody higher up appears, suddenly everyone’s smiling and pretending this is a great place to work. I never understand the performance because it’s not like executives would even care how employees are actually being treated. What's the point of the theater?

Strap in. Turbulance ahead

Prediction: An executive posts from the World Cup. “The energy here is unreal — this is why in-person matters.” Forty-eight hours later, a calendar invite lands on a teammate’s screen. HR. No agenda. The post has 347 likes and counting.

The shills or trolls (doesn't matter which) who keep posting the "we're growing! everything is awesome! the people we laid off deserved it!" BS are just trying to bait us. If we stop engaging with them, maybe they'll get bored and go away. The best way to push back is to downvote and move on.

Why does John Stankey's teams status right now show last seen yesterday? It does not show he is out of office or anything like that. Why is the CEO of a Fortune 50 company not working on a Friday that he is scheduled to work?

I had to do a 1 hour commute to the office and back in the middle of a busy workday so that my presence report shows that I was there. Why does the CEO get a free pass and I cannot? Is he playing at the Highland Park links today?