#performance

It's what...nearly two years since he was brought in as the technology executive management team member to fix Citi's age old problems. What/How has he delivered so far? Considering what his directs (forget the whole team) costs Citi? What's the ROI?

Biggest question to answer - Would Citi ever be in a position to exit the CO had it not been some other administration in place (either Republican different than Pres. Trump or a Dem Pres.)? If the answer is no, then is it not clear that Tim Ryan has failed misreably at his job? 2 years is a long time at that level. Then again....CO was issued under Jane's watch and her total comp and position has only climbed higher and higher every year, despiteg Citik having paid nearly half a billion dollars in just fines since the 2020 CO. She's costed Citi more than that already...she ain't in any position to hold Tim accountable for anything

With Cisco losing market share, the responsibilities of that are squarely on the portfolio leaders, AVPs, SEDs, ODs, SSEMs, RMs, and SEMs. They have failed to hold their people accountable. Due to the failure of these so called leaders, good people have been impacted and will continue to be impacted. The answer cannot be to just add portfolio AEs and SEs. It is time to LR the portfolio leaders with real leaders that can lead the business and hold people accountable.

It is incredible that Dell could hit $300 a share. Inconceivable!

The performance matrix they use is setting employees up to fail so they can terminate workers in order to off shore jobs. They target employees with tenure, accommodations, and fully remote employees. They are trying to cut people to save a buck

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I feel so bad for these people they worked so hard to get to where they were and we’re all very high performing branch managers. Hopefully a lot can find a spot and be retained.

The role just wasn’t deemed to be profitable from an ROI standpoint seems like which isn’t shocking.

R2Bs meeting was lack luster. They want them going door to door 5-6 hours a day and only increased at risk by less than $500 a month. They did not increase base pay or offer a vehicle stipend.

Business Sales On Demand will be a big failure for Verizon and Verizon Business will keep taking the blame for lack of performance. I would caution business owners to stay away from Verizon Business till they find themselves, if ever, again.

Listed SS as one of the top companies to work for. LinkedIn has SS as the best workplaces to grow. Well...there you go. We all know the truth.

The Barbie bump didn’t last long and MOTU isn’t seeing a bump at. Maybe the Barney movie will do it…..

How are shareholders not demanding a change?

Just heard our AUA had grown by 33% since 2021. Does anyone know that the S&P500 is up 77% over the past 5 years?

Down 4% already today , a big gap down

Up days were on low volume, fund managers are getting out of this stock

OT won't be in existence in it's current form in 12 months. At 15 bucks it will be taken by PE

It seems that now our bonuses are also calculated with the WHAT and HOW scores. My manager created easy goals for a couple of colleagues who are her friends and asked them to copy paste them in the system. But with me, we used AI and my my goals are almost impossible to achieve. I don't think I shall get a good WHAT or HOW score even if I try too hard. And because the success of my goals is dependent on others, I am finding it hard to show that I am working harder than the colleagues with easier goals. Long story short, it feels like the new performance management makes it super easy for managers to give more bonus and salary appraisal to their friends. Is moving into another team my only choice? Are they really planning layoffs by giving bad scores? Some colleague was saying that a PiP means you don't even get severance and they can lay you off anytime. I can't ask my manager yet because she is very politik and cares more about networking than about our work. If the culture is only going to get worse I may even look for a job outside but there aren't many opportunities right now. I am based near Heidelberg in case that matters.

Audit just did a “shark tank” or “performance elimination.” The Pitch, The Cut….Wow!!!

Nike only lays people off when changing the organization structure, not when someone is doing a really cr-p job or royally sc--ws up a business.

Why doesn’t Nike fire people more often for poor performance?

While not totally indicative, Glassdoor rankings of CEOs are used by Elliott and others in assessing how real employees feel about CEOs and their performance. Looking at Glassdoor, here is how Phillips 66 stacks up in the industry regarding approval rating, senior management rating, and the other number is would employees recommend to a friend:

CEO approval rating / Senior Management Rating (out of 5) / Would Recommend Company to a Friend (%)

Phillips: 56% / 2.8 / 63%
Valero: 71% / 3.6 / 80%
Marathon: 77% / 3.5 / 76%
PBF: 50% / 3.0 / 60%
HollyFrontier: 77% / 2.8 / 61%
Enterprise Products: 83% / 3.6 / 75%
Williams: 85% / 3.2 / 66%
Targa: 87% / 3.8 / 75%
LyondellBasell: 60% / 3.2 / 66%
Dow: 67% / 3.4 / 73%

Notice anything? PSX is PBF and HollyFrontier. Let’s stop pretending.

Surprisingly the share is +10€ today
Anybody knows the reason ?

Sell or Wait ?

TCS has instructed managers to classify 5% of employees in the lowest performance category. This directive applies to the latest appraisal cycle. The move has generated concerns about potential new layoffs. This follows a previous retrenchment of approximately 2% of its workforce. The company had previously planned to let go of 12,200 employees in fiscal year 2026.

https://www.ndtvprofit.com/business/tcs-asks-managers-to-put-5-staff-in-band-d-stoking-fears-of-fresh-layoffs-report-11512010

Hearing PFUS leadership is saying privately that they will miss plan in 2026 and 2027. What will be higher, the team score or percentage of people who are still around by 2028?

Those who got laid off, pick up the damn phone and call the employment lawyer. Those who were managed out by your sickening managers who gave you fake IM performance review, pick up the damn phone and call the EEOC and labor department. Fight back!

You don't have to share personal details that would compromise your identity but after being placed on one myself, and deciding to quit soon after; I always felt it was unwarranted, unexpected, and retaliatory (but not enough to form a fuss over it and pursue any type of action after I left). After dedicating so much time (including lots of overtime and weekends; and going above and beyond with above average annual reviews), I always felt it was never about performance but something else but hard to prove. Hence why PIPs are always the tool for companies to use to get rid of someone.

Anyone else care to share if you feel comfy?

Time to clean the rot and remove these parasites now. bp deserves new people (internal and external) to ascend and take bp to a new level. Meg will not have the luxury of time…similar to Woodside there are cracks in the edifice and challenges midterm…cheerleading because trading got a massive gain while the average gains by trading the last 20 years is a paltry 4% ROC

Go-Go has been saying for a while now that the “Transformation” that he’s inflicted on the company are going to show real results in the year 2027.
Things are going to have to pickup pretty soon because we’re nearly 5 months into 2026 and our stock is still badly lagging our 2 main competitors stock price.

Stock is bleeding out. Will the cuts help?

Has anyone else noticed that for the past 2 years we have been making LESS money.

It appears that our we-ponized ranking system is definitely paying dividends.

A few more people in the PIP aught to do it. Let’s go ahead and run off our most experienced personnel and outsource overseas.

To the board…..keep up the great work. Y’all all deserve bonuses.

Inflation-adjusted profits (millions USD, in April 2026 dollars):
• Q1 2026 (ended Mar 31): $4,183 → ~$4,220 (minimal adjustment)
• Q4 2025: $6,501 → ~$6,630
• Q3 2025: $7,548 → ~$7,720
• Q2 2025: $7,082 → ~$7,280
• Q1 2025: $7,713 → ~$7,980
• Q4 2024: $7,610 → ~$7,950
• Q3 2024: $8,610 → ~$9,050
• Q2 2024: $9,240 → ~$9,750

I was already a 10x engineer. Now I'm 3x10x. I think next week I'm slated to up that to 9x.
In a few more quarters, I figure I'll be outputting more PRs than atoms in the universe.

How is it that the largest US nat gas company missed the boat on the ai/data center bo-m? Sounds like there’s lots of high level people working to get something moving who don’t have a clue, go figure, all the while, their E&P operations are struggling, planning is awful, lack of high level leadership and planning, get your act together, your PM stock has been worthless since the previous bankruptcy which is most likely happe i g again, smh…

Won’t be long now. This has to be the beginning of the end.

https://www.gurufocus.com/news/8863065/dell-technologies-dell-receives-price-target-increase-from-jp-morgan

Welcome to the penny stock category. Well done C-level - we'll deserved mega compensation packages.

That tells you a lot about the 'executive' ability of the lineup that steers this ship.

Top of the leaderboard again. Year after year:

https://x.com/TheLayoff/status/2055330545052381473

Thanks for sitting down with the Houston Business Journal, M@rk. Another example of time away from the office to manage your image while the CEOs at MPC and VLO are in the office leading.

And “responding to what the world needs” is an example of M@rk overestimating the company he is supposed to be leading. Phillips contributes, sure, but the tone shows arrogance and lack of awareness of the real scope of this domestic mid con business. At the moment, all supplying the world has done is ki-l earnings and increase volatility and led to MASSIVE underperformance vs peers

Do not ask me where I got this from. This is the layoffs plan:

Leadership has determined a strategic shift to cut costs, invest in AI, reorganize priorities. Finance and HR has identified which teams, roles, or locations will be reduced, mostly around Engineering. Managers are evaluating employees based on performance, role relevance, and compensation, while HR and legal reviewing the plan for compliance with labor laws and discrimination risks (Yes, external consulting firm involved).
Once finalized, affected employees are notified (by this month) — often through meetings or emails — with system access revoked immediately. Intuit will make announcement via public messaging framed around terms like “restructuring” or “AI transformation” to shape the narrative.

A hiring freeze will remain in effect for the next six months, after which recruitment will resume with a focus on new strategic priorities — even as current employees continue to shoulder heavier workloads within leaner teams and under heightened expectations.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hope this helps.

It’s very evident that ConocoPhillips has created a real niche and is running on automatic. The companies top leadership and enforcement arm…HR has manufactured a false reality with pretty impressive results. What happens when timelines and realities converge and expose or challenge this fragile ecosystem? Is COP a quarterly darling or do real reality and fragility intersect?

Nike increased women in VP+ roles from 39% to 45% and minorities at Director+ level from 26% to 36% between 2021 and 2025. Considering how few senior leader roles open up each year, that’s a big change in a short time. Has the company become stronger because of it? Would Nike be in an even worse position if it hadn’t invested in DEI?

Trading under $8.50/share. Its IPO price was $20/share less than a year ago.

Demon David Kenny riding a wave of su-ksess.

I've been in "corporate america" long enough to understand that the decision to surplus you often goes beyond just performance or willingness to improve, it often hinges on the fact if your supervisor or leadership chain like you. If they don't like you or you're always seeming to cause a problem, you're likely one of the first to be selected.

What got people on the list vs what saved them? There’s one person my team - haven’t seen them in the office. Another person in a different office within commuting distance but never goes in.. neither one was on the list. Each has other issues - unresponsive, argumentative, harassment - so yeah what got you on the list? Has to be more than no more Agile framework.

A monthly aggregate means that we don't know about any data problems until after the fact. And since this data is tied to performance and possibly bonuses, we should on a weekly basis if any of our in office days didn't track accurately. Fix this please MC!

I've worked in plenty of healthcare companies, all ugly and rotten. But this place is next level. You'd think someone would figure out that this much stress, micromanagement, and tearing people down doesn't actually improve performance.

Let me break down why most of the employees are unhappy. First, forced ranking. Everyone is fighting for survival, taking credit for others' work just to avoid a PIP. Second, false ranking. People on the fast track get top ratings even when they cause major problems. Third, location bias. An expert here gets rated lower than someone in a cheaper country who makes constant errors. Fourth, promoting incompetent people. Industry experts end up reporting to managers who don't understand the work. These problems could be solved, but leadership chooses not to.