#politics

I hate it here. I hate the politics, the chaos, and the daily stress, among many other things. But every time I update my LinkedIn, I get messages from recruiters who only see the brand. That's the strange bargain I've made - suffer through the dysfunction so I can leverage the PayPal name for my next move while it still means something. At least it should be good for something.

For the normal ppl on here if if you have ever wondered what it's like to feel like a retiree watching Fox news 24/7 here you go.

As I was browsing through LinkedIn today I couldn’t help but noticing how many P66 employees have what appear to be just made up positions. These are not necessarily highly paid positions but it does seem certain people are being “taken care of”.
In too many cases it not what you know or what you can do but rather what connections you have.
This is happening while Go-Go and Tractor Man are laying off legitimately good employees.

So AC is leaving. And VA consolidating power under him and empire building by adding VPs under him.
Honestly though what were ACs accomplishments? Heck what were his R&Rs? I never really understood what he did.

All through my years I was just delivering something for Oracle based on company /team requirements from top. Most of these are non-innovative, mundane, repetitive tasks occupying my time, energy, efforts. I have done some valuable things but are not rewarded for those. I was happy with 2% increments.

Here is the problem, your friends in other companies are seeing hyper growth for what you are doing now. Even in small company they grow big and paid more.
Its a hare and tortoise game. We run fast and want to rest in shade of Oracle tree thinking management directions will help us grow and move forward. Where the tortoises are winning.

Oracle is/has become a Political Junk yard.

Same old one Pearson project. Same old story. Different stupid trollop hiring her mates to underachieve.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/third-world-aliens-are-coming-through-h1b-visas-texas-activist-targets-hindu-temple-in-viral-post/amp_articleshow/128351350.cms

https://thefederal.com/category/business/us-senator-eric-schmitt-hyderabad-visa-temple-h1b1-critique-243194

Recently there are lots of news floating around H-1b being mis-used for promotion, hiring, layoff,vendor consultant hiring, politics inside Citigroup. Here is the press release for reporting these issues and you will get compensated:

https://www.oig.dol.gov/public/Press%20Releases/OIG-Press-Release-070826.htm

Reports may be submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor OIG Hotline: 1-800-347-3756 or https://www.oig.dol.gov/hotline.htm

If you have a peer who is H-1b, then you can claim your layoff was fraudulent if you can prove it with your contribution details and hierarchy details. Your management is also held responsible for invalid promotions, salary increments to H-1b

What happened to the Trump loco? It’s like it has disappeared. Not at any celebrations for the 250th. Not really any coverage about it. Seems odd after all that was done to get this thing made. No mention of it by The White House or Trump himself, and you would have thought he would have been slobbering all over that, narcs love it when things are dedicated to them.

Sounds like a lot of mediocre male Shell lifers nearing the end of their time on farm and lashing out that the world no longer revolves around them.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-admin-launches-its-first-major-h-1b-visa-fraud-investigation.amp

“He said the Trump administration's goal is to make sure hardworking Americans are not seeing their jobs taken away by foreigners or people who are gaming the system or financially benefiting from bringing these individuals into America and putting them into jobs that, quite frankly, they are not qualified to do."

Here is some new development - Trump admin launches its first major H-1B visa fraud investigation.

In US' Major H-1B Fraud Probe, Trump Official's Cognizant Mention
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/in-us-major-h-1b-fraud-probe-trump-officials-cognizant-mention-11746201

The culture here is literally disgusting. I work in a matrix environment where my manager knows nothing of what I do. All my work is distributed by a ‘product owner’ who is the most incompetent person ever and always throwing the team under the bus for her own gain and could not make decision or do anything for the team to save her life. All she knows how to do is kiss a-s and play games. Constantly I am dealing with nasty politics from people like her. People make things so needlessly difficult here. No one wants to do their job they’re rather play petty games that it’s like pulling teeth getting anything done and makes every day miserable. It’s so exhausting and sometimes it makes me disgusted by the corporate rot. Yes every company has politics and can be nasty but this is pretty bad

After June 17 announcement, i picked the pieces and now realizing what they did to me and im actually in a more better and pleasant position being surplussed.

I think you will have an idea who is my AD and the Director.

I am located in New England. 2nd qtr of 2025 i have been tapped by my AD says, “me and the AD agreed that instead of NY/NJ market hire for a new person, it is better if you can help them”

They threw me in the fire! And proud to say i did managed the most important role to get their 720+ Allagi swapped small cells in 2025.

I am very vocal that keep asking my AD how i can be graded in 2025 in workday? And when will i get back to New England? He said ill talk to my Director. Long story short, nothing happens. NJ/NY kept me and continuing the role what i did in 2025.

2026, allagi stopped die to this new equipment they arw trying to brings in and of course the internal thing happening about layoff.

I have to defend myself about all these things you are going to be layoff first about lacking performance.

I have a lot of team mates in new england that many of them just forwading emails and no clue what to do. I am being mishandled.

Politics in this company is breathtaking.

POTUS’ words not mine. I wonder how he’ll be “repaid”? The great philanthropist is a fraud.

Amanda Garcia-Snell, a top Portland official, resigned with a severance package. She received over $91,000 and six months of health insurance. Garcia-Snell is the sixth agency director to leave with a payout in the last year. Total severance costs for these six leaders now exceed $1 million. The city has a long-standing policy for such generous payouts.

Portland, Oregon

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/06/portland-pays-another-top-official-to-resign-as-costs-of-recent-severances-surpass-1m.html

McKinsey is the devil and Jonathan Riguad is their Dutch plug. They are the epitome of if GPS told them to turn right into a lake they are surely drowning. Abysmal

To those people who somehow benefited from this broken system and still call it totally fair: of course, it looks fair when you manipulate the system to get the outcome you want. Sitting in that room and assigning a rank to individuals is the very last step of the show management directed. Let’s break it down: you purposely put certain people on specific projects or tasks, you protect some individuals no matter what, and you advocate for the golden ones while someone with no membership in the cult works their a-s off and still gets nothing. God forbid not protected ones have had a tough year; does management apply the same compassion they apply to the golden ones? I doubt it.

Ugh eyes roll… late joiner comes in and takes credit for “engineering 2.0” and now gets appointed head of applied AI with zero qualifications. This place runs on PowerPoint decks apparently

It used to be a place that valued intelligence and creative thinking—a place that took the time to nurture those ideas and bring them to life. Bottom-up really worked here, once.
And now? Collaboration in name only.

It’s full of political operators who shamelessly claim their subordinates’ achievements as their own, and mere clowns who latch onto those operators like remoras clinging to a shark. It’s a culture that swats down bold, unconventional ideas with the brute force of majority rule.

Talk of short-term results and targets has become deafening. There’s no respect left for building a real argument, no respect for intelligence. The only thing that thrives here is harassment carefully calibrated to stop just short of being called harassment.

I’ve concluded that this company has rotted from its people outward.

Goodbye.

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Rigged hackathon's for and cronies of SVP's and A0's...

Let me list what's wrong here. Incompetent leadership. No honesty from the top. Managers who promise one thing and deliver another. A terrible culture. Fear driven by constant cuts. And the only people who get ahead are the ones who know someone. Am I forgetting anything?

Should I leave a competitor to come work for P66? I currently have 8 years where I’m at now!

The why……Currently unhappy with the politics and d-mb ranking system. I know every job has a downfall but unaware of how P66 operates!

Centene, a massive provider of government-sponsored healthcare, is navigating significant operational shifts under the Trump administration's health and budget policies. With major federal budget cuts to Medicaid and changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the insurer has experienced steep membership losses and is actively undergoing corporate restructuring.Centene & The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)Enrollment Drops: The expiration of enhanced ACA tax credits alongside Trump's budget packages has forced many consumers to confront higher premiums. Consequently, Centene—one of the nation's largest ACA marketplace insurers—lost over 2 million members, seeing its exchange enrollment drop from roughly 5.6 million to 3.6 million.Repricing and Layoffs: Because of sicker member pools and lost subsidies, Centene has been forced to reprice its health plans and offer companywide employee buyouts to cut overhead costs.

The World Cup unites countries and people thru soccer and sports conpetition. It appears RV is trying to stretch the BNY global brand thru a simple selfie pic on LinkedIn acting as if the FIFA World Cup excitement is energizing the BNY work culture.

I personally see almost no connection between soccer and BNY and even less of a connection between our CEO and all BNY associates and clients. The con man continues to turn tricks to manipulate public perceptions that BNY is globally connected, socially responsible, and cares deeply about its people. All I see his RV laughing it up with Alejandro Perez.

Billionaire Michael Dell's "generous" donation to children's investment accounts is just another front in the deep state's war on self-reliance, and I have the conspiracy theories to prove it.
In a shocking turn of events that has absolutely nothing to do with the deep state’s insidious plot to indoctrinate our youth, billionaire Michael Dell has announced a $6.25 billion “donation” to fund so-called “Trump Accounts” for children. Coincidence? I think not. Let’s break this down, folks—because if you’re not questioning this, you’re already asleep at the wheel.

First off, “Trump Accounts”? Really? That’s what they’re calling them now? I’m sure the name is just a happy accident and not at all a calculated move to make conservatives warm up to what is clearly a socialist wealth redistribution scheme. $250 per kid? That’s barely enough to buy a single share of GameStop, and we all know the elites don’t want your kids learning about the free market. They’d rather they grow up dependent on government handouts—or in this case, billionaire handouts.

And let’s talk about the income cutoff: $150,000. That’s suspiciously specific. Why not $149,999? Because they needed a round number to hide the fact that this is really about tracking families. Mark my words, this is just another way for the globalists to catalog who’s “middle class” and who’s not. Next thing you know, they’ll be implanting microchips in these accounts—wait, actually, that’s probably already in the fine print.

But here’s the real kicker: 80% of Texas ZIP codes qualify. EIGHTY PERCENT. Folks, that’s not generosity—that’s an admission that the economy is rigged. If 80% of families are making under $150,000, then who’s hoarding all the money? Oh right, the same people “donating” it back to us like some kind of twisted charity tax write-off. Wake up, sheeple!

And of course, the urban elites in Austin, Dallas, and Houston are mostly excluded. Convenient, isn’t it? The very cities where the tech overlords and government puppets live get to opt out of their own socialist experiment. Meanwhile, the rest of Texas gets a measly $250 per kid—probably in digital currency so they can phase out cash and control your spending.

This isn’t philanthropy. This is conditioning. They’re training the next generation to rely on handouts instead of hard work. And by the time these kids grow up, they’ll be so used to government (or billionaire) intervention that they won’t even question it. Well, I’m questioning it. And you should too. Because if there’s one thing the elites hate, it’s people who can still think for themselves. Stay vigilant, patriots. The tofu-pushing deep state is always watching.

Are we missing the obvious? The administration gives FB government positions with the IRS and SSA, enabling him to sell his Fiserv shares while they are high without liability for insider trading. FB then returns the favor, blocking the IRS from investigating the administration. Simple. Perfect.

The U.S. Justice Department has reportedly sent subpoenas to several of the country’s largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase JPM and Bank of America BAC, over allegations of politically motivated account closures.

Other banks under investigation include Wells Fargo WFC.

Some of the subpoenas were issued to the banks last year by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., led by Jeanine Pirro. The probe is focused on claims that these banks have “debanked” clients, meaning they have inappropriately closed customer accounts due to political reasons, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/jpmorgan-bofa-wells-fargo-subpoenaed-by-doj-in-trumps-explosive-debanking-crackdown-report/ar-AA25nPc6

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/10/citigroup-shares-outperform-down-market-after-trump-endorsement.html

Content and technology company Thomson Reuters faces a shareholder vote at its annual meeting on Wednesday over its U.S. government contracts for services that some investors and employees say may help power the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/thomson-reuters-faces-shareholder-vote-over-ice-contracts-2026-06-10/

Why do industry observers and specifically BP staff automatically give high praise to Meg? Can one person from the outside manage to upright a failed strategy and a culture which abhors change?

Our favorite minister of people and culture is still proving herself adept at survival and sorcery. Taking out and clearly eviscerating a Chairman of the Board with allegations of misconduct is pure corporate Hunger Games! Is KD’s on borrowed time? Or at this juncture a useful pawn?

This sums up many people here. Luckily most of the people I work with aren’t into this
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/jan/29/silicon-valley-rightwing-technofascism

The CEO of UP told him to shove it. So the merger MIGHT not get approval.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/04/trump-says-ford-gm-want-bill-to-restrict-owners-from-fixing-their-own-vehicles/90410359007/?tbref=hp

If you put on your blinder and look down and support the company like they’re your own flesh and blood, you’ll do well. But at what cost?

Why is it Executive leader ship can’t give raises, but they can hire two more of their friends for VP positions we don’t need?

This site has become nothing what it was intended to be. Stop with the politics and your “ever so important” and “only you are right” views. It’s a board about employment and layoffs. Can we focus and stop being so childish please? Anyone?? What have you heard? Who should be concerned about their jobs etc…? That is what this is here for people. You’re filling it up with nonsense trying to cause political debates that will never be solved here. It’s not an outlet for your frustrations. Let’s be grown up professionals.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/bill-pulte-director-of-national-intelligence-00946319