#poorleadership

DXC treats its employees in a slave like manner. Once your in you never get a pay rise, promises are made of a annual merit evry year but it never materializes. They expect everyone to deliver at a top level to clients and retrain into AI and Cloud for nothing. The exec meanwhile dont deliver on their promises of growth but are entitled to Millions of $s in pay for delivering their failures. They tell the employees to leave if they dont like it. What an unjust and corrupt company, the DXC way.....

She was challenged several weeks ago on this board to go on CNBC to be interviewed and by golly, she did ! Albeit a soft ball interview with Sharon Epperson for DEI reasons.

Let's be honest here, if she interviewed with Jim Cramer, David Faber, or Sara Eisen, she'd be eaten alive trying to defend her missteps. It is ironic that even Roger Ferguson has appeared on CNBC as a contributor more times in the last year, then Duckett has appeared on CNBC in 5 yrs.

There are rumors and whispers she is losing internal support. All of a sudden, we see a flurry of activity from her lately in an attempt to save face and her job. So many speeches and public appearances that she has no real time to run TIAA like she is supposed to and this begs the question; who is really running TIAA ? She is paid millions and the company is chaos and no one is at the helm. She collects hundreds of thousands of dollars as a Nike Board Member & a pair of Air Jordans.

Instead, they have Jay Leno headline the TIAA FutureWise conference with the CEO laughing herself all the way to the Bank while many long term TIAA employees are being laid off. Shoot, maybe is she ran AI to run the company, it would be in much better financial shape today. It's funny how she criticized AI, but sold out to Accenture as they promised us the world with AI driven solutions which have not materialized.

TIAA FutureWise Conference (November 2025) In a discussion with CNBC, she advised that retirement investors should focus on building diversified portfolios and guaranteed income streams rather than worrying about an AI

Cant believe how poor the Management and Shareholders are in this company.

I could turn the situation around easily, spin off the insurance to Private Equity or IPO for $2billion, which will pay off all the debt.

Your left with a cash company generating Free Cash Flow of $400 million with no debt on a PE of 20 thats $8 Billion= $48 per share.

I would not hire any new folks, natural wastage would get rid of 20% of the workforce in the year, i would get rid of the several layers of management, the existing employees would retrain if they were offered a good pay incentive, FCF would rise to $450 milion, another $10+ on the share price to $60, then get some bolt on Acquisitions.

If Fernandez isnt going to grow the Company this is about to happen soon.

Looks like a certain group didn't do so well with their prime customer. I'm hearing some of the mucky mucks are deciding to make changes in headcount based on who's taken the most time off. Silly rabbits. Who's running this place?!

So with FPAS being consolidated into corporate FP&A, what was the point of coe finance transformation to begin with? It just goes back to finance like nothing ever happened? Finance is always chasing everyone else for savings, while untold millions were spent on overlapping roles and chaos for years with no accountability or sensible organizational structure. It is a travesty what has happened to so many careers over the years as a result of costly misalignment among the finance leadership. There could really be a full case study on it.

One of the amazing things about working at Progress is that every November you get to wonder if you are on the list to be laid off. Yup, an entire company culture built around who gets let go this year right before the holidays. And to make it even better, none of the c suite executives responsible for the company doing so poorly ever get let go. The c suite boys club continues to bring in millions for themselves while investors (stock down almost 50% this year) and everyday employees get the brunt of their non existent management acumen.

It’s disheartening to hear what’s happening with the converse team being left hanging with their fingers crossed and no clue what, who, or when, layoffs will impact. Why do this for so long dragging it out with no communication? Folks in VP and director level seats seem to be the problem and the real contributors are disregarded and silenced. Things aren’t looking good.

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?

nterpublic Group (IPG) has reduced its workforce by 3,200 employees this year, including 800 in September. 2026 will be even worse. The folks running the company are clueless and there is a ton of greed. That's my opinion and I do not see things changing any time soon.

Turn it around employees. Zero identity or evolution.

To EH: this isn’t 2010. Try something new for once. The old playbook is dusty.

Fondly,
Former shareholder

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

thats when you know your company is run by id--ts and cares jack about the v-teamer

keep working hard v-teamers

Verizon is in this situation because of poor leadership, which was replaced with poor leadership, which is now being replaced by more poor leadership.

Just once, has any of these feckless leaders held themselves responsible? I mean they blame the economy, they blame COVID, they blame the employees. But they never take responsibility.

Isn't that literally in the credo?

But, it is the employees who will suffer. Hans will never have to worry about buying groceries, or losing thier home or paying medical expenses. Neither will Dan. They care about nothing and no one else.

The are typically sociopaths (and yes, there are peers reviewed scientific studies that show this).

Just once...

The AI market is ORCL’s golden goose and they are betting the farm on it. Diversification is the way you survive in tech. ORCL down 110.00 from 2025 high. That means oracle clown employees that thought it was the best thing since sliced bread lost tons the last 8-12 weeks. Good. That’s what you, esp mgmt, get for laying off so many good people. The worst run company in the world. You could be be lacking 90% of your brain and be a director at Oracle. Hahahagahag

When you listen to leaders that sound disjointed and are so rattled they can't even hold a train of thought.
Jeez.

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.

Someone please explain to me how Homecare dimensions survived the cuts That department has been losing money year over year. HS terrible leadership and so many high paying positions. Therapists making full time salary over 90k and seeing 2 patients a week. Nurses that see less than 4 patients a day and a VP who has not clue what she is doing. So many employees laid off of so many departments that are needed and this department spending money like it’s growing on trees.

RamNot won’t shut up about his special sauce. Newsflash, it’s ketchup in a champagne bottle. Revenue’s tanking, cash flow’s drying up, and those “bookings” are yesterday’s scraps served with a smile. If this is his magic formula, someone needs to tell the chef and his CFO they are cooking bankruptcy.

Are we just not even going to pretend to be a compliant & sound bank? Has USAA just given up on quality leaders, innovation, member focus and truly caring about its employees. We’ve gotten so used to scraps around here, when id--ts with a title makes greed based decisions we all just nod and clap. This place will have a day of reckoning. When and how bad, who knows. My prediction is lights off and news cameras we wake up to randomly one morning.

I swear, if anyone still needed proof of how incompetent this leadership is, we just got it loud and clear.

In Penny's Page for October 27, 2025 Penny says great teams don't just work side by side, but they grow together so they can build something lasting. Is she serious? Does she think anyone is buying her BS anymore? This is something our first five managing partners could have said and it would be believable because those leaders lived those words. Unfortunately, our sixth managing partner does not live these words. She spouts these words out haphazardly and then lives a different life. How does our Edward Jones teams grow together and build something lasting by eliminating American jobs and sending them to India? How do you bring people out of COVID and back into the office because we need to do business face to face and at the same time send American jobs to a third world country on the other side of the world? Is Penny serious when she says these things? During the sixth managing partner search the candidates underwent psychological testing. If Penny is serious when she spouts out this garbage then she probably needs a more current psychological testing. She is losing it and she is losing it quickly. Penny, come to your senses and just step down. You have done enough damage already. I do not know if this company is salvageable or not. If it is, the next managing partner is going to have their work cut out for them. God save our firm.

That's just some next level stupidity.

Why do so many of them lack common sense? What’s the criteria for promotion? Inability to form a full sentence or what?

This whole thing’s being handled so badly it’d almost be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Too bad these are the ones deciding all our fates. We all know we’re sc--wed.

There’s a clear distinction between being fluent in English and demonstrating wisdom and sound decision-making. The leader being promoted in this company is knows how to say the right corporate things at the right time, but often lacks depth in judgment. When you look at the initiatives they champion and where they focus their efforts, it becomes apparent that many are driven more by smooth talk than by substance.

It’s wild how many leaders here have big titles but no idea what they’re doing. It's amazing how we have to spend half our time fixing their messes.

It’s a wrap, execs are just talking nonsense now. Get ready for more nonsense in the coming months

Sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction.

How, such a large group of inept middle and upper management can congregate in one place and conspire to hollow out the will to live of so many valuable employees across the globe, is a miracle to behold.

One bad decision follows another, and another and another. Cutting costs of everything to the point where services cannot be effectively provided to customers, while barking on about what a powerhouse they are and how it's all going to change with the reinvention. Which actually means outsourcing everything to the cheapest bidder and it now not working correctly.

Diversity and inclusion are pushed and sold to employees every day, yet all that is encountered is segregation, exclusion and discrimination unless you are in the club. Speak up for what's right and the ranks are closed and the fairy tales rehearsed with the useless, non-existing support network for employees, who are in management's back pocket.

CEO club is over, and so is your honeymoon.

Fascinating read touching on Polaris, Advance 3M, and other poor decision making:

https://archive.ph/1w3Rs

“Effectively, 3M became ‘a case study of everything not to do over a very long period of time’…”

Don’t let them fool you, Halliburton will be sold soon. Leadership will get wiped clean. It’s the only way. Worse leadership imaginable. Completely out of touch with hard working people that actually run the industry. Tell your white collar leadership to work on the well head, and earn their stripes like the rest of us.

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UP 32.97%
5-YEARS

VZ
DOWN 27.40%
5-YEARS

AND THESE BOZOS WANT FYBR (FOOBAR)
5 BILLION PLUS LOST ON OATH (YAHOO)

NEW LEADERSHIP ASAP! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

Nothing to say that has not been posted here already. spoke with him on multiple occasions. this guy is a joke. lot of blatant lies on his linkedin profile too. not much of a career trajectory either. mid level PM to getting kicked out of adobe to being jobless for a couple years to landing this job. his connections in the board got him here. pity.

@OP+1k4876rt2 Bumping this post forward...This post had it all right.

Just how bad is it for SAP? Well our stock price has plummeted 12 % in just the last month and shows no sign of a rebound. It is tracking straight down.

But go have a look at what Oracle is doing just today... Stock is on par to set a record - it is up since opening this morning 35%. All due to some very big scores on AI - and where is SAP while others are winning ?? Your guess is as good as mine. This kind of beat down would not have happened under previous leadership teams.

We are planning of dumping our Maintenance Biz, which was responsible for most of our stable revenue over the last several decades and no indication as to what platform will replace this significant revenue stream.

It's hard to watch.

As was stated in the referenced post, CK and DA had better get their act together real soon, or SAP will be lost for good against our competitors.

Fireside chat “I am more confident in our strategy than I have ever been”
The man is deluded.
Future performance is normally determined by previous performance and all that has happened under SB tenure is chaos, confusion, reducing results, reducing stock price

If I had 10 cents for every dollar wasted over the past 15 years, I'd be wealthy. From IT solutions and overstaffing to training and firing thousands of nurses, plus failed EMRs and workforce management, the waste is staggering. Worse, those responsible were paid handsomely for poor results and received golden parachutes when their failures became clear.

He is a quiet quitter.

If you ever wanted an example of what poor leadership looks like, just look around here. Confusion everywhere, mixed messages from the top, no clear plan, and a workforce that’s demoralized because nobody trusts the people in charge. This isn’t just bad luck, it’s the result of bad leadership.

It’s because our leadership doesn’t know how to lead. Extremely poor communication upward and downward. Probably the worst in the industry. It’s why we are perpetually in the position we are in externally and internally. Literally All of them need to be removed for folks better suited to these roles. We are effectively leaderless with just some puppets occupying those positions. The senior mrgs, heads of x and dept are the worst at this. No bad people just horrible mgrs and leaders. And truth is they are comfortable they don’t want to change or for things to change.

OP: @b6+1k3kqvjzn

This is definitely the root of our problems. Bumping the post up for visibility.