#teamconflict

So many people out on paternity and extended maternity leaves. Why isn't their work reassigned? Can't get anything done because their piece is an input. Irritated that this is impacting my ability to deliver upon objectives.

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”

I'm watching this happen right now with a person on my team who got bumped up two levels in less than a year. On paper, he looked great, lots of years in the industry, confident in interviews, talked a big game about process improvement. In practice, he doesn't understand the basics of what we do, he's broken two different workflows because he changed things without asking, and the rest of us spend about five hours a week quietly undoing his mistakes. The person who promoted him clearly didn't do any real checking. Now the rest of us are paying for it, and the guy himself is clearly stressed and embarrassed. It's a failure at every level and it happens here constantly.

It's a mixed bag in my team. There are a couple who contribute fairly. I've stopped checking their work because they've proven reliable and knowledgeable. The rest just create more work for me. Everything they do needs to be reviewed and often redone. I can't shake the feeling that many of them aren't as invested in keeping their jobs. Which is counterintuitive, but still.

Background, fairly new engineer less than 3 YOE and im on a new team (not by choice) and the team is not what I was expecting it to be. This role/work is better suited for someone with more experience. I want to leave this team already and advice on this

Oh, we finally got ourselves a middle manager, after over a year of blissful independence, purely so someone could tick the “yes, we have one” box. Never mind that our team handles complex fintech systems with intricate backends and high-risk frontends; our new overseer couldn’t tell you what tech stack we use, how we build, or how anything actually gets shipped.

Instead, we get endless lectures about “empathy” and “psychological safety,” followed by mandatory meetings that accomplish nothing beyond recycling the same tired talking points, while our actual work quietly piles up. Real contributions? Nowhere to be found.
What makes it even more impressive is that about ten years ago, they were in food service, and somehow parlayed a string of small-company roles and a questionable degree into a banking position they seem wildly unqualified for. It’s less “career growth” and more “failing upward with confidence.”

My coworkers have already figured out how to play along and stroke the ego when needed. I just don’t have it in me. And to top it off, the complete lack of effort in their presentation only adds to the whole secondhand embarrassment of being professionally associated with them.

Any other teams having the same experience? This is nuts, I worked for a few large product orgs over last 2 decades and I've never seen it nuts like this. Oh well, maybe it's just my team, dont know.

Manager double, triple booked, late for meetings, no clear direction to team, rude and condescending. How does one get a skip level meeting.

It's becoming impossible to ignore the fact that certain people get access to opportunities the rest of us don't even know exist, not to mention are considered for. It's always the same names for every good project, every interesting assignment. I guess hard work doesn't matter if you're not in the right group.

Band 4 manager here. I’ve lost a lot of talent over the past year due to RIF. As ops has moved over to HIH there’s a whole team over there doing stuff we deal with. Their manager pulled me into a meeting to say his employees were complaining about mine. Mainly that we are slow to respond, and that my team isn’t “nice.”

I asked for specifics and if anyone was unprofessional or outright rude. Turned out the HIH team doesn’t like that my team is direct, asks them to repeat when they don’t understand due to language or the ask is unclear, takes initiative, and basically does stuff fast without explanation because we don’t have time and have too much to do.

More discussion led to him asking me to have my team slow down and be more “pleasant” and to engage in back and forth rather than just getting to the point. I told him my team complains that they get pinged with just “hi” and won’t respond unless there is something actionable too. He asked for us to spend more time helping his team with their work so the can learn and get better and that my team has told his they don’t have time. I agreed. And I said as long as they are being professional, I can’t expect more from them because they are watching their friends and coworkers lose jobs that are being given to HIH.

HIH manager was very surprised and didn’t realize that what was going on. I said as long as we meet SLA then that’s that and I don’t expect my team to respond same day for anything that isn’t a managed incident.

Anyone at HIH on this forum, be glad we are interacting with you professionally. I’ve had team members express downright hatred for HIH. Nothing against you personally, but Cigna is firing us to give you jobs, so don’t expect friendliness.

None of this is sustainable. I’ve told my Director to put me on the layoff list. When I have to bite my tongue to avoid yelling at HIH, and I get no answers from above other than more RIF is coming but my team is okay because we are 20:80, I can’t do it anymore.

Can you name a team who is most difficult to work with ? Basically nothing can be done with this team.
Keeps on adding friction to others work and won’t deliver anything by themselves.

So I was previously located in another area of campus in a flexible seating space. Over a short period of time all of the flexible seating became assigned seating and neighborhood pods. Of course those neighborhood pods and assigned seats were the preferred seat seating near windows, quiet spaces, etc. and the only options left were in the noisy busy parts of the floor..

Our group just moved to building 600 pod C and it’s happening again.. seriously don’t understand the purpose of flexible seating if teams are going to start going through the process of making assigned seats. It’s so obnoxious to get stuck with the creepiest seating options just because I’m an individual contributor and not in the position to throw a trantrum to secure the preferred seats. So here I am once again being faced with having to sit next to the door where everyone enters and exits all day long. This whole thing is so obnoxious and ridiculous… even comical to some degree.

Every single winner of this award has derailed their team project in one way or another. They don't have knowledge or skills and don't know what they are doing. I've never met one that's inteIIigent. They just know how to fake their way through the work day. And Truist never questions who really does the work behind the scenes. I would be ashamed to get this award.

How does one deal with managers pets who are super annoying????

Maybe I'm new to the corporate culture but this individual has been annoyingly pushing themselves into everything just to show off and have their "fingerprint" on everything.

And since I'm not in same location as my snake of a manager, all of my work is being showed by this annoying credit stealer.

You can at this point guess our BU.

Been part of the green eco system for over 8 years but this is the first time in my tenure I can say Fidelity work culture, ethics and associate satisfaction is going down the drain.

Managers are making associates "compete" resulting in instances of everyone fighting to be "visible" within the team, creating animosity between team members, favoring their own pets.

I am not in the same region as my manager so I am one of the lucky ones to feel the heat, after being back to exceptional performer, I'm facing sudden hostility, goal / KPI which makes absolutely zero sense and on top of that feeling burnt out with no appreciation at all.

I am wondering if any other BU's facing similar issue?

I am level 7 Wealth associate (tech lead)

Consider everyone a competitor, not a coworker. I trusted someone and they used it against me to look better. Its every person for themselves.

Why are offshore folks so bad at using Git? Branch management and conflict resolution are always so awful on-shore folks in our team always put out fires caused by offshore folks.(lots of rebasing and cherry picks)

So we have someone new joining our team and ever since they joined they have been on my a$$ to know how I do what I do.

While I understand the enthusiasm, I feel my manager is purposely bringing such individuals in the team (the latest being the second person) who seem to be "teachers pets", more noise for less work kind of person.
And I can tell they're someone who just wants to "have their signature" in everything that happens around.

PS: These new members are in same region as my snake of a manager.

Should I be worried???

I was am employee from VMware. After in BC, I find managers always fight with other manager.

They make every source code, KB and discuss meeting notes only available inside the group, ask engineer do not do any task comes from other manager, and even ask engineer do not help customer just because the team is busy on a new version release.

Today my manager ask me to fight with a team member, pushing them to do something.

How does this phenomenon occur?

What a disgusting place!

You asked what our obstacles are so here are a few that are slowing us down

1. Jira - we spend more time trying to please the Jira g-ds than we do on development. It doesn’t work. Maybe it was good at JPMC, but not here.

2. Fortify - nothing like remediating a bunch of false positives

3. Language barriers - there are very few Americans on project calls. We can’t understand the Ind*ians and they don’t know our systems or products

These are just a few. Please feel free to chime in with more.

Looking forward(not) to all the brown nosing and but kissing the will commence into overdrive in the coming days for those that are left. People jockeying for attention so that they may not be named in the next round.

I know many people in CX team that are good for nothing. There are multiple teams in that group that have not delivered a single feature in the entire year.
They are always confrontation if you ask them. Love to finger point on everyone under the sun .. UX , GTS , legal etc for their massive delays.

All of them survived.. How ? Many great people were let go..

Dan should audit their 2025 performance .. Budget spent vs feature ( code) delivered in Prod.

I got nothing so far. Should I take this as a sign I might make it? I don't see why they wouldn't send out invites for the entire team at once. Is anybody in a similar position?

You have people that don’t want to share success in a toxic work environment in some groups.

You have people, everyone, that hates training. Why train a guy who’ll outshine you? May not be in your best interest to give the best knowledge to this guy, or that guy, you need to be the king don’t you? This is a real issue not many talk about.

You have engineers that don’t know their own tools. And for the longest time, majority of the engineers never showed up on sight until fairly recently.

You have engineers that compete on levels rather than working as a team. For example, the H1B invaders 100% will throw you under the bus or like the other said take credit for work or blame you. I found it hilarious to see a bunch of HR people from India firing Americans.

The US pumps out stem more than any other country on earth we do not need hoards of H1B fake talent and fake degrees. India is severely overpopulated I can understand why some people are concerned about their huge numbers and they very much stick with their own and favor their own yet you might have a few Indian friends you like. Eventually this will reach a point where they’ll all need to go back to India. They are not needed at all. They are here for cheap labor and will promote more H1B in invading numbers to come work for near 30 days a month on a what often is a poor salary.

I recently started working in Midland and have been amazed by how upset and demoralized everyone is. Seems like each group sees the other group as their enemy. Serious lack of harmony. Has it always been this way?

It’s exhausting watching people coast while the rest of us scramble to get things done. Every project ends up feeling like a fight, not just against the actual work, but against all the nonsense that comes with covering for others. And then to see them survive a layoff round after a layoffs round? No. Just, no.