#toxicworkplace

"Now that the latest Colleague Engagement Survey has closed, it is important to reflect on the strategy behind it. Evidence suggests that these 'colleague engagement' tools are increasingly being repurposed as diagnostic filters for layoffs.

• Treat Surveys as Legal Documents: Do not view these as 'safe spaces.' Anything you wrote can and will be used by an algorithm to assess your 'retention value.'

• Identify the Push: When leadership becomes obsessively focused on survey participation rates with multiple VPs and Directors badgering staff for 'opinions', it serves as a critical RED FLAG for an impending organizational 're-alignment,' signaling that they are gathering the necessary paper trail to justify a workforce reduction in the next 8–16 weeks. This predatory use of feedback doesn't just destroy morale; it marks a total collapse of corporate integrity, proving that the company views employee honesty as a liability to be exploited rather than a resource to be valued.

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Layoffs in Corporate Information Technology Visa executives should be ashamed of how they handled these layoffs. Just weeks after celebrating record earnings and profits, they sat behind scripted talking points and treated people like disposable line items in a revolving door operation. While bringing in the largest intern groups in the matter of a week. There was no humanity, no accountability, and no meaningful acknowledgment of the impact on employees and families.

What’s even more concerning is the false narrative being pushed that AI will somehow absorb the workload of the people they eliminated. That simply is not reality. Visa has not implemented mature, effective AI capabilities capable of replacing the operational knowledge, leadership, and technical expertise that walked out the door. The result will be the same pattern seen in many corporations: fewer people doing double the work while executives protect margins and shareholders applaud temporary cost cuts.

What makes this even worse is the culture that remains behind. Fear-based leadership, outdated management practices, and forced “NS/NS” (Needs Strengthening) labels used to create paper trails and justify targeted exits. It’s an old-school corporate playbook disguised as performance management. Simply put…Bad Bosses.

The remaining employees will now carry significantly heavier workloads while operating under executives driven by ego, hierarchy, and optics rather than modern leadership principles. Instead of building psychologically safe, high-performing teams, the environment rewards politics, pressure, and survival mode.

Companies talk endlessly about innovation, AI Transformation, Psychological Saftey yet many leaders still manage people like it’s 1998.

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After 10 years in the IT industry, I joined Fidelity expecting professionalism. Instead, I found the most toxic environment of my career. Here’s my reality:

1. Knowledge Hoarding & Legacy Gatekeeping
   
   • - Trapped using an ancient "Clueing Manager" system. Legacy team members actively withhold knowledge, especially from newcomers.

• - Manager acts as a puppet to a clique of legacy employees. Zero autonomy or support for growth.

2. Culture of Backstabbing
   
   • - From lower grades to peers: everyone sabotages everyone. Collaboration is dead; survival is a solo battle.

• - Politics dominate daily work. Merit? Irrelevant. Loyalty to the "old guard"? Mandatory.

3. Discrimination & Division
   
   • - Indians vs. Indians: Blatant North/South division.

• - Indians vs. Americans: Mutual hostility fueled by stereotypes and exclusion.
• - Leadership turns a blind eye. In fact, they exploit these divides.

4. Psychological Toll
   
   • - I now pay for external therapy—Fidelity’s "support" resources are a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

• - I fear for colleagues’ mental health. Self-harm is a real risk in this pressure cooker of malice and isolation.

To Fidelity Leadership: You’ve built a system where toxicity is currency. New talent is sacrificed to protect decaying fiefdoms. My decade in tech wasn’t perfect—but here, humanity is optional.

To Those Struggling Here: You’re not alone. Document everything. Seek external help. This isn’t failure—it’s survival.

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