#unrealisticexpectations

After every layoff round, they grow even more. I think most of us have stopped even trying to meet them. Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things. Bending over backwards to do extra work and deliver results isn't going to save anyone's job. We'll just regret the wasted energy later.

Playing the fiddle while Rome burns.

I've been so annoyed in the last few months, as they keep telling me everything is urgent and nothing can wait. Every single thing. That's not how priorities work. With no clear direction, I'm just spinning my wheels. I'm so tired of everything being a fire drill.

I got laid off by OptumRx. I was unhappy with my manager and the unrealistic expectations. My manager treated me poorly from the start anyway but it seems like all my ex-coworkers still have their jobs and have no idea that these layoffs were happening. Is OptumRx doing mass lay offs too? Is OptumRx going to be phased out one of these days? Especially with the new bill?

I've noticed that "we're a family" usually comes right before a request to do something outside of normal expectations. They think found a way to make unreasonable demands feel reasonable. I fell for it the first few times, but not anymore. Fiserv is a lot of things, but "family" isn't among them. Sc--w them and their unrealistic expectations.

Corporate should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen. It's bad enough to allow unsafe working conditions in the pharmacy, but the front store is treated like a complete afterthought. Especially should District Leaders and Regional Directors be ashamed for not standing up for their teams and fighting back against corporate and their complete lack of care for those at the store level. 1 or 2 people is NOT a crew!! Understaffing, low wages, unrealistic metrics, unreasonable expectations, ignoring customer complaints about long lines and wait times, where does it end?? If CVS doesn't care about the front store, then get out of the front store business. But DO NOT keep treating the front store like garbage and yesterday's newspaper.

The people at the ground floor are the ones who keep the ship running everyday. Treat them like they matter, because without them, you have nothing.

• Constant* project churning. Requirements either written by AI without considering what's actually possible, or just blatantly copy the competition as they do it better. Just copy, copy, copy, without understanding what works and what doesn't, and why it works or not. Demanding constant revisions over and over on UX work, in a rush.

Utter incompetence. I've worked on projects for months that go so long only because management is entirely incapable of making good decisions. Iterate, iterate, iterate, iterate.

The place has become a complete mess, with outrageous demands as they assume everyone is now a superhuman with these AI shortcuts (they've done nothing but make things worse for everyone but devs.) And dev wants nothing to do with UX, as they just see it as a bottleneck as they "vibe code" unplanned, unconsidered garbage.

Anyone with original ideas will have them stolen as management desperately tries to justify their employment, despite outright incompetence.

What a complete waste. It was a great place to work while it lasted, but now it's just absurd demands with absurd timeframes with absurd people.

And good luck if your manager decides (to alleviate his own guilt for throwing out a LONG-time performer) that he has to be entirely unreasonable and make absurd demands of you suddenly . Su-ks when the manager was already entirely incompetent at design - now he's going to demand your work gets far worse as he forces terrible decisions that don't make any sense. Just making a paper trail of "insubordination" for not heeding "just make the logo bigger"-type of feedback an amateur wouldn't make.

What a joke. Stay far away. They are going to be desperate for good employees soon. I've seen many companies make the same terrible mistakes, and it just gets worse and worse.

I'm new to this site. I feel like i havent seen many comments from people in PVS under Tom Ap Simon. He was 100% in charge when I came on in 2020. In 2022, they hired a lady to take over PVS so Tom could focus on higher education. This lady was way more personable and professional than Tom in my opinion. She obviously had a vision, and part of that was to create a new department. She hired a black woman for that department who was very qualified based on previous work experience. Not even 2ish years into the role, this competent PVS leader departed. They did not replace her. They said Tommy boy would absorb and handle both Higher Ed and PVS. A few months after our original PVS VP left, our smaller dept head left abruptly. They did not replace her either and instead shoved our department into another that make 0 sense for half of the employees there.

PVS has a goal to increase enrollment by almost 50%. That is an insane metric and didn't even happen during Covid. On top of that, they so far have hired literally no one on the school facing side of things to support these schools/students. I thing they are eventually going to just sell PVS because it's obvious the powers that be don't understand the actual work that's needed to make this business line successful.

Seems very unattainable, I am in deep trouble as I am only at 18%

Where does everyone else stand?

Asking for a friend.

Anyone else's manager losing their mind and creating insane and unclear and unreasonable expectations they cant even explain? Its like there is absolute no accountability for these middle managers running amuck reeking havok and creating chaos.

Is anyone else’s department setting insane expectations to the point where you feel like they are doing this so they have “cause” to fire people to avoid an actual layoff?

My revenue production goal for next year just went up by almost 100%.

Usually it’s a joke that top producer goals will double.

Now it’s a reality.

RIP

Tough to watch the culture crash like this. It wasn’t great before but the extra stress and unrealistic expectations are causing way more tension than usual.

So we get it, vader wants COR gone, bla bla bla, AR everything. So why not just close em all ? I mean, all we do is fix D2D scams and turn away people who wanna return their modems as directed by cust care. With unattainable numbers crammed down our throats, AR retailers popping up all around the COR locations - why keep the COR open ? Just to make people lives miserable ? We will not hit our numbers - we spend all our time fixing what YOU - the management - the monster YOU created - so why not just put a fork in it ?

This is the most insane place to work. The expectations of senior leadership is unrealistic, to put it mildly. I don’t know of anyone who isn’t working 75-80 hours in a workweek and then having to work more hours on the weekend to still be behind!

I have seen many people sacrifice their personal lives, mental health, and physical health for this company to only be rewarded with being fired or laid off.

They have no concept of people having a personal life. If you want to have a heart attack or stroke at your work computer then this is the place for you. If you value any kind of life or health, you need to stay far away from here.

For at least one analyst, the projected revenue for Cl*ver was unrealistically high and the product itself was unloved by users.

Source: search on “yahoo bear f*serv”

If management had to spend even a single week working under the same strict rules they’re pushing on us, they’d see how unrealistic and counterproductive they are. It’s easy to make policies from an office far away, but when you’re the one dealing with constant pressure and impossible targets, those rules just don’t hold up. Maybe if the people making these decisions actually experienced them firsthand, they’d think twice before rolling them out.