Are you honest on Team Space with your weekly checkin? Do you really talk about activities you loathe and those you loved? Not sure if I should be honest or just write what my manager would like. I was told this is only for US employees?!?
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What loathes me is the lying Cisco culture. Cisco wants employees to be loyal, yet there is NO loyalty to employees.
You're looking at the tip of the iceberg. Lying is an Olympic level sport at Cisco and it's practiced at all levels worldwide.
What loathes me is the lying Cisco culture. Cisco wants employees to be loyal, yet there is NO loyalty to employees. We are not Cisco, leadership is Cisco, as we got laid off! What a game of smoke and mirrors and deception leadership plays (Sr VPs and above). It Is so sad people fall for the stuff Sr leadership says.
Obviously you do not tell the truth. This only gets you burned. Remember your management does not want to hear problems. Just solutions.
And yes there are good managers in there as well but they tend to be a minority
You’re a pretty sh—tty manager if your people are afraid to come to you for suggestions or help. I’m interested in finding solutions to make my team as effective and productive as they can be and that process starts with building trust and open communication.
I agree that someone is a bad manager if people won't come to you for suggestions or help. But, too many people have been burned by bad managers and that makes it hard for good mangers to build trust and open communication.
Also, there's only so much "managers" can do. I've got two levels of management that agree that V2MOM's and Teamspace are a waste of time/effort, but the next two layers of management toe the party line and talk about how great these tools are and how much benefit they gain from them and how we should be using them. Every so often, my manager or their manager have to remind us to do our weekly Teamspace check-ins because they have a 95% weekly team completion metric for their boss's V2MOM metric, and they don't want to be the manager responsible for their boss not being able to look good to his/her boss and so the smelly stuff rolls downhill.
As a manager I hate teamspace but I encourage my team to use it bc the org wants it used. If they mention a problem or something they “loath” then I’m going to try and help them with it in any way I can.You’re a pretty sh—tty manager if your people are afraid to come to you for suggestions or help. I’m interested in finding solutions to make my team as effective and productive as they can be and that process starts with building trust and open communication.
There is a new TPS cover - did you get the memo?
"You do know it's a TBS report, right? A trans-bureau synopsis?" Let's see who gets the reference.
@1bjo There is a new TPS cover - did you get the memo?
I stopped doing that recently. It's so pointless and meaningless. Why should I do that? I loathe my manager anyway. He is so stupid.
So many things, so many activities are pointless and meaningless at Cisco
I'm not quite sure what exactly there is to loathe at Cisco.
It's glaringly obvious to everybody except those up to their eyeballs in The Matrix that the company is a holding pen until one's number is finally called for LR and severance. So you more or less treat Cisco like Club Med and do silly little games like the weekly check-in while collecting free money.
During the Industrial Revolution kids were working their fingers to the bone, losing limbs in heavy machinery for next to nothing. That sounds quite loathsome to me.
Getting paid to do nothing for years and then getting paid to leave the company?!! Complaining on some silly platform that nobody even bothers to read? Nutty folks on here I tell ya...
If you value your job, absolutely do NOT tell management the truth. Will only cost you. They don't want problems, they want more sleep and activities with family.
I simply leave the love and loathe sections empty and only put what tasks I'm working on as "priorities".
A/o this week, at least w/in my BU, managers are being told they have to "reply" to everyone's weekly checkin. My manager said that he was simply going to paste in "Thanks." to everyone's check-in to save time.
I use the priorities to track what I need to work on that week, and I simply read them off at our Mon afternoon weekly team status call. Then, at the end of each quarter when I'm asked to provide input as to what I've accomplished this past quarter for each quarterly ops review, I simply look at the 12-13 weeks worth of check-in's and list off any tasks that are worthy of being reported up the chain.
Does my manager use teamspace? No more than I do in order to pay lip service to the requirement of using it. S/he could just as easily look at it to create their own list of quarterly accomplishments and not bother me, but whatever. It's the cost of being an employee and getting a bonus at the end of the year vs. being a contractor who doesn't get benefits. Same as the stupid V2MOM.
Some people include what they loathe & some do not. Some managers read them and respond weekly while others do not. I agree they're a waste of time for everyone.
I loathe team space check ins. I rarely do them and only if my manager starts copping an attitude about it. I hate the tool and the additional waste of time. And I’m never honest about the loathes or the loves.
Haven’t done a check-in in years. Honestly if my manager wants to discuss something or vise versus, we just talk directly.
Never done one, not one. Why would I feed a tool that’s specifically designed to profile, manipulate and generally exploit me?
Haven't completed one in months. It's just more useless admin overhead nobody really cares about.
Save some company headcount and get rid of Team Space
Ain't nobody got time for that!
My manager (Indian, surprise!!) insists on adding priorities so I add very brief one line about what I'm working on. I have a template for message to manager which I use every single time.
Time taken/wasted: 90 seconds
The cisco political meat grinder is laughing at this sh**. There’s only one use for things like teamspace and that’s CYA and self-promotion. Save your confessions for a priest and your honesty for people who are not part of the second most political company in tech.