Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

My middle managers day

My boss spends her entire workday talking. All day, she is “stakeholdering” with people, then comes to us to get all the actual information. After that, she passes that half-baked information to superiors behind our backs, making it look like it’s all her work.

Many times, the leaders above don’t even know that we have spent countless hours solving problems or working on a solution. On top of that, she is too lazy to even put it together in slides — she expects us to do that so she can go behind our backs and present it to her VPs or what not ?

Do we need her ? I do not know but she will stay and people who are doing actual work will be fired.


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They should enforce the scope rule. Anyone with less than X FTE direct reports should be let go. To contrast, Jenson Huang CEO at NVIDIA has no less than 30 direct reports. granted, those are senior guys, he probably doesn’t need to worry about their development…

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We are too heavy for sure. They need to go.

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You could probably let go of half the management over 3rd level and it would actually improve the way the place runs.

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My Snr Director likes to list out all the people he’s speaking to…it’s a really long list. We never hear any details of any of those conversations though and he never seems to ask us for feedback or input

It strikes me that there are a lot of senior leaders busy doing nothing

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