#culture

No energy. No details.
Just work faster and harder.

When is the chaos, being led by the blind, and wild expectations going to stop? We have been through the wringer and those of us who have held on hoping things will get better are losing hope! This is the definition of insanity!

Yes I know layoffs can still happen with a good quarter but.... LP made it seem like we finally turned a corner and that layoffs may not even be necessary. Well he was just fattening the pig before sla-ghter.

Fidelity pushed the non-tech to tech roles during the pandemic. Then finally someone realized it’s better to pay more for people who know what they’re doing.

Next cut will be managers who aren’t qualified and have been in their roles too long. Weak managers cost the firm too much, it’s not just one expense, but there’s a serious ripple effect.

Culture comes from the top down and when the top are filled with people that only have one brain cell, the rest of the company takes a hit.

Don't ki-l yourself for this place. It's truly not worth it. The people running things now don't respect us, so why should we respect them?

It was great seeing our world class leaders post about Mother’s Day just days after they laid off mothers and pressure the ones remaining to figure out how to absorb the work. The ones that work 16 hours a day and work their teams to burnout posting about family time are especially hypocritical. What a special place our Verizon family is. The authenticity is contagious. Love where you work love what you do! Let’s go win another week!

In the last 5 years, MDT stock is down 44% while the SP500 is up 67%. How much longer for CEO and Chairman Martha? Obviously his DEI strategy hasn’t paid off and neither has anything else. How much longer board?

Our leadership only cares about costs and stock prices right now. Long term? That's someone else's problem. We're all just numbers to them.

I'm just tired of always doing the extra work and never getting any recognition for it.

I've been here long enough that I've lost count of how many times I've raised the same concerns. Bad communication, broken processes, terrible leadership decisions. Every time, I think maybe this time they'll listen. Every time, nothing changes. And somehow, the act of complaining never gets old. Maybe it's because the problems are still there, or maybe it's because complaining is the only thing that reminds me I'm not crazy for being frustrated.

I've been asking myself this a lot lately. Would I rather be unemployed and stressed about money, or stay here and be stressed about work every single day? Neither option is good. But if you had to pick, which would you choose?

I used to love working here. Now I hate it, and I can't pinpoint when the shift happened.

Let me list what seems impossible here. Having executives who aren't a complete clown show. Keeping talented employees. Having a work environment that isn't toxic. Recovering from the gross negligence we've seen. I could keep going but you get the point.

Every single person on my team is. Every single one.

Some companies have favorite departments or favorite people. Not Oracle. They seem to genuinely dislike everyone equally. From the newest hire to the twenty year veteran. Nobody is safe from the bad treatment.

I've been through a few layoff rounds now and I've started tracking who goes. The pattern makes no sense. Hard workers, people with great reviews, people who consistently deliver get cut. People who coast, who hide in meetings, who produce almost nothing stay. People usually explain it as being about salary. High performers have been here longer and make more, which make them targets, and the cheaper people survive. Which makes sense only if you disregard the fact that this sends a message not to be too good at your job. Just be average and cheap and you'll be safe. How is that kind of workforce good for the company?

That's why we keep losing the best people, the real backbone of teams. So don't kid yourself that performance will save you. When your number's up, no amount of effort is going to change that.

BP has seen a suitcase parade of clown CEOs enter and leave the company. How will Meg be different and what actions and results will she be remembered for? Legacy starts now…

Really? You are that unhappy being so well paid, having world class facilities and being associated with great athletes? Things are so terrible.

Also, no one is ever specific at all. Bot much?

Why are bots after Nike?

I worked at Nike for close to a decade, and the first 8 years were the best professional years of my life.

It’s bizarre that you complain, complain, complain here…but don’t seem to have the cajones to stand up for yourself, have an honest conversation with your boss, or just leave if you are so terribly unhappy. Of course this is giving the benefit of the doubt that you aren’t bots and trolls.

Nike was built on people that had the courage to work through this type of pettiness.

How ya’ll doin’ on this fine Sunday?

Me? I’m feeling’ a little ‘spicy.’

On this Mother’s Day, I was just thinking how much better the world would be if Mickey’s mummy had just taken a pill. Could have spared us all the disgrace that this POS truly is.

Now I've seen them cut a friend who broke his back for this place with no warning. From now on, it's just a paycheck.

Culture is about how employees feel about returning to work Monday.

Sam Hammock CHRO: love your company, set the foundation!

To have a modern workforce, nimble, ready to work at anytime and anywhere, and now they return us to our father’s old fashioned office drudgery.
We aren’t “liberated” we’re back to being pawns and cogs whatever you want to call it!
All that investment in tech just to have it wasted with commutes into the office wasting time on traffic on delayed subways or the MBTA commuter rail.
“We’ve come a long way baby”
Fools oops you didn’t think licking us down for three years in Massachusetts would have a deleterious effect to the local economy real estate and restaurants?!!
Now six years into it all of a sudden it’s back to work slave.

All these teammates flying into Charlotte for 2-3 days. Hilarious and bad look. Par the course as they say. Never seen more butt kissing since merger.

It seems oxymoronic, doesn't it? When asking for updates or other changes, the answer is no, every single time. Even when requesting changes to efficiency or just plain common sense. No, that is not desired. Just. Plain. No.

Despite moving hq to Houston will CG be courtside during playoffs?
Commitment runs deep!

I mean, this site is a gold mine for the management. I am assuming they care about what's in the employee's head (and I might as well be very wrong) - reading this board paints that picture fairly well. Figure out what main themes on layoff.com and measure engagement, do the same thing with LinkedIn. If you were to average the two that would give you a much better picture about what's going on on the ground. The board should mandate execs to do this instead of fake survey's that are massaged to the Nth degree. Food for thought.

Why is elt so narrow minded that they want to make the environment so vile, most talented people quit. And all you're left with is geriatric, brainwashed boomers, or offshore low level talent?

If you want to be #1, don't use the excuse "well Exxon is doing it!". To be first you set your culture and company apart, not the same, mo--ns.

were you forced to get it to keep your job?

if so did management/HR push this upon you?

i keep hearing people were forced to get vaccinated.

We were first introduced to these ‘traveling’ resources when the Spotify model rolled through. Are they the ones leading the “next re-org” too? If not, were any of them impacted in this? Or are they the ones pushing the enablement lead lingo…

The company probably paid an additional surcharge to the consulting firm to heavily alter the results and put a positive spin on management perception.

Don’t believe the results to be shared.

I can survive wave after wave of layoffs, RTOs, and offshoring to India as long as they let me rip darts on the front steps again

My colleague was fired today, apparently she was coming into the office 4 days a week but only stayed for 5-10 minutes..

Not sure how they noticed but watch out.

But being treated like a human being instead of a soulless number throughout the process shouldn’t be optional.

My manager told me for years that I was the backbone of the team. Then I asked about a promotion and got told I was too important where I was. That's when I realized that being valuable at DXC doesn't get you ahead. It gets you stuck.

But by now I know the systems, I know the people, and leaving feels like starting over. So I stay. It's stupid but it's honest. I think there are many stuck at IBM with a similar mindset.

What the heck was this boring useless and common sense drivel?????

Hot mess….

Nobody knows whats going on with it…

Doesnt usaa know that a good portion of employees do not deal or interact with members?????

We are a much worse place with significantly more terrible, weak, shallow, and insecure leadership than when the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020. Im nervous that if the hantavirus becomes a pandemic that these human skinsuits will not react well or empatheticly. Anyone else feel the same?

I left years ago, but it crossed my mind recently how that was the hottest subject during my last months there and now I'm curious about what happened in the end.