#culture

She is the best Intel could pull in this day and age I guess? I am confident with her coding background and her ability to be so fluent in AI Intel will be back in no time.

She could use a Dale Carnegie course though.

#accountantwithnoITskills

Love this company , and my CEO ! Tiaa is a great company that does wonderful things for its participants , we are lucky to have a thoughtful ceo and leadership team . And all of my fellow colleagues are gems .

Is it just me or is everyone in or that they promote to leadership roles resemble the dudes in college who would do keg stands? A totally weird chest thumping group of dudes. Many who seem to be clinging to the good all days when they were athletes and now dress like guys that are competent, but really just brown nosed all the right people at all the right times. Bird brains with serious bravado. Not one that can actually solve any problems, they are just real good at deep throating. They certainly never disagree with the big wigs. So many bad decisions made by the EC and no one with a backbone to disagree with them. Not entirely their fault I suppose. The big X let go of anyone who openly disagreed with them long ago. Obedience is the standard, not brains!

Now leaner and meaner VZ is ready to soar. It has been many years now but the board finally is addressing their failures. Why they waited so long is puzzling.

Band 4 manager here. I’ve lost a lot of talent over the past year due to RIF. As ops has moved over to HIH there’s a whole team over there doing stuff we deal with. Their manager pulled me into a meeting to say his employees were complaining about mine. Mainly that we are slow to respond, and that my team isn’t “nice.”

I asked for specifics and if anyone was unprofessional or outright rude. Turned out the HIH team doesn’t like that my team is direct, asks them to repeat when they don’t understand due to language or the ask is unclear, takes initiative, and basically does stuff fast without explanation because we don’t have time and have too much to do.

More discussion led to him asking me to have my team slow down and be more “pleasant” and to engage in back and forth rather than just getting to the point. I told him my team complains that they get pinged with just “hi” and won’t respond unless there is something actionable too. He asked for us to spend more time helping his team with their work so the can learn and get better and that my team has told his they don’t have time. I agreed. And I said as long as they are being professional, I can’t expect more from them because they are watching their friends and coworkers lose jobs that are being given to HIH.

HIH manager was very surprised and didn’t realize that what was going on. I said as long as we meet SLA then that’s that and I don’t expect my team to respond same day for anything that isn’t a managed incident.

Anyone at HIH on this forum, be glad we are interacting with you professionally. I’ve had team members express downright hatred for HIH. Nothing against you personally, but Cigna is firing us to give you jobs, so don’t expect friendliness.

None of this is sustainable. I’ve told my Director to put me on the layoff list. When I have to bite my tongue to avoid yelling at HIH, and I get no answers from above other than more RIF is coming but my team is okay because we are 20:80, I can’t do it anymore.

Just joined the bank and surprised about how messy operation is.. This company is a sinking ship!

Canon USA’s transition to Google will end up being one of the most regrettable decisions of Sammy’s tenor.

If you are like me, you did your best to prepare but nothing could prepare you for the drastic change that was put upon us on Monday. I bet most of you sat at your computer and threw your hands up once or twice this week. The new tagline for Canon will be “ Blame on Google”.

As I start to learn the product more each day, I am finding out that Google simply isn’t Microsoft when it comes to corporate USA needs and wants.

If Microsoft was concerned that more companies would move to Google, odds are they wouldn’t have raised their per license structure. The reality is Microsoft knows they are better and could charge this fee.

Communication has been at an all time low this week because people simply don’t know how to use the product.

The money we save will be offset by the lack of production this product brings upon us.

The person who made this decision should resign immediately.

One thing I genuinely appreciate about my team at Truist is the leadership style in our organization. Our leaders trust us to do our jobs. There’s no constant hovering or minute-by-minute monitoring. We’re given autonomy, clear expectations, and ultimately we’re judged on the results we deliver.

What’s interesting is when you compare that to some of the cross-functional groups we work with. Their leadership approach couldn’t be more different. From what I’ve seen, it’s a lot of micromanaging and tracking every hour people spend on their laptops.

And honestly, the outcomes speak for themselves. That group seems to struggle far more just getting basic things done, and the results simply aren’t there. Our clients are the ones that pay the price for this!

It really reinforces a pretty simple lesson: when leaders don’t trust their teams and try to control every detail, it usually backfires. Autonomy and accountability drive performance. Micromanagement just slows everything down.

But am blown away at the number of id--ts, racists and trolls that are posting and commenting.

It use to be 80% informative and 20% id--ts, racists and trolls. Those numbers have flipped since lads summer.

Maybe it’s just the TMO page? Maybe people not even associated with TMO are posting/ commenting ?

Both Drum and Derek A have gone under the radar, cancelling meetings.

Obvious they are going to get a barrage of pay questions which they have been lying about all year.

Ah yes, what a remarkable era for leadership. After all the sweeping changes and grand announcements, we’ve clearly reached the pinnacle of organizational excellence. Truly inspiring.

Now that performance reviews are safely behind us, it’s the perfect moment for everyone to relax into what really matters: another round of meetings—carefully designed, of course, to justify the existence of a few very well-compensated roles. Remember part of the Kool Aid part is to comply with Optics.

Perhaps it’s also time for us all to drink a bit more Kool-Aid and fully embrace the spectacle. For those looking for inspiration, a rewatch of Eyes Wide Shut might set the right tone. After all, if we’re going to have a party, we might as well do it properly. Oil, gas, and a healthy dose of theater—what could be more fitting?

With the reviews done, the real work begins: dinners, drinks, and decision-making of the highest imaginable caliber. Nothing says “strategic leadership” quite like carefully curated stakeholder fun and flawless optics. Ah yes, what a remarkable era for leadership. After all the sweeping changes and grand announcements, we’ve clearly reached the pinnacle of organizational excellence. Truly inspiring.

Now that performance reviews are safely behind us, it’s the perfect moment for everyone to relax into what really matters: another round of meetings—carefully designed, of course, to justify the existence of a few very well-compensated roles. Substance is optional; optics are essential. Perhaps it’s also time for us all to drink a bit more Kool-Aid and fully embrace the spectacle. For those looking for inspiration, a rewatch of Eyes Wide Shut might set the right tone. After all, if we’re going to have a party, we might as well do it properly. Oil, gas, and a healthy dose of theater—what could be more fitting? With the reviews done, the real work begins: dinners, drinks, and decision-making of the highest imaginable caliber. Nothing says “strategic leadership” quite like carefully curated stakeholder fun and flawless optics. Actual work? Well… that seems to have quietly slipped off the agenda somewhere along the way. But that’s a small price to pay when the show is running this smoothly. Actual work? Well… that seems to have quietly slipped off the agenda somewhere along the way. But that’s a small price to pay when the show is running this smoothly.

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Do not come to T-mobile especially if you would be in the northeast region. Your job will be threatened every day. Your Salesforce will be monitored and if it doesn't match your outlook you'll be threatened again. But there will be a lot of job openings cuz everyone is leaving.

After 90% of the MLT was let go in December. Whether you liked them or not everything has gone to sh-t. But today embarks on the official end. The last person standing in Marketing ALedgister was let go. For all of us left in Marketing and are Marketing people, today marks a sad day. She was an amazing leader, she stood up for the right things and defended her people. The global campaign team did not exist before her. She was a fearless leader. Now we’ve been dismantled even more and are stuck with the two worst human beings ever. Marcus and Lindsay are snakes, truly horrible people. From the moment Rita left they planted the seeds and tried to take over. If OpenText stood by what they said when they got rid of the MLT and moved out toxic people and culture why are M&L still here? It’s a sad day when new leaders one, don’t know anything about marketing and two rids those who do just to look smarter. For us who are left, good luck to us, because we are certainly in for a ride.

Yep

Anytime someone offers advice on an exit strategy, its followed by trolling of “Thank you Mr. recruiter” or “thank you LinkedIn headhunter” . I think that most people at Citi enjoy the warmth blanket of group misery. Its easier to swallow and cope with and easier to sell to yourself if you can convince yourself and others that “there’s no use to even try”.

Don’t dare succeed at leaving Citi, that means that it IS possible and I have no excuse for not trying.

Just tons of Citi-philes out there that just can’t stand to hear about someone leaving and being better off. The selling of the lie that you’ll never make more money elsewhere is so predominant on this site speaks volumes to the fear factor some live under.

Be free or be a sheeple.

And Oracle is tops

https://youtu.be/a1Vd85ilWiI

When was this 1975? Of course you did because there wasn’t the technology. Why would we go back to this?? Boomer

For old timers forced ranking used to be done in November and then the paperwork/PR would follow in either December or January. Just curious when are the ratings finalized now? We got our ratings this week, but the question is when were they finalized behind the scenes / negotiated who get what rating ?

Real leaders don’t smile while destroying lives. Real leaders don’t look their employees in the eye and lie about the EMEA strategy for six months.
You’ve spent half a year dodging responsibility and expecting us to work "business as usual" while you plotted this behind our backs. You threw the Credo and its principles in the trash the moment they became inconvenient. Do you actually think we’re stupid? These aren't just "headcounts"—these are families, mortgages, and lives at stake.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking: You announce a reorganization on Wednesday, and by Thursday, you have the nerve to tell us you’re "confident we’ll continue to give our all."
The trust is dead. You’ve broken it beyond repair. You can't execute people one day and demand their passion the next. You should be ashamed of your cowardice.
Make no mistake: it is now Us vs. You.
We were the lifeblood of this company. We are the ones who built what you are currently dismantling. You celebrated us yesterday only to betray us today. You have no honor, no backbone, no strategy, and—clearly—no soul. You aren't leaders; you’re just pathetic puppets.
Despite your total lack of integrity, we have a professional conscience. We will continue to deliver our best for our clients and our colleagues—not for you, but because our ethics are something you could never understand.

This is the kind of company where low-effort “people leaders” can work with you for a year and start misspelling your name as a way to depersonalize people and signal hierarchy and people are terrified to go take a 20 minute walk break. One of the worst cultures I’ve encountered.

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I see people who seem genuinely happy with their work to this day and I don't get it. I can't imagine waking up and feeling that way in the new Dell. I used to feel that way years ago, but so much has changed that now I'm just showing up and counting down the hours most days.

The only smart move is to be on the lookout for something better.

First our beards, then our coffee cups, now our clocks!
Why, why??!!

Even before this week's annoucement, I could tell this organization was one of the most poorly structured "too many chefs" places I will ever worked at. Now we're in a position where Security Sales doesn't know what to sell or if there will be anyone around to deliver, and you have band 5s in the US still saying "EMEA is BAU" and that we still need to find ways to "continue as normal and building the best case for the value of our PS cyber work". so in other words sell / deliver while you can and when it's time we will RIF you all to purgatory and get hcltech to deliver whats left. how the f--k am I expected to work thinking this?

This place is a joke, plain and simple. The company is run just like the American Government. Mismanaged, wasteful, overpaid leadership and top-heavy org chart, excessively outsourced, process bloated, disorganized, inefficient, zero trust, poor communication, on and on. Its one big milk cow and everyone's vying for a te-t. If you're an overachiever or results driven, get ready to tow the line for your coworkers. Everyone will run to you for help because there's so much dysfunction that any productive employees gets inundated with help requests until they are burned out and either leave or quiet quit. The existing employees learned that hard work isn't rewarded, so the culture is to not care too much and milk the te-t as long as possible. Talented and productive people see the writing on the wall and bail after a few years, leaving behind the riff raff. C-suite execs get inserted sideways into the organization without any idea about how things function in a heavily regulated company like BD, resulting in multiyear multi-million-dollar projects getting abandoned at the whim of new VPs in lieu of their new vision. Communication is poor, syncing between teams and depts is such that workload and project tracking, pre work documentation, and process bloat are the norm. Resulting in inefficient workflows, delayed timelines, stagnated projects, unnecessary time sinks and frustration, just so management can attempt to have visibility and traceability while sitting in meetings all day. There's waaay too many meetings, and waaay too many people who do nothing but sit in meetings all day. Theres's people who exist solely to sync information between workers and management because everything is so disorganized. This place is a total circus, and its no wonder were in the position were in. The sad thing is BD is still a pretty good company to work for, which says a lot about the state of America as a whole.

Watching the replay … Based on what I gathered from Alfonso, It is up to me which model I follow - Hybrid, In Office, WFH. “ think as adults, its a personal choice”

Alfonso just done an All hands. What a confusing All hands and a load of cr-p.

This company is a big fat tu-d. Specifically, it’s HPE Networking within a tu-d.

It's amazing how many low-IQ people there are at Dell, many of whom are on this board.

For the last time, once and for all, Dell's medieval RTO policy was NEVER EVER EVER intended to increase productivity, improve team cohesiveness, or any one of the lies and propaganda vomited out by executive leadership.

It was ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS intended to make your life a living he-l, so much so that you ultimately quit on your own. This way Dell doesn't have to pay severance, nor does it have to incur any negative publicity as a result of wide-scale layoff announcements.

It's a BAIN trick. It's greed. It's selfishness. It's a lie, but it is today's Dell. Dell is doing everything it can to reduce headcount at the least cost possible. Get that through your heads. It's the only cohesive strategy leadership has right now.

What could be next?

Any suggestions on making company better?

Geoff transformed a strong healthy Oak into a decaying hollowed-out tree. TIMBER!!!

I was not surprised by this statement on yesterday’s call. This begs the question, then WHY are those people sitting up there collecting checks? Alfonso also said there were too many people involved in the process. Too many people running reports and not enough execution. Again, why are they sitting there. None of them can do what we ask the front line to do today. Great leaders lead from the trenches not from the conference room.

Thumbs up if your Team is in worse shape now after last year's Reorg.....the talk is there might be a new one to fix it.....

Our manager has recently initiated bi-weekly meetings with all employees. The team already has regular meetings, and it is an open team where the manager is universally liked. I have noticed the team seems to be getting punished for not being able to do all things all the time due to other teams regulatory failings which are universally creating work for everyone adjacent; any ideas what might be going on as a guess? Could the company, wrongly as usual, be targeting our team?

She gave word salad on what they want to do without a plan how to achieve it.
Just BS without any weightage..

Really liked D. Gold answer that he wants to focus on “how”.. everyone always talk about what.

I've been working here for two years and still don't understand how they keep the lights on. The people running this place make decisions that hurt the business constantly. They ignore what customers want, run off good staff, and act surprised when sales drop. It's a miracle we're still around.

Years of poor mergers, awful stock performance, and a massive data breach have left the company weaker, less trusted, and increasingly irrelevant. Instead of owning these failures and investing in real product improvement, leadership has done almost the opposite.

The products have stagnated. Customers know it. That’s why they’re leaving. And rather than fixing what’s broken, leadership’s answer has been blunt-force cost cutting and pushing a ~30% SPI increase onto customers who already don’t see the value. It’s not strategy — it’s desperation.

While customers churn and employees are asked to do more with less, Mike and the executive team have quietly extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from the company. That money didn’t go into innovation, security, or customer success. It went into executive pockets.

The most insulting part is the attitude. When concerns are raised, the response isn’t accountability or respect its dismissal, contempt, and sometimes outright laughter. Leadership hits paydirt while employees hit the breadline, and we’re told this is “good for the business.”

It isn’t. It’s short-term financial engineering at the expense of long-term trust.

Shame on the leadership team for hollowing out a company that once mattered. And shame on anyone still carrying water for decisions that have clearly failed customers, employees, and shareholders alike.

This didn’t have to be the outcome. It was a choice.

Well said, @ad+1keshgf86.