#culture

You seen him in that sweater with the zipper that goes down to the chest, trying to protray him as this warm figure like Mr. Rogers. What years did Mr. Rogers air? Mr. Rogers aired from 1968 until 2001. So anyone who was a child during this time is meant to accept the CEO as, a similar figure. But that is where it’s just an illusion. The same tactics used in union busting, but instead applied to all. All a lie. The stock is overvalued, and morale is low. I think lay offs have a high probability of happening.

Pwofits pwofits pwofits!

looks like those days are over.

The tech middle to upper management were they have an understanding from a technology perceptive of things but no concept on client delivery/product functionality/product use case is so useless. Please hire additional leadership and get leaders that are from the banking space and understand the market we are in.

They don't code so they don't make money, they have no domain knowledge except vaguely what every product does, and their ideas for improving products are not aligned with that clients are asking for.

This company should be focused on client delivery from top to bottom. We will never be one of the worlds greatest software companies, but we can be the worlds best banking company.

Anyone know what percentage of people actually reach their ultimate potential CL? It is a vanishingly small number. Just another false promise.

fiserv had been losing top talent for years. the people who built the products and who teams actually respected and followed. some climbers thought this was an opportunity for advancement but they have proven to be pretenders.

should be the theme from Jaws. There will be no delay approving or problem with the cost of the licensing fee.

“We base pay on labor market trends—not cost of living—so your compensation reflects your role’s true market value.”

Ok fine, but does anyone else see the idiocy of paying Stankey 26 million then? Based on what he’s done to once-proud AT&T he wouldn't get half that money at any other company in the world! Zero chance.

Lots of opinions y’all. And grief towards either the past or current state. Can’t change the past and no darn sense complaining about today.

What are the top five things to get us back on the right track?

#LeadingWithCompassion

Just popped in and was surprised to not see a thread on the announcement this week. It's creating gossip for sure, would like to hear from people who feel they can speak freely though. I don't have dealings with them directly, but based on the comments I've seen in here, that seems to be a good thing. Do people think this will improve the culture? Are people relieved or worried what could come after this?

See this link. I've added details in the post comments

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7427118095061819392-rD0R?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAdeT6sBq6HR8cmvn-Ypy8_0uJhVxf9JjF4

I was under the impression we’d agreed to keep Friday afternoons clear. I’d stepped away for an hour, having not had any meaningful work come through all week, only to return to a stream of messages and requests for urgent, cancel everything else 4pm meetings.

This evolves around items that have been outstanding for weeks! If they weren’t time-critical on Monday, it’s hard to see why they’ve become so this late on a Friday.

Stop panic managing everything!!! Or at least say - we don't need you until Friday afternoon, then we want 30hours solid! But no I am not working all weekend to catch up on someone else's bad planning. Another day makes no odds other than your stupid status tracker.

I have never in all my life listened to as much garbage or side stepping than covered in today's town hall. So many people unhappy. What really annoys me is that AB stood up and talked complete garbage and did not answer any of the job title or other HR queries at all. It is very clear a large portion of employees are unhappy, and guess what Pearson really do not care. Time to jump from this sinking and toxic ship.

Our tone deaf Chro feels enough time has passed to post with a lame post it again. Dan - please fire her!!! The one before during Covid was a million times better.

Has the street finally realized the BK bullsh-t?

Im sure the 🤡 will say "we are still the same company". I say yes, FRAUDS

@SB
“What you've just said is one of the most insanely id--tic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now d-mber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

― Billy Madison (movie)

Happy Friday, enjoy your long lunches!!

As voted on by corporate america:

#1 2025 revenue inducing change = RTO
Comply or Fly, corps always win!

Okay I was never a fan of hans... But

What's up with all these tough guy avp and directors now just out and open sh-----g on hans ..

Big tough guys now, where were you a year ago tough guy...

I understand in the vz world bootlicking is part of the game. But JFC these jokers are so gd obvious.

Where the credo about owning problems and not passing the buck...

Should I take that as a good sign? Or is it just the calm before the storm?

In some departments there’s no worry for layoffs. People quit at such a rapid rate they can’t even staff properly. This company is doomed unless it corrects its ways. Customers and workers alike despise how evil the processes are and customers cancel and employees leave because of how terrible the call routing is.

Anyone else get this mandate this week from their manager as a SWE? I dont understand how this is even possible or how it can sustain itself. I asked my manager if we have any ideas or plans for what any customer or user would want in an AI feature, he said no, but leadership wants to see AI, so we as engineers need to come up with something. ??? Isnt that products job?

The only "AI feature" we have made as a team in 3 years is an internal RAG chatbot that reads our docs. Some guy also added AI code review because management made him. Thats it. And no one uses any of it, ever.

So how are we gonna make a feature every quarter until the end of time? Eventually we will run out of places to cram it, even if these features go in smoothly (they wont). This place has gotten absolutely insane.

Roughly a month ago the UK IT team were laid off without any consideration.
After many of the Hellaby office started to complain we're needed, they back tracked and said there's three positions in Hellaby and the London team is now staying.
The current director - who knows NOTHING about IT- is being made team lead. I repeat, NOTHING about IT and it's issues.
Their name rhymes with Haki Sidey.

Having worked here for a bit on the IT team, I can tell you there's nothing good coming from this.
All laptops are expected to have a 10-20 day dispatch time!
From our current 1-2 day for UK

AI and India have ki-led this company.

Getting to see posts from those involved, sharing in real time, is incredibly sad and validating. There is a lot of value in that. Not making light of the real pain being experienced. However, the Theater of the Absurd in upon us. Then Theresa flips a table with "20% raise with AI!" Can't wait for the Reunion Show where everyone shows texts from Stephanie, Bob and Ian. Andy Cohen is unprepared for this level of insanity and that is saying something.

This is capitalism on steroids. Thanks America!!! People are being laid off and CEO is being rewarded as if she found crypton!! What a world we live in. No CEO should make more than 30 times of average FTE salary!!

I feel like all the bs iris articles about making a difference and flu--er content about amazing impact is just nauseating. Read the room and chill tf out. Peoples lives have been turned upside down.

Software/program that basically makes Ramesh sound like Bob? Not their exact words, but basically what they were getting at. What a slap in the face to our global partners also, if the language barrier is having such an impact on our business or you’re embarrassed that you hire offshore individuals maybe you should consider changing your business practices. SMH - how embarrassing

So EH message was no bureaucracy…but we need to save money and be smart about waste. Yet everyone has a free pass to go fast? Good luck with that at this company. Just don’t give us less than 100% bonus because you can’t control SG&A based on your “just do it” guidance.

Who are the 3 stooges smiling on the main picture on Insider this week? The ear to ear grins on the center and left guy look so fake.

This is what is wrong with our company. We have so many fake employees at our company who act as hype squad for our fiber growth, wireless net adds, convergence, etc.

You realize the company doesn’t care about you? I cannot stand these teacher’s pets.

Where's the bottom. All was fine yesterday, but today begs to differ. What a bunch of clowns at the helm.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/target-director-says-she-had-global-entry-voided-days-after-encounter-with-ice

Just high level talk with no substance - we are doomed

Everyone was eagerly awaiting the plan reveal February 5th. That didn't happen. Now what? We all operate in confusion without direction? Will it ever be shared? Crazy. You can't make this stuff, this place gets more and more insane every day.

Anyone else sick of ebitda ruining the vcip??

What percentage of the company will leave in 2026 due to 5 days in.

Badge in and badge out coming as well……

Curious on how people would grade EH so far in his stint as CEO. I feel like it’s pretty mixed, coming in everyone was super excited, and lately been feeling those sentiments have waned a little.

What is the criteria for being a HiPo in XOM?

I have seen a few so far - they literally just destroy the morale of the teams, make terrible decisions that the teams have to bear the impact of long after they leave. They focus heavily on optics to outside organizations, they don’t like technical people (or anyone in their teams) that actually are heart and soul of their teams and perhaps the only good part of it is that they leave soon but it never feels soon enough.

Question is are the rest of us incapable of seeing how amazingly great these future leaders are (and that’s why we didn’t make it) or is this all just as true as it feels?

I chose to leave while I was ranked well and earning a strong salary before COVID and before the company’s negative challenges became more visible to others. It wasn’t about compensation or performance; it was about alignment. I realized that the work and priorities there no longer matched what I wanted for my life.

Today, I can honestly say that no amount of money, not even $2 million+ a year would persuade me to return as an employee.

We each get one life and one youth. I decided I didn’t want to spend my prime years in an environment that didn’t align with my values and aspirations. Working at ExxonMobil was a valuable experience. I learned a great deal, both positive and negative about corporate culture, and that clarity ultimately helped me make my decision. There are higher ambition and better career opportunities and experiences out there for many.

Looks like ford is tracking computers. Happened to check network traffic and workblaze-us.lakesidesoftware.com is showing up every 3 minutes. This wasn’t on my network traffic in the recent past. If you take a trip over to their website it shows Ford as a trusted partner. Transparency would have been nice.

https://www.fortuneindia.com/technology/meet-the-pearson-boss-who-punctures-ceo-bravado/130226

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Is this some kind of joke? I've never seen more bravado from a group of leaders and their CEO in my career.

He may have less bravado than Elon, or Jensen, but he has less to no products people care about either.

World gone mad.

Your comment is below. I wanted to tell you something and make sure you didn't miss it because I really appreciate your insight and hard work.

I said, "You have very valuable insight. Thank you for helping the FE. How much longer does Walgreens have do you think and what types of things do you think will happen in the near future. How do things play out. What clues are you seeing. What is consistent with your prior experience?"

You posted, "Hate to say it, but it won’t function, along with many other teams. It’s far beyond any sort of recovery or miraculous business pivot of the decade fiction the spokespeople are trying to spin and pitch. I work on a very small, but mighty, team that supports FE on all matters of consequence and we still got hit, lost one. It was already severe triage “plug the dam” for years now, laughable really. I rode shotg-n on the very protracted death of another Chicagoland titan of industry and can tell you this is the very same death swirl/playbook all over again. Be warned, this will not be the protracted downfall that was. There’s no financial levers left to pull here to replenish the coffers, which will inevitably spook the Sycs,, ergo more ‘calibrations’ blah blah. It’ll be a sad broken less than skeleton crew up in here by mid/end of Q2 barely KTLA’ing. If you can find an out, by all mean, please take it."