#management

There is no reason to have so many layers of management in the US for the supply chain group and I'm sure the same applies to other groups like polaris, gbs, emtec.
A prime example of bloat is the COE group in materials management full of people who aren't experts of anything but are the ones making over complex processes that fail and promoting made up savings figures to justify their jobs in houston. Why close our offices in sg and in canada when we have this bloat in likely every organization within XOM. Shame on SG and the VPs with their lies when EMSC was introduced.

I want to thank all the managers who made it so miserable that I found employment elsewhere. My group manager told me that I would eventually be laid off, said “if there is anything I can do for you, let me know.” I asked for a letter or recommendation, which he said he couldn’t because of company policy. Since I have left, not only have I been 10x happier with my new job, a majority of those managers who thought “I’m too important for them to let me go” were let go. I’m now full remote. There is hope outside the stagecoach.

New research suggests many companies have used return-to-office (RTO) mandates as a tool to reduce headcount. A BambooHR survey of over 1,500 U.S. managers found that one-quarter of C-suite executives admitted they hoped RTO policies would prompt voluntary resignations. One in five HR professionals acknowledged that their in-office requirements were specifically designed to make staff quit.

Nearly 40 percent of managers surveyed said their organizations eventually turned to layoffs because not enough workers left after RTO mandates were introduced. The report concludes that "RTO mandates are layoffs in disguise," echoing a sentiment long suspected by employees.

The backlash to rigid office policies has been well-documented. Amazon faced one of the largest employee protests, with about 30,000 workers signing a petition and more than 1,800 pledging to walk out in opposition to its RTO requirement. Many staffers described updating their résumés and job hunting immediately after the mandate.

Data shows that 99 percent of companies with RTO mandates have seen lower employee engagement, nearly half have experienced higher-than-expected attrition, and 29 percent are struggling to recruit. BambooHR’s research further found that about one-third of employees would consider quitting if forced back to the office, even if fewer ultimately follow through.

The findings highlight a growing divide between leadership strategies and employee expectations, raising questions about the long-term costs of rigid return-to-office enforcement.

https://fortune.com/2025/09/30/bosses-admit-return-to-office-mandates-meant-to-make-staff-quit/

The intel middle mgmt needs to be humble n get off ur high horses

I was with a vendor company and came to the Hillsboro site for a technical review meeting , we were all properly dressed in smart business wear and hold n behold , the snr mgr who was hosting us appeared in his gym wear and slides … we were all applauded and talk among our selves at the airport commenting how unprofessionally that was.

I hope this gets to LipBu’s ears

How many managers do they need? when there's an issue, 3 or 4 of them come to you and say the same thing, maybe they should just do it. We are busy with little staff. Maybe the managers should be evaluated by the assotiates like in the movie Office Space. To many cheifs not enough indians.

MST home dispatch tech use and abuse company assets. They drive 100K-200K bucket trucks to their home and back to their home garage everyday. Big V8 6.3 L engines use a lot of gas and insurance on top. Also, with MST high pay and only have .5 job per tech a day per tech how is that saving company money and liability.
There are rules to follow when joining home dispatch program. Following the rules helps save gas and time and wear and tear on a vehicle used to drive to work and to home. But MSTs abuse this program from driving to the garage every day and dispatching at the garage. Making a stop at the grocery store to grocery shop in the company vehicle before driving home. Not closing your last job at the job site and instead, drive home and being still dispatched on your work ticket and then closing the job when you arrive home. I follow the rules, and I do not want the home dispatch program to go away because of MSTs taking advantage of the abuse. Also, MST managers are favoring many MSTs and letting the home dispatch MSTs do what ever they want. STOP ABUSING THE HOME DISPATCH PROGRAM YOU MSTs. You know who you are...

Has there ever been a bigger cr@pshow?

The systems, the process, and the endless disconnectedness. Non stop dysfunction. Will it ever stop?

What a huge mess. No one is ever accountable. We experience tons of effort to produce the most valueless work.

Get your 8 hours in, get your badge ins but please don’t add value. Anything but that.

Looking to apply here. How’s the culture and management at leismere

What is the business rationale for extending visas for GCLs and CLs who function primarily as people managers rather than technical leaders?
.why should a low level iq person with low technical skills who came on H1B be made people manger of a highly competed amrican worker

Still getting emails from corporate and my manager about completing the survey. Is it Mandatory? What will be the consequences if I don’t fill it out?

Been in Oracle for more than a decade and a company that values people would have never put someone like SC in charge. I respect LE deeply, he's genius. But couldn't stand the idea of working with someone like SC. The day I left the company was the best day of my life.

I found out many Cloud Engineering middle management people left OpenText because of uncertainty and mechanical behaviours of leadership. Out of curious, when i started talking to people over coffee , I learnt that IT under Chan*** have let go many long time, accomplished, hard working managers and that is making left out team quite delusional. I used to work for one the manager, who used to out 10 hrs a day even in weekends. This is ridiculous. No value for hard work n productive. Leadership is just a power mongers and replacing with their pets from other stores.

Any news on when McKinsey will depart so we can all get back to work? It would sure be nice to focus on work instead of meeting with them daily simply so they can provide our leadership with a fictitious projection for savings. I no longer even try to provide them with accurate information since we all know they are serving as middle management in Chevron now. Of course, their very survival depends on drumming up more fictitious projects.

Notice how some people can always stay close to 200% of their goal that month when the rest are at 70-85%. It’s so annoying that brown nosing will let a manager sc--w over the rest of the team by funneling all the work to their favorites /friends.

Has Exxon or Imperial Oil mgmt made any statement about ownership changes? I am tracking Imperial's board (it's on fire BTW as they are going through massive cuts this afternoon) and there are many rumors about this?

Managers are aware of who will be impacted in Oct/Nov. HR has the lists already. Does anyone know if the names are set in stone?

At Dell Technologies, we lack good leadership. Instead of transparency, we see random layoffs, no coherent strategy, and no confidence instilled in employees or shareholders. Leadership is not about hiding behind tough decisions.. it’s about owning them, communicating them, and guiding people through them.

The difference between courage and cowardice is clarity.

i was the only one riffed in my team and probably the product. Was working ok, not so excellent but not so bad that i will be riffed. Have been in Oracle for 2 years

If AI cannot replace FLMs and even SLMs then how is it used to detect early cancer ?

https://thefinancestory.com/oracle-fires-3000-employees-after-144bn-cloud-revenue-projection

And then this is saying that for example in Zurich it was mostly managers https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robin-wiethuchter_oracle-fired-most-of-its-managers-and-some-activity-7376369071761752064-npyv

Not sure about other teams but we were recently presented some Digital Delivery s..it that required us to update our own task lists and workload At the same time we were all asked to fill up a skills matrix that AI will use to automatically find people that could work on projects. In his naivity our managers told us that this will, in a first stage go through manual approval. What he missed was that it will require probably 10% of the current number of managers for the same job. This will also curb nepotism, we have people in our team who are favored by managers, they clearly get work above their skills to help them progress and then othe rear licking employees are asked to watch o er and to save their managers' protégé when they can't handle the work assigned to them.

No meeting, no heads up. Supervisors in MFG side don’t even know who got laid on their team on A/B shift. How did they pick the people.. crazy

300 layoffs. Not everybody at the same time. People that has been with the company for more than 10 years were let go just a few days before Open Enrollment. When staff in key positions are let go, it usually signals something beyond “normal turnover.” It could affect severance, morale, and how the remaining team should respond. HCSC is a disaster, and they are using the washington argument to do that. It is a lie! No communication at all.

@a7+1k60xsqgh said it perfectly.

Why do people even bother with kissing a$$ to upper management and then burdening themselves with the fake lifestyle of pretending to matter as a 'middle manager'? I did tech for about 20 years and then retired because my 'butt kissing' manager was an a-hole. Just wondering what in the he-l inspires someone to be that person that most people despise.

Nothing drives me up the wall like the phrase “Ask your supervisor”.

LITERALLY every senior manager, every email from exec, HR, colleagues, company intranet just tells you to Ask your supervisor if you have career ambitions, have family problems, have questions about the company strategy, company CO2 and NOx emissions, oh and while ur at it you can also ask your supervisor what next quarters dividends are gonna be right ???

Any managers here who can answer how management views PIP?
For the employee, PIP is a trap, you are asked to do more, more, and more, once you are out of PIP, they will ask to increase velocity to the death, once you are exhausted you are done anyway.
But how does management stay sane through the BS pretending?

I saw information that the number of reports under a manager is being reviewed. Any news? What does this mean?

In the past week or so, everybody got a request to complete a management survey. Is this mandatory to fill out? It would be ideal to fill it out honestly, but I'm worried about possible retaliation, especially given situations witnessed in the past. Does anybody know any details about how this works? Does it count against either the employee or manager if one doesn't respond? Thanks.

I'm eng4 level management, what does the severance package look like? I'll be exiting in 8 months at any rate, but I cannot find any detail on Comcast severance. Yes, I will be leaving voluntarily, but I would prefer a layoff.

My management structure has not allowed me to move forward. I've had top performance awards.....but it doesn't matter. My current manager has put in bogus evaluations on my mid-year that I didn't even work on in 2025!
I filed with HR and they basically found that my claims were "unsubstantiated misconduct". Oh boy, do I have a ton of info on that one!!! To be sure, HR, is not your friend and they'll say "I'm sorry but due to confidentiality reasons, we can't say" to ever question you might have.
My advise? HR will not help you. As the victim, I've not even heard what they did, who they talked to, and what came of it. And yet, here I am.

Remote work isn’t the problem. Mediocre leadership is - Fast Company https://share.google/6TLgG7Z01JYJi77Ze

From my manager's manager. Looks like its the end of the road for me at Juniper. Marketing group.

I believe the title says it all. Another week of sc--w-ups followed by upper management and executives acting like school yard bullies in meetings.

But if you get caught not managing resources and tasks correctly, it's just natural to be on the defensive, tell half-truths or complete lies to cover your butt. Or divert attention away and towards another person, etc.

And my manager is trying to intimidate me using the presence report. What can I do or say to get them off my back?

There is so much talent wasted because they have managers who are unqualified or lack basic skills. Fidelity could be a great place to work again, but it would take too much time and money to fix the broken management system.

And we don’t have time or money to spend on development.

absolutely brutal news out of pwc middle east this morning. they’ve announced that 66 zero partners and about 1,500 staff are being let go immediately.

the knee-je-k reaction is that it’s because of the pif ban. people assume that restriction is the trigger. but i believe it’s more complicated. yes, pif matters for every major management consulting firm. but the real story is about the market changing.

the market is contracting. clients are realizing what ai can do. broadly speaking, clients now want to build their own in-house consulting capacity. the cost difference between hiring someone internally versus using an external consultant is massive. they know they need those skills on their own teams. so why keep hiring outside help?

there is a definite shift. on paper, the advisory market in the middle east should be growing. i did a video recently pointing out that the projection was roughly 13 % year-on-year growth. last year saudi spent about 4 billion on consultants. this year should be 4 billion plus 13 %. something never quite added up, and this feels like validation.

pwc grew rapidly from around 2015 to 2025. they won nearly every big transformation project tied to vision 2030. but nobody thought that kind of scale would be sustainable forever. you can’t run project management offices for a decade and expect everything to stay the same.

now pwc is being forced to pull back. the layoffs are brutal, and i deeply sympathize with everyone affected. but cutting that many people is not done lightly or cheaply. clearly they’ve run the numbers: weigh the cost of layoffs now against the upside of operating leaner during slower growth.

i’ve also heard a rumor that another big four firm is going to announce something similar very soon. i won’t name names, but expect this wave to spread. it’s not just the big four—more consulting firms will feel this squeeze.

crazy times. if you’re being affected or know people who are, reach out. maybe we can build a group to help each other through this. i’d love to hear your take.

Don’t be a wu-s. Do the right thing and be transparent. If there are discussions happening in the upper rooms and you know info the majority of us don’t, come here and spill it. Be anonymous and at least have a shred of humanity, share the tea. You can bootlick your boss in private, but share info freely here. You might be selfish in private, but at least be a decent person here for the sake of your coworkers and help us out.

The response by these dipsh-ts is comedy. Almost seems like they are trying to cover up another massive mistake they made with this Shai-Hulud response. Too bad none of the incompetent workers will be laid off, only those with a brain and those that speak the truth will be laid off.

Ship to home cheating numbers by purposely sending out incorrect merchandise by “subbing.” This not only feels morally wrong to do, but also illegal somehow..? Are any other stores experiencing this? Managers tell us to “sub” out merchandise if we don’t have the right one in store, i.e. send a medium instead of small, but some even more extreme.

Today was the chopping day at NGS. Many managers. Directors. And lower level people riffed in preparation for JG bid. They cut to the bone marrow on this one. All their experience. Knowledge base and loyalty they got rid of. I hope they don’t get it.