#management

"I wrote The Dilbert Principle around the concept that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don't want doing actual work. You want them ordering the doughnuts and yelling at people for not doing their assignments—you know, the easy work. Your heart surgeons and your computer programmers—your smart people—aren't in management. That principle was literally happening everywhere."

I have a colleague who is very happy at SAP right now.

He has a job he likes, and a good manager and team.

He does not care about the rest of the world at SAP.

He knows CK, but could not name any other board member.

He never listens to all-hands calls or reads management mails from above his boss. Never. His reasoning: if anything important comes up, his manager will inform him anyway.

He manages his team and PO so that he has all the freedoms he needs to be happy.

Boy do I envy this guy! But I will follow him regarding all-hands calls and ignoring the management cr*p. Time to build a form of resilience.

Did your managers already start assigning work from your laid off coworkers to you? Mine tried, but I said I was so swamped there was no way to fit it in. So, so incredibly busy. Which, honestly, isn’t even a lie. I plan on staying “too busy” for it, whatever the consequences.

Is it typically your direct supervisor, one level above them or two levels above them? How does it work?

I think the interviewer enjoyed throwing management some curveballs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZSsfTnQPIE

The description says “Tri-state area” but at least some of these employees are out of Blue Bell, PA.

If you have any option to get out, do it. The stress and mismanagement here aren’t worth sticking around for.

I left a place where everything ran like clockwork and the perks were real for a 10 percent bump in pay. Now I have to deal with pure chaos and leadership that seems to have no clue what’s happening. Some days I feel like I’m just part of a sideshow and we’re all waiting for someone to figure out the plan. It’s exhausting and frustrating, and I miss having structure.

Every time a new manager shows up, they seem to invent a new layer of bureaucracy to prove they’re adding value. What it means in reality is endless forms, meetings, and progress reports that make the actual work harder to do. Simplicity is a foreign word to all of them.

I know our direct managers are not the ones making the decision on who's going to be laid off, but is there a chance they know already? My manager is a good guy, but he's been acting a bit weird lately, standoffish, and with this announcement, I'm now getting paranoid.

I used to feel like there was at least some sort of plan behind the chaos, but lately it’s obvious no one at the top knows what they’re doing. We're stuck with incompetent management and until that changes, things will only continue to get worse. I miss the old FIS.

As CCA (Complex Clinical Audit) is very young in its programs so let’s change up leadership by moving around Directors that have never worked in other line of business…this makes zero sense. JS the Staff VP this is her grand idea. Let’s cause more division and turnover. It’s going to take 6 months to year to train these Directors in their new positions and who’s going to have to do it…the teams the managers and staff who are currently drowning!! Don’t ever work in CCA. It’s horrible everyday and the blame rests on the managers to fix the survey results!

Are you still required to coach employees on the presence report by HR? Or things have slowly fallen off the radar?

So many posts about managers stealing credit.

But what no one talks about these days is why managers are ONLY giving opportunities to individuals who are in the same region as themselves to show off while pushing high performing associates into oblivion??

Is this some some toxic tactic to frustrate associates into quitting?

You are a top performer who genuinely cares about your job and your customers. You strive to improve yourself each year, yet you can still be let go without any warning!

I’m relieved that I haven’t invested more years in this place; it feels like a blessing. I realize now that I was foolish to dedicate so much of my time and weekends to work. It still hurt but I would never go back to this environment. One of the worst place I have worked at. Management is a total joke. Only my coworkers were wonderful. Always have a backup plan and upskill if you are still there. I'm glad I have not wasted 10 years at this place….

LE quote from the results call today

“ Well, I think we have substantial advantages because we are an infrastructure company and we are an application company. There are 2 things that happen. As an application company, we needed -- we knew we had to start generating our applications. We just couldn't do it with armies of people anymore. We still need people, don't get me wrong. But the number of people we need is substantially less. And we can build/generate much better applications than we can hand build. And we've been working on these AI application generators for some time, and we're actually using them.”

Might explain the rif. But has anyone seen these magical application generators that will replace the Fusion devs at scale and with security and zero bugs while not breaking anything on a deploy?

Anyone want to comment how we won’t miss the dearly departed staff?

Long story short, there is going to be significant changes, at least the mail suggested that, anyone's got any clue??

Does anyone have any info on all the field upper management being at Houston this week?

Just wow. Speaks volumes about this company

Allegedly he stayed under $5000 per purchase on his company Amex card. The MO was purchasing and selling tool sets. His boss must be in the hotseat. No doubt an audit is ongoing. I guess one way to "layoff" employees is to root out crooks. This does not reflect well on any level of Medtronic management. I was concerned about the management turnover in purchasing at NH over a decade ago. How can you spot potential corruption from a revolving door? My boss, the General Counsel, shrugged off the concern. Not his department- until it is. I was regarded as a PITA because my actual experience running real businesses taught me you had better mind the till, or any other business asset that is fungible.

For some reason, the ELT has never concentrated on achieving true excellence in the fundamentals of the traditional oil and gas business. By that, I mean the essentials: negotiating contracts with governments, identifying and fixing the root causes of exploration failures, and maximizing resource recovery with efficiency.

Instead, the focus has drifted toward chasing the latest “shiny object.” At one point, we branded ourselves as a technology company that just happened to operate in oil and gas. Then came waves of emphasis on digital, leading performance, competitive performance, AI, and now data centers. It often feels as if leadership is embarrassed by the industry itself and compelled to dress it up with fashionable labels.

Yet for all this rebranding, I have not seen a single truly transformative solution that changes how we run the business. If anything, we’ve simply repackaged what we already do into newly invented categories. Fundamentally, nothing has changed.

After a few years at Oracle, I was let go, not because of performance but because of this AI nonsense. Still, I’m not surprised when I took this job, I knew this company didn’t care much about their employees, but I was happy to have a paycheck and lucky to pay my bills. I'm just very disappointed…

Below are a few takeaways:

My coworkers were amazing. Everyone was great to connect with.
Significant amount of training..
Compensation was below average, but it paid the bill.
Great healthcare.
Work from home.

The negative:
My management was mediocre. Some teams had great managers, but mine was a total disappointment. All he cared was to look better for his director.
No raise, work harder. No one get a raise.
The amount of work to meet your metric was nonsensical. Always under the g-n!
I worked over the weekend to do a great job, and that is the thank you!!
You learn a lot in the first year, but you get stuck in a role you will never move up!! Your skill get stagnant.
The manager only selects a few for a raise.
Manager control the amount of work you get and purposely try to sabotage you it seems. No transparency.

Bottom line
I'm sad I'm gone, but it's better I deal with this now, than waste another five years of my life in this company which I would have done.

I see many posts asking if the layoff will be over.
Be realistic with yourself. Oracle will lay off more people next year to fund its investment in AI. It's a high-debt company, and they need to trim peoples. All you can do is have a safe backup plan and upskill. Don't work hard for this company!

Oracle is all about cutting cost now, and to increase its stock value. Their new Ai platform is already a total mess. They don't care about their customers or improving their tool set.

Maybe I'm wrong with all of this but that my interpretation.

Wish everyone the best!!! Don't stay too long there!!!!

They are handling employees so much better these days. It must be some management change or strategy change

Front line RSM Nov 2.

Do your managers help you make calls?

I only see the severance package being offered to VPs and below. Is there any sort of similar options for SVPs and above? Or would they have to leave without a package if the RTO doesn't work for them? Just curious.

Multitude of high performing ICs are gone while the 6/7 layers of management fat prevails, almost untouched. Hearing that “managers in the next round” for years and years but nothing changes. The spectacularly d*mb , incredibly political and waste-of-space low- and mid-level managers in technical sales are strutting around our U.K. like they are the cat’s a$$ and own the place. Nice selfies from parties at Vegas on social media too. Nothing will change because they have a Patel God. It’s disgusting how deliberately the U.K. org is being decimated for the last 5 years.

If you had no promotions in the last 3-4 yeas, then this year will be a good bye year for you, this is applicable mostly from the Manager levels, that will be one of the criteria to measure your performance.

Restructuring will blow away many delivery managers, VPS and leadership level that are just busy on internal meetings will be the other area of nailing down

4th quarter will be a painful period for many many..............

( One of my close friend at leadership level at Texas that had 27 years of experience told me the above points a month ago and quit just last Friday and that time I didn't believed him and thought he is a stupid, but now I see how wise he is)

It’s quite obvious that the stank is being slowly pushed out of AT&T. If the company fired him, the the stock would tank.

At&t you put billions of dollars in a man that doesn’t understand basic supply and demand? Please see the reference the T-Mobile model. Stupid is, is what stupid does.

We are back to back with calls and we see a group of L2 managers posting memes and mocking each other in the chat room. L3s please make your managers work just like we are.

Endless loop until bad management is removed or stock goes to 0

Management cost cutting and offshoring to increase profit —->>> stagnating platform and increase incidents —>> stock drops —>> more cost cutting and offshoring to increase profit

Had a 1:1 on Tuesday AM. It was labeled "Sync: Discussing Updates." Next thing I know, I'm read a script being laid off. I was told after this, my manager was laid off.

DXC management say they want to make working practices easier, sinot sure when requesting RTA’s the approval approvers have gone from 3 to 6 all the way to the top. How us that making things easier and more effective management?

WIthout doxxing myself, the gist of the story is that after a reorg, the incoming management are power grabbing shitstains that blatantly grabbed the work that was done, virtually demoted a few people by bringing in their own people (the demotion was by way of reduced responsibilities and effective sidelining). Some emails with leader(s) exist that can clearly be construed as retaliation for speaking up in the face of wrong plus witnesses. Though not all them might speak up fearing for their career at Citi but one or two definitely will. Power grab was repeated without repurcussions

I know HR is useless and will either protect and/or try to brush it under the carpet. Don't want to pursue outside legal options. What other inside resources exist? Obviously, the shitstains don't care about any consequences as they have gotten away with this before.

In accurate reporting on powerBI for inbound receipts for backstage. It reflects that we are getting 10 cartons and we get slammed with over 90 cartons. Hours only reflect for the 10 cartons. With pipeline is going away I have reported this upwards and have gotten no response. Anyone else having this issue?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/03/shell-scraps-construction-of-biofuels-plant-in-rotterdam

This one will be for the lower level managers with less than a certain amount of employees under them. This just came out from an upper MGMT meeting.

When I worked at Fannie 10+ years ago, there was the Manager->Director->VP hierarchy. Now when I check LinkedIn, there's Manager, Senior Manager, Director, Senior Director. And a lot more people appear to have those titles. Why did they make that change? Seems like too many managers and directors.

Part of being a good manager is knowing when to call it quits. Lots of these managers are just riding their time out and the problem with this is they aren't taking care of their people or making a positive impact on anything or anyone. Time to move out if you are in this boat. Open opportunities up for others.

Are you on “the list”?

I'd not have believed the rhetoric if I hadn't first hand witnessed manager blocking my promotion, sidelining me into oblivion to clean up the mess in another squad.

What is the point when managers are shutting down actual performers to give opportunities to less deserving individuals just coz they're in the same region as the manager????