#badleadership

I have no hopes for tomorrow. Dell has successfully gotten rid of the people who could fix things, and this leadership is only focused on their own pockets. There's no saving this.

The stock is soaring. You’d expect the attitude to be high energy and people to be in full support of the company. You’d expect to see new products going to market, more hiring, more bonuses, more investment in people. You’d want free thinking people who are inventing and thinking outside the box.

It’s the exact opposite. It’s dreary, dismal and there is an overall black cloud across the company. Every email seems like it could be your last. Services are taken away from you, like coffee cups (really??), promotions to the “liked” and layoffs are happening left and right. The totally incompetent are getting promoted because they’re “yes men” and people are totally unmotivated. There is no more technical leadership, there is just no leadership. Just politicians who use buzzwords and jockey for positional power.

It’s pathetic and sad to see such an opportunity to take advantage of the hype Dell is getting and motivate your people. Reward them and support them. Greed is clearly an enemy of the people and greed is rampant at Dell. Every SVP and above have proven they are soulless ghouls who would do anything for a dollar. They seem to be missing the big picture. That they’re titled and who they are doesn’t matter to anyone. Nobody cares. In fact, they’re making more enemies than friends.

It’s a sad, pathetic time at Dell and is the worst I have ever seen it. Something needs to change or this company will crash and burn. As far as layoffs go, expect them every single month until these greedy, fat ba----ds get their fill.

The brown nosers replying to Bill's retirement post on LinkedIn make me sick! Bill ran this place into the ground!

Executives

• dropped the 401k match
• froze salaries for non hipos
• dropped charitable contribution match
• dropped education reimbursement
• doubled PIP percentage
• increased insurance premiums while reducing insurance quality
• conducted layoffs with the lowest severance possible
  All while making zero changes to the executive bonus and compensation program, in fact giving themselves even larger bonuses.

not a good mgmt approach IMO

Nowhere else did I have to protect myself from credit thieves, lying managers, spineless supervisors, and VPs who abuse their authority - all at the same time. It's a horror show.

We promote people who are friends with managers, not people who know the work. It's a disaster every single time and it keeps happening.

When coding monkeys are given the reign to run the show, the audiences (customers) suffer.

Stupid Enterprise Tech bean counters decided to eliminate the whole technical product manager (TPM) role because they couldn't tell the good ones from the bad ones. Now we're in the same quagmire of mostly bad engineering "leaders" sprinkled with a few good ones.

A place of incompetents.

Honestly they couldn't organise a pi-s up in a brewery at this point

Who in their right state of mind advises employees that the coming weeks were going to be very difficult and then absolute radio silence from that point on

Has the man got dementia or something

Sick to death of all the bullcr-p. Morale simply couldn't go any lower

Key Signs to Leave
Chronic Burnout: You feel totally exhausted even after a full weekend or a vacation.
Constant Dread: You experience deep anxiety or the "Sunday Scaries" on a regular basis.
Toxic Culture: The workplace involves bullying, gossip, or a complete lack of psychological safety.
Bad Leadership: Your boss micromanages, demeans you, or blocks your basic needs.
No Growth: There are zero chances for promotions, new skills, or lateral moves.
Unfair Pay: Your salary is far below market value and requests for raises go ignored.
Value Mismatch: The company's core mission or actions conflict with your personal ethics.
Health Impacts: Work causes physical symptoms like headaches, stomach aches, or sleep loss.
Mental Check-Out: You no longer care about the quality of your work and just do the bare minimum.
Better Options Exist: You are qualified for and see realistic, healthier roles elsewhere.

My retirement is non-existent from the share price decimation and this company just su-ks to work for now since everyone hates it.

Is it just a coincidence that literally 4 weeks after the giant IBM stock implosion caused by AK and his incompetent management that this board is filled with posts of people and entire teams getting put on PIPs, terminated etc ? IBM is beyond desperate to reduce headcount without having to pay out one cent...you can see and smell the desperation. But it's also amazing the number of people who no longer GAF about IBM , do the bare minimum, and say they are just floating along for another 1 or 2 years until they get forced out. IBM should add DGAF to their name.

Too many directors while an entire department was wiped out. Directors all on vacation while the remaining staff are all lost on their duties. All before AEP, guess that is not a priority anymore for them since Kellie protects them.... 9/4 can not come sooner.

Intel is such a trash company. The management is allowed to make decisions that ruin the company for it's employees. Management does not care about anyone below them and will sc--w you over at any cost. Intel HR likes to drive around the parking lot recording people with their dash cams in an attempt to fire them for time clock fraud. Intel isn't what is once was. Horrible decisions made my management has ruined what could be a good thing.

When will the toxicity and poor leadership end? This constant cycle of abusing workers with fake reviews can't end well. What will be the next big scandal?

Not sure why SLT cannot see their sh---y politics and zero value add to the organization.

Shannon bell wake up.

its a sh---y place to work, its a sweat shop where employees are treated badly. H1b workers/contractors be careful before joining, you will be under constant threat, fear and micro-management. Be very careul from the indian managers they are the worst, and extremely incompetent, constant org politics goes on here and constantly different teams are fighting with each oher, also constant outsourcing to India is another part of the story, be very careful beore joining unless the work cuture improves.

I started with Centene about 3 years ago. I came from a leadership background of 18years and wanted a break for management. In my short time here with Centene I can’t get over how horrible the leaders are. It seems as though not one of them truly knows how to be a manager or they are so insecure as a manager they have to micromanage people on their team. Some of the leaders I have had in my roles were absolutely clueless on how to manage. They never could communicate to the whole team at the same time. They would forget things all the time. Can’t even explain how to do their job or talk in circles. It’s embarrassing. Does anyone in a leadership role actually have management experience or are they just hiring people off the street to run a department. There are also leaders without anyone underneath them LOL. How can you be a manager when you don’t manage a department or anyone?

What has Gunjan done since making cries about inequality, racism, not having a seat at the table, and how the C suite is full of the good old boys club to get to where she is? Nothing but major cuts, more unqualified offshore hiring, bad business practices and decisions, achieved nothing meaningful, and worst performance then her previous predecessors. It is sad to watch the downfall of US Bank.

I can't say this strongly enough: if you have any skills, any talent, any ambition...leave this place. It's a dumpster fire that will only drag you down. Get out and don't look back.

We post so much about the micromanaging the layoffs , those people don’t care. More money for them.

I can't tell you how many hours are lost every day because of faulty network or connection issues. I won't report them anymore because they go into a bottomless pit.
I just sit and stew about it. and if I'm doing that and everyone else is doing the same, think of the thousands of hours down the drain .
Such a waste. But then again, what do you expect from S running the group.

Just listening to him fumble his way through the opening of the BTS leader call is painful. This man is who Sarah thinks is SVP, or more, material?

Centene is doomed with current leadership.

I'm tired of working hard and never being good enough for some people. It's about favorites, not performance.

Where do I even start? Management is terrible, culture is toxic, everyone's terrified of layoffs, performance reviews are a joke, technology is outdated, suggestions are ignored, nothing ever improves, managers are rude and inappropriate, processes don't exist, leadership is absent, cronyism is rampant, employees are unheard, and raises are insulting. That about covers it.

And I have a feeling I'm not the only one who feels this way. This place has gone from bad to worse faster than I expected. I'd be happy to leave it behind for good.

We've got staff with no drive, broken management, layoffs of experienced people, and no growth path. Other than that, everything's fine.

The driver is ok. Of course, the VZ car crash causes another car to crash. Everything VZ (leadership) touches turns to c.r.a.p.. The VZ car was near the end of the pack when it ran into the wall (unforced error).

Video of the crash in the link:
https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2026/08/23/freedom-250-crash-david-malukas-third-in-indycar-standings-out/91433105007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116744p118150c118150e1106xxv116744d--57--b--57--&gca-ft=209&gca-ds=sophi

The leadership that has been running the company to the ground for several years has decided the failures aren’t due to their own choices — not the years spent pulling engineers away from innovation to chase a commodity PC chip, not the fixation on edge AI while the entire industry moved toward datacenter AI, and not the pattern of entering mature markets long after everyone else.

They never prioritize, never take responsibility, and always look for someone beneath them to blame.

Now they’ve concluded that the real problem is the workforce. Their “solution” is to push out hardworking people and replace them with new hires from the industry, buying themselves another 3–4 years of insulation while nothing fundamentally changes. Because the core issue is them.

And this is the only company where one individual simultaneously controls the financial decisions, the operational direction, the business strategy, and the sales pipeline — all concentrated in a single seat, right next to the CEO. There is no separation of responsibility, no checks and balances, no accountability. When one person holds every lever, failure has nowhere to go but downward.

By 2029, when shareholders start asking why the promises remain unfulfilled, they’ll either quietly exit or invent another cycle of excuses.

Meanwhile, countless careers and families will be disrupted — while the same leadership circle continues to thrive, untouched by the consequences they created.

There are two types of leaders. The confident ones hire the best minds around them, people who'll challenge them and give honest advice. The insecure ones hire yes-men. The second kind is running this company straight into the ground, and they're getting rich doing it.

With all the recent changes, I have no other explanation.

How long does this leadership think we can keep getting these PR hits and getting away with it?

Worked with Technical Architect Lead who did not even know difference between relational database and S3 buckets.

If you are a bootlicker, then have a good growth in this company.

The whole company became a joke once Greed took over. Bad decision, horrible promotions to many young woman that were not competent to assume those roles, but Greed like his pretty young women around. Also he loved to have his "yes" men by his side. What a mess this company has spiraled into. Management used to brag about how they never laid anyone off, now its a common every other year occurrence. So top heavy with incompetent leadership that should have been the first to go, not the front line workers that actually did things. Many EVP's and VP on the sale force should have been shown the door with their useless sales tactics... and if you did not go along or drink the toxic cool aid they were handing out, you were an outcast and would never go any where in the company. I thought it would get better with a change of leadership- no because they were hyper focused on DEI and over paid HR leadership that wanted to shove their agenda down the employees throat when they should have been getting rid of most of the sales leaders in the field. Tom M. would be so disgusted with what has happened to this once great company over the last 11 years. Stay away from this toxic place, stay far away!

I’ve never seen a CEO completely ruin a company faster than Clay has managed to. Gives up the board and exec team. Doesn’t address the massive pay discrepancy between the two companies when the better performing company is the one being underpaid, and now he lets the only Exec with brains/ba--s walk in Raines.

They are now assigning arbitrary ETAs to work items to justify their next targets for downsizing. No accounting for how long the work actually takes, just assuming their bean counting directors know a reasonable metric for every task under them, and making sizing decisions based on that fiction.

This is happening after they took away the functionality and systems to actually log your work performed and the time it took.

If you think it's bad now, it's about to get a whole lot worse.

This will be Judas Moriarty’s 3rd failure in a row.
1 Morningstar Retirement Calculator

• never implemented Cost 180k per year x 3 years
  2 FIS Fiasco - Loss of $4B in client assets
  (should have been canned then)
  3 - New Offshoring Partnership
  Big trouble ahead everyone knows this.

Think about it - Who is going to want to business with MOA - with Judas profile on it ?

This is a flawed individual with deep narcissistic character issues - a true technical mo--n.

Leadership has learned no lessons from the past - Rough future for MOA

Look the other way leadership - this is on you - How long before HR starts sending out excuses !

I’m just gonna put this right here. Nike HR and Legal are there to protect the company. You can file a complaint through the EEOC and BOLI but completely separate you can sue your manager. Nike wants you to give up and give in. They want you to believe that what they are doing is ok. Keep solid documentation and take care of yourself! You are not defined by the swoosh or the toxic leadership.

Under ORS 659A, individual supervisors and managers can be held personally liable for discrimination, retaliation, or creating/allowing a hostile work environment — not just the company.

They hire smart people, put them in roles they're not qualified for, and wonder why nothing works. That's PepsiCo for you.

Many senior employees in chandler doing the badge and leave in Arizona with zero consequences. Intel can’t figure this sh-t out