#culture

I started quiet quitting, and I remembered why I was doing my job in the first place. I went back to doing just my job, the work I was actually hired to do, because I was getting close to quitting over how overloaded I’d become. My plan was to quiet quit while I looked for something else.

Six months later, my energy is back, I’m actually interested in my work again, and I genuinely like what I’m doing. At the beginning there was some pushback, but I held the line with “I’m too busy” and “I’m doing my job,” and eventually people stopped bothering me about taking on more.

The funny part is that I don’t even want to leave anymore. Turns out a huge part of what was making me miserable was how much extra work I kept piling onto myself. Go figure.

I swear, I hear this one more time from anybody, I won't be responsible for my actions.

Everyone’s stressed, everyone’s worried about where they stand, and collaboration disappears the second pressure goes up. What happened to this place?

You gotta be freaking kidding me.

After 6+ months of torture, we gotta endure 3 more months of this bullsh-t????

Fidelity seriously needs to prioritize how it's affecting mental health of associates.

other than castkles in the sky and building a house of cards that wouldn't pass scrutiny with regulators in a proper administration that isn't as incompetent as the present one (past R or D admins, for example)? He's built an empire costing several million dollars including his own cost to the firm, gotten himself and Citi into a lawsuit...what else?

Jane has rewarded one buffoon after another

At Bolt, Breslow said, the HR team “was creating problems that didn’t exist,” as part of “a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot.” “The problems disappeared when I let them go.”

https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/opinion/bye-bye-hr-lets-hope-bolt-financial-ceo-ryan-breslow-starts-a-trend/

That should tell you all you need to know about how far Nike has fallen…

I was not LR’ed but after this last one I’m officially checked out. I will do what I’m asked to do and nothing more. Thank you Cisco and my wonderful team but this battery is officially permanently drained.

it is tough to work here, full stop. BUT i like my manager and peers, i'm happy to be here with them. i hope we win and i hope we can make it work. i see and feel the pain......but let me tell y'all about the company i came from. i hope the opentext experiment works out

Nothing ever changes for the better around here. Especially for us lowly employees.

I’ve never worked in a more toxic department in this bank in my entire career here than Corporate Payments Systems. The management in the group are a bunch of vile survivalists who will gladly throw their employees and colleagues under the bus if it means their own survival. I have seen a myriad of talent abused and released from this specific group if they are a threat to their manager because they are talented or are not part of the favorites list. Absolutely sickening culture of cronies in this line of business. Shameful, and the spineless management who reads this board in CPS, you know who you are and deserve everything bad that comes back to you.

That's it that's my post. Somehow we lost this. I think all of us have a hunch why.

when you optimize for one thing, you usually suboptimize something else.

so now we spend energy on trivial stuff like badging, attendance, and proving people are physically present, while less time goes into the actual work. the work is still there. it just gets buried under another layer of compliance theater.

wells fargo has always had a problem with truth and trust. in good times, people work around it. in tough times, it gets harder to hide.

that’s when the cracks show.

Just curious what the board thinks. Playing politics and maneuvering the convoluted organizational structures come to mind. A bit ruthlessness and narcissism helps too. What I noticed is that most of them like to hear sound of their own voice, I guess this can be rolled up as a subgroup under narcissism.

Penny’s profile image on Amplify news stories feels like she’s laughing at us.

time to replace our good old CTO. He is old and not performing optimal. He should be fired!!!!

Any Omni/operations leads finding themselves being the mod more than STL's?

Ineffective. Politics. Curious what your experience is with a 300+ team of HR ‘professionals’?
What is it they do, let employees know to complete a survey and attend pro day?

The problem isn’t just one bad decision. It’s weak direction, poor follow through, and leadership that doesn’t inspire much confidence. Does anybody actually still see a future here?

I have heard from several people in the industry that Medtronic has become a known quantity. Candidates are turning down offers and recruiters are struggling to fill roles because everyone knows what it is like to work here.

I used to think that liking your job was a normal expectation, something that most people could reasonably hope for. After spending so much time in this place, I am genuinely not sure anymore. Is there an assumption that we are all just supposed to tolerate our work and find our fulfillment elsewhere, or am I actually supposed to enjoy what I do for eight hours a day?

I used to be the person who volunteered for extra assignments, who looked for ways to cut waste, who stayed late to get things across the finish line. Then I noticed that the people who did those things either burned out and left, or they got managed out by leaders who felt threatened by anyone who seemed too competent. Meanwhile, the people who just showed up, did exactly what they were told, and never rocked the boat were the ones who stuck around. This place doesn't want people who think or try. It wants people who nod and comply.

The only consistent message quarter to quarter is revenue declining faster than forecast. The stock price falling into the single digits says everything. If you’ve listened to this company’s analyst calls long enough you know management just pivots to whatever narrative works in the moment and they’re running out of narratives faster than revenue streams. Easily the worst management team this company has ever had.

Exactly what @aq+1kr2bpeh6 said.

He’s exactly the kind of person others have described. He posts our personal information on on Gemini, exaggerates his knowledge of tech and telecom, and then dismisses or talks down to people who actually know what they’re doing. He’s a sc-mmy person, and unfortunately more managers like him keep getting hired. If layoffs happen, people in positions like his should be first on the list. The CSSC needs a drastic change.

I had to laugh.

"AI produces gains where tasks are structured, feedback is quick, and performance is measurable. It does not magically fix bad management, muddled processes, or poor judgment. "

Sooo...who is going to tell Derek Flowers?

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5892858-ai-workplace-divide-careers/

I'm watching this happen right now with a person on my team who got bumped up two levels in less than a year. On paper, he looked great, lots of years in the industry, confident in interviews, talked a big game about process improvement. In practice, he doesn't understand the basics of what we do, he's broken two different workflows because he changed things without asking, and the rest of us spend about five hours a week quietly undoing his mistakes. The person who promoted him clearly didn't do any real checking. Now the rest of us are paying for it, and the guy himself is clearly stressed and embarrassed. It's a failure at every level and it happens here constantly.

I’ve never worked at a company that changes course as much as this one, constantly chasing whichever way the wind happens to be blowing, whether politically or technologically. One minute it’s one strategy, the next it’s the complete opposite, like nobody even remembers what they were pushing six months ago.

That’s what makes all of this so hard. I actually like what I do. Watching what’s been happening here, and seeing a place that used to be great get systematically torn down piece by piece, really breaks my heart.

Has anybody here worked at AT&T? I might have a chance to make the switch, but reading through their page here makes it seem like I’d just be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone with firsthand experience before I make the decision.

The unstable ship continues listing. Now Manifold is out, another leader thrown to the bin due to unacceptable conduct. No way to have a successful business with this many hands grabbing the wheel in such a short time.

We’re having faster turnover than the UK PM. Enough of this Euro lunacy, time to return our strength.

Management said that people are more productive at the office. Why would they start telling the truth now? Senior leaders are as trustworthy as a politician.

Schwab and Lone Tree didn't make the list. Hmmm...

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/05/13/top-workplaces-2026-flexible-workplaces/

With how often we have layoffs, all of us have two choices. Run ourselves into the ground and hope for the best, or just kiss up to our boss and call it job security. One is a gamble. The other is gross but effective. Pick your poison.

I remember having job security once upon a time. We switched to a constant threat of layoffs too easily. It bothers me how all of us just accept that this is normal, when it's anything but.

Actual, truthful reviews. Too many of them paint a picture that's anything but true, so I'm guessing HR is hard at work to fix the company's image. Take a few minutes and post a real review over there, so people who're considering Oracle know what they're getting themselves into.

You make contact with the hiring manager prior to the meeting and develop some rapport, identify some people in common, only to have an unlisted 3rd party join the Meet, who is inevitably some “distinguished” tw-t that throws curveball questions about things that were only discussed among the team in the last weekly meeting, and documented in a locked Google Doc. Indians hiring Indians.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-20/ceos-at-novo-nestle-push-work-cultures-into-results-mode

There is a massive gap in tech, telecom, and actual sales knowledge among the CSSC team leads. Instead of leading with real product expertise and honest solutions, they rely on manipulation and shady tactics to hit numbers, which completely trashes our company's reputation and customer trust. Their sheer ignorance about our industry is staggering.

Management constantly shows they don’t know the first thing about what we do, so they just make things up on the fly to cover up their lack of knowledge. For example, they clearly don’t even know the definition of the word empathy, so they just fake it by making up robotic, scripted lines that sound completely insincere to anyone listening. Out of pure ignorance, they will straight-up lie to customer service reps by feeding them entirely fake and false information about our products, claiming we have network features or hardware specs that are pure fiction, which leaves the reps totally blind when trying to help customers. They regularly feed reps fake details about product rollouts, forcing staff to pass along completely fabricated dates for products that don't even exist yet. On top of that, they lie to the reps about company policies and contract terms, meaning the frontline staff unknowingly pushes false product promises and looks incompetent because leadership doesn't actually understand the product line. And whenever management messes up internally, they lie to the reps and blame a fake "system glitch" or backend product outage to mask their own lack of technical understanding, using the company itself as a scapegoat instead of just being transparent.

This reliance on BS over actual competence is an embarrassment. It creates a toxic environment, ki-ls customer retention, and leaves the front-line staff to clean up the mess leadership leaves behind.

I’m a TL who is tired of this.

The constant layoffs, getting treated poorly, the “f* you attitude, acting like vipers, the politics, blaming all from management builds an incredibly toxic environment that we have become products of. When we push back and act short, direct and have the same “f” you attitude management needs to stop clutching your pearl necklaces. you built this, you made this environment. Do you not think we can’t get new jobs? We can, but not before we tell you to go “f” yourselves.

It might not stop there though. We are living in a very dangerous world and it’s important our managers watch their steps.

Remember - you made us.