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That tells you a lot about the 'executive' ability of the lineup that steers this ship.

Top of the leaderboard again. Year after year:

https://x.com/TheLayoff/status/2055330545052381473

Thanks for sitting down with the Houston Business Journal, M@rk. Another example of time away from the office to manage your image while the CEOs at MPC and VLO are in the office leading.

And “responding to what the world needs” is an example of M@rk overestimating the company he is supposed to be leading. Phillips contributes, sure, but the tone shows arrogance and lack of awareness of the real scope of this domestic mid con business. At the moment, all supplying the world has done is ki-l earnings and increase volatility and led to MASSIVE underperformance vs peers

VTP?? It's not to be.....
Cause AT&T is here to stay.....
All the way.....

Long ago MDT was all about patients and customers and everyone lined up to support that. Then they started to get functional leaders who thought their functions were more important than the mission.

HR used to be a support function with a generalist per dept or function that knew people, helped hire, fire, promote, set pay..... then HR decided they were too important to work that way and needed to specialize to be more efficient., so they pulled all the features apart and created leaders for each.

Now you have, maybe, a generalist who might know you but they are spread across many teams.

You also have recruiters, who are called "talent acquisition" with all their own rules.

You have job leveling experts who review individuals against the job family rubrics to decide if they agree someone can be promoted.

You have compensation experts who decided what people can be paid.

You have "human capital insights" who run the global voices survey.

You have the Org design experts who know how you should be structured, spans and layers and such.

You have data teams, HR systems teams, who hold all the info.

You have pay disparity teams that go through your organization and send you a mandate to change someones pay to make things more fair (though never with any incremental funding to implement, you need to find it in your own cost center)

And you of course have D&I considerations.

As a manager, this has made work so much more complicated and difficult, but its done in the name of excellence in HR?

Now you see it repeating in Operations, etc...... All at the expense of the mission, patients and customers.

Amongst all the doom and gloom I think leadership has finally started to talk about doing the basics right. 10 years wasted on trying to be a tech company and now that tech is ubiquitous thanks to AI, the leadership can finally focus on building decent cars again. Here's to hoping for better years after demise of phony leaders 🙏

Intuit fires people due to Covid. Intuit fires people due to AI. Intuit fires people silently from time to time. Intuit only cares about $.

A vegan diet may be in order.

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chuck-robbins-2270936687.jpg?resize=1200,865

I had an American Airlines card from Barclays. Two days back, Barclays switched off my account saying i should deal with Citi now via landingatciti.com. Of course the website doesn't work. I would have been shocked if it did.
Then Citi sends an email about account having been migrated and payments should now be made to Citi blah blah blah. Click the link to set up the account...nothing. That website doesn't work either

Absolute d-mb@sses. Of course, I saw the incompetency from way too up close when employed at Citi. The ONLY thing that seems to work without a hitch at Citi is A) Board approving billions in share buybacks every year despite heavy layoffs and B) Jane getting salary bumps and bonuses every year. It will soon fo from 42M to 45 and then to 50.

Anything else is a total mess at Citi

Hehehe an entire team is about to put in their notice because of the way this company is being run

I've seen post on here dissecting and criticizing some of the collabs Nike has at the moment. Some of which has been relatively successful, like the Travis Scott collab. I haven't seen anyone pick apart the Drake line tho. That may have been one of the worst investments by Nike.

Nocta has really been a lackluster for the Nike and considering how big of an artist Drake is, he's never been someone people looked to for style, like never. Definitely wasted opportunity there.

Let's see how deep we go today

I was not able to make it. How was the food? Was it crowded? Did everyone get stock shares or a car?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/germany-s-merz-says-he-wouldn-t-advise-his-children-work-in-us?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3ODg0ODU2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzc5NDUzMzY2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURjJSUFlUOU5KTFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFMjYzRDA4MENGRjY0MDA0QjkyRDM1MEIwNTE4QjEzMCJ9.RUbY5XoiGe4klBSUVOd3eJKwVga-rsRbYtI7pMBuPMA

might as well say what we all know. each day is like watching a trainwreck even latest clueless strat team knows emrs poor planning and short staffed centers wont work. investors coming to collect in 2027 the worst for patients and staff is coming. referrals to a handful of places no lcsws and demotions for all the poor staff left holding the po-p bag. playbooks trainings and daily new workflows wont stop the terrible reputation centerH$ll now has. psa: riffing people then posting their jobs that week is trash.

No other way to really explain it.

I've been in "corporate america" long enough to understand that the decision to surplus you often goes beyond just performance or willingness to improve, it often hinges on the fact if your supervisor or leadership chain like you. If they don't like you or you're always seeming to cause a problem, you're likely one of the first to be selected.

For some reason, and don't ask...lol...I did a random Nielsen search on reddit, and sure enough the first thing that came up was an 18yr old thread from back in the day during the original Nielsen demolition by Calhoun/Habib regarding their "genius" idea that deleting the "reply all" button in our Microsoft Outlook emails would save money! Lol. Man, I remember this like it was yesterday. This would have been circa 2008, about 2 years into the "transformation." And here we are all these years later!

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7ttuo/nielsen_deletes_replytoall_button/

I wish I would have been in SVP or D level to not get axed. So far what I have seen only these levels are in decision panel and only vp avp getting cut. Which makes no sense though because they again hire new resources for those positions once the wave is crossed. They don't have any idea what are they doing (an ordinary VP has better understanding) just thinking themselves as king and cutting people they don't like not on merit.

Go here https://www.forbes.com/lists/employers-culture/ and tell me I'm not seeing things. Edward Jones in at No. 21?

I think about all the talented people who have left this place not through layoffs but on their own. So many of them left because of ego clashes or small misunderstandings that could have been resolved if anyone had just acted like an adult. Treating people with respect works so much better than ruling through fear. EJ never figured that out.

It’s a dirty game. They rank their own favorites at the top, then use those inflated rankings to hand them spotlight roles, visible projects, keynote slots, everything. And because those opportunities are handed to them on a silver platter, they get ranked high again. It’s a sick cycle. I wish some one tells new hires its not about your work its the way they choose to see your work

Some one tell him stop with the navi hoodies and high tops. I am embarrassed for all of you

How long are the investors going to buy that this company is going to do better because they’re going “back to basics?”

Answer:
Forever.

Bleed 🩸 money

Mental Health Awareness meetings - really?after folks have been laid off and more layoffs to come - this company is either clueless or really twisted with its cruelty

Where do you get money after layoffs to buy shitTel?? Who is actually buying shitTel ?

I feel nauseous.

Today is a reminder that job cuts do not just happen to struggling employees or people doing the bare minimum. Some of the smartest and most respected people I know here were affected too, including people with years of experience and records most teams would want to keep. Not sure how this is supposed to benefit Cisco in the long run, but the leadership seems to think it will.

That makes you part of the problem. File a complaint with the EEOC or the DHS. Oz says he’s all over Medicare and Medicaid fraud. If you suspect that’s going on here, file the complaint. Let it get investigated. But more than that, take it to the court of public opinion. Social media is the ultimate equalizer now. Everybody complains. No one acts. If you suspect conflicts of interest, notify outlets like ProPublica. Even John Oliver torched Centene and Michael back in the day. Sadly, what I think you are going to ultimately find out is that the truth is what Ricky Gervais said during his monologue at the awards a few years back. “I don’t care anymore. I’m just joking. I never did”. Replace the “I” with every company, every government agency, etc. They don’t care anymore. And they never did.

What got people on the list vs what saved them? There’s one person my team - haven’t seen them in the office. Another person in a different office within commuting distance but never goes in.. neither one was on the list. Each has other issues - unresponsive, argumentative, harassment - so yeah what got you on the list? Has to be more than no more Agile framework.

Am I the only one feeling that the NetIQ has terrible interface design and is terrible to use?

Displacement call 9:15am on a Tuesday after payday for me. Got the IM (inconsistently meets) at end of 2025 for the first time. Had always gotten meets prior and no real reason for the review or what I did wrong. Simple explanation of “we expect more than we used to” brouhaha.. Also got the telltale “you have not met standards
Of using AI in the past month” email even though those supposed standards were only being tracked for my team starting May 1, and I had been using since mid April on a daily basis.
Half my team was eliminated. Well, half my U.S. team was eliminated, most with 15+ years with wf under their belts. Underperforming teammates in India had no layoffs. Writings on the wall folks. No one is safe as management doesn’t, and hasn’t cared for a long time. Pretty soon all work will come out of overseas locations with no quality checks being done. And AI isn’t at a place yet to replace the work of many specialists. CS doesn’t care though, as long as he gets himself and all his banking buds jobs and retirement packages while he still can.
Get out while you can. WF is now, atleast to me, considered the WF Titanic of companies. Sinking ship, not enough life boats for sustainability, and I foresee another audit/check of WF illegal workings, with a spotlight on good ole Uncle Charlie. That’s why he keeps hiring his cronies from past jobs and contacts, right? Feather their nests while he still can.
As soon as I can, I will also be switching banks to one I have faith in. And there will be no ties ever again to WF.

Very odd it’s not in May, think they’re cooking the books with the layoffs to make the numbers look good? New CEO announcement? New RTO policy?

Cengage (and all textbook companies) have a major culture problem. These aren’t serious people. Everyone outside the companies talks about it.

What they deem as productivity measurements are distractions disguised as productivity. Constant Slack check ins by managers with emojis like a parent checking in on their children, the million Slack channels that are created, the utter useless salesforce boxes that have to be checked- and they wonder why they have stagnant growth. Teams Meetings that could be emails where everyone is in the chat sending gifs, getting asked immature d-mb questions and they want you to put your answer in the chat. Absolutely NONE of these items drive growth or productivity. It’s a culture of immaturity that are checking boxes that make them look like they are working and contributing. The hours wasted are immeasurable.

Everyone knew Slack was a massive distraction and doesn’t drive growth or sales 10 years ago. It should be used for acute things, not on the daily. Always behind the curve.

Every week: new awareness mail, new policy, new mandatory training, new dashboard screenshot. Engineers asked for AI acceleration - instead they got Outlook copilots managing Copilot.

I’ve been trying to wait out the correction for the people hired as “leaders” during the pandemic. I’m not sure if it’s just my BU or others were put in roles way beyond their skill set. It’s infuriating for me to have to sit in “coaching” and have my manager explain things they would have learned in the first semester of college, had they gone.

Why is my only opportunity for development wasted listening to someone who is twice my age and trying to explain a simple concept but still needs my guidance? WHY IS THIS PERSON HIGHER RANKED THAN ME?!

I don’t know how much more I can take of this. Will there be a correction for unskilled management?

Don’t think this will last, you will have your good MOW’s and you think you will sit at home sending emails and watching TV. Sooner we will get the AI scheduling program that will not only assign you stores to hit every week,but you will be tracked with GPS again. So to the one’s that think it’s not so bad, will see how you fall in 6 month’s

The mental toll of participating in unethical decisions, and the pressure we're under every single day, is barely manageable. It leaves marks. But my wife could lose her job any day, my two kids are still in school, and I'm drowning in debt. So I endure. So my family can survive. And yes, I've tried to find something else, even switch industries. But it's really, really bad out there.

“Annuals checks to begin soon” Another way to weed out people instead of laying off. I get it’s in the employment contract but I’ve never got this email all the years I’ve worked here.

Sometimes things aren’t the same when your bestie leaves. It is in-fact confusing to be a girl. let’s have some compassion and hold space for leadership during these unprecedented times