#management

Message from my M5 NA squash friend is that they will be pushing lower rankings to all in reviews and employees will be stack ranked. There will be reviews across each GBUs. M5 suspects another round of cuts coming. For those with manager hate here - cuts will also be coming in for M level. The initial step per M5 was getting those with few reports to IC in FY 26. Many long term managers are understandably struggling in IC roles so cutting them on performance criteria in FY 27 will create no legal issues. Exact timeline not clear at the moment per M5 and he said he is prepping to be let go and hopes he at least lasts untill his RSUs/options vest. The RSU/options vest at M5 NA are 500K-1M - WOW - I don't think it was a lie. My Senior Developer RSU is 7.5 percent of that like WTF.

Most managers and up at Verizon would not make the cut in today’s landscape. A lot of them were simply at the right place at the right time. They would buckle under today’s pressure, scrutiny, and expectations. Many got there because they knew someone, checked a DEI box, metrics were easier, opportunities were abundant, and the market practically carried people upward.

Today you have to fight for every sale, every customer, every opportunity, while dealing with shrinking compensation, unrealistic expectations from people who had it easier, and bootlickers with Stockholm syndrome who are just happy to finally be a baby shark in the corporate tank. Different era entirely. A lot of the people preaching “adaptability” never actually had to survive in the environment they created.

when management only cares about checking the box and how fast they can get out of belle chasse instead of fixing the real issues morale tanks and the plant goes downhill.

Yes, that's right. Stankey & Stephensen paid top dollar to acquire Warner Media, then sell it to Zaslov @ WBD for pennies on the dollar, then WBD is acquired for more than at&t purchase price. You can't make this stuff up, Stankey is the laughing stock of the business world. AT&T total debt is at $136B, that's billion with a B!

I am put on a PIP. The second line manager is according to the HR message the evaluator. First line manager is supposed to support.
First line manager creates hard to achieves goals.
The normal thing would be that the second line manager gets his own opinion. However 1st says he is in charge and I have not directly reached out to 2nd line.

How others have experienced it.

Wake up Mike. Wake up

Anyone else getting tired of the circus in NV?

Every day there’s a new priority, a new direction, a new “this is the most important thing we need to focus on.” What was said one day will conveniently forgotten next day as if it happened by next day… By tomorrow it’ll be something else. At this point I don’t think the issue is execution. The issue is nobody can keep up with commercial leadership changing its mind every 24 hrs on some projects…

What really gets me though is the gap between what gets reported up from middle management and what’s actually happening. Somehow unfinished work becomes “complete,” confusion becomes “alignment,” and chaos becomes “momentum.” If you only listened to leadership updates, you’d think everything was running perfectly. How can people trust the managers who lie blatantly in front of you (knowing you know the truth)
The culture in marketing has taken a nosedive too. Feels like we’ve replaced professional leadership with a bunch of guys trying to out-macho each other. Lots of swagger. Lots of talking. Very little listening. Questions are treated like challenges. Different opinions get dismissed. The loudest person in the room wins.

People aren’t afraid of hard work. They’re tired of the constant spin, ego, and mixed messages.

The sad part is people have stopped speaking up. When employees stop asking questions and stop bringing ideas, that’s not alignment. That’s people checking out

Maybe leadership sees it and doesn’t care. Maybe they don’t see it at all… sometimes they are the problem. Neither answer is particularly reassuring.….

HANS . humans achieving nothing strategically

Just keep Sr managers directly reporting to Sr Directors. We are top heavy with people being managers only with one person reporting to them. it’s a joke

Not like management has hands on experience in telecom but this guy is trying to ride the AI hype train so hard it’s embarrassing. Very clear he has no idea what he’s talking about. When is the board going to do something about him?

Lots of posts deleted. Surely now everyone (employees, management, board, supply chain and peers) can see why bp has been a train wreck since Browne left. It’s culturally corrupt and that prevails everywhere. You can remove the cancer - it’s too late

Listen to the Bloomberg Talks interview with Dan. They literally ask him what changes will average customer see that will make an impact and Dan literally couldn’t answer. Totally embarrassing- it’s so CLEAR he has NO PLAN for any real changes. Just AI, AI, AI. Literally no plan at all!!!

Bloomberg says:
Tata consulting services has brought 6500 L1 visas to USA from India.
L1 is for 'Managers'. Many were not managers at all l, just a cheap labor with fake titles used to bypass immigration and take Local jobs. Also submitted about 25k H1B applications.
Surprisingly most of these visa holders are in Ford, Stellantis and GM

What is your opinion about new deep dive call by Mi? What is happening in that meeting

How can you mess up a company so badly and never answer for any of it? Are we in a TV show and they have plot armor? What is it that's keeping them untouchable despite so many failures?

Besides broken systems, unqualified leadership and performative culture?

Greenfield Community College balanced its FY27 budget. This effort significantly reduced projected layoffs. Three non-unit management positions were eliminated. No union-represented staff positions were cut. The college also left some vacant positions unfilled.

Greenfield, Massachusetts

https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/franklin-county/greenfield-college-balances-budget-minimizes-layoffs/

Why does management say presence reports aren’t really scrutinized anymore? Bull, if anything they are used even more.
Why do you claim we have flexibility? Bull, we need approval in advance for Caregiver & WFH if we’re sick- that’s babysitting, not flexibility.
We care about employee well-being? Bull, why do you go into hiding every month to create next surplus list. Just cut what you need and let the rest of us exhale.

Bilton&Weiss have just sealed their fate ! They have indeed dismantled an American Insitution. Ratings will drop further. Ad dollars even more. Look what happened when clowns like these came in over the past few years at NBC, CNN, and ABC. Their take a bat to the system failed and now CBS is under the same repeat errors. Good riddence to Weiss&Bilton.

Signed,

Good Night & Good Luck.
The Ghost of ERM.

Does anyone have any details about what July will look like for R2Bs new role? It’s almost like they are turning us into bible salesmen and paying us about the same as one.

I doubt it will be October this year.

I got some hints from my manager late April. If they started to look in April, I would suspect it will be the second half of Summer.

Just saw this on LI, it's it true? What does this mean for GN&T?

HR says it’s not reportable. I’m done with this racist enabling company.

Tata Consultancy CEO brought in 6,500 L-1A “managers” to America from India.

Bloomberg says: many weren’t managers at all, just cheaper labor with fake titles used to bypass H-1B rules and fees.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-17/india-s-tcs-misclassified-managers-to-skirt-h-1b-rules-former-staffers-say

Does anyone understand what’s changing? I don’t get it…….

is there anything they're actually capable of?

Biggest bully manager at DSG?!!!
...and gets away with it...bc we all know the rules do not apply to everyone here like they want folks to think.

I've witnessed several managers openly talk about protecting themselves whenever deadlines slip or projects run into trouble. Meetings usually turn into long discussions about who caused the issue rather than how to solve it. Very few people seem willing to admit mistakes or take responsibility. It's exhausting to work in such an environment.

I have been through several restructurings before in other companies and here, but this latest situation feels different. Management keeps mentioning budget pressure and possible cuts during meetings, even when the topic has nothing to do with staffing. It has now started to feel less like planning and more like a way to keep people from questioning decisions and keeping us in our lane.

Sadly, that's far from what happened here. The people who knew how to play politics, who knew how to hide during the bad times, they're the ones who mostly survived. Most of the people who actually knew how to lead, who had real skills and real experience, they're gone. What we've got left is the worst management team I've ever worked under and most of the rest of us who do the work looking for an exit.

The cure is not in cutting costs. The cure is to innovate its way out of the current
predicament. Fiserv seems to be missing that point. Sure you can increase EPS by buying back stock and laying off employees, but thats not going to grow top line revenue. No one is impressed with management’s plans, and the stock price is reflecting that.

Are all areas facing issues with complete chaos in their depts because they lost the good leadership (and valuable associates) they had with VSP? My area is crumbling and the management we have been left with is relatively new with not enough knowledge to properly manage. I’m not sure her skillset has even included managing people before. It’s become a free-for-all with some associates logging on barely 4 hours a day doing pretty much nothing. We were swept under a new director who also had no experience with our departments responsibilities so he exists but has been 100% absent. We were already understaffed before VSP but the past 6 months we are sinking fast. Is this just my area’s reality or is this being felt across the company ?

Sometimes their expectations are truly ridiculous. Maybe we can let them do our jobs for a while, just so they could get some perspective (even though I firmly believe none of them would last for more than a day.)

Does the new cohort of managers know that fear-based management is not the only one in existence, and that it certainly isn't the one to result in highest productivity? I swear, the more somebody yells at me, the slower I do my job. Intentionally. These "leaders" need some lessons in people skills.

https://www.healthcare.digital/single-post/oracle-cerner-potential-acquirers-of-oracle-health

"A Private Equity consortium led by a firm like Thoma Bravo or Francisco Partners is the most probable successor. This structure satisfies several competing requirements: it provides Oracle with an immediate cash infusion to fund its GPU clusters (satisfying the liquidity crisis), it bypasses the most severe antitrust hurdles associated with a Microsoft or Amazon acquisition and it allows for a "neutral" platform that could potentially stabilize the customer base."

Conclusions: Sell off Oracle Heath, ORCL needs the cash ! New CFO is the Grim Reaper !

F-c the management wh--es, f-c ‘em all

I submitted a few names for KOFS, and my manager emailed me saying he didn’t approve the names I chose and that I needed to replace them with the names he wanted. During the PDS review session, he kept emphasizing the “improvement” sections. Even when six KOFS said I communicated effectively, he focused on the one person who said otherwise. Bottom line: I feel like I’m being targeted for a PIP. I’ve read posts where people mentioned coaching, training, and scorecards, but I’m not clear on how the process actually works. Is it just you and your manager or other people get also involved?

Can someone explain what really happens? Is it just between you and your manager, or do other people get involved in the process as well?

Smells like something is on the stove.

Honestly, are there any other teams that have management that just regurgitates whatever Claude spits out at them? It’s really hard to take anyone seriously when they don’t even do their own writing, problem solving and communication. It’s obviously a balance, but I literally don’t have any trust left for reading anything anymore.