#management

So I voluntarily left in November. No bonus payment for me. Instead I received a bill to pay for a couple of days of management lease they forgot to deduct from my last payroll.
Fantastic.

We had an internal survey and a lot of us were honest about everything, including management. A few weeks later, several of us were laid off. Funny how that worked out.

My guess is that he won’t stay longer than a year. I’m in management and preparing for a revolving door of executives along with quarterly RIFs until we are ultimately acquired.

Does anyone know how do they dew use we get laid off ? Our managers decide? Or MD ??

If your only job is to think of new deprtment names and reorganization strategies or to put out cartoon newsletters with the 🐭’s face, you need to go. You serve no purpose. This is a healthcare company. That time and money should be reinvested into the members, not overpaid executives who do nothing but look for ways to make themselves appear important. You know how many reprgs have improved the customer experience??? ZERO. Humana Executives have meetings about meetings and they still never gat anything accomplished.

The ex Intel employees are headed in drove to arm lead by soft bank. That company is already mis managed. When dust settles . Arm , AMD and Microsoft will crash and burn

I was laid off and stupid enough to come back to just go through a reorganization 6 years later and realized I was going to be let go again. I was smart enough the second time to get out before it happened. It doesn't matter what group you work for or how important your position is at Oracle, upper management doesn't care. I was in management and your manager will be informed there is a reorganization. They might have an HR meeting to discuss how the layoff will work but they don't have names until the day of the event. This is how Oracle works. You are just a piece of toilet paper on a roll. There are thousands of rolls and when Oracle decides to take a dump, well you might be the end result of being wiped and flushed. Your used up and it doesn't matter how good, valuable or whatever you are. I have seen smart, creative, intelligent people let go by Oracle and wondered what were they thinking. Wiped and flushed. Putting yourself through stress and anxiety will be your life at Oracle if you let them control you. When you accept the fact that your just toilet paper on the roll, they will need to take a dump and you could be the next sheet to be wiped and flushed. Its just the Oracle way. Good luck. Keep the resume updated and never turn down an opportunity to interview.

VA has zero understanding of technology or operations. Most of what he says are just polished filler phrases he’s relied on for years, rather than real substance. Someone please end this misery.

I don't know who's over food certification testing but there is so many people in my club that expired it's ridiculous and I need to be tested and everytime I ask management they say we will get back to you

Unreal so sad the site is in disarray and big management couldn’t care less.

Same as Title

Let's see...

• no clear vision
• no real leadership
• no accountability
• bloated executive suite
• failure to keep products moving forward
• no real R&D or innovation
• brain drain

And we are getting rid of MORE workers to fix the sinking ship? When it was the leadership's responsibility to get us ahead? So if they aren't responsible for anything, why are they here again? Let us make the decisions instead, that way if I'm going to be fired it'll be my fault.

And we are divesting as well. So what has been the real purpose of acquiring so much tech? The board members have made these decisions all from long ago until now. Did they finally give up? I stand to argue that none of them know what they're doing and they have no real business sense, they got lucky with some acquires and with their poor business skills have failed to keep momentum going forward.

We were on the right track to fire Mark but we forgot to get rid of the puppeteer, Mr. Tom Jenkins himself along with the board members who have been making these poor decisions after poor decisions since it all started. But that's impossible because ALL the board members are incompetent, and there's no one above. So it's game over.

The final cherry on this cake (truly an insult to us all) is that we hired an executive failure from BlackBerry to take over as the master puppet. Tom Jenkin's hand can reach all the way through and it still won't make a difference.

This is really fascinating and funny to watch evolve in real time. The funnier part is that we have/had the tech to be great. Despite what many of you say about our products being "cr-ppy" which is merely a symptom of bad leadership, we had the chance many times to take it to the next level and instead we sat our as--s down draining whatever life was left of these products until they started to crumble. And then they have the audacity to sp-t in our faces for these failures.

I am truly sorry to everyone who has been and will be affected. The economy is not great, and some of us need our jobs more than ever. You have been failed by corporate toddlers, you deserve better.

As for the corporate toddlers, go back to business school and this time don't skip classes.

DW?

What is your manager saying?

Had a manager briefing call today, and they were very evasive regarding questions about anonymity in regards the survey. The anonymity questions was raised by multiple managers in fact.

Tread lightly would be best.

No more rigged best of belk awards for managers favorites?

BNSF is currently staging transportation department for layoffs, currently doing so under the guise of “business picking up” after just slashing corporate and management for the exact opposite reason. Currently recalling TY&E personnel, including loan outs, back to home terminals, while cutting all 675 and 674 voluntary furlough and ready to work boards, to gather accurate figures of where permanent cuts can be made. This is being done under corporate deception of business picking up, while directly misleading union officers and officials, so as not to cause purposeful disruption in rail services including premature taking of vacation days, exhausting boards, or “lay downs.” BNSF corporate has sent terminal and regional superintendents direct instructions to manufacture a list as to staffing totals, and how to cut total numbers by up to 20% in order to save BNSF 1.5 billion in the fiscal year 2026, with primary cuts occurring in this quarter. Take precautions as nothing only affects BNSF management at the railroad.

After all that Imperial Oil has done in the last few years, all the trust and faith in the company has evaporated.

I don’t know how Management will rebuild it??

The reasoning behind Accelera pulling out of the industry was - per management the absence of a market.
Strange, regularly you can read about new project starting up and equipment being ordered. 300 MW order placed today for a plant in Spain. Accelera backyard!

Truth is that Accelera pulls out after repeated mismanagement and huge unreliability of the stacks.
Competition takes their time to develop a working product, Accelera chased the 1 and 2 GW projects while they could not deliver a H500 on time, let alone it worked.
Delusional!

Not once in eight years has it reflected my actual performance. I'm not complaining because any were negative. I'm complaining because I don't understand why they even bother. So much in this company is just performative cr-p for mgmt to cover their as--s.

It’s a sad sight but that’s corp America for you…..the more things change the more they stay the same.

I secretly bugged the conference room that my manger uses when he's in the office. I can listen in to everything now.

Being told to implement IA to do your job, so we don't need you anymore, or we will let you go, makes no sense. Especially when no tools or assistance are provided.
It's like telling the bus driver to implement a self-driving system so we don't need you any more, or we let you go and we will implement one ourselves, while the bus and it's customers sit at the curb. We need someone to write the book, "how to ki-l a company with two letters".

Sound like they haven't hit puberty yet?

Management here. I've been here for the last two strikes. For the last one, I recall getting my assignment fairly early in the year, and having to attend 8 days of on-site training at the Virginia center in the spring. They also told us not to make vacation plans around the potential strike time.

With a potential strike coming in August, why haven't assignments been released? Is anyone even working on that? Or is everyone assuming there will be will be a contract signed or negotiation extension?

In previous companies I've worked at, the direct mgr does the layoff but from what I see in OT it's the VP who does the lay off ?

Are direct managers in the loop at all ?

When will invites go out , Friday ?

don't trust this company too much; they start hiring in massive while firing and laying people off. Start looking for a new job, not a good management. they will give you last min surprises that you haven't performed well. Don't even know if they pay severance.

Tsunami of Layoffs w.r.t Principal Engineers, Directors, Senior Managers, Managers is on the way

He is the absolute worst CTO of all time.

Mass exodus by choice and some forced out. All locations are trimming fat so they can find a viable suitor for each non performing business unit. Glad I left before more cuts. Poorly ran from the top down, and frankly the union that exists in many locations is the downfall of any company with potential. Less than 7% of companies have unions and they all struggle, all layoff and eventually sell various business units to divest that waste and added expenses that union employees present to companies.

I heard from my manager they are in the process of setting up IP tracking to determine how many hours a week you are in the office - presumably with end goal to have dashboard like 11 RTO days but now including how many hours your IP showed you in office.

Anyone have further details on IP or any other in office tracking being implemented?

I'm hoping this goes the same way as their development of badge in/badge out tracking which they were too incompetent to implement successfully, which is why we only have the badge in system now.

Current Understanding on Tracking
FTE - Badge swipe ins per month / 11
Contractors - Sapience Micromanagement Software

To all the directors whining and trying to make your case for know declared surpluses. GOOD LUCK! You’re not as important as you think you are. Dan will do what Dan wants to do. Change some of your ridiculous metrics and you’ll find you need far less personnel. Smarten up!

It’s a Cisco- worldwide issue. The ONLY people being laid off are ICs, certification push is also for ICs, performance improvements are also for ICs,
while managers, directors, VPs slack their way…..
At executive level, nobody cares about having multiple directors/VPs reporting to
Each other. They are too comfortable not needing to lift a finger, why would they ever leave a comfortable job.
We all know nobody directors/ managers are ever on a chopping block.

Good news M. Light-foot has been retired

We basically work for the mafia.

Our country manager who has only been at Qlik for less than a year is ki-ling morale. It's got to the point where people have got sick and tired of being talked over and not listened to that they are actively looking for an exit ramp. leadership above are ignoring the issue and it festers away and is causing serious culture issues within our office.

I want to start off saying that the TIAA associates and people I've worked with are great but the silos and Management are running the firm and the associates into the ground which only hurts participants.

Having worked here for a long time until being forced to leave due to Denver closing (not offered relocation) I am astonished how far in the Stone Age TIAA is.

Every business being its own silo prevents learning and keep employees held back when they are trying to find a role outside the firm. It’s easy to believe I had several roles in different areas at TIAA. They teach you just enough to keep you here until a point they don’t need you anymore. Which makes sense why I couldn’t get a job offer elsewhere until being let go having to re-learn same practices and new things not taught due to silos and getting rid of bad habits taught at TIAA.

I couldn’t be happier where I am but am sad that this company is an even bigger dumpster fire after leaving than it was my last few years there.

ASML revealed plans to eliminate about 1,700 management positions, representing around 4% of its global staff. The cuts focus largely on technical and IT teams, and weeks after the announcement, employees are still waiting for clarity.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/asml-workers-still-in-the-dark-seven-weeks-after-1700-management-cuts-announced

All European companies hire McKinsey to understand how they can run their business better. But McKinsey is not working for the benefit of these companies or Europe. McKinsey is working for the benefit of billionaires in the US.

Recently McKinsey asked Volkswagen to close 8 of their 10 German factories and lay off almost everyone.
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/volkswagen-mckinsey-soll-angeblich-schliessung-fast-aller-deutschen-werke-empfehlen-a-89c85f97-0964-40b0-ad5f-7163ea7c1925

McKinsey is also the reason why the executive board want to fire SAP employees. This entire narrative that SAP should fire almost everyone and replace them with AI comes from US billionaires through McKinsey.

My hot take is that SAP should fire McKinsey. It will save millions that we give them each year. And SAP should focus on innovation instead of using stupid US marketing and laying off employees and making customers angry. Christian Klein is only doing all this because he plans to join the McKinsey Germany board after he leaves SAP. And that's wrong.