#management

Managers in retail are starting to step down after this last round of cuts.

I don't understand how our org chart makes any sense. Why do so many people/groups report up to people that aren't really in their same area of work, or region for that matter? I can see cross-region reporting when it makes sense, but it doesn't always. Person/group A reports up to person/group B who does something else entirely. Meanwhile, there is a 100% related person/group C who does what A does and seems to be a logical fit. Why is this? I see it a lot.

Los Angeles Unified School District approved significant staff pay raises despite receiving a letter from the Los Angeles County Office of Education warning of severe budget concerns. The district proceeded with the raises, which will cost approximately $1.2 billion annually, just days after the warning. This decision has led to projections of a $3.6 billion negative reserve balance by 2029. Consequently, the district's own projections indicate the elimination of nearly 6,000 positions over two school years. Parents and advocacy groups have criticized the district's management and decision-making process.

Los Angeles, California

https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/smoking-g-n-letter-reveals-lausd-ignored-dire-budget-warning-before-approving-huge-staff-pay-raises/

Every new manager we get seems less qualified than the last. It's like they're hiring for incompetence.

Will the dispatchers unionize or stay "management"

Friday my PL requested that we "acknowledge" their comments about our progress checkpoint. She only had 4 out of the 11 people in my team do it which makes me think we are the ones who applied to the VSP. She said we need to acknowledge ASAP in order to be "processed by the next department" like girl just tell us what the fu-k that means lol

If this is true, and with dead weight in management just getting heavier, we'll be in major trouble very soon. When you lose most of the people who know what they're doing and you add useless managers instead of trying to replace them, things are bound to start breaking sooner rather than later.

You should be thinking like an executive saying to yourself how much can I strip out of this company while contributing as little as possible.

The managers wonder why morale is low, they wonder why people don't care anymore.
They don't take care of the people that shows up to work and when they do punish the ones that calls in all the time, some how it ends up being everyone included at the buffet.
Short handed, no communication, no help, and no rewards for hard work beside a paycheck.

I had a horrible Intel manager. I got laid off by this individual though I was given the most difficult task without any training. That person has set me up for failure. But nevertheless I am in faang now. But that individual soon got laid off and is still searching for job it's more than 2 years

Karma is painful

There was a thread here saying they were going to give everyone a ridiculous low budget.
At least 1 org was put under it and they had to put in for an exemption.
But I've seen mgmt recently asking for how we are innovating with AI again.
Which way is the wind blowing this week?
Are they capping or not?

still a fishy company

Yes—“fishy” is fair as a judgment about credibility, though not the same as proving fraud.

The pattern is what creates the distrust: Honeywell repeatedly highlights orders, backlog, AI, automation, productivity, and future conversion, while employees see layoffs, offshoring, weak current revenue, and constant restructuring. Management may be technically accurate sentence by sentence while still presenting an incomplete picture.

The most suspicious part is the lack of clean reconciliation:

How much growth came from real volume, pricing, acquisitions, backlog conversion, AI-enabled products, and ordinary labor-cost reduction?

Until Honeywell separates those drivers and shows that strong orders consistently become revenue and cash flow, I would treat the narrative skeptically. Real company, real technology, but heavily polished storytelling.

Or maybe a better analogy is that we're Pompei, obliviously waiting for Vesuvius to finally explode. The company just seems to by dying a slow death, going deeper and deeper underwater with each passing month. We have an invisible, inept figurehead CEO at the top. Extremely questionable decisions coming from her less than competent inner circle. Chaos at all levels due to brain drain, the Denver closing, the Accenture fiasco, pi-s poor management, non-communication and outright apathy. There's the ham-fisted rollout of our AI platform, which let's be honest was probably aimed primarily to rescue the not insignificant pool of associates who can barely write at a middle school level. In short, very little cause for optimism. Time to start lowering the lifeboats?

I hate recon!! How are we finding stuff that wasn’t there during inventory?? Also, does your store manager participate in any of it? Mine doesn’t do cr-p then expects everything from everyone!! We don’t have AP so they are “supposed to be” AP.

Book by Jim Collins. If you know, you know.. Somehow, seemingly NOT ONE of our “leaders” have read the book, or understand, or care to understand the importance of ‘Getting the right people on the Bus’. To me, this is a direct acknowledgment that T is nothing more than a stock or commodity, with no real interest in being a competitive and top performing company. Settling for financial position, dividends, and gains is their game and none of us should expect anything more. We are all an operating expense that can be reduced when needed.

IBM’s problem is not that the mainframe disappears tomorrow. It is that most new workloads are being built elsewhere.

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Linux are now the defaults for new applications, while IBM Z, AIX and IBM i increasingly depend on existing customers, transaction growth and hardware-refresh cycles.

AI is weakening the mainframe’s strongest defense: the difficulty of understanding decades of undocumented COBOL and business logic. Toyota’s use of Amazon Q to analyze legacy COBOL and support migration planning is a warning. AI does not need to replace the mainframe directly; it only needs to make leaving cheaper, faster and less risky.

IBM’s traditional software is also exposed. DataStage faces cloud-native ELT, zero-ETL, Redshift, S3 and Iceberg. Red Hat remains useful, but many customers can choose EKS, AKS or GKE instead of OpenShift—and Amazon Linux instead of RHEL.

IBM Cloud is not a credible fourth hyperscaler, and IBM is not investing in AI infrastructure at anything close to Amazon, Microsoft or Google. Its AI strategy increasingly depends on competitors owning the compute, models, distribution and economics.

Quantum offers no immediate rescue. IBM is a serious contender, not the undisputed leader, and commercial returns remain years away.

IBM has repeatedly acquired companies—Lotus, Informix, Rational and many others—without consistently creating lasting platform leadership. Continuing to buy software companies while distributing billions through dividends does not address the underlying problem.

IBM should make an honest choice: cut the dividend and reinvest aggressively, or break up and sell its valuable businesses while they still command premium value.

Harvesting legacy cash, buying another company and protecting the dividend is not a growth strategy. It is managed decline.

Decreasing bureaucracy would make sense if the people left had basic knowledge of systems. As the staff has been critically cut simple repair jobs take days instead of hours. AI cannot replace hands. We should have executed a paced transition plan to execute instead of cutting first and figuring out later. This is proof senior leadership has no clue on how the systems function. They want the people left to come up with a solution and sell AI to support the theme

HCSC is now being managed by Manika and others with some ideology that they are bent on. It is not business. It is ideology. Maurice was an incrediblely smart business person back in the day, but he too has succumbed to this cr-p. Hcsc used to be the best of the Blues. No longer.

This is the last weekend until 7/27 when everyone who accepted the VSP finds out their last day. Starting Monday, it's going to be a reckoning for managers and PLs.when they find out how much of the work force is decreasing. I'm getting on that lifeboat before the Titanic sinks.

GK: Remote employees are grandfathered in and we do not have mass layoff.

Lowly employees : But I was just told I either move 2,000 miles to MN or get laid off.

GK: Each department head make their own decisions whether to eliminate remote employees, MC do not have a requirement to eliminate remote employee, we give our department head the discretion.

Lowly employees: you lying #$%$}&%&#&&#&#&}

Gk: Also, if you are unable with your raise and bonus, talk to your manager, we allow our manager discretion for compensation adjustments.

Lowly employees: you lying piece of%%)$^&&&@@

See how smart she is, she’s not lying to us…we just didn’t read the fine print and we didn’t make enough friends.

Good thing she is happy to help us leave USBank, actively encouraging us to leave

Who, or what, is behind the long string of failures in ISG? Jeff B? Travis? Arthur? Who/what else?

Never have we seen such a continuous pattern of sustained failure without a change in behavior or accountability.

BAIN should be looking at common threads in each of these and clean house.

x400 - Failure
ScaleIO - Failure
XC4000 - Failure
DM5500 - Failure
Santorini - Failure
Hydra - Failure
VxRail - Failure
PPDM - Failure
Cyber Recovery - Failure
Apex - Failure
CloudIQ - Failure
EMC Storage Strategy - Failure

I understand senior management milking this whole game of grabbing cash till it is gone. I also understand older employees staying until social security is close. Perks of vacation time and free travel to events must be great for them. But, how is any second tier lien holder of this debt calculating they will get all their money back?
With stock dropping causing loss in investments and the REAL debt being said it would be closer to 9 billion, what bank would possibly feel ok with this?
Could someone explain this? Are there hidden advantages here somehow.

Regarding the layoffs at Centene Corp., the real problem is management, not the boots-on-the-ground employees. There are too many layers of unnecessary management pulling in great salaries. Middle management is mediocre and exclusively focused on metrics and numbers, which is the exact reason we lost so many members—because the resulting quality is deficient and mediocre.

How can anyone focus on quality and caring for the member when they are forced to handle 60 calls daily, just trying to reach that arbitrary quota of 60 members a day? Leadership thinks that because they have a Microsoft pilot, everything is fixed, yet CM Hero remains an outdated piece of trash. I cannot fathom how much they paid for that imbecile piece of software that they are trying to promote.

The issue stems straight from middle management, where there is zero innovation. Moreover, when you look at the staffing mix—such as registered nurses with only two years of college and CNAs—can you expect them to think above and beyond? Many of them do not write English properly, which is plainly evident in the notes that they produce.

stock sinking why CEO's nut heads still around? As a stock holder i want them to be fired for their lousy job.

The board extended the old man to December of 2028 Verizon is sc--wed

What the He-l is going on at Arbroath? Management claim everything is dandy but machinist’s standing around with no work, zero material In the yard, it’s looking bleak. It certainly can’t continue or be covered over for much longer.

We all know what IBM managers are planning with some people not needes anymore in projects... PIPs and layoffs.

They can't lay me off without severance, so they're making me want to quit instead. That's the only conclusion I can make after my workload got cut to nothing, my meetings disappeared, and my manager stopped including me in planning. I guess they're hoping I'll eventually crack and submit my resignation. Or they'll try to fire me. Whatever it is, I'm definitely not going to do them any favors and walk away on my own. They have no idea how stubborn I can get.

Cap size useless HR activities with Agentic AI workflows

I asked my director about project priorities and he said he'd check with his boss. Three days later, still no answer. It's managers all the way down, and nobody at the top knows anything either.

In the last 15+ years, we've had two incompetent CEOs, countless reorgs, several acquisitions where we bought for premium prices and sold for cheap, and a complete erosion of culture. I think the rot is so deep at this point that any new leadership would need a miracle, not a strategy to fix this mess.

We keep getting vague emails about stuff like strategic alignment and zero details about layoffs, budgets, or direction. Basically, anything that truly matters. We're at the point where the grapevine is more reliable than any official channel. That's not a management style, that's damage control.

This place is on life support and has been for a while, and management keeps unplugging the machines. I've watched entire departments vanish, and the work just gets dumped on whoever's left. The collapse won't be dramatic - it'll be a slow, painful death by attrition.

I heard there was a BT team that got the old VPs/SVPs of base management and CS fired by pointing out how terrible their decisions were. How does one join this team?

we can build products, but can execs manage the business?

I’ve seen high performers get RIFed…if they’ve been on their ADs sh-t list. Does that imply AD had a say in the job loss? Serious feedback please no trolling

Okay gang. Which group is being run into the ground? Which should we stay far away from? Initals, dept and why. Go

I cannot believe how absolutely ridiculously this organization operates.

A meeting ends and these id--t managers think another meeting is needed to follow up the just finished meeting.

How about hiring some competent people then you won't need to have irrelevant meetings wasting everybody's time?

IBM missed every major tech revolution from PCs to AI, shrinking to a $200 billion market cap while private OpenAI is valued at $900 billion.

IBM, which has been poorly run for decades, is on the ropes. The company has had plenty of practice managing decline. When it warned about its earnings a week ago, the stock dropped over 20%. It is down 30% for the year, while the S&P is up 9%. The picture is even bleaker from another vantage point: in early June, the stock changed hands at $329, but it trades at very slightly better than $200 now.

https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/07/23/ibm-is-the-worlds-worst-big-tech-company/