#performance

Our entire team failed at hitting their numbers for November, same as October so it doesn’t look like the quarter is gonna be any better. Time to call it quits for DSD.

Ford Sales in China
2017: 1.2 million
2020: 602K
Jim Farley took over as CEO of Ford on October 2020
2022: 490K
2023: 455K
2024: 175K
2025: 115K (forecasted)

How will those of us that have been displaced (October) be remembered for incentive allocations that are happening now (finalized in January)? Will leaders just need to remember us that have been displaced or is there an organized process perhaps led by HR to advise managers so they don't forget us?? I was a top performer.

The outcome of this situation is truly shameful. In retail, we were pushed relentlessly to drive the leaderboard, only to find out that leaderboard performance had no bearing on job security. It is baffling that stores, SDs, Directors, store leaders, and sales reps consistently at the lower end of performance rankings throughout the year remain employed.

In the Atlantic South market, we were subjected to endless calls and passive-aggressive behavior from leadership. NONE of that pressure mattered. The market president was the worst of them all. Her and her cronies would talk out both sides of their mouth and leave it up to everyone to decipher what they meant all while screaming how important integrity is. The leaders would go on and on about performance but if performance mattered, we’d have a different market president.

The customers are DISCONNECTING because the leadership at the top is DISCONNECTED to what drives true customer loyalty and satisfaction. In the end, our individual contributions and struggles were irrelevant; we are merely casualties in the company's efforts to manipulate the stock price. Happy Holidays to everyone and I wish you all the very best. We deserved better.

So how come some stores that performed well on the leaderboard were closed? Because they didn't do enough volume? Well everyone in retail knows that they higher ups scold you for volume. They only want "quality" Some stores dug their own grave by gaming the system on leaderboard to be higher on the ranker.

IMO it's always been one of the worst parts about this job and part of the reason that they company loses out on so much. They would rather you walk a sale that retains a customer but whom isn't buying insurance, an add a line and 3 perks on premium.

whats the use of spending hours and filling performance reviews..All we get is 2-3 % raise.
stock is already down , dunno y and how they motivate people to come in and work in the office 5 days, 9 hours.ppl who spent long time here lost even more..for me its the 3 erd year, but the worst company I worked for so far in 20 plus years.

Citi should not block someone to move out when a 4 rating is intentional.

Chevron has delivered the worst stock performance of the year among all major oil companies. It’s obvious that Wall Street simply isn’t buying the story. No matter how desperate the ELT appears when communicating their strategy, they clearly no longer understand what it actually takes to win. They think they’re delivering what Wall Street wants, and maybe they can convince themselves of that — but they can’t convince anyone else. They can’t even convince their own employees. And the result is exactly what we’re seeing today: the worst-performing stock of the year.

I continue to hear that all remote, even those with a medical accommodation will be laid off. No longer giving the ultimatum of, either go in, or accept your 60 day notice. I only know one medical accommodation this happened to recently, but I have to hope, that they are pointing to something performance?? Can they do that? Are they offering a chance of RTO first? Or just cleaning house on all remote?

Inside Sales Representative – Dell Technologies

Empowering execution through operational excellence.

Role Summary

The Inside Sales position is designed for high-performing professionals capable of navigating a highly structured environment with precision. This role focuses on administrative readiness, cross-functional coordination, and seamless support of front-line field teams.

Primary Responsibilities

Deliver timely and accurate customer quotations across diverse product portfolios

Complete Goal File documentation in alignment with quarterly planning expectations

Manage evaluation units and try-and-buy processes with strict procedural compliance

Maintain comprehensive and up-to-date Salesforce (SFDC) records

Execute a wide range of internal forms, submissions, and approval workflows

Monitor and communicate order status, logistics updates, and lead-time expectations to customers

Sales & Strategy Expectations

Minimal direct selling activity required; emphasis is on internal alignment and mundane administrative accuracy

Strategic decision-making is primarily centralized; role focuses on operational follow-through

Performance metrics are based on standardized numerical objectives that may shift quarterly

Collaboration Requirements

Attend and support extended Teams calls, often in a listen only or note-taking capacity while Account Executives lead customer discussions

Participate in all mandatory training programs, averaging 40 hours per quarter, to maintain internal compliance

Conduct mock sales pitches for internal development, despite limited practical selling opportunities due to administrative workload

Quota Alignment

Expected to deliver 50% storage attainment despite data-center outreach being handled by other specialized teams

Must demonstrate resilience working within a matrixed quota system with shared responsibilities

Workplace Expectations

On-site presence required: 5 days per week, minimum 40 hours

Free amenities may be limited; on-site beverage options vary by location (buy your own coffee on the way to work)

Compensation Structure

Base salary aligned with internal leveling

Annual compensation growth is limited; raises are typically reserved for new graduate hires entering the organization.

Variable compensation is performance-based (wink-wink) and may fluctuate significantly depending on attainment

Ideal Candidate Profile

Will support continuous automation initiatives, including providing feedback and training data to enhance AI systems that may eventually replace your job

Must maintain a positive attitude while working toward quarterly targets that are (let’s be honest) mathematically impossible

Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to thrive in a process-driven environment where grunt work is 90% of the job.

Demonstrated ability to perform high-volume, repeatable tasks consistently and accurately on a daily basis.

Comfortable with high administrative volume and frequent context switching

Adept at maintaining professionalism under shifting priorities and ambiguous targets

Why Dell?

Join a team committed to operational rigor, structured workflows, and consistent process execution where your mastery of internal systems becomes your most valuable asset.

Candidates should be aware that the role’s highly specialized internal processes may not directly translate to external skill sets if held for extended durations.

Dell is committed to supporting you as a valued number in the system, until such time as that number is no longer required.

Candidates are expected to go all-in with full commitment and gratitude for the opportunity.

Heard there have to be 4s on the team. This might be the new strategy to get rid of some serious headcount without any severances. Track your work and have enough evidence to contest the 4s. If they want you out they want you out.

G2 is accountable for this security fiasco . Is he really good for the company or just a great PR machine ?

It is truly amazing how fast the market may have gone from:
Yay, greatly reduced costs from layoffs of aging workers and huge new CAPEX to enter the shiny new field of AI

to:
Wow, you released many loyal and very knowledgeable workers because you thought AI would capably take up their workload? Who do you think generates the knowledge where AI extracts it supposed intelligence from?
Also, dilution and especially debt is favorable, and oh my, a lot of debt is very bad. If that debt is going to generate low margin revenue, you really have to wonder what management was thinking.

Don't even get me started discussing whether Open AI is going to generate enough revenue to fulfill their contractual obligations.

ORCL was last in double digits in Dec 2023, but we could be headed back there very soon in my opinion.

Is there any theory or knowledge as to how victims are selected. Presumably a role has to become redundant and then individuals in that role are selected based on length of service, performance and so forth.

If AT&T wants to push AI so hard, all they need to do is run a basic Google search for “AT&T Su-ks.” Then they can use agents to run sentiment analysis on everything from all the interwebs. There’s even a Facebook page some built called AT&T Su-ks.

In a matter of seconds, John Stankey will be able to see, even without using AI, that Customers are most frustrated with network speed, stability, lack of being able to reach a US-based human agent to resolve billing issues and broken promotion promises, among others.

Go ahead, give it a whirl - especially if you work for J.D. Power & Associates.

With the new performance framework being introduced they’re removing any incentive for high performers to go above and beyond, as their peers who perform below average will receive the same bonuses.

Meanwhile they keep repeating ad nauseam that our ambition is to be the #1 sports brand in the world.

It’s clear they want more people to leave.

Jan 31 @ 237. Apr 17 @ 172. Oct 17 @ $213. Nov 3 @ $254. Nov 20 @ $217.

LAYOFFS!

Everything hinges on quarterly performance. If Q4 results disappoint, we could see another major round of cuts, especially since last year's Q4 was exceptional and Dan needs to show he's delivering results. Q1 has historically been Verizon's weakest period, so management will probably announce significant reductions to satisfy Wall Street if the numbers fall short. I'd anticipate roughly 5% workforce reductions each quarter over the next year, plus at least one new offshore headquarters. The message from leadership is clear: ongoing job cuts in the U.S. paired with overseas expansion will be the standard operating procedure going forward.

Oh, look at that. The stock price went down. Again. Color me surprised.

A company which RIFs its staff for non-personal performance reasons is a company which has failed. A company which RIFs its staff to increase the stock price is even worse - and they’ve even failed at that!

And a company which RIFs its staff for the personal enrichment of its upper levels is something beyond failure.

I know many people in CX team that are good for nothing. There are multiple teams in that group that have not delivered a single feature in the entire year.
They are always confrontation if you ask them. Love to finger point on everyone under the sun .. UX , GTS , legal etc for their massive delays.

All of them survived.. How ? Many great people were let go..

Dan should audit their 2025 performance .. Budget spent vs feature ( code) delivered in Prod.

Hans can fu-k up and he gets a nice bonus. In comes Dan, lies with a sh---y PR statement. Communication company with sh-t communication, gets rid of productive workers with great track records, but the bosses fu-k it up.

I was on Maternity Leave and STD and it was determined that my performance was the reason I had been affected. Is this even legal? I thought that is protected by FMLA? Has anyone else who was on a LOA affected, too?

Any word on the specifics of these emails and timelines? I’m hearing names drop all around me at neighboring locations but don’t understand how these decisions are being made.

Create a mess for the 4th quarter and see how results are later.

Bootlickers, go lick a boot.

We’d easily have enough FCF to pay employee bonuses if:

1. C-suite didn’t burn unquantifiable amounts of money on RTO
2. Legg didn’t donate our cash to Amdocs and TechM
3. We fired the worst performing employee at the company that makes 30 million a year

If they have not reduce from that cr-ppy team.. expect lousy bad web and app experience

Interesting they mentioned the possibility of promotions in January, but nothing about merit increases… unless I missed that?

Performance based reductions to take place in February! Bottom 8-10% will be cut after the holidays. This will not fall under the RIF numbers and will categorized differently to avoid Federal regulations and penalties. Its going to be Hunger Games Verizon style. Truely unfair to hold people hostage for the holidays and then discard. Makes me sick.

until such time that the primary corporate emphasis of financial revenue quantity has changed to product quality.

WMT’s comparable sales up 4.5%, TJX comparable sales up 5%, TGT comparable sales down 2.7%.

How is Fiddelke going to spin this?

Ever since the layoffs, it’s been crystal clear: Target doesn’t have the desire to do another formal RIF, so they’re trying to make the rest of us rage-quit instead.
The new SVPs openly don’t trust any of the remaining VPs because they’re “holdovers from the Brian Cornell personality-cult era.” That distrust trickles down hard — directors and Sr. directors are getting micromanaged into the ground, skipped in meetings, or flat-out told their opinion doesn’t matter because they’re “old Target.”
And now the latest insanity in Target Tech: they are MANDATING that story pointing be “consistent” across the entire org — one point = one ideal engineering day. Doesn’t matter if you’re on a legacy spaghetti codebase or greenfield green-grass stuff, doesn’t matter if half your sprint is fighting Prod fires or on-call — 1 point = 8 hours or you’re “underperforming.” They’re literally we-ponizing story points to create impossible velocity goals so they can PIP people who can’t hit the made-up numbers.
Hours are creeping up, recognition is gone, morale is in the toilet, and every standup feels like a performance review. Classic constructive discharge playbook.

I’ve pretty much accepted I’m probably getting canned today. No performance issues, just not the type to su-k up. If my direct leadership has any say in the cuts, I’m definitely on the list.

Honestly, I just hope they actually cut the bloat for once. Leaders are making way more than the rest of us, and one cut at their level could save a bunch of our salaries. We’re the ones doing all the work. Have you seen how many Band 5 and 6 leaders have zero direct reports on Inside Verizon lately? It’s ridiculous! How the he-l did we end up back here after 2015?

My manager was let go.... does the new person that i report to who knows nothing about my work do this?

Got an IP after a great performance year because I worked from home some Fridays last year. Manager never thought it was an issue and never said anything to me until I got a warning in late summer, then the IP rating overrode the EP she entered for me at year end. She was totally blindsided by the warning and the rating. Aside from RTO being a complete joke of a policy to begin with, nevermind that they kept managers in the dark about enforcement, what does this IP rating mean for my income?

I assume no bonus, no raise, no new shares? Will my current vested shares still pay out next March?

Talked to HR and Emp Relations and they just protect Abby's billions, neither could answer my simple questions, so need to ask here.

I always believed that loyalty, tenure, experience, integrity, and consistently high performance meant something. I thought those things mattered — that they protected you, or at least earned you some consideration. Turns out, they don’t. I’m being laid off too.

What hurts the most is knowing I’ve always operated with integrity. I’ve done things the right way — by the Credo, by our customers, and by the business. I never cheated, inflated numbers, or gamed the system. I focused on doing what’s right for the customer and what’s right for the company — because both matter. I brought real value without taking shortcuts, and I truly believed that mattered. Apparently, it doesn’t.

Meanwhile, it’s hard not to notice that some who openly cheat the process and play the commission game stay untouched. People who push $10 routers customers never asked for — hurting the customer relationship and the company — will keep their jobs. And yet someone with strong results year after year, both individually and as a leader, is cast aside like I’m expendable. It’s hard to make sense of that.

I also can’t understand how this company thinks it will continue to operate without the great minds and passionate people customers actually rely on. We’ve always been told customers don’t just want the cheapest price — they want people who care, who solve problems, who think creatively, who build relationships. Yet somehow, those are the exact people being treated like numbers on a spreadsheet.

Watching the company cut individuals who are true assets — people who carry this place on their backs — is a travesty. And it’s not just today. More cuts are coming, and many who truly matter will be ignored or pushed out sooner or later.

I’ve thought about leaving before — especially with so many disconnected decisions and poor ideas happening around me. But I stayed because I believed in my team, in our customers, and in the value we brought. At least now I’ll walk away with a big payout — and I can be grateful for that. But it’s painful knowing others will get tiny packages and rely entirely on this paycheck to support their families.

Verizon, you’re making a huge mistake. Customers will feel this. The problem was never the people — it was the decisions. Dan once told us that “employees are Verizon’s most important asset.” Seeing the company treat us like costs to eliminate proves how empty that statement was. Customers do want us. They want the expertise, the honesty, the relationships. Cutting the people who provide that is not the answer.

For me personally, I trust this will ultimately be a good thing. But for the company? The consequences are coming — and customers will be the ones to say it out loud.

Am I likely safe? My store typically performs well and we’re in the Atlantic South. I’ve been with the company for 2 years. Does anyone know anything concrete?

They’re NOT choosing our uninspiring merchandising & they’re NOT choosing our prohibitively expensive prices. We 👏 aren’t 👏 competitive 👏.

Just once I’d like to see an earnings call that goes “We missed the mark.” Instead of blaming our performance on external factors.

Is this a PIP?
HR wasnt involved yet it seems like

What exactly are you putting in your reflection this time? Is this a new V2MOM?