#badleadership

M@rk, please wake up and see who is running this company:

Your head of HR is an emperor with no clothes.

Your CFO is a washed up hack that does not develop people and is coasting. He also does not live our values.

Your head of IT is in WAY over her head and was a salesperson before she arrived here.

You need change. Why can’t you see it? The entire organization and Elliott does. And, yes, we all discuss it.

You have lost the confidence of your people. When you came in you gave us hope, but your leadership selections are ruining this company.

Wah wah Capgemini Group decision
Wah wah wah bad market
Wah wah wah microsoft aws redundancies
A pshpoor implementation od SuccessFactors
More AI slop
Wah wah wah more like they didnt want to make France feel alone in its misery
Mr. Bull... more like Bullsh*t

It’s simply not worth it. Don’t let this mismanaged menagerie put you in the ground. While they shove more work and a 1% raise at you (while the CEO cleared nearly 30mm in 2024 per the 10k published). You’re doing time here that’s it. There is no future any longer working for PepsiCo - it’s just a name on a C.V. that looks good. When the economy picks up - they might as well just leave the exit door opened.

I'm barely present. I've run out of caring. We've bled talent, and management spins it as a win. Following that logic, the company will peak the moment the last person walks out. Beyond that, nothing adds up. So many things could be done better and smarter. But no one's interested. So why the he-l should I be?

Regarding Kevin's meeting and the effort he's making for employees. Kevin just sold $1,000,000 worth of stock. Do not trust them. They are trying to keep you productive up until they can discard you.

I have overheard the supervisors and managers talking about the posts and disgruntled employees posting on this site. It truly scares them and they don't want the new hires knowing about all the dysfunction and toxicity. Some covered up safety violations and firings have been exposed and posted. I loved in a town hall the then CEO of exxon mentioned that employees were posting they were year to year contractors and that this was eroding morale. Some exxon sites operate on intimidation and fear tactics. I attended a meeting where my stupidvisor threatened everyone with insubordination and retaliation for complaining. The stupidvisor said I don t want to have to fire anyone as they had the power to do it. They took pleasure in firing several contractors in the section. It talked so bad about the terminated employees and said they just were not excon material. One employee was fired to cover up the mistake of an employee friend of the supervisor. The supervisor would go out to lunch with this protected employee. There are some real evil snakes in exxon management. Several of the safety incidents should have been reported to OSHA but the employees are to scared and intimidated to do so.

Do you guys have any Reorg Ideas? Let's share them here. I'll start: Fire C-Level folks and replace them with folks who are competent.

For taking our well performing stock value from the high of $179 to an even more winning $119...

VP Finance and Strategy. OMG he was a total buffoon and bootlicker.

This place is insane! Every Monday... I can't sleep the night before and just dread this place. State Farm has absolutely no clue what it is doing. There is always a systems problem, always some update waiting to be downloaded messing up some application. Over the last 13 years the people they are hiring are just absolute trash, bottom of the barrel burger flippers. 2040 and DEI outcasts. The agent's are completely useless and cause so many issues you can barely do you job due to their meddling. Training is awful, traffic and cost of living is horrendous in the hubs and we get paid the same as fully remote workers but have thousands of dollars in additional expense. Now it's all about emotions and feelings and surveys asking you about things they never have any intention of changing. You need to better manage your health to adapt to all the stress they are going to cause and never offer anything to make the work environment better.
State Farm is like a bad dream you never wake up from and the madness never stops. Just constant organized chaos and it's hard to believe this company is even in business. I still can't believe they destroyed this once great company. This place continues to be a soul su-king sh-t hole. They are basically openly hostile to anyone that tells them their baby is ugly and keep doubling down on a completely failed business model. I wish they would offer some form of voluntary severance. Just stop the suffering. Pathetic really, JF and his minions are joke for an era and legacy that need to be removed like a cancerous growth and they just continue to stain and destroy everything they touch. Mo--ns, just absolute mo--ns!

Bad leadership. Too many leaders do not understand the brand or the mission. They do not care deeply about sport or sneakers. They care about titles and power. They focus on themselves, not the company.

We promoted the wrong people. Then they promoted their friends and loyalists. Now it is people in power protecting each other instead of building the business. When the top is weak, everything below it crumbles.

EH has not reset the organization. The leaders under EH avoid hard decisions. There is a lot of head nodding and very little action. They wait for direction instead of leading. They are not building the future. They are not leaders.

Talent is leaving or has left. The people who care the most get frustrated and walk away. Strong voices are pushed out. The people who stay are comfortable, not outstanding.

There is zero accountability. When we fail at something, there is always an excuse. Market conditions. Timing. Someone else’s decision. No one clearly owns the failure. If no one owns it, nothing changes.

There is no unity. Teams protect their own goals instead of fighting for one mission. The culture is political and siloed. We do not act like one company.

This is the norm now. This is the new Nike culture.

My god its nothing but incompetence. Take your wanna be fancy degrees and shove them where the sun doesn't shine because holy moly the amount of common sense added up together doesnt say much. Just give them back because none of you deserve them. Completely sabotaging staff and the whole damn place

I’m a customer (ex-customer starting soon) and an employee. There is no going back after the stunt they just pulled with merit and at the same time they also let go of so many people. All in the same week. How do they look at themselves in the mirror? How? Are y’all possessed? I’m just ready to throw in the towel. The vibe is low, almost like we are in he-l.

The misguided leadership of OBD model is dead. No more time wasted on this terd

Interesting to see that MGO is laying people off while at the same time having an insanely expensive love-in in Dallas for three days in May. Flying in everyone from outside of Dallas, the whole thing.

Did this in 2024 just a couple of weeks after another layoff round. This for now at least looks slightly less bad but still. Kind of nauseating watch Kellyn and friends yap about how great everything is after they ax a bunch of people.

buckle up. no teams are protected. more constriction. thank your president for architecting it with all the usual care, concern and thoughtful strategy she typically applies while covering herself

What a real win for Jane. Citibank cuts staff for raises to the top executives. No one knows including the entire department. You just vanish after 10 years and they say nothing. While Jane received a $41 million dollar pay day.

I certainly let go of all my 200+ shares in the company. This is not progress or innovation this is pure theft. I see top executives are selling very quickly. To the management shame on you!

You couldn’t even give a hint of notice saying anything. Not even a 60 day notice prior to letting us go. A tap on the shoulder and say hey you’re going to be laid off after a decade of work. When the stock falls to nothing no one will be shocked.

Bridget Engle, whose 2024 compensation was $22.11 million, admitted on a town hall call today that employees were being forced to sit on the floor due to lack of space. This is reminiscent of textile mill workers who were forced to wear diapers because they were not allowed sufficient bathroom breaks. Ms. Engle should be ashamed and embarrassed at this inhumane treatment. The fact that she can casually admit this shows her complete lack of empathy and awareness. Her NUMBER ONE priority should be immediately resolving this issue, publicly apologizing to all employees, and personally apologizing to the affected employees.

So the EC schlep to Lexington this week, spending first class money we don’t have, having another day off work and away from clients. But did they actually achieve anything that could not have been done remotely (or even at all)? I no the answer is no but it would nice to be told I’m wrong

I feel like I work with incompetent people. Some I seriously question how they keep their jobs. Am I alone here? Am I just unlucky? I get technical gaps but this is basic common sense and elementary math.

We saw yesterday the announcements about our new sales orgs. We need our sales people to now move FAST but there is no support. Sales operations is now managed by RB (reporting to loss-making-CB) who wouldn’t know a customer or account manager if he tripped on them. all the support groups needs to hire in low cost locations now as Bandy clown 🤡 says so and yet RB is managing that as well at a SNAIL pace. Sadly people are leaving and the gaps will be there most of the year the way this non-sales-non-operations works

Don't dismiss why Jana Partners is taking a position.

1. Speed - let's be honest, Fiserv has become a slow company from a client view.
2. Growth - you can't cut your way to prosperity, growth requires prioritization, focus and execution. Sadly every thing at Fiserv is a priority therefore nothing is. Best example is Toast - unheard of five years ago, today completely pushed Clover out of restaurants.
3. Too much expensive management who seems themselves as the center of the universe vs the inverter pyramid where the people who do the work are at the top of the pyramid.
4. Arrogance - you can't treat investor, clients and employees the way you are and think all will be well.

Fvck this company, milk it as much as you can. Do the bare minimum you’ll still get 1% merit increase and they’ll tell you that your blessed you did …

2026 Goals:
Don’t go above and beyond
Play the game
Milk the system
Act like you don’t know
Low scores on the annual survey
Use your PTO as much as you can

More and more layoffs. Not a well-run facility and not a good place to work.

When management mismanages money employees must be eliminated.

This company operates with an outdated mindset, and as a former Pershing Advisor Solutions employee, I saw firsthand how deeply the issues run. Strong performers were often pushed out or left on their own, while promotions frequently went to individuals who simply filled gaps rather than elevated the organization.

Middle management was routinely pressured to give artificially low performance ratings so directors could meet layoff quotas—often without offering appropriate severance. The result is a culture where talented people feel undervalued and unsupported.

It’s disappointing to watch, and I genuinely encourage high‑performing employees to explore opportunities elsewhere where their contributions will be recognized and rewarded.

Why is he still around? Shankar and Vivek sat on legacy systems for so so long. I remember a struggle few years ago when I wanted us to move to better new backend system but I was shut down saying they do not have budget.

I am pretty sure they wasted millions of dollars on hiring contractors to rip off Verizon.

Nothing will ki-l a great employee faster than watching you tolerate a bad one. – Perry Belcher
Bad managers don’t listen to their employees because it makes them feel insecure when they find that employees are smarter than themselves. – Anonymous
A bad leader can take a good staff and destroy it, causing the best employees to flee and the remainder to lose all motivation. – Anonymous
People don’t leave bad jobs; they leave bad bosses. – Anonymous
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. – Stephen Covey

Goodbye TU! It’s a wrap for your sh*tty hiring practices and abuse of your employees. They’re all about to fly the nest where you mistreated us

Giant Eagle used to care about its people. Now we’re at the point where employees are treated no better than they are at Walmart. It’s genuinely sad to see how far this workplace has fallen when it comes to its workers. This leadership should be ashamed.

It’s by far the worst experience I’ve had in my professional life. I’m in CWP, leadership is ineffectual, they do absolutely nothing but the bare minimum, just enough to keep their job. They won’t care about their teams, they don’t care about doing what’s right for the members , they just do the bare minimum to keep their job. It’s atrocious and shocking for a company of this size to allow leaders to behave the way they do, I don’t even feel like I have a manager or any sort of support system. I cannot wait to quit this nightmare of a company, The really sad part is I’m one of the few people that other job, follow the rules and the people that do whatever they want aren’t held accountable. It’s only a matter of time before a member takes legal action due to the irresponsibility of most of the staff.

Bumping from @2hr+1kd1d6bb6, well stated.

The company keeps letting go of people who actually know the work and matter, then shuffling others into roles they aren’t set up for. It’s creating gaps and inefficiencies that could’ve been avoided. I'll never understand the logic behind their thinking.

I’m so glad T has an extra $25M to sponsor the Pebble Beach golf tournament. After all, the majority of the people watching golf have NO idea who AT&T is, or what the company sells!! I’m sure people are flooding to the stores for millions of new net adds…

The T & Stinky way…whine about cash and then drive up costs on stupid sh-t! Followed by subsequently hacking away at the labor force…

Year after year, we see the same pattern: failed decisions, failed projects, failed products, failed initiatives, failed policies. The outcomes are consistent — underperformance and disruption.

Yet the accountability is not.

Senior leaders are rarely, if ever, held responsible for these failures. Instead, rank-and-file employees absorb the consequences — blamed, terminated, or laid off while the architects of these poor decisions remain untouched.

How does this culture persist? When poor judgment repeatedly goes unchecked at the top, it raises serious questions about governance, transparency, and whether advancement is based on merit or internal favoritism.

Failure at Dell has become all too systemic — and predictable.

The management and executives here are untrustworthy. They've broken just about every rule and unwritten rule possible with directs. They're the type who give you prop's the entire year and then give you a bad year end review so they can cheat you on your bonus to make some budget number. As a shareholder i've super disappointed in the place and plan to sell my stock holding in this company, and its a sizeable figure.

Way too much uncontrolled uncertain chaos. Tons of lame misguided of both decision and indecision. Coulda woulda shoulda not sure so layoff. Hire from other banks……oooppss…they went somewhere else now. Umm stick with the layoff plan I guess.

This is all getting so old. Good luck everyone.

For years...

No Raises.
No Promotions.
Increased health costs.
No recognition.

They could afford to take care of their people better!

Not far! Growth of 1.8% ? Why even wake up and go to work. Oh wait, I work for infinite. I work at home. Let’s continue to milk this dead company.

Loyalty is gone! I don’t give a cr-p, I just collect a check.

I feel sorry for those who wake up and go to work at Fiserv, or still hold the Fiserv stock in their M Lynch account or Fidelity account.

This is all because of Frank and his “leaders”

Head of wealth silently departing says a lot about Bob and what his minions are up to

20+ years of Wealth platform building and only to suddenly disappear shows you're just an A# for this firm

Just trust what this leadership team tells you. Look past the quarter-zip smiles and forced enthusiasm and you will see a mountain of corporate spin. CP called out “incredible collaboration” this week...People at desks were not collaborating they were talking about how bad this place has become and looking to duck when you walk by. At least two leaders on this panel are openly planning their exits and they are not invested in fixing anything.... like you they want out. Watch the clown show from yesterday if you think that translates into work-life balance for you ask yourself why. Here’s what this really means for you. Every keystroke is tracked. Independent thinking is gone even when you are right, you follow “Crown math.” Your work feeds leadership payouts, not long term stability. This ends the same way it always does. Leadership cashes out and another company gets stripped down. You deal with the fallout masked as 'goals' and “Clear” and “transparent” are just words here like PURPLE was... how'd that go. Their face and actions tell a different story. I have only 1 question. Are you listening to what they say, or watching what they do? Just look at each face even they can no longer play the game. Shame