#badleadership

You see how the scandals are not unique. Wrongdoing is not punished. Bad actors are protected and encouraged. They lie about everything, even about their employees at review time. Lies Lies Lies. You will need a strong support system to deal with all the backstabbing & wrongdoing. Once you are here, you need to devote a lot of energy towards defending yourself & just dealing with it, vs looking for a new job outside the company. The best solution is never to come here in the first place.

The executive’s logic around base pay creates a classic corporate "death spiral." While linking pay increases exclusively to revenue growth sounds like sound fiscal discipline on paper, it relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of labor economics, operational risk, and human capital dynamics. More flawed thinking. Punishing employees for Leadership failures is what they are doing. The new guy is d-mber than a box of rocks. This town hall was another demotivating waste of time.

Spare us the con game!

I have a piece of sh-t lead that is bullying based on age. Any suggestions ? Management was worthless.

I don't care about the comapmy
I don't care about kpi's
I don't care about Q2 Q4 goals
I don't care about projects
I don't care about putting in any effort
I've truely given up and skating by

This company has su-ked out my humanity & left me underpaid & overworked
When all you get is a 'thank you'
All I can say is fu-k you

A senior leader kept making derogatory remarks, so I eventually stopped engaging with them socially. After that, my manager started ignoring my contributions, and not long after that, I suddenly had a bad performance review for the first time ever. Funny how that happened.

Is it possible that leaders get worse and worse? I thought we’d reached the bottom of the barrel but this was a new low for webcasts.

Remember….key message….you should look forward to being sold as you may get more money in your business…and….

I’m in charge of safety…….but I care about money….i care about money….save money…..

A sad day.

What a joke anyone that pushed back in BCS got let go or demoted. All the yes men moved to Dallas because they can’t get a job any where else. Any ideas are from AI. Just keep saying yes. Cuts coming huge in March- yes- yes- yes

Source: K. Box

Harvard Business Review found that 58% of employees trust a complete stranger more than their own boss.

That sounds wild until you’ve worked for the wrong person.

Then you understand it immediately. A bad boss doesn’t always yell.

Sometimes it’s vague expectations.
Feedback that changes depending on the day.
Credit that disappears before it reaches your name.
Meetings you stop getting invited to.
A paper trail that somehow only includes your mistakes, not the context around them.

Then your behavior starts to change.

You over-explain.
You reread every message.
You stop asking direct questions.
You start keeping receipts because you don’t trust what will be said later.

That’s what broken trust at work does. It doesn’t just make the job harder. It makes you second-guess your own judgment.

And most people don’t leave after one big blowup.

They leave after one more meeting where the story changes.
One more rule that only seems to apply to them.
One more moment where they realize they’re documenting reality instead of doing their job.

At some point, it clicks:

You didn’t fail in that environment.

You were trying to survive it.

https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/2984394/tfc-still-trails-its-2019-merger-targets-can-the-new-ceo-change-that

This place has constant layoffs and poor management. Coworkers are friendly but that's about the only positive thing. Leadership has no accountability, pay is low, raises are ridiculous no matter how long you stay, and work-life balance is non-existent. A cr-ppy company all around.

With their ultimate goal to push people out, specially those who have been with the company for a long time, they are hoping to avoid having to pay out packages. This is now known as a fact.

It also is now clear that management is now scrambling to keep control and also to hide their books and revenue lost, and give false hopes of there being a potential buyer who is ready to buy the company and "rescue" our decline. This false pretense is also being exposed beyond any doubt.

Many of us spent who were passionate about what we did are now operating out of fear... fear of being ambushed, fear of being FIRED or put on the spot. Being humiliated because we under-performed in the last month or now being spied on by an AI agent which listens to our conversation in a zoom call or the content of our email exchange. It is clear that those who come up with these ideas or push to implement them are completely unaware of how human productivity works. You can not have human beings operate at a productive mental capacity or creativity when they are in a constant state of fear and panic, this is a proven fact that anyone with minimal knowledge of human psychological behavior would know. This is simple and effective proof that this company is being run by incompetent "leaders" and managed by unskilled "managers" who only believe in the power of the iron fist.

To the remaining customers: Before you buy into the "pitch" that you are receiving from your friendly Omnissa sales team, take a few minutes and read the comments that the employees and ex-employees have left here about what it is like to work in this place. If this is how the company treats its loyal employees, rest assured they will not hesitate to treat their customers the same.

That's it. Performance doesn't matter. The more you are willing to kiss a-s, the further you'll get.

Face it. Very few things there aren't.

Performance ratings were completely ignored. Favorites and yes-people stayed while genuine hardworking colleagues were let go. People are judged by how they dress and who they flatter, not by their actual work. I hate what this place has turned into in the past several years.

VATC is such a joke, my prediction is Visa will rollback on their layoffs and try to hire back alot of people next year after they realize the tool is a complete failure and waste of time and money and literally has caused incidents to shoot up.

VATC is a such a failure, work that took minutes to do now takes hour or even days because they are shoving this failed tool down peoples throats.

I haven’t spoken to a single person that thought this was going to be a success.

My god, can this little troll do anything right? The stock is a yo-yo now and we’re at all time lows. A monkey could run this place better.

All these layoffs are unnecessary. The only reason they're doing it is to keep artificially inflating the stock price. Greedy mother F@#$&@$!!!

In my personal experience, Jeff Nibler and Kyle Goodwin are two of the worst managers I have encountered in my career.

Their leadership was an exhausting combination of unclear direction, poor communication, weak accountability and an astonishing lack of meaningful support. Problems were allowed to fester, legitimate concerns seemed to disappear into a void, and employees were left to deal with the consequences of management failures they did not create.

Working under them felt like being trapped in a leadership vacuum. Instead of providing clarity, they created confusion. Instead of building trust, they eroded it. Instead of helping employees succeed, their management approach made already demanding work needlessly frustrating and demoralizing.

What made the experience particularly intolerable was the apparent disconnect between leadership’s perception of itself and the reality experienced by the people doing the work. Accountability seemed to flow downward, while support rarely did. Their management did not merely fail to improve the workplace—it actively made the workplace worse.

This is my personal assessment, and I do not claim to speak for anyone else. However, anyone considering a position reporting to either of them should proceed extremely cautiously. Ask current and former employees direct questions about morale, turnover, communication, psychological safety and how management responds when challenged.

A difficult job can be manageable with good leadership. Under Jeff Nibler and Kyle Goodwin, the leadership was the most difficult part of the job.

Why give more when they're paying less? Work your wage.

What a piece of Shi$ Mu#i and the rest of the cr-ppy leadership.
How about giving up some of the exec pay raises so monetary awards can be given back to deserving employees.

Each passing day reveals how out of touch and clueless the new CEO has become. I dread having to go a year or so under his leadership before the Board realizes another mistake and fires him while he walks away with $10’s of millions of dollars. Was this hiring some kind of way to steal hundreds of millions orchestrated by the Board. I think everyone was shocked when a guy who ran a printer company was appointed CEO. We’re moving at the speed of a printer company now. I have a lot of retirement money in stock and I hate checking the account because it’s less and less every day.

JonO hasn't done much good for STAR since the Symantec days, and his grasp of cybersecurity appears somewhat limited.

There are competent managers below him who could run security response more smoothly on their own.

Watching Nike’s leadership discuss “winning” while the stock collapses from roughly $177 to $38 is like watching the captain of the Titanic accept an award for improving access to ocean views.

These people inherited the Swoosh, one of the most recognizable and valuable symbols in human history and somehow turned it into a case study in executive arrogance, strategic confusion and highly compensated mediocrity. It is genuinely impressive. Most people could not damage a brand this powerful without actively trying.

But accountability at Nike apparently works differently depending on your salary. When employees struggle, they are “low performers” who must be eliminated. When executives erase billions in shareholder value, weaken the marketplace and lose ground to smaller competitors, they receive bonuses, consultants and another opportunity to reorganize everyone beneath them.

Then comes the corporate theater: “Win Now.” “Sport Offense.” “Consumer-led.” “Future growth.” A seemingly endless vocabulary designed to disguise the inconvenient fact that the people constantly lecturing everyone about excellence have delivered one of the least excellent performances in Nike’s history.

The employees who actually designed, engineered, developed and delivered the product were treated as expenses. The executives who repeatedly misread the market were treated as visionaries. Now the share price provides the performance review leadership was apparently too important to receive.

From $177 to $38.

Just do it? They just did it, to themselves.

Nike does not suffer from a shortage of talent. It suffers from a surplus of executives who confuse authority with intelligence, meetings with progress and surviving their own failures with leadership.

The Swoosh deserves better. Employees deserved better. Shareholders deserved better.

But please, tell us again how eliminating more working people will finally correct the decisions made by the untouchable geniuses at the top.

Can anyone remember the last time this place made a decision that actually helped employees?

I've been in the workforce for a long time and I've seen plenty of bad cultures, but Fiserv takes the crown. The disrespect, the exhausting politics, and the fact that nobody seems to care about basic human decency take the cake. What a horrible place to work this turned out to be.

I just very recently found out that you laid off our daughter for some kind of fake intelligence software?!

Do you know how much it cost us to send her to school for that train and how hard she worked to get her degree.

She has worked for your organization for over a decade and now you throw her away like a piece of trash?!

What in the world is going on over at this company?!

Jeff Clarke needs to get kicked out. He is a an a--hole. No strategy, only here to make money. He is Michael Dell's right hand man, but Michael needs to kick him out..

Overachieve every quarter, showcase excellent results, customer satisfaction, retention upsell.

All that doesn't matter anymore, you want more pay ? You want a promotion ? Bullsh-t stretch assignments is the only way.

It wasn't like this before, we can thank NetApp for hiring the laziest, cr-ppiest leadership teams straight out of the gutter of other hyperscalers, starting with a horrible HR policy.

Oh and that is based on the idea that NetApp actually pays commissions. We on month 4 and still not information on payments. Finance is stretched, so they say.

Begs the question, is NetApp led by incompetent fools, or malicious id--ts.

I have no hopes for tomorrow. Dell has successfully gotten rid of the people who could fix things, and this leadership is only focused on their own pockets. There's no saving this.

The stock is soaring. You’d expect the attitude to be high energy and people to be in full support of the company. You’d expect to see new products going to market, more hiring, more bonuses, more investment in people. You’d want free thinking people who are inventing and thinking outside the box.

It’s the exact opposite. It’s dreary, dismal and there is an overall black cloud across the company. Every email seems like it could be your last. Services are taken away from you, like coffee cups (really??), promotions to the “liked” and layoffs are happening left and right. The totally incompetent are getting promoted because they’re “yes men” and people are totally unmotivated. There is no more technical leadership, there is just no leadership. Just politicians who use buzzwords and jockey for positional power.

It’s pathetic and sad to see such an opportunity to take advantage of the hype Dell is getting and motivate your people. Reward them and support them. Greed is clearly an enemy of the people and greed is rampant at Dell. Every SVP and above have proven they are soulless ghouls who would do anything for a dollar. They seem to be missing the big picture. That they’re titled and who they are doesn’t matter to anyone. Nobody cares. In fact, they’re making more enemies than friends.

It’s a sad, pathetic time at Dell and is the worst I have ever seen it. Something needs to change or this company will crash and burn. As far as layoffs go, expect them every single month until these greedy, fat ba----ds get their fill.

The brown nosers replying to Bill's retirement post on LinkedIn make me sick! Bill ran this place into the ground!

Executives

• dropped the 401k match
• froze salaries for non hipos
• dropped charitable contribution match
• dropped education reimbursement
• doubled PIP percentage
• increased insurance premiums while reducing insurance quality
• conducted layoffs with the lowest severance possible
  All while making zero changes to the executive bonus and compensation program, in fact giving themselves even larger bonuses.

not a good mgmt approach IMO

Nowhere else did I have to protect myself from credit thieves, lying managers, spineless supervisors, and VPs who abuse their authority - all at the same time. It's a horror show.

We promote people who are friends with managers, not people who know the work. It's a disaster every single time and it keeps happening.

When coding monkeys are given the reign to run the show, the audiences (customers) suffer.

Stupid Enterprise Tech bean counters decided to eliminate the whole technical product manager (TPM) role because they couldn't tell the good ones from the bad ones. Now we're in the same quagmire of mostly bad engineering "leaders" sprinkled with a few good ones.

A place of incompetents.

Honestly they couldn't organise a pi-s up in a brewery at this point

Who in their right state of mind advises employees that the coming weeks were going to be very difficult and then absolute radio silence from that point on

Has the man got dementia or something

Sick to death of all the bullcr-p. Morale simply couldn't go any lower

Key Signs to Leave
Chronic Burnout: You feel totally exhausted even after a full weekend or a vacation.
Constant Dread: You experience deep anxiety or the "Sunday Scaries" on a regular basis.
Toxic Culture: The workplace involves bullying, gossip, or a complete lack of psychological safety.
Bad Leadership: Your boss micromanages, demeans you, or blocks your basic needs.
No Growth: There are zero chances for promotions, new skills, or lateral moves.
Unfair Pay: Your salary is far below market value and requests for raises go ignored.
Value Mismatch: The company's core mission or actions conflict with your personal ethics.
Health Impacts: Work causes physical symptoms like headaches, stomach aches, or sleep loss.
Mental Check-Out: You no longer care about the quality of your work and just do the bare minimum.
Better Options Exist: You are qualified for and see realistic, healthier roles elsewhere.