#badleadership

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.

My retirement is non-existent from the share price decimation and this company just su-ks to work for now since everyone hates it.

Is it just a coincidence that literally 4 weeks after the giant IBM stock implosion caused by AK and his incompetent management that this board is filled with posts of people and entire teams getting put on PIPs, terminated etc ? IBM is beyond desperate to reduce headcount without having to pay out one cent...you can see and smell the desperation. But it's also amazing the number of people who no longer GAF about IBM , do the bare minimum, and say they are just floating along for another 1 or 2 years until they get forced out. IBM should add DGAF to their name.

Intel is such a trash company. The management is allowed to make decisions that ruin the company for it's employees. Management does not care about anyone below them and will sc--w you over at any cost. Intel HR likes to drive around the parking lot recording people with their dash cams in an attempt to fire them for time clock fraud. Intel isn't what is once was. Horrible decisions made my management has ruined what could be a good thing.

When will the toxicity and poor leadership end? This constant cycle of abusing workers with fake reviews can't end well. What will be the next big scandal?

Not sure why SLT cannot see their sh---y politics and zero value add to the organization.

Shannon bell wake up.

its a sh---y place to work, its a sweat shop where employees are treated badly. H1b workers/contractors be careful before joining, you will be under constant threat, fear and micro-management. Be very careul from the indian managers they are the worst, and extremely incompetent, constant org politics goes on here and constantly different teams are fighting with each oher, also constant outsourcing to India is another part of the story, be very careful beore joining unless the work cuture improves.

I started with Centene about 3 years ago. I came from a leadership background of 18years and wanted a break for management. In my short time here with Centene I can’t get over how horrible the leaders are. It seems as though not one of them truly knows how to be a manager or they are so insecure as a manager they have to micromanage people on their team. Some of the leaders I have had in my roles were absolutely clueless on how to manage. They never could communicate to the whole team at the same time. They would forget things all the time. Can’t even explain how to do their job or talk in circles. It’s embarrassing. Does anyone in a leadership role actually have management experience or are they just hiring people off the street to run a department. There are also leaders without anyone underneath them LOL. How can you be a manager when you don’t manage a department or anyone?

What has Gunjan done since making cries about inequality, racism, not having a seat at the table, and how the C suite is full of the good old boys club to get to where she is? Nothing but major cuts, more unqualified offshore hiring, bad business practices and decisions, achieved nothing meaningful, and worst performance then her previous predecessors. It is sad to watch the downfall of US Bank.

I can't say this strongly enough: if you have any skills, any talent, any ambition...leave this place. It's a dumpster fire that will only drag you down. Get out and don't look back.

We post so much about the micromanaging the layoffs , those people don’t care. More money for them.

I can't tell you how many hours are lost every day because of faulty network or connection issues. I won't report them anymore because they go into a bottomless pit.
I just sit and stew about it. and if I'm doing that and everyone else is doing the same, think of the thousands of hours down the drain .
Such a waste. But then again, what do you expect from S running the group.

Just listening to him fumble his way through the opening of the BTS leader call is painful. This man is who Sarah thinks is SVP, or more, material?

Centene is doomed with current leadership.

I'm tired of working hard and never being good enough for some people. It's about favorites, not performance.

Where do I even start? Management is terrible, culture is toxic, everyone's terrified of layoffs, performance reviews are a joke, technology is outdated, suggestions are ignored, nothing ever improves, managers are rude and inappropriate, processes don't exist, leadership is absent, cronyism is rampant, employees are unheard, and raises are insulting. That about covers it.

And I have a feeling I'm not the only one who feels this way. This place has gone from bad to worse faster than I expected. I'd be happy to leave it behind for good.

We've got staff with no drive, broken management, layoffs of experienced people, and no growth path. Other than that, everything's fine.

The driver is ok. Of course, the VZ car crash causes another car to crash. Everything VZ (leadership) touches turns to c.r.a.p.. The VZ car was near the end of the pack when it ran into the wall (unforced error).

Video of the crash in the link:
https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2026/08/23/freedom-250-crash-david-malukas-third-in-indycar-standings-out/91433105007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116744p118150c118150e1106xxv116744d--57--b--57--&gca-ft=209&gca-ds=sophi

The leadership that has been running the company to the ground for several years has decided the failures aren’t due to their own choices — not the years spent pulling engineers away from innovation to chase a commodity PC chip, not the fixation on edge AI while the entire industry moved toward datacenter AI, and not the pattern of entering mature markets long after everyone else.

They never prioritize, never take responsibility, and always look for someone beneath them to blame.

Now they’ve concluded that the real problem is the workforce. Their “solution” is to push out hardworking people and replace them with new hires from the industry, buying themselves another 3–4 years of insulation while nothing fundamentally changes. Because the core issue is them.

And this is the only company where one individual simultaneously controls the financial decisions, the operational direction, the business strategy, and the sales pipeline — all concentrated in a single seat, right next to the CEO. There is no separation of responsibility, no checks and balances, no accountability. When one person holds every lever, failure has nowhere to go but downward.

By 2029, when shareholders start asking why the promises remain unfulfilled, they’ll either quietly exit or invent another cycle of excuses.

Meanwhile, countless careers and families will be disrupted — while the same leadership circle continues to thrive, untouched by the consequences they created.

There are two types of leaders. The confident ones hire the best minds around them, people who'll challenge them and give honest advice. The insecure ones hire yes-men. The second kind is running this company straight into the ground, and they're getting rich doing it.

With all the recent changes, I have no other explanation.