#badmanager

I sent a letter to corporate asking them if they would lay me off. I put that i was having serious mental health issues caused by working for this company. I don't know if i should have and please be respectful with your replies. My supervisor keeps critiquing my work and its driving me crazy. she doesn't do it with anyone else.

I used to get nervous about being laid off. Constant chaos, weekly fire drills, then my manager left and things got 10x worse!!! Now I no longer care. hate this place, and my boss acts like an mean chick, angry hick, and lunatic

What I hate is all the politics, horrible management, and the constant cuts to benefits.

I just found out one of my old supervisors got piped and is failing it. This supervisor was a soul less evil person. She would ki-l her own mother if exxon asked. She piped out my old co worker a few years ago and told him he did not deserve it and he would easily pass the pip. She was nice at the beginning but during the midway meeting turned on him and told him he was not meeting the expectations. She was the hatchet woman for the manager. She got a new manager and he did not like her. I do not feel sorry for her a bit and she is getting what she deserves. I think she is in her late forties because she was pleading for her job to the manager. I love when exxon turns on the ones that feel untouchable.

A new person that was hired about 19 years old, I don't expect her to know better. Said she was sick and came in because the, the new bright-minded ASM. Gave her a guilt trip about. Calling out in the future of her career at lowes. And then started asking her. Detailed questions about her medical condition. And giving advice. I was just totally. Like, I couldn't believe what I heard. I believe her a hundred percent. She's too d-mb to lie.

Avoid non-technical managers if you can, especially when you’re new to a team or XOM. Incompetent managers often lean on so-called mentors, usually people who’ve been around longer and somehow stablished themselves , and those "mentors" pass along their own messy, poorly defined tools, models, or tasks. You end up cleaning up their problems while they present it as guidance or support. In reality, they’re just fixing their own mess through you, and when evaluation time comes, they can point to your work as proof they were helping. Why the people they “mentor” often get ranked low? because the mentor wants to protect their own top spot. They push mentees into lower rankings to stay safe for another cycle. Part of mentor evaltion should be expecting high ranking for mentees... They’re also deeply involved in assigning projects and controlling visibility for whoever they want, so they end up effectively managing the group instead of the actual manager.

Ok I just quit this he-l hole after being told I was not performing up to exxon s standards. I was told that if I did not step it up I would be placed on nsi pip next year. I have been working 50 hours plus and doing extra work. My supervisor said it was not enough and more was expected of me. I was new to this group and the circle of friends was already set. Several of the other engineers sc--w off all day and talk to the 1st supervisor and the manager. I knew I was sc--wed the day I was moved. One engineer spends all day flirting and talking to the young girls on the floor. Here is the real kicker my supervisor has a psychology degree and the manger has a microbiology degree. I am getting told what to do by people that have no idea of drilling or well completions. My supervisor read off something that was prepared for her to blast me with. She also ki-led me because of my work from home schedule. During my last 1 on 1 f ukig I lost it and told her I was resigning immediately. She was shocked and backtracked her treatment of me. I was contacted by the manager who told me I was overreacting and if there was any thing that would make me stay. I told them both nothing would because exxon was toxic. HR called me and wanted me to sign some bs paperwork. The paperwork stated that I was leaving on my own and would give up my right to sue for wrongful termination. I told that hr a hole to stick it up his ar-e. Goodbye to sick exxon and I suffered 5 years of he-l at it. In all my time at exxon I was always told I needed to do more to perform more. My ranking was always vg to excellent but the constant criticism finally got to me. I think it is just the way exxon tries to motivate and intimidate employees by fear. No amount of money is this constant belittling.

WF has a habit of hiring people as consultants that they can't be bothered to train or hire on their teams. As a result, contractors are given the jobs that no one is qualified to do & no one WANTS to do. You'll get blamed no matter what. How you did the project, how long you took, if you wore the wrong color shirt, if you didn't su-k up to the starved for attention boss, if you didn't tolerate the hostile work conditions. Then, they will slander & defame your reputation out the door to the agency & internally at Wells. Avoid it if you can. Just work somewhere else.

I'm starting to think my manager might be trying to push me out without actually firing me. I've had a good record here, but lately I'm being excluded from discussions I need to be part of and getting criticism I never used to hear. On top of that, I'm being handed last minute work with deadlines that seem impossible. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the change in treatment is hard to ignore.

Well, I must say, leaving this place has done wonders for my peace of mind already . Couldn’t be happier to have put that chapter behind me. Good riddance, I say. Was rather odd hearing my boss share personal info about team members like their mental health such unprofessional behaviour. Privacy my foot! Off I go

Ive been stalking LinkedIn since everything on here is so vague. One manager in particular that is lazy and I'm not sure how he got where he is, is still there commenting on others posts that were laid off, saying he will miss them. smh. Was hoping he would get the boot.

If you still work for this company, you are an imbecile. It has been dismantled by incompetent leadership. Get out while you still can.

My boss basically told me I'm needed too much in my current role to get promoted. So apparently, being good at my job is the very thing holding me back.

My manager emailed me to say that they want to review my self-evaluation draft before I submit it in the system. DO NOT SUBMIT IT UNTIL I REVIEW IT A, I was told.

What is this cluster fu-kery? In over 10 years here I've never had a manager ask me to do this. Has anyone else experienced this?

I am confused on how and why they are laying off employees when teams are bloated with managers that have only 4 direct reports. If they are gonna lose employees who will they manage? Shouldn't they cut costs by cutting middle managers first? Clearly they (mid managers) are unnecessary and cost the company more money pretending to be useful. And honestly, some of these awful managers are costing the company with unethical actions and behaviors leading to employee lawsuits.

Today I plan to tell my a--hole of a boss to go and disrespectfully fu-k himself. That man put me on a PIP for no good reason and I plan to burn that bridge without a second thought.

What a joke. Left after a couple years of dealing with unqualified managers. Who decides to hire the failures from other companies into management roles?

Literally disgusting behavior. Our director does not travel for work he just chooses to do whatever he wants while treating the team like garbage. Half the time he is god knows where calling in on his cellphone and sending IMs rushing you on stuff when he doesn’t even go to the office and does what we he pleases. He doesn’t even have to login on his computer and just calls in on his cell phone but he tells us to have nonstop clicking and keystroke 8+ hours a day and to bring our computers everywhere.

And yes he is exactly the ethnicity you are guessing. Also he is a bald faced liar. He shared a deck that our cycle time was 5 days to leadership when in actuality it is 2 months and they ate it up. Team is a disaster as he’s constantly playing games, laying random people odd, then hiring new people and re-org every few months. Literally an example of the type of rotten ‘leadership’ that had made this place a joke. I’m so tried of liars and conmen like this.

We need to get rid of all the paper pushers, PowerPoint warriors, all the useless managers with less than a handful of people to manage, and so many more. Give us layoffs! Just make sure to get rid of the right people for once.

Not sure but I see all the good and technically very sound people got laid off one by one And the really d-mb managers, directors, senior directors and the bootlicking Engineers are still there .

Comcast will go to Gutter in just near future

My life has become a he-l.

The VP is micromanaging every minute of my life and behaving I am responsible to ensure he does not get laid off and lose all the RSU he has accumulated in millions.

So I’m on the Medicare UM centralization team and there was just a meeting under our associate directors teams where the manager makes a comment that we’re expected to know these policies they’re just reminding us of these policies that are in place, but none of them are in writing. Can you please explain that to me? How is something not in writing for how we’re supposed to do something. We’re just somehow supposed to know that we’re supposed to go to this really hard place that they call mentor to get instructions, but there aren’t any instructions on how exactly to apply what it says there but somehow we’re just supposed to know and we’re accountable for it but they’re not gonna put it in writing for how to do it make it make sense oh wait maybe it’s because if they don’t put it in writing then they’re not accountable for it and then they can use it as an excuse to lay off nurses? I mean, make it make sense folks, not in writing how do you have policy and not put it in writing and then tell an entire group of people they were expected to do it and understand it and remember how to use it but they’re not putting it in writing. I don’t know why I even stay anymore. Oh wait that’s right. I’m actively looking for a job and this is why. And then she makes this comment about how they know we centralized a year ago and things will probably change again next week, but we’re just now figuring it out. It’s been a year folks. What the heck do you mean you’re just now figuring it out. I probably need to look a little harder for a new job because this was so discouraging. I feel so set up for failure and I know other people on my team do now as well.

My team is full of horrible people and they genuinely are impossibly difficult to work with. Is there any benefit to giving them a low grade on peer feedback for review season? I don’t expect much will change, but I want them to receive a lower bonus because actually did the same to me last year

You're exhausted from years of surviving. There's a difference. Get out if you can.

I tried playing hardball with my manager last month and it didn't go the way I'd hoped. I walked in ready to threaten leaving if they wouldn't bump my pay, but I didn't actually have another offer lined up. My manager basically called my bluff on the spot, told me if I wasn't happy I knew where the door was, and now things between us are awkward as he-l.

What are my chances of being outright fired over this?

I finally went to HR about my bully of a manager, and wow, what a waste of time. It went exactly how you'd guess. I laid out everything, and they just nodded along like they'd heard it all before. Turns out my manager had already gotten to them first with his side of the story. I got the whole "we'll look into it" speech, and then nothing. A week later, my schedule suddenly got worse and a project I'd been promised went to someone else. Nobody said it was related, but come on.

Lesson learned: stay away from HR.

Another week of stressing over layoffs, benefit cuts, and yelling managers has started. At least I know I'm not in this alone.

I know, I'm still employed, getting a paycheck and health insurance so that's a great thing, but working at O is such a drag now, I just can't stand it. New boss(es), new tasks, a ton of work, the same old "come on guys, we can do it" pep talk even though everyone is completely demoralized. It just su-ks - I almost wish they would put me out of my misery so I can just retire.

Sit on their computer all day and send email after email after email after email, pretty good paying job for doing nothing all day isn't it. Pretty pathetic, actually beyond pathetic. And still get a bonus, again pathetic.

Dst was always a swestshop. In the 1980s DST stood for "don't stay there". Managers gave tiny raises, people were paid 30% less than market average pay and christmas bonuses for college educated staff in positions of great responsibility was a $25 paper gift card to the plaza, where all merchandise was grossly overpriced. You might be able to buy 1 book or a pair of stock with it

Layoffs, bad execution, bad people managers, no congruent operating procedures or plans. Not even my dog thinks TMO is running right 😂

In my almost 20+ yrs with this company, I am now convinced it is not what you know, but who you know. The company is full of painfully unqualified leaders who are driving us to the ground. The toxicity is so unhealthy people are just trying to survive and do so by backstabbing each other. One thing I find very disgusting is to see people shamelessly flirting with leaders to be in good graces with them to keep their jobs or get ahead. Get out while you can, this isn’t worth anyone’s mental health and sanity. This isn’t the company it once was. It’s a toxic boys club supported by equally toxic women.

Just curious who else hates this job?

Ruining someone’s vacation or business trip every day.

Then it’s the nonstop ill educated managers giving directions.

uk office is toxic
clueless managers
80% of sales team on have had burn out in last year

I’d rather x than work at BNY another year.

I’ll start…
I’d rather insert my arm into a bear trap and gnaw it off with my own teeth than work at BNY another year.

Things changed dramatically after my last manager was laid off and the new one came in. The constant criticism, micromanagement, and obvious favoritism have made the job exhausting. I'm actually finding myself hoping my position gets eliminated because leaving with severance sounds better than continuing like this. That's how bad it's gotten.

They always act like they're doing something, they always have to talk about something to the manager to make it seem they're so busy, but at the end of it all, they end up doing nothing! It's the rest of us that do the actual work. they just appear busy. How do you even deal with people like this when they have your manager's ear?

Heard he crawled back under a rock

It's Friday and this is the first full week that I am not working for a company that doesn't appreciate the value that at least one employee brought to a company's customer where we always kept the customer's well being top of mind. I was in the OCI org in North America, and I would be lieing to you if I told you that I had a great relationship with my manager who I would call today a true id--t -- he would be a great engineer but an incrediblly stupid manager and the irony is they kept him haha. Sorry for my ex-peers that are stuck with him.