#bureaucracy

So GK sends an email outlining all the super ideas garnered from surveying 1800 leaders to discuss efficiencies, communication improvements, etc. Is she completely unaware that she is talking to the people that are the problem? Why not take a page out of Jane Fraser's book at Citibank and get rid of the layer upon layer of redundant middle managers that clog up the system here. I mean really, "Bureaucracy Busters," c'mon now. These people you're talking to are the bureaucracy. Get a clue.

Just look at the sheer volume of IT GR10s + with their report or dashboard’s broken with bad data asking some poor Engineer about their wrong data. What a waste of time. Why are these people employed? LBT fixed nothing

they use big words for anything, but when it comes to actually do something which would help like using right tools for the job -- nope, not northstar or you have to fill 10 different forms each with 5+ folks to approve and 10+ questions with links more links and ... you just give up.

Seriously it feels like its some sitcom about state owned company where you have to "know" somebody or pay someone to actually be able to work.

My daily work is constant fight with people who bring 0 value and just create problems causing anyone with good will to quit ASAP..

Sadly 90% of devs does not have clue how real tools look like, 9% probably know, but they give up and sooner or later they quit.

1% is stupid enough like me are trying to work normally, but its just too frustrating... so I either turn into 9% zombies or quit when I can get same money elsewhere.

With all the new VPs, SVPs, AVPs, etc., we are so top heavy. No wonder we have a partnership with Dollywood!

Create unnecessary bureaucracy, hamper innovation and significantly slow down decision making.

You start excited and five years later you’re wondering what even happened. It’s all meetings and bureaucracy, zero growth, and no one seems to notice whether you’re actually good at your job. Definitely not what I signed up for.

Every time a new manager shows up, they seem to invent a new layer of bureaucracy to prove they’re adding value. What it means in reality is endless forms, meetings, and progress reports that make the actual work harder to do. Simplicity is a foreign word to all of them.

Every decision needs ten approvals, processes are unnecessarily complicated, and I spend half my day putting out fires I didn’t create. I was hired to innovate, not babysit broken systems. I'm shocked Visa ever needs layoffs considering how many are walking away from this mess voluntarily.

When I worked at Fannie 10+ years ago, there was the Manager->Director->VP hierarchy. Now when I check LinkedIn, there's Manager, Senior Manager, Director, Senior Director. And a lot more people appear to have those titles. Why did they make that change? Seems like too many managers and directors.

This isn't meant to jab at anyone...honestly, just want opinions on the CM3s MLs etc.
Has this extra level of management made working in the stores, getting books and things done easier or more complicated?

Everyone is just obsessed with opening JIRA stories and tracking useless metrics all the time; there is no real work being done and just paper being pushed to show that something is being done

Business and stakeholders treat PMs like their servants ("you work for us, stop thinking and follow what we tell you to do"). Work on meaningless projects that leads to absolutely zero outcomes.

No wonder there are no good products or things coming out of here and the stock will trend to zero over time

JF talked abt RTO to counter China's 996 culture... 9am to 9pm; 6 days/ week. Meanwhile, Ford land's facilities people are busy harrasing employees by pasting "clean this space" notes on non-assigned cubes. Hello ---- who is supposed to do it... space is not assigned to anyone. They seem to enjoy their new found policing authority !! Ford Land is responsible for lack of proper RTO planning. Rest rooms are mess. Garbage bins removed to reduce the workload. Cleaning personnel seen chit chatting near coffee machines most of the day. Ford Land is a mis-managed organizatioin. So much for Customer Focus and work ethics. They need to administer an employee survey dedicated for facilities related work-experience. Instead, Ford Land leaders come to townhalls Q&A, and brag about their great RTO execution.

Be honest, how many of the corporate initiatives you’ve been asked to work on are pointless? Reflecting back on the last few years, I’m embarrassed at the amount of work I’ve put into corporate initiatives that are either completely pointless, or totally ineffective. Most of these have either been quietly abandoned or performatively kept alive. For me, it’s nearly all of them. And frankly, it’s affects how I approach current initiatives. I do as I’m told, but don’t really care about the actual quality, since I know it’ll be dead in 12-18 months any way.