#culture

Life is too short to carry the blackness. If you are feeling this way all the time about work, I would suggest you take a good long look at yourself and decide what you want to do.

Sometimes the harder thing is to walk away and start over somewhere else, but it would be the best thing for your soul.

Recent Corporate Officers and Board Members did not define AEP. Our attractiveness as a take over target is that we lend credibility to these charlatans. We are the value and they are the flimflam confidence men looking for a beard to attract investors. They are not the men, who create a successful business. They are the parasites that siphon off the value they never served or sacrificed to create. Do not empower freeloaders to profit from your exertions.

When it comes to layoffs there is no finish line. Just Do It? Apparently that only applies to cutting headcount. Always chasing the shiny objects while the basics get benched. Somehow MD still has a job, and HR is running around like it’s a team-building offsite. Help us.

If you take out the emotion of what the Global Brand leadership is doing, you are left with incompetent people that know nothing about financial services, managing teams in a large corporation and treating their people fairly. These are the facts. It’s quite obvious all of them are in it for themselves. All have worked 3 or less years at a job and continue to fake it to make it. They let amazing talent walk out the door to only bring in their circle of friends and family, no knowledge of our business and continue to have the actual doers train them and then treat us like pions. It’s time for positive change!! How is this allowed??

One reason for Intel's failure is people telling lies. Cheating beomes a norm, without any publishment. If the manager tells a lie, everyone agrees loud even though they know it is a lie. People are trained to be slaves, because objection to managers will result in layoff and revenge.

I'll start - basking in the fact that they have no idea whatsoever (or care) what goes on in the CO's and garages. I have to laugh at the tonedeaf corporate videos. Life is good for some people, but the customer is not being served properly.

After getting the RIF in Nov 2018 (65 age, 44 yrs service, only one in my position) I have realized there is no rhyme or reason.
My best opinions are;
1) It’s not business, it’s personal
2) The ELT always look out for themselves
3) What you know means nothing. Who you know means more.
4) It can and will happen to anyone at anytime.
5) Be loyal to your family, never a job. The 60’s and 70’s are gone and not coming back.
6) Trust and respect are a 1 way street and not from leadership, so don't give to them unless the earn it.

No wonder her daddy didn't want her to takeover the company and instead tried to direct her toward leading Fidelity charitable.

We should be proud of CA making it to the Time100 Acute Incompetency list, yaay.

I'd not have believed the rhetoric if I hadn't first hand witnessed manager blocking my promotion, sidelining me into oblivion to clean up the mess in another squad.

What is the point when managers are shutting down actual performers to give opportunities to less deserving individuals just coz they're in the same region as the manager????

Another MW Fluff piece. The guy says we do culture better than Exxon. The guy is wrecking our culture and made it a dreadful place to work!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/business/chevron-oil-mike-wirth.html

As Phil scuffles into the sunset, leaving the company as weak as it's ever been, welcome Sanoke.

Welcome to a company struggling with bad leadership, no strategy, and unfocused product decisions. Organizationally a mess and one reorg away from a buy-one, get-one reward at BCG. More turf wars than West Side Story with enough passive-aggressive energy to power any high school drama.

FactSet needs a reset; you can be that change agent. The rot reaches at least L3 as the blind lead the blind(er).

Please give us an idea of why you're here and what you're hoping to achieve. Give people some hope that something new will happen.

Is TSS IBM GLOBAL SERVICE or whatever they are called these days. What is the plan for that?

4 day RTO to turn the company around!

On this labor day I just want to tell all of my employees that I cant wait to lay you off! I wish you would work made up holidays like this as what is most important in life is pleasing the shareholders and me! Get back to work and do better!

MW

Absolutely astounding that the few people left here at xerox, have no clue what is honestly happening, or they just don’t care …about anything.

Digging ditches in the rain, would be considered an upgrade ☔️

But when you don’t care about anything and you are stubborn as can be. Well.. that says a lot about you.

Only a fool fights in a burning house, as you may win the battle but loose the war 🔥🏠🔥

It’s always pi---d me off looking at those people that immediately have 30,000 steps at midnight. Ain’t no way you’ve covered 30,000 steps. Also those that have 30,000 steps everyday of the challenge

Those are the people with no integrity and ought to be the ones let go.

Penny’s internet watchers putting their lists together trying to figure out who we are since we don’t believe in their reimagining. Get on the app and take note there.

FF had promised to release a plan at the beginning of the year.
Now we’re in September, and still waiting…
Does anyone know when it will finally be delivered?

Penny - why pay a speaking fee of $200,000 each to hear their motivational speeches? You should have hired them to give us pep talks about “Dribbling up the middle on our resumes” and the “Uneven bars of life”.

Something quite sus going on, as they kept moving this call and now it falls on the dreaded date.

Don’t know what to expect as they haven’t shared much info with us “regular” employees.

All I see is frustration, anger, and disarray. Morale wasn’t great before, but now it’s completely tanked. Yes, I still have my job, but I feel sick just thinking about coming in tomorrow. Things can be done well and for everyone’s benefit, or badly, serving a few for a short while but damaging everyone else and the company’s future. Why leadership always chooses the latter is beyond me.

They got me reporting to 2 managers, and fielding requests from the layer above them. Each of them wants to have a 1:1, each wants a status update, each is dead weight that gets in my way from being productive. They really need to do away with management and make those with the most knowledge just rise to the situation at hand. Such a waste of shareholder money. They also need to start firing these Indians who email 600 people for the smallest task they completed, only email people directly involved. The manager of these people should be fired.

Morris Plains is bad. Horrible management employees are looking over their backs. It’s not a good environment. The future doesn’t look bright here

Growing up AT&T was the behind company everyone arrived to work for and make the big corporate bucks for life including excellent lifetime pension starting at age 50. GE was the other favorite, immense company excellent funding and salaries for every walk of life. No one could ever imagine those companies would get broken up and career growth and remuneration could be scaled back so much. Now it's ExxonMobil's turn. That seems to be the end game.

How many people does it take to prop up the sth dept to the detriment of everything else? Newsflash. If truck doesn't get unloaded and merchandise sits on the dock because all are propping up the lazy sth dept who walk around waving rfid all day how does that deliver good results?

I just need to vent. I still have to go into the office four times a week, while some people moved out of state and never even show up. I know there are many in other groups who honestly wouldn’t make a difference if they got laid off, but no one seems to care. It’s so frustrating. At first, I didn’t really care and even felt sympathetic toward them because they had no choice but to risk being laid off, but now management is just enforcing stricter rules on those of us who actually come into the office, and I have no words.

Love to hear your thoughts.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-c0gCVXOV1M?si=yAUdaJAbXiNaz-Xl

I thought this was funny. All I did was ask is Stephanie Farris liked?

— here’s the unfiltered version of why a lot of people dislike Stephanie Ferris at FIS:
• Worldpay Disaster – People feel she was part of leadership that massively overpaid ($35B) and then sold it at a huge loss, destroying shareholder value. Many see this as one of the biggest fintech blunders ever.
• Wall Street First, Employees Last – She’s viewed as prioritizing appeasing investors (stock buybacks, dividends, “cost savings”) while cutting thousands of jobs and gutting teams, leaving employees demoralized.
• The “Future Forward” Spin – Her transformation program is seen by critics as corporate jargon masking layoffs and cost-slashing, without a real growth strategy.
• Reactive, Not Visionary – Instead of leading with innovation in a fast-changing fintech/payments space, she’s seen as patching leaks, restructuring, and spinning failures as successes.
• Trust Issues – After major service outages and technology failures, people blame her for not modernizing systems fast enough. Customers and partners feel burned.
• Culture Ki-ler – Former and current employees complain on forums like Glassdoor and Reddit that under her leadership, morale has cratered, communication is poor, and talented people are leaving.
• Poor Communication & Accountability – Investors and staff alike feel she dodges responsibility, blames “market conditions,” and leans on vague optimism without real transparency.

In short, the harshest critics say: she’s a cost-cutter, not a builder. Instead of driving innovation in payments and banking tech (where FIS desperately needs it), she’s focused on financial engineering and PR spin.

I know its been said here many times and I know people do not have enough gumption or unity to do it but the only thing and I mean the only things that brings these useless ba----ds to their knees is a union. It is what they were designed to do. I hate them but I think the time is coming again for them to start gaining traction. The workforce today does not have any say or a fair shot at decent treatment by their employer. I hate it when people on here say go find another job. For most that is not an option because the system has become so rigged and it's all the same scam regardless. Age discrimination, AI screening job applications, DEI, and just all the other barriers they have put up. All the Execs work together in step...the worker just hasn't gotten smart enough to do it in places like SF, AT&T, Chase, etc... Amazon workers are trying and so are Starbucks but face hurdles with the big shots trying to subvert them at every turn. I think if only a handful of people would genuinely approach it with co-workers most would get on board. I know just wishful thinking. It would bring an end to their reign of te---r on the American worker.

any news on utensils @F8 since I left? LOL I still laugh thinking about that. What a joke that place is...

I just got a job offer in bank, but I’m a little hesitant after reading here and a couple other sites. What’s the culture like in the bank? The recruiter really stressed the need to be in office minimum of 4 days a week and expect for it to shift to 5 days soon. (My current company has a very relaxed 3 days). It seems like the bonuses here are potentially good as a lead? He said to expect 20-25%? Any thoughts?

For a company that hates its own American workers to celebrate a national holiday honoring them is ironic .

Our team is a mess because no one is keeping things in line. Personal drama takes over, but we still scramble to meet goals by working extra hours just to stay off the radar. People are tense, worried about job security, and it is draining to walk into this every morning. Proper management could fix so much, but no one steps up.

Now that it's public, perhaps the post won't be taken down!

Why are we treating him with kindness internally and saying he retired?? He was ruthless and never showed one ounce of respect for anyone in FIG. He was fired, relieved of his duties... Whatever. Retired gives him the dignity he never gave any one else. DISAPPOINTING announcement! We were clear on Jenn and the others. Why not him?

Does anyone actually get promoted for their work, or is it always about who you know?

There are so many people here with big titles who barely lift a finger. They cover for each other and make it impossible to clean house. If they ever got out of the way, we could probably fix a lot of problems in no time.

Speaking up about issues just makes things worse. People who try to raise concerns always end up with even more problems, and HR does nothing to help (anybody but the bank, of course). Nothing ever changes because everyone has learned to just stay quiet.

New or old, I can't think of one good leader here.