#culture

I want it all waaaa! Throws rattle.

FIS security policies have been tightened to the point that it is almost impossible to comply, and product teams across the are unable to release software patches. Clients are up in arms, and will only become more enraged when they realise why they can’t get their patches. Every so often a case gets escalated to KB who then shouts at DD who will grant an exception. Otherwise the FIS security team is digging its heels in, regardless of the cost to the business.

We are only 3 weeks into this ridiculous RTO policy and I am completely burnt out. Anyone else feeling the same? I don’t know how I’m going to manage this indefinitely. I have no energy once I leave that place, my household chores are going untouched, and I barely have the energy to cook dinner for myself. Surely this isn’t the American dream?…

Ready or not here we come

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Imagine if the survey actually served a proper purpose and was used to improve things around here. Imagine how much better this place would be. But it never happens. They ignore anything that goes against their agenda, toss it in the trash, and continue as is. So what's the fu--ing point?

I saw someone actually posted an answer to the Employee Survey telling management to come to this site to see how people really feel about working for 3M. Let’s make an “Executive Summary” for them in this thread.

Already received 3 emails to complete survey.

I have filled it out every time and all they do is make it worse, such as RTO and assigned settings. From 11 days in office to 13 to 15 days in office each month.

All they do is make it worse and they took away wallpaper because of the survey.

Do not waste. Your time. They do not listen

I can’t believe how far Evicore technology has devolved. Two senior directors leaving - one of his own free will and the other pushed out by poor leadership. Potential (likely) sale of the company, projects slashed, additional layoffs looming. Nothing will be done because why fix the ship you are setting out to sea. Get the life jackets and rafts ready if you haven’t already.

Today, it is trading in the 33’s. 3 years and 9 months and the stock is down over 50%. One has to believe the board doesn’t know what it’s doing or they are holding on for a sale.

Who knew when we pushed her out after WP acquisition she would come back to ruin the company.

Her vision and execution is terrible only worse than her hiring. Congrats on spending more time cutting costs than improving the products and sales teams.

What does she care, 80 million richer at the end of this year (20 mil a year), surrounding by minions that won’t give necessary feedback and horrible hires in HR, CFO and CAO.

Nobody seems to remember the company values anymore. Not that FactSet always lived up to them, but there were people who genuinely tried to make things better and weren't afraid to point out what wasn't working. Too often, those people were ignored or pushed aside. Under the new leadership, it feels like we're taking everything FactSet stood for and running it into the ground. Mike D must be rolling over. When PS said the new regime was going to be ruthless, he wasn't kidding.

Cutting lunch and snacks isn't going to meaningfully move the needle. Neither is laying off hundreds of people, including some truly great performers.

Want to actually save money? Stop giving away services. Fix bad deals. Hold chronic underperformers accountable. Invest in products clients actually want. Figure out usage. Finish projects instead of letting them drag on for years. None of this is complicated. It's common sense.

Maybe start listening to the people who challenge bad decisions instead of the people who kiss up and tell leadership what they want to hear.

Watching this Town Hall is bizarre. When clowns run the organization, this is exactly what it looks like confusion, cluelessness, and an embarrassing lack of substance.

Dell software is a joke customers who buy servers won't even use the Dell software because it's junk. How are the teams surviving layoffs.

Has anyone done these forced "trainings"? If this AIDLC cr-p is adopted en masse I can imagine prod being in flames company wide within 2 weeks

Today’s RBC challenge: Sunit has the microphone. Please don’t scare anybody. CCI doesn’t need analysts to suddenly decide it’s worth $94 today. It just needs the market to become less convinced that $67 makes sense.

The stock has been hammered, with Treasury rates being a major headwind, but there hasn’t been some new company disaster to explain this price. So today would be a great day for clear numbers, confidence and maybe even a smile. No panic face. No corporate word salad. Just explain the business and remind Wall Street that Crown isn’t actually on fire. Come on, Sunit. You’ve got one job today do it!

CITIBANK In AFD Lost a bunch of our work to costa rica today. Very low Waiting in queue but overtime open until september thirtieth? We have been warned not to discuss it amongst our team.

Well, it’s been quite the week, hasn’t it? The company’s managed to lose both its Chief Administrative/Legal Officer and its Head of Compliance in one go — two senior leaders legging it for the hills before Takis’ flying monkeys can do any further damage to their reputations. Can’t say I blame them; self‑preservation is a noble art.

And now we’re meant to believe that the risk organisation — yes, that merry band — is responsible for keeping us in good standing with regulators. Brilliant idea, that. Truly inspired. This is the same group that’s turned “whistling past the graveyard” into a full‑time profession, best known for shuffling people about like mismatched furniture and delaying outcomes while pointing fingers at everyone else.

To add to the farce, they’re apparently convening in Frank’s back garden this week — presumably to strategise how best to further obliterate morale and torch whatever goodwill remains with regulators. Their master plan? Elevate some of the most spectacularly ill‑equipped individuals you’ll ever meet into positions of authority, while doubling the workload on teams already stretched thinner than a budget airline seat. Keep those CVs polished.

Fun times all around. Cheers.

I absolutely hate large group zoom workshops. Especially when the “key” people travel and are in the room and everyone else can’t get a word in edgewise. The raise hand feature is totally ignored and people just talk over the remote attendees. Meanwhile the loudest know it alls who actually know nothing dominate the discussion and don’t let anyone else speak.. What a waste of my time.

1. Why y'all drive like you need to po-p all the time?

2. No one greets anyone anymore. Y'all lose your social skills (lab buildings specifically)

3. Why is there such an entitlement mentality with specifically 3Mers

Get ready for departure :)

Well that did not take long for Snack-Attack to sc--w up that relationship, or maybe it was Prashant Prashant Prashant that messed this one up. So much for all that bravado and boringness. Knowing nothing about how the channel works is sure to create some holes in the pocket, watch those pennies spill out. More earnings woes in store, can't fill a revenue whole fast enough for the Q4 hit. Someone is playing 4D Chess and we can only fathom 2D, if that. Maybe it was the pinnacle of it all, we have seen pinnacle moments before, look what happened with that. It was the pinnacle of my career.. LOL. Remember? Memory loss?

I know let's throw the CTO at them so he can um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um them to death. Or maybe the CFO and he can blind them with some tacky Fuchsia socks and large medallions made of fake gold to WIN WIN WIN WIN WINNIG!! Maybe Jack can attack with the pledge pin loaded with laser beams!

It's just so hard to really root root root for this place when they have been firing dedicated people for YEARS based on management's own mistakes, loyalty takes a hit, morale declines a bit more day by day, it's getting stale and OLD, just like the C-Suite here. You know, pushing out more folks to make more room for every over 50+ years old Cisco sellers walking in the door every week.

Incase you missed the news:
https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2026/top-vmware-partner-insight-deauthorized-by-broadcom-in-north-america

And is there any future for remote employees? I’ve heard such mixed things about the helpfulness of replacement services from MDT for those RIF’d. I am deeply conflicted about staying with Medtronic after getting RIF’d and having felt like I had a target on my back for being remote. I don’t know enough to know whether it’s worth spending time to find an internal role if a) no one really wants someone who was RID’d, b) all remote folks are in danger, or c) the culture of Surgical is bleeding into all Medtronic OUs.

That's the post. That's the strategy.

It’s wild how the people who don’t do their jobs are always the first ones to escalate you as “difficult to work with” the second you call out an issue. Instead of management holding those lackluster employees accountable, they make you feel like the problem for trying to help the customer and actually get things resolved.

I wish I could live in the same fantasy land as some of you. It must be fun.

Please dont use this thread to discuss the town hall that may or not be happening right now.

Please, leadership can only be transparent if they trust us not discuss the townhall here.

Anyone know what to expect in the town hall meeting tomorrow. Been here a year and never got invite to attend one.

We are watching colleagues getting laid off and at the same time, everyone has to worry about whether they might be next.
Then you come here and see anonymous threads to gather information and see people are blaming other colleagues, turning on each other, and arguing over who deserves what.
I really liked my life at FactSet but watching all of this happening at the same time is just really sad.

https://career.cornell.edu/events/2026/09/28/canceled-wells-fargo-corporate-investment-banking-cornell-university-information-session/

me wonder bout connections

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.

Listen, if you reply-all to a massive DL and don’t even look to see who sent the damn email, I swear to God I hope you’re the very first person walking out the door next time layoffs hit.Right now, we got folks replying-all to a distribution list with over 20,000 people on it.

You are officially the d-mbest MF in the building, just out here wasting everybody’s time. You su-k on levels I didn't even know were possible.Why does this same circus happen at least once a year? How do we keep hiring people this clueless? It is not that hard: look and see who owns the mailbox or the contact group, and message them directly.

I am truly, deeply praying they are keeping a running list of every single one of y’all doing this.Please, stop being a whole fool. This happens literally every year, and y’all still haven’t learned a single thing.

So now leadership can see not just which teams gave, but exactly which individuals gave and how much. I find it hard to believe that won't factor into performance r

I think all the consulting firms our leadership hires for print out advise have made moral go down the sink. No more VP and SVP promotions from the bottom up. Time Warner and General Motors with clueless to IT but get big pay checks for getting rid of to many SMEs and GenX are here short term to place on resume but again Att USA company is expanding especially with India a 3rd world country. Like sp--k said no need for devotion just make sure click in and out =8hrs, do not support after hours or weekends

Code42 installed the following: Your organisation added
"com.code42.agent.extension", which can access your data, monitor your keyboard and websites, record your screen, and more.

I know this shthle of a company can monitor stuff but what the actual f?

I've never heard people talk this freely about leaving before. Even coworkers I barely interact with are telling me they're looking elsewhere. What happened to this place to come to this point?

I remember as a critical worker spending 1 to 3 sometimes 4 days at a
motel/hotel. During major blizzards, snowstorms and hurricanes.

Then waiting for the State Street shuttle van to pick us up and take us back
to the office at 1776 Hertiage Drive.

The highlight was when a SVP would come down to our department to thank
the workers. Then handing out the following thank you gifts.

State Street coffee cup, or a State Street shirt, or State Street Pen/Pencil set.
Wow I must have 10 coffee cups and T=shirts and other promotional products.

I guess they could not give out a check for maybe $50.00 to $100.00

“We do what’s right, not what’s easy.”

This is a published Centene behavior. We bring these up a lot when the company hits another increasingly frequent failure bump in the road. It’s the culture leadership pushed down on employees.

Then, when leadership fails to live it, those same employees become a workforce optimization opportunity.

In 2025, 93% of appealed Centene Medicare Advantage prior-authorization denials were overturned. What? Yeah, 93%

Maybe update the values poster: “We do what’s right, not what’s easy.” Might I be so bold to suggest a more realistic behavior, if we’re being honest might be “We do what’s right after you make us.”

Final observation: doing what’s right shouldn’t have an appeals process.

What the he-l the je-ks in QPOET still have the face to live in the world!

trouble in grandpa Tim's empire brewing?

This company just forces a ton of cr-p into stores leaving us to take the blame. We get paid to be the scapegoat for this sorry company.