#culture

What is the end goal to end up jobless?
Is there a contingency plan once AI fails?

Why are you so eager to give up all effort and critical thinking to AI. You people are useless pushing this cr-p. SRX is the worst thing to happen to Omnicom. Clanker wa-kers.

no one cares about this company. If you do, you’re a cuck.

There are many examples of mis-management. Let’s list them out.

So the Anderon split from ibm has been announced for October 1st and new announcements and employee contracts are coming out.

Setting aside the painfully obvious point that this is a "quantum wafer foundry" with no real foundry that it owns or controls outright and that the Albany site itself can barely classify as a fully operational fab.

We need to ask ourselves honestly why?

• Why is IBM really splitting off 70-100 people to form this new company?
• Why create Anderon at all in the first place?
• Why not just keep it all internal to IBM?

The publicity stated comments and justification - that this is a way to attract customers who wouldn't work directly with IBM - doesn't hold up. Those same customers know Anderon is strongly affiliated, owned and controlled by IBM, so the same logic of avoid working with IBM would apply to Anderon as well.
Why would a competitor hand over its most sensitive fabrication data to an IBM-affiliated company when IBM is competing against them directly?

Flip it around: why would IBM let its competitive-advantage IP flow into Anderon, where it could end up supporting competitors' builds? Anderon is taking a capability that gives IBM an edge and potentially turning it into shared infrastructure. So basically the publicly stated purpose for creating Anderon is a bold face lie.

Is this really just cost savings. Getting 70-100 employees off IBM's books and payroll? As one past comment put it: "it's just a layoff with extra steps."

Call it a spinoff, a joint venture, or a strategic carve out - it still smells exactly like a layoff wearing a lab coat.

This isn't a spinoff, it's a witness protection program for headcount. It’s a glorified layoff from ibm hidden and tucked in in a way ibm doesn’t have to classify it as such

IBM didn't build a competitor. It built an alibi.

Somewhere a strategy consultant got paid seven figures to rename 'layoff' as 'ecosystem expansion.

Bottom line: the publicly stated rationale doesn't add up to a coherent business case.

IBM’s public statements regarding this are just simply ridiculous. Do they actually believe their own words coming out of their mouths. Those saying it should be remembered and held accountable for rest of their careers.

Our leaders are using their usual flimsy internal justifications publicly to explain this. And it appears many who are not indoctrinated in the Albany culture are seeing right through the thin veil and rolling holes into it.

Make it make sense!

What are the vibes at the UW golf tourney given the looming cliff due to MSP

You can keep threatening people, but eventually the threats lose their effect. Once employees stop believing they have anything left to lose, motivation goes with it. My entire team is now completely checked out. Find better managers, Solventum, or you'll lose all of us.

So what is the over and under on how long it takes Brinks to clean house on the VP level and up at Atleos? Is it worth starting a pool?

Some of the choices coming from management are genuinely hard to understand. I've worked in this industry for years and I've never felt this disconnected from the people making the decisions.

Curious XOM salary vs others. A key Houston peers salary is posted below from 2020 (adjust for inflation).

17 = $71,700, 8% CIP
18 = $82,000, 9% CIP
19 = $93,800, 10% CIP
20 = $106,500, 11% CIP
21 = $122,900, 12% CIP
22 = $141,400, 14% CIP
23 = $163,000, 16% CIP
24 = $187,900, 20% CIP
25 = $216,700, 25% CIP
26 = $246,500, 30% CIP, & stock options
27 = $283,600, 35% CIP, & stock
28 = $326,900, 40% CIP, & stock
29 = $377,700, 50% CIP, & stock
30 = $439,000, 60% CIP, & stock

A 30 year old D&C engineer ~ 22-23. 45 year D&C engineer ~ 25-26. D&C engineering manager ~ 27-29.

I always thought XOM paid more but I’m finding out that might not be the case. We are continually laying off, moving to low cost countries and pushing more and more change. Culture is still ok, even though everyone complains.

Curious, how’s your pay compared to the above (x1.25)?

You'd rather lay people off instead of putting them in the much needed CS Phone position. You'd rather pull other teams to work phones while their primary work gets behind. You'd rather pay out time and a half for overtime (more money out) instead of hiring a phone team. You'd rather keep GR and LG as supervisors who run people away and doesn't know the first thing about integrity or professionalism, or is that it? Is it easier to make things so unbearable that employees quit instead of looking like the bad guy and laying off. Interesting!

1) every employee truly reviews their direct manager AND one level above that
2) higher positions that have 0 to 2 direct reports are also reviewed by 2 to 3 peers

Anonymous
Free form, let the workers speak.

Feed results into AI, and seriously consider the results

Someone had a copy of a strategic plan that showed KPIs for hiring women and minorities? What if that proof existed?

So we have Smiles Week and looks like lots of effort going in to make this a good event, but wait who is actually doing work? The same folks that always are busy and those who have spare time ie no work are organizing. They are not admin staff they are university graduates being paid to make PepsiCo better. Come on Snr Leads open your eyes and get some work for these that have no work or get them out. You now want us these people in the office more so please monitor their output.

There comes a point where you have to admit staying isn't doing you any favors. I've reached that point and I'm moving on. My new job is in a much smaller company, and I think it's a good thing. Qualcomm has taught me that in a place this big, you're nothing but a number.

Or their job? Or are we all on the hate train by now?

Five meetings in one day and I still have actual work that needs to get done. And once they start, everyone looks bored, including the people who scheduled them. We've lost the plot, folks.

If you ask two managers the same question, you will never get the same answer. Never. Not only that, the answers are usually completely opposite. So basically, if you need guidance, just ask one and pray that person knows what they're doing, because trying to reach a consensus will only leave you more confused.

I came here five years ago expecting to build some useful experience and move forward. Instead, I've spent a lot of time doing repetitive work with systems that feel years behind where the industry is headed. The hours are long and the pressure is constant, but there's very little sense that you're building toward something. Raises are abysmal and don't really make up for the rising cost of living. Promotions are limited, and sometimes it feels as though there isn't even a path to develop into something different. Management doesn't exactly make the situation easier. After enough time doing the same tasks, you start worrying about your skills becoming outdated too. That's probably what bothers me most. It's one thing to work hard for a while when you know you're gaining something from it, and it's another thing to feel exhausted and stuck at the same time.

Does DXC Oasis exist... Or is it a Mirage?

Looking back, would you join Factset again? I'm curious whether people feel their time here was worth it.

They seem to be never-ending. You'd think one of them would achieve something instead of just usher in another one.

You can have a strong record here and still find yourself on the wrong side of management. It seems far more important to stay in someone's good graces than to actually do good work.

Adidas from 20 years ago and the one today are two completely different companies. I'm almost hoping to be laid off, just to leave this place behind.

There have been so many examples of Nike losing the exact thing that made us good. It always seems to start with decisions that look harmless on their own, then suddenly you're wondering what happened. We have plenty of experience and resources, so watching this happen over and over is pretty frustrating. You'd think we'd eventually learn from it.

There was a time when I would've defended this place without thinking twice. These days, I keep wondering what happened to the standards we used to have. So many decisions are difficult to understand that it's getting harder to take any pride in the place. I don't know how much longer this can continue.

Looks like we aren’t a “family” anymore. The dreaded day finally arrived.

Everyone is so on edge lately and it’s honestly becoming exhausting to be around. Every little thing turns into a complaint or a conversation about how bad things are, how they can’t get their work done, how they don’t have what they need, how leadership is doing this or that

And I get it. People are worried. There’s a lot of uncertainty and nobody really knows what’s coming next. But at the same time, we still have jobs to do. It’s getting to the point where people are complaining about not being able to do their jobs while also spending half their time complaining about everything going on.

You can literally feel the anxiety in every meeting. Someone mentions a change or sends an email and suddenly everyone is trying to figure out what it something means

I’m not saying people shouldn’t be concerned, because obviously there are legitimate reasons to be but the constant doom and complaining is getting really old. It’s making an already stressful situation even more miserable

All these leadership hires from GM and Stellantis are d-mb as rocks. So tired of them telling long time employees how brilliant their prior company was and how d-mb Ford is. And the GM Club can stop snickering about our decisions, systems, etc. It wasn't too long ago they were fired from their old company. If they were so talented, they wouldn't be here. Go back to where you came from!

Reminder: the only metric they will listen to is not filling out the survey. We tried tanking the survey with low “My company cares about my well being” scores. Only to be subjected to a year of gaslighting and telling us, it is because we don’t know enough about our benefits, as if we all just forgot about them when RTO hit. Most lower levels of management hate RTO and having to talk about it every team meeting. At some point in the leadership chain they start to care more about their career then their employees wellbeing and simply to refuse to push back against Stankbutt. Maybe once we let them know how checked out this workforce is, they will start to tell the emperor he isn’t wearing clothes.

I used to feel good telling people where I worked. Now I find myself avoiding the subject because I'm embarrassed by what this place has become.

Research estimates vary, suggesting 8–12% of CEOs may be highly narcissistic, while many others display milder traits along a spectrum.

Below is a URL to a recent article that goes into detail as research done on CEOs who exhibit narcissistic traits.

Article Published 9/7/2026:

https://thebalance.clinic/resources/mental-health/narcissism/ceos-and-narcissism/

But now the workload has became ridiculous and I no longer feel like anyone is listening when I raise concerns about it. The culture has also deteriorated drastically, to the point where it's unrecognizable. Such a shame how much this place changed.

You too?

You pesky workers! We had a good thing going! All you had to do is go back to your dreadful office every day for the rest of your miserable life, get berated by management, enjoy whatever snacks we stole from the food bank down the road once a blue moon, hit your unrealistic goals and be happy with your current salary and position until the heat death of the universe!! Dont you see!? Most of you arent making us MONEY. Ah yes some of you are selling those pretty little products nicely, but not ALL of you! The Microfocus product hostage- I MEAN CLIENTS have began singing "dont fear the reaper" and "we ain't gonna take it" on renewal meetings! The ONE set of products we had people tied down for life with environments so complex they needed priests on a 24/7 rota to perform exorcisms just for them to work normally and Moses himself to return for a second time to lead a migration away from the products that will take fourty years of what feels like a trek in the Sahara desert and you pushed them away too?! What do you want ?! Was the shifty treatment, silencing and threats and lack of any sort of improvement of your day to day life under the rule of the great leader not enough for you ?! DO YOU STILL DESIRE MORE ?!

Now all joking aside, it seems someone from leadership got told on a meeting "by the way guys, there's this website, not sure if you know it, and the things they write about you there, ooooh boy.." and they remembered about this page's existence again. The last time the bots were pushing the 1984 agenda with its all peaches and daisies and flowers and roses and everyone loves us was right before the last layoffs. We already had a bunch of rumors here for the layoffs coming in October, but in my opinion the bots more or less confirm it. Not sure how it is in your office (and I haven't been to mine yet today) but the previous days the mood can only be explained as a disaster. Even colleagues that are typically positive are cursing the products they're working on.

If your reply contains the words "markets love us" and something equivalent to "absolutely agree, no layoffs confirmed by all powerful glorious leader" you hereby declare you are a bot.

The very fact that they are holding a Townhall today is completely tone deaf, but if you are able to listen to it, what a terrible attempt at a cheerleading session this is, it actually makes me sick to my stomach.

Do you all remember what it was like 10 years ago? We had the staff that we needed to get our jobs done. People were friendly and didn’t cause drama for the sake of it, and we didn’t hire toxic people. There is this culture now of toxicity where people will lie on each other in hopes of getting the next promotion. That promotion does not exist, however, because AI has replaced that rung in the ladder.

Why is this all so toxic???? I’m to the point where I come in and just do my job and go home and I talk to the minimum amount of people possible. I have never been more burnt out and depressed in my life.

I just noticed that locations of associates are no longer displaying next to their names in Teams.

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