#culture

Perhaps it was already discussed here. Does anyone know if they truly track based on 8 hours in office? Or it can be 6 or 7? Any insight please and thank you.

As SAPPHIRE '26 wraps up, look for merch and rebranding swag being given away. The company is now SAIP! All in on AI.

A yet still weirder acronym than SAP ... so I checked on its meaning:

Systems Acquisition and Implementation Program?
Substance Abuse Intervention Program?

God, I miss J White's marketing genius.

Is it me, or is EJ making absolutely terrible experienced FA hires? I have met a few and most have not brought over significant assets and probably were on their last leg at the firms they came from.

One actually said that they joined EJ because of Moneyguide. Not to service clients better - or for better options to grow a practice - and certainly not the culture. Simply because the firm uses MG.

Another one I met makes odd comments in meetings (totally off topic) and appears to have some personal hygiene issues (the type you smell).

Like, what is happening? Is this just hiring to keep Chubak happy? Or is this the best the K-Mart of wealth management can hire?

I heard some people will always have ratings above VG.
Is it the same as being hipo, or just protected (whatever that means)?
Does that change often? What does one need to do in order to be in that pool?

I used to be so proud of my work ethic. I always stayed late, took on extra, really cared. Now I feel like a total fool. The workload after the layoffs didn't decrease. It increased, because the people left are burned out and the lazy ones are still lazy. So those of us who still try are doing even more. I love what I do, I really do, but I'm so tired. Tired of working my butt off every day for a place that doesn't value me. And here's the thing. I'm probably getting cut in the next few months anyway. So why am I still doing this? Why am I not just coasting like everyone else? I'm starting to think that's the smarter move.

I’ve been shocked by the amount of disdain directed at long-time T. Rowe associates on this board, especially toward IT staff. It’s hard to tell whether this comes from just a few loud voices with axes to grind or a broader sentiment. My experience up until the past year or so has been with nothing but great, hardworking, kind people.
It’s concerning to think that some of the people I work with may hold these same toxic views about their own coworkers. While I can see why management might have incentives to move jobs, I don’t understand why other associates — who aren’t protected from future layoffs — would voice such contempt. It makes me wonder if their presence here is more about stirring trouble than supporting those who are impacted. Perhaps to expedite the exodus by creating conditions where more people depart on their own?

I wake up every day scared that today's the day. I can't concentrate. My work is slipping. Is anyone else feeling this, or is it just me?

any Vteamers want to chime in? Feel free to express your concerns or complaints?

honest and real feedback wanted!

What happened to the "Corrupt DXE..." post? Great post - very informative, detailed, & with references. Some good responses as well.

Did an administrator pull the post? Or, one of the leaders that was called out? My concern is that OP, who was laid off last week, pulled the post out of fear of losing his/her severance.

Heard he's real buttocks hurt over it. Thought he paid enough to get a tix.

The lack of major layoffs is for paramount employees. WB will be decimated. There are few jobs here that is not completely redundant at paramount. WB should have bought paramount not the other way around. To the victor belong the spoils.

Now that the finish line is getting closer, do we think this is true?

Let's be honest about what's happening at Humana. Constant turnover, good people leaving every month, reorgs that make everything worse, leadership saying one thing while we see something else entirely. Who can think this is a good way to run a company?

We’ve angered and alienated the older workforce, which incentivized them to not give a flying f about knowledge sharing and transfer with younger workers.

The younger workers have no hope or real path forward outside of nepotism and generational wealth that boosts them up despite the sh-t we’re all sinking in.

The rich get richer and the AI/offshoring effort booms…

Has anyone noticed the updates to our dress code? I’m curious if HBAs will be required to comply???

So many companies were doing fine until they got greedy. Squeeze more profit, treat people like trash, then they wonder why they go under. We're watching it happen in real time here.

I feel watched constantly. My keystrokes, my mouse moves, my breaks, my location. It's oppressive and intrusive. RTO has ruined this place.

Is it really tracked by badge swipes?????

Looks like nothing is happening. We live to stress another day.

Well, just wondering what else folks think..

Jack_Attack! has like zero charisma.. Like 0. After a few meetings seems like we hired a dud, like dud dud. Anyone else have thoughts? I just don't feel any enthusiasm or like this guy could usher everyone into a life raft on a sinking ship if his life depended on it.

At least re-Joyce loved Schitzcreek! <---- but she was still a cheerleader, and a dud.

Based on recent media coverage of Meta tracking laptop activity and taking screenshots to train the AI to replace the people it is tracking, does anyone know of this sort of thing in Dell?

Seems our colleagues in Europe can ask under law and be told but not sure if anyone would or has done this.

Any confirmation of this in any region or BU?

I’m not looking for comments that are jumping to conclusions or making guesses based on feelings. Any real info out there?

Fidelity's leaders should be ashamed but that would require them to be able to feel shame. Ned must be rolling around in his grave, rest in peace. I didn't agree with everything he did but he never showed the lack of respect for employees that we see today.

So much this! Reposting from @a6+1krerh6ct for being 100% correct.

Did anyone else see the post where the Chief Digital Officer was just dancin’ around at some Good Energy Event? I didn’t see her doing any actual work.
This was posted on LinkedIn.

Did anybody get one already?

Did you see some of their World Cup kits? We could learn a thing or two from them at this point. At least somebody still seems capable of putting out work people get excited about.

I used to stay late, work through breaks, and constantly push harder thinking it would eventually lead somewhere. All it really did was convince management I could handle even more work without getting anything back for it. These days I save my time and energy for my actual life instead of pouring everything into a company that barely notices.

We made the Top 20 on Forbes' America’s Best Employers For Company Culture 2026. Company culture??? Who makes these lists? Are they paid for?

I can't figure out any other way for this to have happened. Anybody working here knows that culture has deteriorated so much over the years that it's now unrecognizable. What once was friendly environment is now incredibly toxic. And it makes No. 17 for culture? WTF???

Watched the SAP Sapphire keynote. Embarrassing.

Speaker after speaker, palpable stage fright. Forced enthusiasm, unnatural pauses, reading slides like middle school presentations. You'd think a $30B+ company would invest in actual public speaking coaches, not just PowerPoint designers.

How you say it matters more than what you say. Every awkward "game-changing!" inflection ki-ls credibility faster than a missed quarterly target. Audiences aren't stupid. We see the anxiety. We feel the disconnect.
This wasn't visionary leadership. It was a $500k production budget wasted on executives who can't connect human-to-human.

Fire the presentation trainers. Hire actual speech coaches.
SAP sells trust at enterprise scale. Start with your keynotes.

His warm demeanor, level-headedness, and unwavering resolve will undoubtedly be missed by all.

I’m still new to ExxonMobil but I don’t know how our leaders think the actions they are taking don’t hurt our long term value. Short termism is very visible. The way good people are being treated is cruel and does not make us younger gen want to stay around. All of the people who want to teach us are leaving and I don’t many the ready to retire but the people who have been around for 10-20years are leaving and the gap is becoming more and more obvious with no one replacing them with the work being outsourced to India.

Then let’s go to the system and process. They just don’t work anymore. Any new system or software su-ks. career connect doesn’t work, D&S is even more opaque (maybe yet again the plan) and we’ve outsourced our pay, vacation.. basically everything with no accountability to fix or own any issues.

The foundation is sinking and it’s just getting worst. I’m leaving as soon as I can but investors and shareholders should be worried. DWW is feathering his nest for retirement but our stock will be impacted by the short term actions that will impact long term value

Anyone else notice the fear based culture here? It’s like no matter how great you’re doing, you always feel afraid? Upper leadership uses intimidation and publicly humiliates people on calls for performance. It’s strange to me. Maybe it’s normal but it always feels nerve racking.

The amount of fraud and slamming and bundling that goes on is a shame. How has the whistle not been blown on this place. We keep the collection agencies in business with the amount of written off accounts I see. This place and the 3rd party sc-mbag agents have no integrity whatsoever.

I can feel it. We need a miracle to right this ship. I can't believe what happened to such an iconic company.

What's the point anymore, when I could get cut either way.

We have chili cook offs and talent competition’s.

When I got the news that I was being laid off a few months ago, I expected to be devastated. Instead, I felt a wave of relief. Dell has been a mess for too long and I hated my job for far too long. I don't know if I got lucky or the job market is not that bad, but I had a new role within two months. Smaller company and much better culture. Just wanted to say, it's not all bad.

My group hit rock bottom and we keep digging.

I've watched five top performers leave in the last year. Every single person who was really good at their job is gone or trying to go.