#culture

Seriously, wtah?
Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea?
Is this really the look we're going for...??
Because, someone did sanction this!!
SMH

https://www.healthline.com/health/stages-of-grief

So much anger expressed, with so little indication of any ability to move forward. You have some work to do before reaching the acceptance stage people.

“The machines are coming! We need security! We need quality!”

Amazing, right? For years, engineers were just “resources,” completely interchangeable, no need to listen to them. Now, overnight, they’re supposed to save the company from the big scary algorithms.

So now we get meetings, policies and buzzwords. Security this, quality that. Very impressive words, everybody’s saying them.

But here’s the problem, and it’s a big one: you can’t slap some shiny new technology on top of a rotten, inhumane culture and expect miracles. Doesn’t work. Never has. If you treat people like disposable parts, don’t be shocked when the whole machine starts rattling - AI or no AI.

The manner in which these layoffs were handled was atrocious and inhumane for both those affected and unaffected. The obvious lack of planning, the leak months in advance and the announcement right before the weekend are simply inexcusable and unkind. The buck stops with you.

The continued outsourcing of jobs to India from the very neighborhoods, county, city, state and country that supported you along the way and in which you freely operate today is simply no more than trading the livelihoods of your very own friends and neighbors for profit. Have you no shame or courage to do the right thing? Again, the buck stops with you.

Doubling down on Nike stock shortly before the layoffs occurred was truly in poor taste. Out of respect for those whose lives were going to be shortly upended, could one not have simply waited until after the layoffs to avoid the impropriety of having profited at the expense of those you once led? Does the character of a good leader allow one to take from the downtrodden and those who follow? Again, the buck stops with you.

But there is a catch. The buck stops with us as well. Your friends, neighbors and coworkers, past and present.

So when it comes time to measure your character and integrity as leaders? The buck stops with us. When we see you at the grocery store whispering while looking away in disgust, the buck stops with us. When we throw out our copy of Shoe Dog while mumbling “dou--e bag” under our breathes? The buck stops with us. When you experience imposter syndrome while pandering the same rhetoric off a teleprompter to the employees that make a fraction of what you do but actually do all of the work? Yes, you guessed it, the buck stops with us.

You can keep the company and the jobs but your legacies are no longer yours: they belong to those of us you continue to employ and abuse and the nearly 5000 lost over the last 3 years. We see you and always will, that’s your new legacy.

“Failed leadership characterized by a lack of character, competence, or care destroys organizational trust, often resulting in fear, high turnover, and toxic culture.” — AI Agent #212 - 2026

Why would T Mobile buy companies that are about to fail, hire their executives then use programs and platforms from those companies. This company went from last to supposed 1st doing things "the tmobile way" but some supposed brain said let's do things the Sprint and US Cells way now. Seems like they are trying save a sinking ship. All I need to do is last 9 more months or fingers crossed be laid off before then

It’s no surprise that in his first team wide comments since his disastrous all-teams, that he fell flat on his face again. From the cringy and unnecessary SNKRS comment to rolling out the same exact leadership structure that has accomplished zero over the last 18 months.

Tech deserves better than this clown. The guy is so out of touch. Meanwhile his whole org is ready for him to start talking about all the start-ups he’s worked at and actually accomplish something at scale.

Not talking about some C-Suiter who sent out an email about their new chapter in life, but someone you actually worked with or "adjacent" to (or at least in your building). I have over 10 years with VZ and can only name 2 people. Plus one more who took VSP at the time they were about to retire anyway, so make it 3 people who actually retired. What does that say about VZ?

What a joke. Suddenly GT leadership figures out GT operates in a fragmented way... Worse, They think moving pieces on a chess board will fix anything.
Hey JH of Corp functions and RA broadly, I still can't get anyone to help me with failing SAP system to system transfers. I've been aka raising visibility aka begging for support... Oh for 6 months now at least. As a downstream system we even have a solution. But no one from your team shows up or takes ownership. Because they don't care. Cross org cooperation is MIA at Nike.

• So leaders, fix the culture first! *
  Else you're just playing musical chairs and another layoff is imminent few months down the line because we will not deliver value with the status quo.

to all my fellow VTeamers, ever notice and wonder how some of those in their current roles got their jobs?

I smell DEI.

... and the number of cell sites probably tripled. In most cases, VZ will fire you quickly if you are not cutting it (and replace you with a contractor, not backfill). So if you have lasted over 3 years or so, you have shown you are adaptable and are getting your work done (excluding outliers who may be competent, but hard to work with, so should maybe be cut). But, in the Nov 2025 firings (they are not layoffs), MANY people with 10, 20 and some with 30 years of experience were kicked out. This shows the utter incompetence of VZ leadership. They have no idea how to run a long term business (kicking out the most effective employees to make a budget look better). Leadership looked at the cost of those employees and MAYBE whether they took an AI class here or there (even though there were no AI applications available for that particular job and still aren't) and made uninformed decisions. Completely CLUELESS. If/When an AI tool became available for those employees' roles, those people would adapt, just like they have done for 10, 20 and 30 years.

And for those very few people who talk about a lot of dead weight being cut, you are showing your ignorance. Of course there were a few employees who "earned" being cut, but you are delusional if you think you are somehow more valuable because VZ chose to keep you over someone else. You are just a line item on a sheet that was overlooked by some BOZO higher up.

Is it that bad here?

Monthly reminder that it’s been 6 months since you stated the org changes will be announced “in the coming weeks”. You expect us to do our jobs in a timely manner yet here you are completely hidden and didn’t do jack sh-t. We don’t respect you, you’re only protected by your title. That is all.

When recently getting told I would likely be laid off later this year, I conveyed to my manager that I was smiling and happy. They told me the last time they had to give that speech the person was elated as well.

Speaks volumes about the work culture Charlie Scharf has created.

KY TN CA BON reports filed. We have to make sure these lousy incompetent employees are held accountable for their actions.

My manager is visibly silent, the mood in rest of the group seems better though.

He seems more quiet, non participating in discussions.

Anyone else confirm with their manager?

To Fidelity only, but are you all aware all the professionals in many huge multibillion dollar companies their employees are as pi---d off as we are for FT RTO?!. They have all stirred the hornets nest! No one is happy, if they successfully did their wfh massively productive employees have proven they can be trusted to wfh and be flexible with coming into an office. It just shows we are completely off their radar for loyalty or respect or for their MASSIVE PROFITS they’ve enjoyed. Maybe just maybe there’ll be infinitesimally small reductions in productivity by naturally being back in a distracting office and I hope they see an overall decline because of RTO. Nothing evil or malicious just a natural decline because being in a busy noisy office lends itself to more distractions. Be careful the powers that be you may be cutting off your nose to spite your face. WFH was a long planned situation and it worked fabulously well and they’re still unhappy with the workforce . Give the professional adults in your office the due respect they deserve. Allow flexibility.

With gas prices rising at an astronomical rate, I've heard rumors that T is considering lowering the in-office average for the summer months to 2 days a week. Obviously this would be amazing for all of the employees who are suffering with increased cost of living across the board. Is there any truth to this?

“I’m a true believer after what’s transpired in the last couple months that our commercial organization has absolutely ki-led it.” -GoGo

Got an email earlier this week about Macys unionizing. There’s a website and an IG page. What does everyone think about this?

https://unionizemacys.com/?utm_medium=insta&utm_source=ig&utm_content=link_in_bio

Any insight? Discussing a role.

I am just tired working 11 x 5 + 6, no support and everyone above constant questions on status, updates, procedures, is this group involved, did these forms get filled out, oh wait a new procedure to follow drop the one you are in the middle of, oh wait no one has access, this other group forgot to update, wait the excel is not used by the other group, go make a presentation invite 20 people, weekly meeting after meeting just to inform, me (if you have nothing to say why are you here?). Go home, repeat AND USE YOUR OWN TIME TO DO WORK and 0 fcjs given by everyone. EVERYONE afraid to lose their job, micro manage and critical of everything. Resume out

Have to be two of the worst AI tools I have ever used

No wonder these pieces of cr-p are the ones fiserv mandates

G-b bless y’all tomorrow!!!

What’s the latest on the HR internal investigation?

The company took an incredible turn in 2015 when they hired the most inept HR people period...

B as a lead on investigations was a sham an tons of hairbrained outcomes.

Every day a new low with this place.

Post your BNY-isms and let’s keep this thread active. One ism per post please.

Now I think they actually enjoy it. The cruelty isn't a side effect. It's the goal.

L7s, L8s, and L9s have forgone years of experience and nuanced knowledge that their teams’ possess in favor of having their egos stroked by fluff words from a machine that placates whoever is prompting it.

Many people who have been on businesses and can advise on actionable things to make them grow are being gaslit, ignored, and essentially told “shut up and do as you’re told”.

Of course it’s understandable how and why a corporation thrives on hierarchy, but having leaders who are NOT experts in their field giving vague opinions with zero willingness to learn about individual business does not make sense from a business perspective much less a personal one.

They expect us to decode their ChatGPT strategy and do backflips and upheave our lives to mind read and materialize what even they don’t know. This isn’t just a tool anymore, gen ai is running this company.

Long gone are the days where we were guest obsessed and interacting with the our shoppers to understand their needs. We now create product to appease one or two people.

Praying for a wake up call to save this mediocre and spineless company. I used to love this job so so much. I want it to get back to the way it was when the guest loved us and WE THE WORKERS loved it here as well 💔

This stress of Thursday is making me feel sick and reading the last post. Anyone else feeling the same?

Maurice and is cronies no longer care about tenured, experienced employees. From now on there will be no promotional opportunities for supervisors and above of they are not located at a hub site. Even if you have worked for the company for over 20 years, if you live in Marion, you're sc--wed. No promotion for you. Apparently, only employees in hub locations are now qualified to promote. I'm deeply saddened that HCSC has become such a cr-ppy employer and thinks so little of those of us who have dedicated so many years to ensuring the success of this company.

I know it is normal that managers cut off communication with their laid off reportees. My manager was in touch with me on a personal note all of last week after I was impacted, but is now MIA; won’t respond to my calls or texts. This is my first time being laid off (my postpartum brain isn’t helping me think straight). My manager was once my coworker at Nike and we always had a good relationship outside the office, so I am trying to understand if there has been an explicit directive by Nike leadership to not be in touch with laid off employees.

I was told by my manager that SAP is launching a global AI adoption program and will track the usage of LLMs and other AI features on SAP products. They plan to coincide the launch with Sapphire so there will also be a big buzz about it. I bluntly asked if this is going to be used to determine one's performance and my manager said yes. Apparently, we are all supposed to use AI as much as possible in our day to day work and improve efficiency and productivity by doing more work in less time. Our area is deciding to add an area level performance goal that everyone contributes to but we are also asked to include AI in our other goals.

I really don't get it. Yes, I find AI somewhat useful in my work especially if I am researching something. But NO it is not gamechanging to my work. I feel so disappointed by this move that I plan to only use AI but not get work done because no one cares about work anymore and all they care about AI adoption. I feel like we are training our replacements. If AI is useful, why does management need to force everyone to use it?

Half of our management can't even use AI because they are too old school and because they only use German in emails and chats and conversations and AI is somewhat useless in German. Is this also happening in other areas now?

It's TACO Tuesday...
T - Take
A - Away
C - Careers...&
O - Outsource to India

Hooray!

Less than a couple years ago, this stock was above $200 per share. Now, it's a little above $70 USD. Looks like there's been several key executive exits, a number of cost-cuts, layoffs appear commonplace at the line level, and the big one - a lack of topline growth. Other than some strong opinions about layers upon layers upon layers of management protecting management - the culture continues to appear as a bright light. That's a good sign, right? What's your take here? Time for a position...or time to wait it out...or keep walking? Is this company a value or a value trap?

Hey all, here again. My long tenured role within capital one was not fairly compensated. Amidst my rapid, unjust departure, all I was provided for years of high level work was a cheap necklace from capital one. It’s actually broken and is being held together by my hope and dreams crushed by capital one and their toxic work environment. A cheap necklace is the embodiment of capital one as a company.

I should NOT have to watch a video on how to get time off entered. Why the he-l do we only have videos for training??? This is actually dog sh-t

Interesting take from Mastroberti Consulting.

Unfortunately, it fails to mention the cultural rot within the company and lack of leadership.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nike-branding-leadership-ugcPost-7456417724651593728-rd-P?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAPVOD8BUne0BRo2Kmc4QJlwiay3bWEfCtI

And it’s freaking me out. Maybe most folks just live under a rock or are so numb / broken from being bossed around from the overlords up the chain that this just seems normal!! Either way it’s freaking me out. I feel like I am in some weird dystopian universe…