#culture

AT&T stock is down over 15% this year, and John Stinkey’s big priority is forcing employees into the office five days a week and tracking our hours like we’re his fu-k!ng prisoners. Apparently, badge swipes matter more than results.

Meanwhile, he dismissed SpaceX as “not viable,” and now SpaceX is reportedly pursuing access to 80,000 cell sites to build a potential nationwide wireless competitor. AT&T can beat earnings expectations and still watch its stock get hammered as investors worry about competition and the company’s future while stink laughs it off. Maybe the market is trying to tell us something, M0r0n John

You can’t preach a “market-based culture” built on capability, contribution, and commitment while treating employees like children and obsessing over attendance instead of competing and saying things like “loyalty is dead”. If leadership wants accountability, start at the top.

Stop policing employees and start running the fu--ing business. Resign.

Do you know how to order a coffee? Soft skill.
Can you say "hi" to another person? You have soft skills!
Can you say "lev-er-age" ? What about "cap-it-u-late"? "Cir-cle-back?" Soft skills!

I recently realized that pointing out an obvious mistake can cause more trouble than the mistake itself. How did we get to the point where leadership cares more about status and keeping people happy than getting things right?

I thought the most important thing was IN-PERSON collaboration?? I guess it's important enough to eliminate WFH but not important enough to pay for a team to actually be in person in one place?

How am I supposed to inspire and build better lives and communities in these conditions?

Boy, Dell must really be getting their feelings hurt, especially JC. Lots of posts deleted in the past week.

We’re always waiting for the 1 very not available VP or SVP to bless a decision because they won’t let an AVP or SD make basic decisions.

Been hearing whispers of an increased focus on dress code. Then a subtle link to the appearance policy in an email this morning. Curious how much more this sadistic hr department can tighten the sc--ws.

Your medical benefits contributions.
Medical contributions are based on your salary. Fiserv embraces the philosophy that associates who earn more will pay more than associates who earn less. This is Fiserv embracing the socialist idea of income redistribution. The more you're worth, the more you have to lose at Fiserv.

Performance reviews often feel like a joke when the feedback collected through 360-degree reviews is overridden by the lead, without adequately considering input from other internal and external team members. HR should be present in these discussions as a neutral party to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability. Assigning ratings based on tenure in a role rather than actual performance undermines the entire purpose of the review process. Such practices raise serious concerns about the fairness and integrity of the performance evaluation system.

Does anyone actually run this company? And what do they do all day?

In the last 48 hrs this board went from people sharing and looking for real info to remote vs. office and sales vs. ops. Meanwhile leadership is reading this over drinks at the Four Seasons with McKinsey, laughing.

We argue over BS while they make their moves.

Pathetic

What if every terminated Comcast employee, as a result of this unprecedented round of layoffs, refused to use any of Comcast services once terminated? Part of this has got to be for that bump in stock price that all the soul-less tech companies are doing/have done. How much of an impact to you think it would have? Let's say of the 180k workforce they lost 100k of subscribers in the month of Nov? (Arbitrary numbers folks, no insider info into the actual amount of layoffs.)

If their actions contradict what they say, you're being lied to. It's that simple!

They say they want to have the best network and delight customers. They say they are bursting at the seams with integrity and they're dedicated to treating employees fairly.

Do their actions support these lofty statements? In my experience they do not and it's not even close.

For anyone early in their career, I'd seriously consider other options before settling in here. A job should help you develop, not leave you feeling worn down and stuck. I've seen the enthusiasm people start with disappear over time. There are many, many other places where your ambition might be put to better use.

I called $125 on this site in May. I have reinforced that position on my call several times since then. And, here we are: $125.54 at the close - before 11/1.

The next earnings call will set the tone going forward. Eiher we have hit a stabilization period or entered a continued era and a slide into bankruptcy and restructuring. What's more the 'traditional software business' especially in the old GIU's is under sverve competitive attack. Those businesses will die and be replaced over the next 5 years.

Political favoritisim, escorting key talent out of the building, and lack of market and domain understanding have served you well. Pure stupidity and a complete failure of leadership at almost every level.

Well done Oracle - Well done indeed.

Good morning Waters family! Umm what the fu-k am I saying? We are but only numbers to the people in charge!
You may think the waters experience can be grating, annoying, and downright depressing at times but let me enlighten you, all vendors are one inbred dysfunctional family!

Now I have wanted to jump ship from here lately and I have called my colleagues who have gone to the dark side. They tell me

The good!

Better pay. If that’s all you care about go on!

The bad!

Worse politics than here!
Elitist management clueless directors and senior directors who want to own you, and will never promote you
Cultish behavior to be lean!
Leadership is absolute trash!

The Citi Workplace app is crashing after the latest iOS update. Download it and try booking your seats. When you can’t book one, you’ll have the perfect excuse not to come into the office next week.

Honestly, this organization is so stupid.

I was let go over a year ago, and it took a while to get my footing back. I’m so much happier where I am now. UKG is all sizzle and no steak. They have a fake-it until you make-it approach to business. A ruthless private equity firm calls the shots, and phony agnostic puppets in their offices execute the orders, This place lost its soul years ago.

That's what Srini will do to the value of your company.

If your tl scheduled a " mandatory team meeting " for the middle of your day off would you go?

Time to quit this place, trust me it is he-l if you jave a conscience. Everyone in higher management is pushing fantasy projects and then forcing their orgs to comply, it hurts the brain if you have any, the level of stupidity.

The severance package gave me some financial breathing room when I was laid off, but it hasn't made the experience feel any less personal. I cared about the work and gave PepsiCo years of my life. Being let go with almost no acknowledgment has left a bad taste that the money can't erase.

how the heck is our country letting a key infustructor be controlled from out side the country

I doubt they'd be able to to anything. Certainly not creating value.

Be careful, this website is owned by Ford HR and they monitor all messages. My messages are being deleted and they only keep messages that they approve. You've been warned.

AVP of Ops is moving to AVP of People. How bad is it in the Adnone world people leave to be in HR. New person will come in thinking they can make a difference only to be told they can't hire, do more work less, but get UTE to 99% and NPS over 50. Eventually turning into a shell of their previously hi- potential career

Hi all,

Newish employee here in a non technical role on a non technical team. Would appreciate any serious guidance on how layoffs tend to work at Cisco, and who is typically most at risk based on grade level, etc.

The protection racket around certain incompetent managers has gone on way too long. Hopefully that shield is finally starting to crack and accountability starts mattering more than decades old relationships and loyalties

Well....Skullcandy is now owned by Bose. Wonder how this is all going to fall out? Bose already had a small group in Utah.

I'm so sick on this AI Slop they keep pushing. They expect us to do in 1 month what previously took 6, while they can't even keep their servers online. I actually LIKE AI, and I use it daily, but they want to replace functional workflows and GOOD harnesses with hallucinated slop so they can throw around words like "agentic". How about we replace these SVPs with agents, we might actually be able to get stuff done. Maybe then leadership might actually be able to provide direction for once

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Hey John, if you read this, how about considering some accountability for your actions and decisions and leadership? You were right there losing $30B because of DirecTV. You led the $40B lots of Warner, which then appears to have recovered it's losses when it was then sold again. You might not have been the primary person, but you were in leadership were you could have affected the loss of $4B payout for not closing the T-Mobile deal and the billions lost in Mexico. Instead of saying the analysts don't understand, we don't have the right culture, customers haven't caught on yet, the other guys from ten years ago are an at fault, how about acknowledging what you did and how the company would look very different without all those losses.

Who the f**k designed this abomination? Was it the CEOs kids?

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The chaos was understandable directly after the spinoff but what’s the excuse now? Processes change constantly, they’re inconsistent and inefficient. God forbid you bring it up to management, they just gaslight you into everything being your fault. There’s no curiosity to understand the issue much less resolve it. Customers are leaving our platform due to frustrating support experiences. Partners are frustrated working with us because of our ridiculous quoting process. Every tiny ask is met with resistance. Not to mention, I haven’t had any cost of living increases, no merit increases, nothing. They routinely reduce our 401k match.

Omnissa is lucky the job market is awful right now otherwise half this company would be gone.

We are officially in the doom spiral!

Welcome to North Korea, aka, Goosehead Insurance. 1min late? Written up. Leave right at 5? Threatened with a write up. They just had a major layoff on the tech side. Some new cto came in and one side lied about the other so bad to the new cto it got all of them laid off (80 people) and now they haven't done any work in two months because they dont know what they are doing. 100 million dollar public company has its tech and software development side ran by 20 year olds now. Its really really bad now. Service side we are getting it too. Unreasonable changes to us to. Oh and no meeting Wednesdays? I guess they only ment that for the c suite people on the 5th floor. Cause they just call them huddles on Wednesday lmao Place is a joke I heard tech side app called da or something only does like 3 binds a week and they are scrambling to sell more