#culture

Business is tanking. Products are not inspiring. Leaders are performative

Where have those quarterly surveys gone I wonder?

I started in 2010 under the Rust years. The golden years of State Farm. Ed treated every employee like family. I worked in the old Mid America Zone and boy were we treated right. I had coworkers in the Murfreesboro and Newark offices who loved coming in. I knew people in Kalamazoo and Winter Haven who were working when Ed Sr still ran the place.

Fast forward to Tipsord. We knew he was going to change things, but he didn’t hide it. He knew what he wanted and despite the old culture pushing back and keeping him in check - after COVID he at least had some respect for us (although more likely he knew he was retiring soon and didn’t care anymore).

Now we have Farney. He’s been with the company for decades. Several soon to be retirees thought (as I did) that he’d bring back the golden era (or at least something akin to it). Boy were we all wrong. Everything that comes out of this man’s mouth is ‘we do it because our competitors do’. What happened to the State Farm that led this industry? What happened to the State Farm that treated customers like neighbors because executives treated employees like family?

It’s a sad day when people in the HUBs have to go in office more when 40% of the workforce gets to work from home full time. This company isn’t State Farm anymore and honestly I hope this year shows the board that the current C suite is not equipped to be leaders.

Today we were allowed to bring our kids to the office in Lake Mary
Total fiasco, no one did.
Who would bring a kid to this he-l? Lol
It really worries me how clueless these people are.

Windstream/Kinetic employee here looking for advice or feedback on all your former leaders coming over here. They are not making friends and ripping the company that we spent nearly a decade building apart. They have come in like a wrecking ball and it seems if you are not part of their inner circle then you don’t mean anything to them. They might be smart folks but their people skills are awful and the only opinions they care about are their buddies they brought over. Are you happy they are gone or do you miss them? Help me understand my future lol

and among those upper/middle managers trying to claw their way up the ranks and leaving a trail of bodies. Too many a$$holes agreeing to whatever they think their higher ups want to hear. Of course, pointing to whatever is convenient to blame when their plan doesn't work.

The leadership of the outpatient UM team needs a rehaul. They don’t know the operations or business well enough to be in those positions and it’s like a high school clique. No room for feedback and snotty bullying like a bunch of mean girls. I’m surprised with all the changes they haven’t used this as an opportunity to get some talent in there.

It's in the air. You see it in how people walk, how they talk, how they avoid eye contact with certain managers. Everyone is afraid. Afraid of being next. Afraid of speaking up. Afraid of a bad review that could lead to a PIP that could lead to being walked out. That's the culture at Exxon.

Not some. All of it.

This place is garbage. The employees are mediocre at best. I don't respect a single person I've worked with here. If you want no growth and endless politics for a decade, this is your spot.

Oooooh, they went for the talk show format! Cringe-worthy.

Wow!!! Blamed to managers .

What a tool

Not the workers, not the managers. Why would we? Innovation isn't rewarded. Improvement isn't noticed. So everyone just does what they've always done and nothing ever gets better.

It feels like we've hit rock bottom.

I don’t know why people think results will make a difference. At AT&T, layoffs happen regardless. Good results, mediocre ones, bad ones, it doesn’t matter. They’re just part of how things work here.

Come to Intel if you want your career to flatline. That's what happens these days.

Let’s see how this goes!!

We were a smaller bank that loved its people. Like the year we all donated 2 days of vacation to save employees from being laid-off? Or the time we took stock options instead of a full bonus or when you could still volunteer at your church, helping the homeless with bags of food and clothing and count that as a volunteer day, or when we respected women leaders and promoted them, or when RD said he knew we were the best bankers and to go out and prove it - and we did! Q after Q!

In the last year we have lost so many benefits, our self-esteem, Clients, our edge, our talent. Just chip, chip away until us seasoned, experienced worker bees (remember when it was ok to not WANT to step over dead bodies to save your job and you could just have pride in what you did) leave for greener fields.

I appreciate growth, promotion, and working hard to get there. I have won numerous awards at USB for top sales, but one day you just realize the top tier cancer has eaten too much of the good to outweigh the bad and you know there is no treatment for the cancer and so you abandon the host and find a new clean place to do your best and give your all and grow. I can't believe the number of people leaving and then taking all their top talent with them. You think a LTI loss forced signature is going to stop them? The new banks have already given them a sign-on bonus that took that pain away.

We used to be amazing for our Clients, employees, partners, vendors and now all we are is painful to watch.

Yes, I am leaving for a new job and so I can say all this, but I grew up in this family and it is hard to watch and extremely hard to leave my siblings behind.

Did everyone take their 10 minute survey and let management know how swell everything's going? Love the continous gaslighting from 1st level management to cull the remaining workforce that they could not get rid of. Lumen, the AI informers, were forced into another contract to get the NetCo sale pushed through regulatory approvals. They will use the remaining workforce, for the next 3 yrs, until they quit, die, retire or shut the lights off on themselves! Oh, and there will be layoffs along the way. They are not marketing, offering any NEW product and all of a sudden care about the "few" customers out there that really need us... yet talk about strategic abandonment based on Financials that we do not even have a grasp of yet! But let's go everybody, why are you not excited with the New GCO org and all the great things were planning? Silly Lumen, you gave away all your influenced employees with the recent sale, now your left with the seasoned veterans... let the games begin

I’ve been noticing some serious “entrepreneurial spirit” in the company lately and I just wanted to check in. in my team "work from home" now feels like everyone quietly running a startup out of their kitchen table while their MS Team stays open for decoration.

one colleague is “on a call” all day says he ships ten dropship orders before lunch like a 1 person warehouse. another always says he is “deep in the spreadsheets” while dogsitting his neighbors 2 golden retrievers always clocking out at 3 to touch grass.
another one takes “quick coffee breaks” to turn in three content videos and 2 brand replies before his latte is gone. another guy says he’s in consulting and he is on call most day. still not sure who pays his tab. DXC or his consulting business that somehow has more clients than his unit in DXC.

if you need me I’ll be “in a meeting” steaming vintage jackets for my fast growing online resale empire. dx c is starting to feel like a hobby at this point. peanuts money for zero effort so I’ll take that deal all day.

What’s your real income stream, since clearly it’s not DXC??

Our org is now a complete mess , and the workload is becoming insane, they are running everywhere without a clear plan and throw it all on IC workers , what about you how is it going ?

never seen this before

Watching L3Harris Technologies lay off its strongest performers over the past few years—the very people who held the mission together—was a turning point for me.
Leadership continues to celebrate costly tools and strategies that never deliver, while overlooking the voices of their workforce and customers. Millions spent on buzzwords and consultants, yet the foundation—people, trust, products execution—was neglected.
Across the prime contractor landscape, instability like this doesn’t go unnoticed. Contracts may be won in the short term, but they erode quickly when customer confidence declines.
Why would employees stay fully invested when they’re operating in constant fear of losing their jobs? Performance isn’t consistently rewarded—and too often, those who stand out become targets instead of leaders.
This industry is demanding, but this outcome wasn’t inevitable—it was self-inflicted. The only thing disrupted was itself.
I miss the work and the people. I don’t miss a culture where talent is disposable and accountability is absent.
Morale isn’t optional—it’s mission critical. For the outstanding workforce there is better out there, it takes time but you will find a place where your voice matters.

Is anyone else being told to train their AI replacement?

“Wrong is wrong, unless it helps
You.”

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I can say with full confidence these have been the worst three years of my career.

Working for a large tech company isn't the job utopia it once was. In addition to worrying about layoffs and the constant threat of AI, Meta workers will soon have all their mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes logged by the company. What's likely to further annoy workers is the purpose for these keyloggers: to train Meta's AI agents so they can perform work tasks.

https://www.techspot.com/news/112143-meta-record-employee-screens-clicks-keystrokes-train-ai.html

Is anybody else really fu--ing tired of it?

This was a genuinely good place not long ago. The last three years have been a steady decline. Culture, pay and benefits, job security, all sliding. Now I've completely lost faith things will ever improve again.

It kind of su-ks to watch several Disney presentations and see the company boasting of breaking so many financial records and then turn around to see thousands of your coworkers gone. Knowing it wasn't necessary but simply common greed makes it feel even worse.

You'd have a bad quarter, they'd cut a bunch of people, then things would be quiet for a while. That's not how it works anymore. Now the notifications go out almost every week. Someone new gets the call. Someone new clears out their desk. Every single week. It's not a wave anymore, it's a constant drip. How did we let it come to this?

When layoffs were occasional, the culture and morale were good, and we were doing better than most of competitors? Good times.

I spent years trying to earn a promotion and the bonuses that come with it. Every time I got close, something changed. The metrics shifted, the requirements increased, or the timeline got extended. At first I thought it was bad luck but then I noticed the pattern. They moved the goalposts on purpose. They kept me just close enough to keep trying but never close enough to actually get there. If anybody is wondering, I never got the promotion and I wasted years chasing targets that were designed to move. Now my main focus is to find something else so I can leave.

If we don't change quickly, we're finished. If we change in the wrong direction, we're also finished. So either way, we're finished.

I think we've slipped down almost to the bottom of the list, judging by the quality of new hires.

Absolutely no point in taking the survey or participating in anything Chevron related. Its a completely dead company so who cares. Back to operation bare minimum effort!!!

I have been laid off after more than 20 years as a physician. It was a huge shock, with no warning—just an invitation to a Teams meeting! Inhumane! On the other hand, it was a relief after working nonstop in a horrible, toxic environment and wondering every day how much longer I could tolerate it. If you still work at Optum/WellMed clinic-leave!—do yourself a favor and don’t waste your time waiting for the next layoff.