#culture

Seems like it will only last a moment
Then bye-bye

Supervisors in the US are told each year to rank the BTC expats in the USA high and push down the American workers. Happening in Houston, Midland, and Carlsbad.

My biggest regret is how long I stayed somewhere that made me feel like I was constantly doing something wrong. My new job pays better and I have actual freedom to do my work without someone picking apart my every expression or move. The constant intimidation is gone, and I didn't realize how much it was affecting me until I got away from it. Sometimes leaving really is the answer.

I forgot how much noise, how much constant chatter, how many distractions there are at the office. I swear I was half as productive on the RTO days than I was when working from home, and I know there are many others in the same boat. Can somebody explain to me the logic of intentionally crippling the productivity of your entire workforce?

We spend so much time starting things that never actually get completed. By the time we're getting somewhere, management has usually decided we're doing something else.

We used to be an American institution. Working here was a dream for many. Now, all we know are plant closures and layoffs. Those who can find something else are leaving in droves, and I can't even blame them. It's so sad to see an American icon fall so low in such a short time.

I didn't realize how much people hate this place before I started sharing where I work.

They agree with each other, defend each other, and somehow always seem to land on the same side of every decision. If you're outside that group, getting anyone to seriously consider your idea is a different story. I've seen genuinely useful suggestions get dismissed without much discussion. Then someone from the inner circle says something similar later and suddenly everyone thinks it's a great idea.

After seeing that happen enough times, you start wondering why you bother speaking up. It's not that there aren't smart people here with good ideas. It's that the right people aren't always the ones being listened to. Eventually people get tired of fighting that battle and just keep their thoughts to themselves. And that's how things continue going in the wrong direction.

The people who get promoted fastest are the ones who know how to impress their bosses. Actual expertise and the ability to lead people don't matter much. Sad but very true.

Leadership seemed convinced that getting rid of expensive senior employees would give the company a fresh start. Then they started bringing in younger workers and to nobody's shock, they didn't magically fix the bigger problems inside the company. Instead, they made it worse because so much institutional knowledge was lost. And now they want to do it again. Id--ts.

I have had this experience. Told the obvious truth and was reprimanded for not being a team player. They wanted to keep the lie alive so they could be promoted. Company spends a lot of money, time, and effort keeping lies alive so that the chosen ones can be promoted. We would be much more profitable if they would quit working on these lies.

https://youtube.com/shorts/WlQ3ZOgWfnU?is=0it6Te-s-v9lYnMj

There are plenty of opportunities here if you count favoritism, being used, and watching other people get ahead. Leadership can lie or retaliate and somehow never seems to face any consequences.

If you believe in working hard, helping your team, and learning from mistakes, you're probably going to have a rough time here. Mistakes get held against people, while micromanaging and corrective action seem to be the main culture.

The company I joined years ago feels like a completely different place now. Everyone seems exhausted, and the constant threat of discipline has people scared to do anything wrong. I've got a master's degree in a field that's usually in demand, but I've applied for 14 jobs and barely gotten any response. I'd leave too if I could find somewhere to go.

With another reorg reportedly on the horizon (an annual fall ritual at this point), I wanted to share a few observations from peers and colleagues as events unfold. For those hoping this will lead to a major cultural reset at Comcast, the outcome may be more limited. The new CEO appears to be seeking input from the same executives and senior leaders who helped create the current problems. If those leaders remain after the reorg, they are likely to continue causing damage. That may not be what people want to hear, but it seems like the most likely outcome. Comcast is risk-averse, and while many companies use new executive leadership as a chance to clean house, that does not appear likely here.

Outside consultants may help with the mechanics of restructuring, but meaningful change will require leadership to hear directly from employees. Feedback from executives who have been here for years should be weighed carefully, especially if they contributed to the culture that now needs fixing. The new CEO needs to recognize that toxic and ineffective leadership has persisted because there have been few real consequences for the people responsible. Until that changes, Comcast will keep treating symptoms instead of addressing the root causes.

Agile at f5 isn't dead because it never was there

https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-employers-for-tech-workers/

SAS (#1 and #2 in the Great Place to Work survey a few years ago) didn't make the top 300 this year. Maybe the layoffs and uncertainty about the company's future are dragging it down.

On a scale from "mildly incompetent" to "couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel."

VP for our org is based in India and has used these layoffs as pretext to totally decimate US employees.

He treats few remaining US employees as contractors and not part of his team.

IDC employees as "us" and US employees as "them" .

The product was incepted by the US employees when the VP never existed and slowly over time most of the US employees have been laid with systemic knowledge transfer.

Now the product has become a Sh-t show.

we have managers, directors, vp’s that do not even know the purpose and what it does, a cpu, gpu, cuda, or even a workload

The biggest problem I've seen here is how much management avoids saying what they actually mean. The person who hired me back in 2008 was like that, and every team I moved to seemed to have another version of the same thing. It didn't matter who was running the group, the higher up you went, the more obvious it became. By the time you get to the VP level, it feels like nobody wants to take responsibility for anything.

I've never worked somewhere where so many decisions seem to make absolutely no sense. People will point out obvious problems with their reasoning and leadership just keeps going anyway. The latest VSPs and involuntary layoffs combo are the best example. We're being run by id--ts.

I used to think Florida was considered a strong growth market for the bank. Seems like it collapsed after putting the short heavy set guy that looks like Alan from The Hangover in charge. Anyone have any insight into that market? Are there constant resignations? Noone wants to work there? What is going on?

it had some good inputs - who is the mod ?

I don't know exactly when things changed, but IBM feels nothing like it used to. People are exhausted, nobody has much enthusiasm anymore, nobody seems interested in anything, and the old sense that everyone was in it together is gone. We used to actually enjoy seeing each other and working together. Now everyone's just trying to get through the day. I miss the old IBM.

I've finally realized that doing a good job doesn't protect you here at all. The worst part isn't even offshore teams, it's the local managers and coworkers who dump their mess on everyone else and somehow never get held responsible. They expect everyone underneath them to work themselves into the ground while they get to look good and collect their bonuses. I'm just tired of playing that game.

Please tell me while we were sitting in this smelly, stuffy office, they were not out hauling purple flags to the top of a mountain. Why go all the way to California where there are no Truist banks? They really could have done all that at Stone Mountain in Atlanta, or King's Mountain in Charlotte!

This company is a joke.

I’m surprised nobody posted this article.

https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/verizon-ceo-dan-schulman-describes-himself-pretty-intense-guy

Little Secret: WF abuses the best & promotes the worst.

I don’t get this ft rto for some but not for all its arbitrary and unfair
So bc our area has the space we get to slog into Boston with our costly commute while other areas that likely cost less to commute get to wfh?!?
How does that build collaboration knowing some of your colleagues sets up a phone meeting just as you would like to leave for your commute all the while they’re sitting on their 🫏 at home with NO COMMUTE?!!!
How is THAT not a hostile work environment?!?
Yea I’m po’d

Nuff said

You are all out of your mind nothing but good news happened. Raises. Better insurance. Free prime. No more JDs for regular TM just automatically 5% you all panicked for nothing don't you all feel stupid now because you should bunch of panicans

Please Stay. Not because life is beautiful, but because this moment isn’t the whole story.

Recall the crew that faked productivity, spun up fake emergencies only they could fix, and blocked AI progress with overblown credentials?

Well, I don't since they are all mostly gone. Good deal!

Why is song or whatever they now call it becoming dumping ground for id--ts flunk out of VP jobs elsewhere?

I was in a meeting this week and 40% of those in the room were principal engineers or senior principal engineers. Collectively they knew zero about what was being discussed. There was me and one other person who actually understood the technical details. After the meeting he shared that he too had been rocketed to the bottom of the assessments.

Good luck to all once you get rid of those of us who actually understand oil and gas.

eom

Did he really just dismiss the empty formalities or he no longer cares to pretend that he cares?

We new employees have been meeting and chatting on other sites and with each other. Now that most of us have started working here, we agree with the current employees. The leaders here are terrible and the company is highly dysfunctional and there is no way we are busting our a-s for this broken place. The executives don't have a clue and show us things and decisions that we learned in business 101 that you never do. Many of us are already looking for other jobs and wondering how all of you decided to stay here as long as you did. It is a testament to your efforts because there is no fu--ing way we would. So let me speak for most of us new guys in saying we apologize and you were all right. CDW su-ks and is not an honest nor caring company to anyone.

what a shyte show!

never been part of such disastrous, dysfunctional, unorganized place in my 30 years of corporate sales.