#culturerot

The Gores believed in "no leadership without followership." The leadership team is such a corporate joke anymore, that no one has even said the word "Followership" in YEARS.

Bob Gore said, "ANY associate should be able to approach Bob Gore and say, 'I think what you are proposing is not fair.' And Bob Gore better listen - or he is not much of a leader." Now the company is full of yes men and corporate robots. You cannot question anything without being fired. Performance Improvement Plans or PIPs were always meant to guide associates, not to push them out as the first option. Not with this leadership regime.

The message is very clear, "get in line, or get out." In fact, Brett Snyder said that in the botched "Culture Refresh" after they gutted the Core Tech Division. It was not a refresh, it was a warning: "This is the way it is and you can leave if you don't like it." That was shortly after many of our work family were laid off or let go. Extremely tone deaf.

They want to 3X the value of the company so badly, but no one believes in it. No one understands how it will be done. Leadership just blindly repeats it over and over. The turn over rate is crazy high and the average tenure has dropped dramatically. Who is going to be left to celebrate 3X with them?

The heart and culture that made Gore special is completely gone. It now truly is just like every other corporate place to work with useless management - AND terrible technology.

Relying on vibe coding??? Fu-k off with that. This used to be a serious place, now it's a joke.

One board member has ties to M&Co.
Five executives have ties to Wp.
At least One executive has ties to M&Co.

I cannot stand some of these executives. The smirks on their ugly selfless faces make me sick.

This is the most pathetic executive team of Gp’s existence and this is how they want to treat their employees. It would NOT surprise me for them to just let people know on Christmas Day they are out of a job or sign with Infosys.

Yeah think about that Cameron.

Jeff Sloan
Paul Garcia

They had at least a conscience. The current cast of characters I don’t know wtf they are on.

This may come in handy for those who suddenly come across this type of manipulation from a toxic manager, and how to recognize it happening to them: if you out of nowhere start getting feedback that you aren't using the best time management or aren't prioritizing your time well (even if you aren't missing deadlines); that should be your cue that they either want to throw more onto your plate with no compensation or level change OR that you are on your way to being managed out. If your past reviews were stellar or above average - and you didn't see this coming - also take that as a warning that they want you out. And they will use several means to accomplish that.

According to Google AI: Gaslighting employees into believing they are bad at time management is a manipulative tactic where an organization or manager shifts the blame for systemic dysfunction, unclear strategies, or unmanageable workloads onto the individual's personal skills. Instead of addressing poor planning, understaffing, or shifting priorities (which are constant here at TGT), leaders push mandatory time management workshops or imply the employee just needs to "work smarter" (to deflect accountability from the huge mess we are at the leadership level). We all know about the goalposts being moved constantly - needing for TMs to have to work weekends to meet the deadlines. Don't let them gaslight you into thinking you su-k at your job. It's them, not you. Management and leaders always avoid admitting a lack of coherent business strategy or resource allocation by making you feel inadequate.

It definitely does a number on your psyche; and you start developing imposter syndrome. Don't give in. Start looking for a new job. The culture has changed significantly at the Bullseye; and it make take years to repair. Hope this PSA is helpful to anyone currently there.

BTW, HR is not there to help you with this. They are not your friend. Once you start complaining about workload (whether to your boss or through those "anonymous" surveys), they will see to it that you are no longer there.

LOL, "double-speak" at its best

Managers / Directors over here collecting big pay checks. While their workforce is doing all the work. They sit in a meeting with uppers, but can’t help their own team out. Why do we even need them, when the team relies on each other and the Next level above them for help? Come on Comcast get your spy googles out and dig deeper. Some of the frontline need their jobs. While these higher paid are sitting at home or traveling with their families acting like they taking care of their teams. All the frontline is watching them do this. They have even worked their way to skew the RTO. Wish I had that type job. Some even are using Sedgwick excuses. Sad to watch the folks that are on chopping block, while these others out here learned to skirt the system.

I’ve been a tech for 38 years and I have to say this is the worst I have seen it. What a shambles this place is in. Managers living in fear of being canned on a daily basis, rudderless at the top, people sitting behind desks following techs around with GPS and nitpicking every little thing they do, every department is disjointed and disorganized. It’s a sad state of affairs. Wishing everyone the best during this insane time.

Ever since I joined this circus of a company 15 or so years ago I have been treated badly. From day one I had haters ploting and talking bad about me. One if the engineers told me wow you really are helpfull and nice. I asked why he said that and was told someone told him I was bad news. Every thing I did was questioned and challenged. I had to fight hard to improve things and inovate. I fought back and was labled a trouble maker. I was piped in my ninth year and I believe it was for pointing out mistakes the group was making. I barley passed the pip and was warned not to make any more waves if I knew what was good for me. I bit my tounge for the past few years and managed to stay afloat. I was offered a move that was supposed to advance my caerer and I had no choice. I was moved into a more dysfunctional competitive group that was pure he-l. No one helped, conversated or interacted with me. It was very cut throat and evil. I dropped to ni last year and to nsi pip this year. I was told bluntly by the supervisor there was no way for me to pass the pip and I should take the pil or retire. I told the sup I wanted to try the pip and they reluctatly started it. The pip was impossible with changing metrics and objectives. I have till early december to complete the pip. I will retire and leave this he-l hole before then. I found out that I was moved in oreder to get rid of me. My former supervisor conspired with my new group to set me up to fail. It was all planned from the beginning. Exxon is an evil corporation and the employees are the worst types of humans. I barely made it to retirement and my enemies did not want me to make it. My 15 years at exxon have been the worst experience of my life. Itv was even worse than my divorce and battle with cancer. At least my lawyer and doctors were on my side. Exxon has been nothing but misery to me from the start to the end. My payout is a measly 310k from the pension because of the intrest rate. I hate exxon with all my heart and soul.

Who do you send examples to that your first line isn’t capable to run your team. I get this place is falling apart but there has to be some outlet to at least provide examples to get to his boss.

Literally disgusting behavior. Our director does not travel for work he just chooses to do whatever he wants while treating the team like garbage. Half the time he is god knows where calling in on his cellphone and sending IMs rushing you on stuff when he doesn’t even go to the office and does what we he pleases. He doesn’t even have to login on his computer and just calls in on his cell phone but he tells us to have nonstop clicking and keystroke 8+ hours a day and to bring our computers everywhere.

And yes he is exactly the ethnicity you are guessing. Also he is a bald faced liar. He shared a deck that our cycle time was 5 days to leadership when in actuality it is 2 months and they ate it up. Team is a disaster as he’s constantly playing games, laying random people odd, then hiring new people and re-org every few months. Literally an example of the type of rotten ‘leadership’ that had made this place a joke. I’m so tried of liars and conmen like this.

They are literally ki-ling with unwanted questions in the name of customers and customers really don’t care about this company

Soon this company will be sh-t place

We need to get rid of all the paper pushers, PowerPoint warriors, all the useless managers with less than a handful of people to manage, and so many more. Give us layoffs! Just make sure to get rid of the right people for once.

Not sure but I see all the good and technically very sound people got laid off one by one And the really d-mb managers, directors, senior directors and the bootlicking Engineers are still there .

Comcast will go to Gutter in just near future

I'm dealing with two directors who are making this place absolutely miserable. One of them keeps trying to claim my work as his own, like I won't notice or something, and the other one spends all her time tearing down what other teams accomplish just so his looks better by comparison. It's so petty and draining, and I'm getting sick of watching good work get buried just because some people can't stand not being the center of attention.

Its literally just a vendor solution that they wrapped around Copilot.

Its a joke.

The fact that our leaders think that this Pixel cr-p will lead us to the promised land where Codex and Claude Code couldnt is wild. Shows how incompetent they are, and that no one is checking their work, even if they waste BILLIONS of dollars.

felt like put it out here. Guessing all competent people been laid off, and the left over cr-p is what we dealing with.

Every day gets more and more painful under this old geriatric clown who ran a printer company into the ground.

You're exhausted from years of surviving. There's a difference. Get out if you can.

The really sad part is that Aramco's competence could have been maintained by spending just a fraction of this amount. Current low salaries bring in a tiny fraction of good people along with a huge fraction of bad, for both locals and expats. Of course most of the good people don't stay long. All of this leaves out the fact that good people tend to attract more good people while bad people attract more bad people. Combine this with the fact that Aramco is really being run people in the government who thought Neom was a good idea in the first place. It look the Americans 30 years to build Aramco's culture, and the current regime has managed to tear it down in less than 10 years. Its only a matter of time before this bleeds through into something terrible that management can't cover up.

Comcast was basically a utility that was overstaffed for many years. It has been full of bureaucracy and political nonsense that was masked by what seemed to be a never ending revenue stream, regardless of poor guest service. Now that they are losing and revenues have plummeted, that same leadership team that built that bloated bureaucracy has no idea how to manage through it. Now their company leaders want to tell the staff in a town hall that they haven’t done a good job - maybe you should look in the mirror and at your VPs - show some actual leadership and accept responsibility for how poorly your company has been led down this path. You pride yourself on eNPS - it starts at the top with the SVPs taking ownership of their own failures. Good luck.

Since Dan Griffith has joined he has slowly made life miserable for the Tech teams.
Under the current modernization strategy, sudden organizational shifts and budget cuts have created an unstable environment.
• Hiring freezes and roadblocks make it incredibly difficult for highly integrated vendor staff to transition to permanent, direct-hire roles.
• Resource constraints mean remaining teams are stretched thin, handling heavier workloads with less structural support.
Work culture has eroded gradually due to unreasonable demands from the CTO. I remember when this used to be a fun place to work!

Congratulations to our executive leadership team on successfully driving our stock into previously unimaginable territory.

Who could possibly have predicted that eliminating enormous portions of the workforce—including experienced employees from highly profitable business units—while aggressively replacing institutional knowledge with cheaper, inadequately trained offshore resources from a less than reputable company might eventually have consequences?

Apparently, decimating staff levels, increasing workloads, degrading service quality, frustrating clients, destroying institutional knowledge, and asking the remaining employees to enthusiastically embrace the whole thing as a "transformation" isn't the foolproof recipe for shareholder value we were promised.

The truly impressive accomplishment, though, may be the culture.

It's difficult to imagine how you could create a more demoralizing environment if you actually set out to do it. Employees get to wake up every morning wondering which department will be dismantled next, which colleague will disappear, which function will be outsourced, and which new corporate initiative will explain why all of this is actually fantastic news.

Nothing inspires engagement quite like watching competent people leave while everyone remaining is asked to do more with less—and smile appreciatively because someone put the word "strategic" in front of it. Have you noticed we've started to lose some of our best voluntarily?

So, genuine question for those who have escaped:

Has anyone left and landed somewhere that actually pays better, values experience, and doesn't make opening your laptop every morning feel like you're volunteering for a psychological endurance experiment?

Asking for everyone outside of the SLT.

We all get distracted through short term instant gratifications like as simple as nice mail & forget long term degradation of culture...

For decades I enjoyed my job and was ranked well. Then they flipped a switch when I hit my mid 40s and started dropping my ranking. Now I dread work and am looking for a new job. I can’t sleep any more and it is really impacting my health. I don’t think they realize what it does to someone when you tell them they are a low performer and then can’t give any real reason. People are wired to recognize when they are not being treated fairly.

It’s gone down for five years with no signs of recovery or innovation. Just fire 80% of these d-mbasses and move on with the 20%.

Because employees short of badge swipe target. Was this the plan all along?

This company has been led for years by a bunch of good ole boy RE--RDS. Nobody goes to college to work for these a-s clowns.

They always act like they're doing something, they always have to talk about something to the manager to make it seem they're so busy, but at the end of it all, they end up doing nothing! It's the rest of us that do the actual work. they just appear busy. How do you even deal with people like this when they have your manager's ear?

I posted this earlier today and it was deleted. I'll keep posting. This cover up and attitude at Nike cannot be silenced. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/nike-staff-accused-trying-to-cover-up-teen-athletes-sexual-assault/283-c10bc24d-7da8-49bf-94ec-c17ec19dc5cb?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KGW-TV&fbclid=IwdGRzaAUcNXRjbGNrBRw1YXBkb2YBZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeFwdWgydLzSYa6ATG3Icf74jVh0gBejTpDG4U4BHB5orasCKoPT4i9K6q-So_aem_2fsrrOzekQuuGBTyIDloMQ

I have been working at Belk for a long time now and I am not sure how people do it for 10 years. All the managers (including my store manager) are awful at their job and don’t even help out any of the associates when we are busy. They rather wander around gossiping about something. My store manager is the worst. She has the worst sarcastic attitude ever and even uses it on customers. She overworks the shoe department and makes them do everything like stocking, displays, customer service, etc. I wasn’t aware the same associates that were hired to be on the register are the same ones that do stocking WHILE the doors are open? Isn’t there supposed to be a team in the back for shoes that do those tasks? Beauty department is also overworked, they have to help our only clothes register that is open because the managers just don’t care and only schedule one person at that register.They also make beauty get credits and stock. The only difference between shoes and beauty is beauty always has 3-5 people there while shoes usually has 1 person there and 2-3 on the weekend. Everytime I talk to any of my coworkers in shoe department, they are stressed or annoyed. We also have crazy favoritism here, a man who works at my store literally coerce customers to get the credit card and doesn’t tell them it’s a credit card. I mean yeah that can be the customer’s fault for not knowing since they must put their social security in twice but I still think it’s very messed up to lie to the customers about it not being a credit card. They won’t fire him though because with this strategy he has he gets 6 credits a day. I honestly hate this point system too. I know some people have it worst but how come if a family member gets sick and i need to call out because of it, I don’t get a point… but if I’m sick I do get a point? That makes no sense. I have seen people come in sick because they don’t want a point, but my store manager just says “just take the point!” I just needed to let this all out, because even if I told my managers or even HR about the problems of my store, they will never listen. And, is it like this at every Belk? Because if so why haven’t they done something about this???

When will they cut people whose main responsibility is to collect information and repeat it to someone else, from one meeting to another? All of them are still here.

With hands on experience dealing with our CHRO, he literally su-ks. I know we live in the time of bootlickers get promoted but damn DH is the d-mbest out of the bunch. Literally self centered, just talks a bunch of nothing and pretending to be all knowing. How the other SVP in HR did not get promoted boggles me and I would say most of the people in HR. Literally acts like he is the reason MF/SF are the reason they are still standing, like my guy you were another cog HRBP.

Anyone else want to vent about our cr-ppy senior leaders?

A lot of experienced employees were pushed out, and now the company is relying on people who don't know the customers or the business nearly as well. How long is it going to take them to realize that saving money on payroll always results in the quality of the work suffering?

Until it was destroyed by leadership who didn't and don't care about either the company or employees, but do care a lot about making sure to fill their own pockets as much as they can before this place is so ruined that there's nothing left to pick from its carcass.

The people at the top seem to get away with almost anything while toxic behavior is allowed to continue. You can actually see the environment changing people who used to care, as they become bitter and completely checked out. That's the part that scares me because once that attitude spreads, it's really hard to turn things around.

There are several examples of people telling the board lies to further their career and then dumping it on other people to either try make it work or take the fall when the truth comes out. Sadly there is zero accountability for those who told the lies. The organization is currently tieing itself into knots to try make some things work that were big time oversold.

A senior leader kept making derogatory remarks, so I eventually stopped engaging with them socially. After that, my manager started ignoring my contributions, and not long after that, I suddenly had a bad performance review for the first time ever. Funny how that happened.

Another layoff coming..... how far Ally has falllen ever since this new leadership team has joined is so very sad. Time for the board to wake the f up!!! Micheal Rhodes is on the spectrum, Hope is a mute, Lindsay is an absolute id--t. She was hired to drive deposit strategy, then she hires a guy to figure out strategy and he hires a guy to figure out strategy.... still no strategy! A bank with no products. A company with a decaying culture.

It was before the endless layoffs, before the culture soured, before I watched talented people get walked out for no good reason. Now I don't even recognize the place. If you still believe there's something to respect here, I'd genuinely like to know what I'm missing.