#culturerot

At Chevron for employees its a race to the bottom with MW and his terrible team running this S Show. What is the next soul crushing move for this leadership team? Will we take turns cleaning the bathroom? Work a mandatory 6 days a week? No AC in the office? Bring your own TP in? Anyone have any idea as its been a couple months since they made things worse!

The layoffs are always happening. The changes never stop. The goals are made up. Nothing makes sense. I've never seen a place so consistently designed to make people miserable. I think they want us to quit.

Yes - I am talking to all of you incompetent VPs, Senior DIR and DIRs. That's the post.

A healthy company hires when it needs to and keeps people when they're doing good work. A failing company cuts over and over, calls it restructuring, and pretends things are fine. We've been through how many rounds in the last few years? Certainly too many. That's not a sign of a strong organization.

How much of a corporate bootlicker do you have to be to actually join the bank’s PAC? This place would drop you in a second without thinking twice, why waste even a second of your life on it?

I retired from exxon making 220k at 55. I could not stand it anymore. I said I would never work for this dysfunctional s heet show again. Well they offered me a contractor position through an agency. My pay was only half at 120k per year. They told me I would not have to deal with all the BS forms, moc, procurement, and training cr-p. I got put under a young female supervisor and she immediately started lecturing me about performance and expectations. I was simply there to help with engineering designs and reviews. This supervisor knew nothing of engineering and only knew exxon bruacracy. I was asked to perform some saftey tasks and lab inspections. I told my overlord it was not part of my duties and I was to do engineering work. She told me I was being insubordinate and she would delegate my tasks. It was all downhill from there. Since I was familiar with gmocs I was instructed to initiate several because the new engineers did know how to complete them. The supervisor was getting very angry at me complaining that I was taking too long on tasks. I quit 3 months into my failed return to exxon. The supervisor was pi---d and told me that I would never work at exxon again and I was on the black list for hiring. I told her to stick the job up her ar-e and I never wanted to work at exxon in my life. The contract company was pi---d as well and told me I could not work for them again. I do not want to work anymore. My treatment was the worst by this individual. I wanted to punch the s heet out of her. The power went to her head and she treated me like a child. I knew it was a mistake but I was bored and thought I could do work that I liked. This is just my story and hope it helps others not make the same mistake. I might just volunteer some where to stay busy.

This shithole wouldn’t know talent if it punched them in the face. HR is a bunch of talentless Karens that only use is to be a meat shield between employees that do work, and our d-mb as fu-k C suite. Can’t wait to be out of this dysfunctional company

The Ruckus-to-Belden sale has all the smell of a polished used-car pitch: shiny numbers, big promises, and just enough spin to make the buyer believe they were getting a prize.

In my view, Chuck and the Carlyle playbook were not about building a great company or a great product. They were about packaging the story, dressing up the numbers, and extracting value before someone else had to live with the consequences.

Best used-wasel-car salesman energy.

poor ba----ds.....

Nike is an eloborate blend of MLM & ponzi scheme.

They do know that they still have the brand name and a lot of clueless young people being exposed to the woke coolaid.

They indoctrinate you into the cult during hiring, serve you the coolaid.

First you feel amazing, you feel you belong and that you live in disneyland.

Slowly in your 2nd/3rd year you start to realize the defects, meaningless promotions, no career advancement, complete lack of accountability and a culture of retaliation.

Than you start to see the RNC mind dressed up in the "woke" clothing.

You start seeing that leaders dont give a cr-p, they dont care about serving the shareholders or the consumer. They are only interested in keeping the ponzi from collapsing while they enrich themselves and their close circle.

It is a small club and you aint a part of it and never will be.

Every quarter they drill on you, blame you, subjugate you to BS performance reviews.

after 5-10 years, you start getting disillusioned, the same problems that you spotted while you first joined is still there. Critical functions still lack headcount while billions are channeled for resume fillers for certain leaders.

At that point you need to be managed out and recycled with a fresh doe eyed new grad that thinks Nike is a serious business.

and the cycle keeps going on until the ML & ponzi hybrid collapses.

this is a warning for the new employees.

We were in your shoes once,

We once bleeded orange,
Now we are only bleeding.

"You are now informed"

When you look at at this place is asia in the usa. Who wants to work that....no soul... no morals. No no morals. Time for the cowboys to rob the stage coach...and lay the I n. D. Ia. Ns down in the dirt

I’m gonna say this plain and simple — this company is rotten at the core.

I’m telling you, the experience was beyond frustrating. It’s the kind of disappointment that sticks with you, not because of what happened, but because of how it all went down.

What really gets me is the lack of integrity in leadership. The SC leader — all flash, no follow-through — will tell his team one thing, turn right around and tell senior leadership something else, and somehow still walk away taking credit for work that ain’t his. That doesn’t happen by accident. That’s a culture that allows it.

I sat through that Appian World presentation and just thought… “this is what we’re backing?” It wasn’t just weak — it was a clear case of style over substance. And the fact that nothing changes after something like that? That tells you exactly what this company values — and what it doesn’t.

Folks who put in the work, who show up and deliver, they’re the ones getting pushed out. No fairness, no honesty. And yeah, that leaves a bad taste. Not because of the outcome — I’ll land on my feet — but because of the way it was handled. When there’s no transparency and no accountability, trust doesn’t stand a chance.

And if you want proof beyond the inside story, just look at the market. Ten years public, and the stock’s barely moved. That ain’t bad luck — that’s a signal.

This isn’t a company hitting a rough patch. This feels like one that’s lost its direction altogether.

If you’re on the SC side of the business, I’d take a long, hard look at where things are headed. Don’t sit around waiting for it to turn — by the time it’s obvious, you’re already in it.

I've been a top performer here for eight years, but lately I feel like I am losing my mind. My manager moves targets constantly and then acts confused when I miss them. A coworker who does half my work got a big promotion last quarter. I know I should leave, I just don't believe I am good enough anymore. This place did that to me.

Let me start with that all of the below are my opinions based on very close up observations of the people I'm commenting on and that I won't refer to anyone by name below the ET Level.

Cengage is only about optics at this point and I wouldn't be surprised if their main focus was maintaining the illusion as they work to go public and cash out.

First, Mr. Hansen has been and is a terrible leader who has largely rewarded terrible leaders and pushing out those that inspired.

He brought in one of the worst bullies I've ever seen in as Chief Product Officer and has continued this pattern of getting rid of true leaders with true vision that challenged the status quo over BS artists whose only talents are internal backstabbing, firing people, and posting articles that appear to be written by AI on LinkedIn as to appear as some profound thought leaders (see Mr. Wolbe and Mr. Persons).

How many reorgs and transformations do the same folks get before realizing the real problem is with leadership, not the operating model nor the people doing the jobs of 4 people for the salary of someone that is entry level.

How much money does Mr. Wolbe get to spend on consultants that do nothing but waste money while people that kept the company functioning are let go?

Instead of leveraging things like Cengage Unlimited to be disruptive, they just added this to yet another offering in their overly complex GTM model as none of these back stabbing leaders understand this business or, seemingly, any others.

The AI strategy is a joke with tools that are unlikely to be used and the arrogance and incompetence of "fake it until you make it" Mr. Persons running the show. The company is thus likely many years behind competitors here and AI is pure theater at Cengage.

For the competent, hard working folks at Cengage, the reward is layoffs or taking on the work of those laid off. Then training your likely, incompetent replacements.

For some reason, many of those that are known underperformers have slipped under the radar while top performers are moving onto competitors and the companies that will ultimately disrupt Cengage.

The focus seems to be to try and make the P&L look as good as possible for the IPO and then for those that can cash out to do so while leaving the barely functioning company and problem for the next regime (assuming there is a company left)

For those still there, everything you have worked on and given your blood, sweat, and tears to has already been destroyed.

You can stay and train the incompetent, ex-management consulting replacements or you can try to find another job now and leave those working to cash out holding the bag.

With the outsourcing of content and seemingly irresponsible use of AI in creating content for products, I'm not sure why anyone would use or trust a Cengage Product at this point.

The industry and customers are watching as those you fired are the trusted thought leaders in the future of Education and those you have leading are seen as irrelevant folks regurgitating AI-generated slop. I'm sure you were embarrassed at ASU.

Simply put. No one gives d a m n about anything anymore. Everyone knows they are following the correct Path, until they realize they’ve painted themselves into a corner. And no one bothers to try to help them. That’s today’s Xerox. You can’t tell anyone anything and when you do, you are considered the Anti-Christ, and up to no good. Everyone connected to this board needs to get out now and cash in your chips, before they become completely worthless. Highly recommended long ago.

That's the whole story.

Looking at this sorry soap opera called Expand one wonders.

Why filling the spaces left by a bunch of incompetent losers that got nothing to show for after 2 years of walking, meeting and sipping like mindless drones?

Why not buying a tent and make this sad show a travelling circus going round and around PA, OK and TX?

Give the investors something to laugh about instead of a truckload of excuses.

The work culture has become so toxic. Incompetent leaders and Management who lack to provide any guidance and set unrealistic expectations. At the end of the day they make you feel worthless even after performing and working towards deadlines

Keep punishing people. That'll definitely make them happier. Works every time.

Every time the employee experience worsens, I employ another tactic to lower productive output and/or squander corporate resources to bring things back in line.

And no pride in work where the lion's share of the rewards go to the already bloated senior "leaders". To the contrary, pride in racking up those direct deposits in exchange for next‐to‐nothing.

Luckily, Ford's incompetence in performance management is matched only by their level of integrity so I'll be here doing my thing for a long while. So sorry if you don't like it.

I really hope you read this.

Eff you! We are better off without. Take your money and go hide your face. You are a failure and always have been. You gaslight the rest of these clowns into thinking you were some EV god but the rest of us knew from day one you were a joke. How you bamboozled Ford leadership into thinking we could take a bunch of rejects and failures from Apple and Tesla and build a successful will be a mystery but now if we can only get rid of the rest of the your lackeys and your “20x” skunkworks team.

Go eff yourself with a J1772 connector.

The unehtical McKinsey folks ...our CEOs former employer, ready to fu-k us all over. Get ready folks, this is how far we've fallen from the most "ethical" company. https://youtu.be/K1cJqB0X_BA?si=V1X6W1X7DWt6vvwn

What was a great company has turned into a heartless bag of cashless Pennies!
This is what happen when investors buy and they want to make money!! All you can do is hope those silver lined parachute pants are useless after this!! They’ve ruined soooooo many lives in 3 years!!

The cloud program is failing because of fundamentally poor leadership, misaligned hiring, and a completely top-heavy structure.

AC (Head of Cloud) and several of his direct reports do not have real experience running cloud platforms at scale. That lack of expertise is showing up every day in weak execution, poor decisions, and no clear ownership.

On top of that, there are multiple Grade 18+ leaders—many brought in from Amazon—sitting at ~$300K+ compensation levels with little to no tangible outcomes to justify the cost. The gap between pay and performance is not just noticeable, it’s unacceptable.

The structure is excessively top-heavy, accountability is weak within the inner leadership circle, and teams are left absorbing the execution failures. If this layer were rationalized, it could potentially free up close to $10M, highlighting how inefficient and misaligned the current operating model has become.

have unlimited openings for non hardworking people with proven scammer skills and low or non existant work ethic

For those remaining that we want to target, let's make it difficult and wrong, until they quit.

I will never stand up for this company again.

Unappreciative ba----ds.

I once heard PP say in private that one of the the firm's biggest problem is over retention of underperforning associates. Did ER solve this? A lot of talent has walked out the door and im still surrounded by id--ts.

If you are thinking about leaving, leave! This MC is making a ton of bad decisions and the titanic known as Fiserv is taking on water. Find your lifeboat and get out. It is only a matter of time and I assure you, they do not value you or your knowledge. And at this stock price.... decision is a lot easier.

Excessive discipline, control, micromanagement. They point to a business that's run out of real substance and strategic direction. From where I'm sitting, the whole thing is coming apart.

Publicly known mo--n John Stankey makes the average AT&T employee’s salary in a day, for the job of deciding which wageslaves to lay off every quarter.

Not only should his job be ridiculed, but the same wageslaves even turn around and applaud him like Samuel L Jackson in Django.

How did we fall so far as a society that we allow this?
Does the corporate propaganda just work that well?
Did the Republican brainwashing of the population from the Reagan era work so well people have conditioned themselves to think it’s normal?

All four of these id--ts need to be fired immediately.

They are about to do some really terrible and undesirable things regarding department structure and redistribution of work.

No other org leadership in the world will treat their employees this badly !! No transparency and courage to support or atleast be honest about what's going on. While M and up taking all the benefits, proactively switching orgs to save their jobs the real hard working ICs are still in the dark. All this company cared is just for M and M only !!

From time to time I feel disgusted reporting to the current management structure. Unmotivated, blame shifting, self-important, lacking basic manners in communication and the list goes on and on. Three layers of unmotivated and uninspiring management chain, they just come in to cash checks. Wish I could put my name to it and call out these mo--ns on LinkedIn.

Firing people then promoting incompetent ones. Make it make sense.

I secretly bugged the conference room that my manger uses when he's in the office. I can listen in to everything now.

Not until I walk out for good. But I still do my work, still do it right. I just stopped playing the games. No more kissing up, no more pretending to love meetings, no more acting like I care about things I don't. I do my job and go home. That's enough.

Good ideas come here, get a nice funeral, and then we never speak of them again.

Truist's culture has officially become the worst. They are the laughing stock of the banking industry. Bad teammates will get promoted because they fit the new culture, and leadership will get worse with the corporate gaslighting. There's no hoping that they will change and do right by the teammates. Think about this when you're driving into the office or sitting at your desk tomorrow.

What’s exhausting is the sense that there’s a permanent inner circle. The same names recommend each other, amplify each other, and open doors for each other while outsiders are quietly ignored. It creates a culture where talent and contribution matter less than who you’re already connected to.

For the past year I’ve done such a little amount of work it’s comical. Maybe an hour or two per day. I call into meetings and then play on my phone. I ignore pretty much everything exec management tells us and then cash the paycheck. I’ll continue this until I get canned and if not, I’ll quit once I can’t do this anymore. Two things they’ll not get from me anymore are effort productivity. I’ll quit before I have to do any actual work that would benefit the company. I figure I’ve clawed back about 90k of free money so far from Oracle. Take care of yourself.