#decision

Why does every little thing have to turn into a bureaucratic nightmare? Even the managers are being micromanaged from above, so nobody can actually get anything done.

Having worked at other new age companies, here is what I see.

The people responsible for investment decisions don't understand the customer deeply, neither do they understand the product deeply.

The bigger problem is that they aren't humble enough to admit they don't know and speak as if they know what they are talking about. It's so irritating that they won't even ask questions to learn but rather just go on and on to loudly shut down any other opinion in the room that doesn't match theirs.

It's funny to see two leaders having a conversation with half baked knowledge and driving investment decisions.

Anyone figured this out yet? How are they selecting who goes and who stays? Some associate director decisions at least at our property make no sense. Curious, share if you have more info

How does Fidelity expect to thrive as a Fortune 500 company when women have no where to put their purses during the day and end up putting them on the floor next to their desk? Are there no perks at all for managers? No offices for managers…just sit with the rest of the associates, nothing special for you. Do managers even get to make decisions? Or do they just carry out the tasks that the Senior Managers tell them to? No wonder they have a problem with no one wanting to take managers roles. No perks.

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.

Chevron moving forward in Argentina. Did executives make the right choice selling our acreage?

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevron-uses-permian-playbook-breathe-life-into-argentinas-dead-cow-oil-region-2026-10-23/

ranking of AT&T’s worst decisions

1. 🥇 DirecTV — $67.1B
2. 🥈 Time Warner — ~$100B round trip
3. 🥉 Mexico — $4.4B acquisition + years of capex → $2B
4. Selling/monetizing towers too early
5. Xandr/AppNexus
6. Selling data centers just before the cloud/AI infrastructure bo-m
7. Giving up WarnerMedia/HBO/IP upside

Some of the employees laid off in the last round were the ones everyone turned to when things needed to get done. How does a team lose its strongest contributors and call that a sensible decision?

1. Make a hasty and uninformed decision, consulting only people who know nothing about anything (J and Yogi) and not anyone who actually knows.
2. Waste a few million dollars.
3. Reverse course.
4. Pretend that was the plan all along.

VZ requested FCC approval disinvestment in copper landlines in 9 states in 9/25/26, FCC gave temporary denial or pause, estimated final decision estimated 9/30.

Maine regulators have rejected Central Maine Power's bid for a significant rate increase. The Public Utilities Commission unanimously decided against the utility's request for nearly $70 million in higher rates. This decision means average household bills will not increase this fall. The utility had warned of potential financial consequences if its request was denied. Company representatives indicated workforce levels might be reviewed following this outcome.

Augusta, Maine

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/10/06/maine-regulators-deny-cmps-7-rate-hike-as-utility-weighs-potential-layoffs/

I want it all waaaa! Throws rattle.

Some of the choices coming from management are genuinely hard to understand. I've worked in this industry for years and I've never felt this disconnected from the people making the decisions.

Vp or director?

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.

If you were a CIO, would you bet your career and reputation on recommending Teradata to the CEO?

Heard that they are thinking of playing around with the WFH policy. Sales maybe in office 4 days a week and the rest of company stay 3 days. To be decided, they are not sure based on seating availability.

Early retirement is close. Is it smart to jump now or should I wait? My wife says take the plunge since her insurance covers us, but I'm still not sure.

Wonder how many of Board of Directors who selected CK as CEO are still around today to see TODAY.

They made a Fully Informed Decision selecting him, and now it’s Déjà Vu. Wonder how much the stock will quiver. If it does, it’s flattery to CK.

https://youtu.be/8LNSi-H0dbU?is=2A3umMh5PoGHW_mf

Executives upset that after gutting the upstream and underinvesting they have a horizon challenge. They have a severe case of selective amnesia about the decisions they made that led us here. The compounding consequences of those decisions were very predictable. And it will only get worse. I see another Exxodus being the true horizon challenge.

I want to know if direct PLs were given any say in exactly who they let go from their teams. I’m also just curious about the criteria for who stays and who goes in general. Were you told a number or a job title you had to RIF, were you given exact names, was it based on past performance, etc?

My team lost its newest hire (who was honestly great, so I’m bummed for them) plus someone who’d been around for 5-10 years and was admittedly unexpected — unless PLs got to choose.

Lincoln Nautilus and Lincoln Corsair coming from China only.

Who is the genius that chose this over US manufacturing?

Just notice two people manager will leave USB on the same day. Seems upper manager gave a hard deadline for them to make a decision.

How much did our ex CEO get paid by Google to implement cloud in Japan?
One of the most inexplicable decisions ever made.

Sr. Director? Managing director? SLT? ELT?

The more I interact with top management the less impressed I am. Conflicting guidance constantly is given. They even conflict their own stated written strategies and policies. They want everything and refuse to make decisions on trade offs instead just yelling about how they want to be top quintile in every metric even ones that are obviously in direct conflict with each other. How is it leadership to make no decisions in tradeoffs and constantly just yell about wanting it all?

I heard that this time around the direct managers had an input on who leaves and who stays. Does anyone know if this is true? My understanding was that the execs are the ones who make those decisions. Does anyone know the criteria?

“We can simplify things with information.

We have a lot of information.

You have to have the right information at the right time to make the right decisions.

With the right decisions we get the right outcomes.”

This will get you 5mil per year.

Fideliscare of NJ. Care Management. If we do not apply for VSP, come end of July and they need to layoff, who makes the decision about who will be layed off? Does the direct supervisor have input? What about the manager?

Who makes the final decision and do they get additional input from anyone?

Accepting VSP? Click Arrow up.

Have decisions already been made for notifications later this month?

Why does Enbridge insist on not using the best procedures when merging departments.
Some GDS policies are far more advanced than our counterparts. Instead of selecting the best way to do things, they just choose the Enbridge way. It's beyond frustrating for us.
Also the software is atrocious. Everything is completely FUBAR'd. Is hammering a square peg into a round hole just the way they do it? And it seems like the people making the decisions are only at their job for 5 minutes before they go somewhere else.

Although working for family-owned businesses run by their owners has some advantages, the biggest challenge is that no one can challenge the owners’ decisions. What AJ says goes. nobody can say no.

I wish I would have been in SVP or D level to not get axed. So far what I have seen only these levels are in decision panel and only vp avp getting cut. Which makes no sense though because they again hire new resources for those positions once the wave is crossed. They don't have any idea what are they doing (an ordinary VP has better understanding) just thinking themselves as king and cutting people they don't like not on merit.

Everyone has an opinion and a certificate on the wall, but nobody seems to know how to actually run anything anymore. Where is the management that has done the job before and can make a call? Because I am not seeing it. What I see is vague suggestions, meetings that end with no clear decision, and then people just doing whatever they think is right. Give me a real leader over a room full of advisors any day.

I assume it's uncommon to get a raise/promo immediately followed by an LR... On the other hand, aren't these separate decisions often made by different people?

I have one year left until I’m vested. Is it worth it though? Personally I don’t think it is, but I don’t how 65 yr old me will feel either.