#incompetence

Are completely useless. That is all.

1. High performers are cut because their salary is higher due to performing (though not true at Oracle)
2. The Peter Principle is on full display, where managers with threatened egos are intimidated by high performers
3. There is a lack of visibility up the chain (which is mainly filled with psychopaths) regarding the actual output of employees
4. Incompetent brown-nosers survive versus those raising valid concerns and producing

The division I work with is filled with VPs, Directors, and Managers who have contributed zero for over a decade and frankly should not be called engineers or leaders. The Dunning-Kruger effect is displayed daily where they expose their own incompetence. Those who are technically apt and care about their teams are gone, be it in leadership or as individual contributors. The incompetent not only survive but fail up—just reading the recent LinkedIn updates on promotions triggered me to write this rant.
I had a manager who cared and protected us from this insanity. That manager was let go, and we are going full speed into a wall trying to deal with ridiculous asks and unreasonable deadlines from the tyrant managers we now report to. When we raised burnout concerns, they were ignored, and we were told to just keep working harder and meet deadlines. In contacting those who left, I know the job market is terrible, but meeting them, they all look healthier and happier. My health is suffering, and my doctor said I need to reduce stress before something dire happens.
End of rant, end of caring about work. I am checking out. Frankly, I don't give a damn about this job anymore. I will start my job search and see how long it takes before they get rid of me. Who knows, maybe doing nothing will get me promoted!

DXC was selected as the MSP for my previous employer and we were shifted over to DXC. During my time with them I have seen almost nothing but shear incompetence and no common sense from the majority of the offshore teams. Simple tasks that a European or American engineer would accomplish rapidly and without guidance have to be thoroughly explained and reiterated over and over to the offshore teams, and even then the work is either performed improperly or not at all. Obtaining status and timelines are also met with frequent, and obscure "we're working on that" or "we will check on that" without ever receiving useful information. The offshore team members outnumber the onshore team members by 3-4x's yet the work output is abysmal. When the offshore teams encounter something that isn't thoroughly outlined, rather than working through the issue by researching or even using simple tools like Google, they immediately stop and proceed no further and you're lucky if they reach out to someone about the issue in any reasonable amount of time. The client I support is absolutely exhausted from dealing with the non-stop issues, lack of accountability, constant back and forth and overall terrible support from DXC's vast empire of offshore employees that there is serious talk by leadership of ending the contract and bringing support back in house. This isn't only limited to this client either, my former team was split to multiple clients and the sentiment is the same across the board. This isn't a dig on foreign workers, but when the support provided is barely better than partially trained interns it makes it difficult to speak highly of them.

Is anyone going to tell him that he's sh-t the bed and the place is on fire? Customers complaining non stop and threatening to pull massive contracts. Huge amount of knowledge gone with the redundancies. We've all been forced to use Claude (usage limits prevent real gains) and Copilot (can't remember how to do a simple task...like having an assistant but a really dopey one who has to be told the same thing 20 times a day). Random demands from salespeople who sold products we dont have with perfect data that doesn't exist. Where does this sit? Who owns that? Everything is URGENT!!!!

I had the opportunity to attend numerous meetings and conference calls involving Zulfi and Kamal during my time in Allstate IT. What struck me repeatedly was not the depth of strategic discussion, but the lack of it.

I vividly remember meetings with dozens of attendees where significant time was consumed by basic IT and UI-level questions that a senior technology executive should already have understood. Rather than driving architecture, engineering, and business outcomes, conversations often stalled on fundamentals.

One example that has stayed with me was the decision not to perform a full ASC data conversion because of the associated cost, which was said to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Instead, the organization layered batch processes and relational-system workarounds onto the existing environment. The result was an architecture that was repeatedly described as "microservices" but remained burdened by complex legacy dependencies.

What is particularly troubling is that data conversion costs and complexities are neither unexpected nor unusual. A technology leader operating at that level should account for those realities at the outset of a transformation program. Data conversion is frequently one of the largest line items in any modernization effort, and its cost should be incorporated into the business case, architecture strategy, and long-term financial planning from day one.

Instead, the organization appeared to choose short-term cost avoidance over long-term architectural integrity. In practice, this meant placing a modern microservices front end over a foundation of legacy batch processing and relational systems. To many technologists, that looked less like genuine modernization and more like applying a cosmetic layer over fundamental architectural limitations.

The irony is that avoiding a major data conversion does not eliminate costs; it merely shifts them elsewhere. The technical debt created by maintaining hybrid architectures, integration layers, duplicate processing, reconciliation logic, and operational workarounds can persist for years. Those costs appear in maintenance budgets, project delays, reduced agility, increased complexity, and ultimately in the total cost of ownership.

This raises a broader question of leadership accountability. If hundreds of millions of dollars in conversion costs were foreseeable, why were they not adequately incorporated into the modernization strategy from the beginning? Effective technology leadership requires evaluating the full lifecycle cost of architectural decisions, not merely the initial implementation expense.

Meanwhile, departments were consolidated, headcount was reduced, and careers were disrupted in the name of efficiency. Yet many of the underlying architectural problems remained unsolved. Over the years, thousands of employees were affected by repeated reorganizations, outsourcing initiatives, and failed or incomplete transformation efforts, while the organization continued to struggle with many of the same core technology challenges.

Among architects and technical professionals, there was a widespread belief that these issues were understood internally, even if they were not openly discussed at the highest levels. Many hoped that senior leadership would eventually recognize the pattern and bring greater technical accountability to IT decision-making.

After nearly a decade, the consequences of those decisions are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

Curious where this brilliant program landed. It’s 2026, is it over? JC and his dolts drove this company into oblivion with another hairbrain program over the years they lasted. How much did 5x25 cost this company, especially JC’s outsourcing to useless offshore teams who couldn’t deliver? Another one of the incompetent ET members leaving a last mark on this place.

1.Fiserv is hiring and promoting people who lack the skills needed to do the job.They are not even trying to learn.

1. When you respond in a teams message to a question they present by asking a question
   they then take that question to another employee and return with that employee’s answer.- stop responding to them via team if you can.
   .3. These same people SETUP meetings that waste your time .- stop showing up or answering questions in these meetings.

One more day of cleaning up billing issues in large part because of incompetence of offshore team. How is this company surviving? Husband used to be in sales here, was smart enough to leave. Said every old colleague in sales he talks to is looking. I know my team is as well!

Oracle’s eDelivery portal is wide open—anyone can just download any on-prem software they want, no customer account required. We’re basically giving the stuff away for free while the company bleeds millions. Management doesn’t lift a finger to fix it. Then they turn around and cut our jobs. Peak incompetence.

I work remotely, and ever since GitHub Actions was taken down, I have been experiencing a critical network connectivity issue that has severely impacted my ability to work. Although I can connect to the VPN and access support.uhc.com, virtually all other network traffic is blocked by Zscaler or the corporate firewall.

It has been nearly two weeks, and IT has still failed to identify or resolve the issue, despite numerous troubleshooting attempts, multiple incident (INC) tickets, repeated escalations, replacing computers and countless hours wasted.

The level of incompetence, inefficiency, and lack of accountability demonstrated by the ESRO, Mac Support, Zscaler and IT teams is unacceptable. Their inability to diagnose and resolve a critical connectivity issue after nearly two weeks raises serious concerns about their technical expertise, troubleshooting capabilities, and overall effectiveness.

What makes this situation even more frustrating is the complete lack of ownership and urgency. Instead of providing a meaningful resolution, the issue continues to be passed around without any tangible progress.

is anyone else in same bot?

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.

Dell is a terrible place to work. There's no debating that. It's a terrible company. Dell's leadership teams (DRs, VPs, SVPs) are some of the most incompetent, inept dohlts in the industry. That's not trolling or sour grapes, that's just the hard truth at Dell.

Now, I realize there will be idiiiots who show up here saying things like, "Fine, leave then." To which our answer has always been, "we will as soon as the first good offer comes along." In the meantime, we're going to give Dell exactly what it deserves - nothing.

And to those who say, "But look at the stock," that has nothing to do with company performance (lack therof). That is all due to continued layoffs to prop up EPS numbers.

ESRO
IT
Mac Support
Zscaler

I would say ALL OF THE ABOVE, whatever teams they represent.

I'll happily accept being let go. This company will become an industry joke. Just look at who's pulling all the strings. Can you think of a more inexperienced and talentless person to be in charge of something like this?

It’s looking like Enrique is cooking up another dud quarter for Q3. Given the incompetence of himself and Jaime Miller how much can we expect our retirement to drop? I’m bracing for 10-20% loss but wondering if they will lose more market share.

I worked there. I left to get away from their incompetence. It's so disheartening to see so many find their new home here.

while other american businessess are expanding and increasing CAPEX in US soil, once again Nike is going in the opposite direction due to incompetence and is destroying thousands of jobs across the nation.

The irony is the pivot to bangooluru is announced on the same week that the federal government took severe action and banned indian IT firms:

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-bars-tata-hcl-infosys-among-8-it-firms-from-green-card-filing-what-it-means-for-indians-12159380

The intent of the admin is protecting American jobs, not creating perverted incentives to run offshore sweatshops.

Feel free to report to either DJT or JD, if enough of us file a complaint the admin would take action as they also hold little to no love for Nike.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

I doesnt take more than 5mins, just do it.

The recent conversation at the Wells town hall about G for life does not apply to the opposite gend. Most Gs fems are speed tracked, exactly told what to do to progress, minor routine things are highlighted as major accomplishments, and G to F in 3 years or less for these gend. Jim O could have just said this retirement at G applies to men only, while we see so many incompetent F and E every day.

If you want to know why we are incompetent all you have to do is call customer success, and try to do anything. They will literally do anything, but the thing you want to do.

can someone help explain to people how someone who has no competencies in data, AI, or analytics becomes a chief data and AI officer of a fortune 25 company -- who's frat brother is this guy.? someone must know what connections this guy must have. what a joke this company is...just wow. leadership continuing to show they really have zero clue about anything tech/digital but reportedly they are "experts" - will be our downfall (well one of several)

Our OD and SSEM continue to show the their incompetence. We now have to track things on a spreadsheet cause they don’t know how to use actual tools to lead the business. This is a prime example of why Cisco is continuing to lose market share. These two should not be in any leadership position. OD does not know how to lead. SSEM wants to be a mini-OD instead of leading SEMs in leading their SEs.

"THEY" got rid of all the good workers in 2018, kept all the cheaters and are replacing the cheaters with incompetence. Wow who came up with that master plan, stick a fork in UPBD it is DONE!

Ok when will the board fire Clay for his incompetency?

When will Larry step back in and slap him around a bit?

Or will we just have a fire sale and be bought by the likes of Nvidia or OpenAi? We need some form of stock shocker ! May be a hostile take over.

We need something and not more orange builder jackets or layoffs

Seems everyone I talk to that has worked with them comments that it's an absolute train wreck over there. Their news letters mention so many "accomplishments" but no one actually seems to know what they produce. What a mess!!!

If you can get out of Fiserv/Clover, you should do it as quickly as possible. This company has been driven into the ground and is a shadow of what it used to be. The leadership is completely incompetent and they have driven off whatever talent they had. Now they are just hiring whoever is cheapest. It's doomed.

Truly sad how incompetent the middle management is here at Oracle. Especially in the US Government / Education space. Also quite spineless that the layoff is communicated via email - true leadership at its best!

Y’all, I know that the PIPs and RAs across the board are truly unsettling, and in many cases, just wrong. On the flip side, the amount of incompetence is mind blowing - people lack fundamental product and business skills here. Very concerned about we are all gonna get it if we don’t get it together.

No other company out there subjects it's employees to this kind of stress. Sure there are layoffs and restructurings but they are one time thing and once they happen, people go about their business and lives. Fannie Mae on the other hand has been laying off for a year and a half now. With no clear communication to anyone. How fu---d up is that. Incompetent buffoons and morally bankrupt leadership throughout. Disgusting.

Portfolio Sales and Engineering Leadership is at the root of Cisco Market Share Loss. From Portfolio AVPs and SEDs to the ODs, SSEMs, RMs and SEMs, all should be replaced. They want to act like they know what is best. They have driven the market share loss due to their incompetence. Shouldn’t new leadership be put in place.

All or almost all proposed projects at this time coming out if EMTEC are bogus. Please ask questions 3-4 layers deep and they will be exposed. The managers are intentionally covering up bad ideas in the guise of next big opportunity to get their bonus and move to their next role, while the future organization suffers with their terrible decisions.

Managers are intentionally spinning the wheel on ‘technologies’ and ideas that no one in the industry will touch or have already made a clear decision to never pursue. Closely look at Upstream research, they will drain the company of $$ shamelesslessly, or just out of incompetence.

Under the threat of unemployment, the Research company is also joining in on these made up technology cases, especially getting a chance to contribute on the Upstream side.

Please look closely, just throwing millions of dollars for projects known to be failures is crazy. It is not innovation.

Don’t burden your technical staff with turning slogans from clueless middle manager into engineering execution, when it is simply not possible.

It is one thing for you to ask someone to become a better basketball player — it is possible. It is another thing to ask someone to grow from 5 ft 10 to 7 ft in a year to then become the best player of NBA. It is is impossible, factually impossible. What these managers are forcefully promoting are IMPOSSIBLE ideas.

only ask is please ask critical questions, these Yes men need to be held accountable.

Can someone please tell me what these people do? Create decks that serve no purpose. Leaders are very bad.

When coding monkeys are given the reign to run the show, the audiences (customers) suffer.

Stupid Enterprise Tech bean counters decided to eliminate the whole technical product manager (TPM) role because they couldn't tell the good ones from the bad ones. Now we're in the same quagmire of mostly bad engineering "leaders" sprinkled with a few good ones.

A place of incompetents.

Just listening to him fumble his way through the opening of the BTS leader call is painful. This man is who Sarah thinks is SVP, or more, material?

Centene is doomed with current leadership.

The R2B leadership is more lost than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles in a fun house. I have never seen this level of incompetence and desperation from a leadership team. Rumors are circulating about significant cuts to senior management and underperforming account managers, along with the possibility that whatever remains of R2B will be merged into B2B.

I can’t say I feel particularly bad for the bootlickers. A lot of people spent their time kissing the rings instead of building skills that translate outside the organization. Now some of them may be about to find out the hard way what the real world thinks their $100K corporate title is worth.

Just seen there was a celebration of project unity in the UK with Shannon Bell. I am not sure this migration could have been anymore of a sh-t show. I previously spent 30% of my week chasing approvals (that in 4 years I have never not had one approved or declined for my error). I now spend 95% of my week on approvals, but yeah let's celebrate the sh-t show, senior people should lose their jobs for this incompetence.

The Mutual of America culture is gonna experience a dramatic shift next year & the biggest disappointment will bee after spending millions of $$$ & jettisoning 175 employees who understand how mutual of america works, they will be replaced by scabs who will make a boat load to mistakes & many of those errors will sink client relationships. TIAA has undergone major problems shifting to AX-Centure. See what employees at TIAA are posting on their own Layoff Board—-

“Accenture hasn't been living up to expectations and it's proven by the multiple project delays. Team synergy is non-existent. Accenture underestimated the TIAA ecosystem and the system complexity to take the business to the next level. Valuable TIAA people are gone, while Accenture swaps out their people due to incompatibility or incompetence. Accenture spends more time on PowerPoint slides and meetings that nothing gets done. Don't forget the 2 year contract for the rebadged Accenture employees is ending this year. A lot of issues with little resolution, let's hope AI can fix it.”
HA!!
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Consulting & Engineering Services is a masterclass in absolute incompetence. Can't consult. Can't engineer. Can't sell. Can't even bill a client properly. Then there’s Ramnut the lead "engineer". Can't do engineering because he is not an engineer but a low grade accountant. Can't do accounting because he appears to have learned accounting from a calculator with no batteries. Can't understand tax laws. Can't get an invoice sent out correctly to save his life.

How does this now get swept under the rug of incompetence?

It’s all about the money. It’s not about skilled labor. You get what you don’t pay for. TIAA-CREF’s recent experience says it all from The Layoff TIAA Board:

I was just about to come to this site and make a post about my first experience with Accenture. Our TIAA FTE team is partnering with two teams that are completely made up of Accenture resources, and holy smokes, these people are completely incompetent and useless! We’ve met with two Accenture teams that are supposed to be working together on our project, and neither are aware of what each team is doing, completely unaware of how to tech solution, and any time you ask a question, it becomes a “takeaway” that they NEVER respond to.
Ten calls so far since the beginning of the PI, and we’ve literally done nothing but listen to the Accenture teams argue with each other about who is supposed to own things on their teams.
All those KT meeting with Accenture and they learned nothing.
RKT is going to sink because of these people.

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Right when you think it cannot get more ridiculous they prove you wrong. I dont want to quit in this market but the moment I find anything comparable I am out of this stinker. My manager is still asking us for project updates like she thinks anything matters. Such an incompetent woman in tech.