#incompetence

Especially at the top, where it’s dragging all of us down. All this misery is on them and their sh---y ways.

With the high degree of managerial incompetence that is plaguing this company how does one mange to let himself be PIPed out ?
Proving that someone is incompetent and is not performing well requires some degree of technical sophistication that MOST of the managers we have are not capable of.
I have seen this a lot around here, oh they put me on a PIP. Technically it is very difficult to fake prove that someone is incompetent unless the person is indeed incompetent. The performance factor will always be arguable and no judge in this world will grant Cisco reasonable grounds for termination with the current workload level most of us have. Adding more to that to push you out is practically impossible. The current workload as is it is already border line, medically and from legal perspective.

So my opinion is that when I see that people are complaining about being PIPed out, is that they really needed to be

You sh-t managers stand out like a sore thumb. You’re not fooling anyone. We’re the people who actually make this company run, and it’s wild to hear you talk about “making things better” while your incompetence makes everything worse. You don’t solve problems—you create them, turning simple work into chaos with pointless rules, useless meetings, and half-baked changes that ignore how the job is actually done. You push out good employees, destroy morale, and replace real experience with your little circle of sh-t managers, then act surprised when everything falls apart. You take credit when things go right, dump blame when they don’t, and when things don’t go your way you sound like a cry baby instead of a leader. You expect respect you never earned, you don’t know sh-t, you don’t listen, and you don’t lead—and we all see you exactly for the joke you are.

Confirmed for Digital come January. They've stripped this organization down to nothing, and are so incompetent they can't put any meaningful roadmap or plans into place. This place is truly disgusting and leadership are cowards.

PEP just chugging along with their failing "business as usual" strategy of ja--ing up prices, shrinking the bags, making the same old garbage and producing a negative YTD return while the market is positive 16% and hoping no one will notice. Well, people did notice.

From where I sit as a person who worked for a company that TU acquired a few years ago, almost all of the technical engineering staff with knowledge and experience of major technical systems that keep the business running have been laid off now. All of the TU staff (mostly contractors from other countries) that have stepped in to learn things still have no clue of how things actually operate even at a basic level. Most don't care to learn or don't possess the right technical and business skills and they rely on those who actually built these systems from the original companies that were acquired to do the real work. But now almost all of those original individuals from legacy companies are gone after many rounds of layoffs.

We're talking about extremely technical systems that interface with thousands of other companies that we have legal contracts with to receive information from and process it every day. Millions of records which generate millions of dollars for TU are being handled by a skeleton crew of incompetent TU staff and contractors now. Not to exaggerate but its now equivalent to a McDonalds fry cook doing complex brain surgery in a blindfold. Yet all of the middle-management play it down by saying, oh it's easy, it's not complicated, and we can handle it. Yet even years later, they still can't complete 99.9% of their tasks without the help of those who were laid off in recent rounds who wound up doing all of their work for them. No matter how many times they were "trained" on something, most still don't grasp what is going on and don't understand these parts of the business.

I have a feeling that very soon those poor companies that partnered with TransUnion to use products and services are going to quickly discover that TU has made blind upper level decisions with no real clue of how things actually operate, what actually they do, how much money they are making them, or who knows how to run, build, and maintain these systems. We were told years ago that this OneTru thing is the answer to everything that all the legacy systems would be migrated over to it within 1 year. Well it's been several years now and we are still operating on the same legacy systems with no end in sight for OneTru. And TU has no one left now that can properly support the legacy systems, fix partner issues, and keep them running after layoffs. Luckily many legacy systems were finely automated, but who is going to be there now when something breaks and partners of TU are going to be ringing the help desk phones off the hook? Are they going to answer and say the truth? "yeah, sorry about that, um we just laid off everyone that knows how to fix your problem, sorry but we can't help you."

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this is bad business 101. If you want to know what is keeping your business up and running between your golf matches, then talk to the actual people that have their hands in it daily and keep things running for you instead of laying them all off. Don't talk to middle management because all they're going to say is what you want to hear which is a farce, "No worries boss, we got it all under control. Sure, we can do that, we can do anything you want, go ahead and make your cuts, no problems here." Middle-management here is the worst I've ever seen. Have you seen the movie "The office", TU would make the perfect sequel.

Being laid off this round would have been better than staying. The difference between those who were laid off and the existing TU people is that we actually care(d) for our partners and our customers. We treat them like family and bend over backwards to help them when problems arise. We realized the value in those relationships. But all I've seen from the TU staff is incompetency, delegation and arrogance. They just keep playing their corporate games and it's going to bite them hard real soon when the ship starts sinking and everyone who knows how to keep it afloat has been laid off. Mayday.... Mayday... Mayday...

This was too good to stay buried in the replies. The OP is @rm+1kbn0zf88.

SBC Legacy Executives chased off all the talent and threats to upend their massive incompetence.

Clover leadership has become an absolute joke. Let’s just call it what it is - complete incompetence from top to bottom. These people have no vision, no direction, no accountability, and no clue how to run a company. Every decision feels like it’s made on impulse, panic, or pure ego.

We’ve had endless “leadership changes” that fix nothing because the same people responsible for the disaster are still sitting in the same chairs pretending they’re guiding the company. Meanwhile, teams are burned out, priorities explode every other day, execution is a mess, and the so-called leaders can’t make a single clear or intelligent decision to save their lives.

It’s honestly embarrassing watching talented employees grind while leadership stumbles around in circles, throwing out half-baked strategies and calling it progress. The disconnect is massive. The incompetence is obvious. And the silence from the top tells you everything. They don’t know how to fix anything because they’re the problem.

At this point, seriously… what the he-l are we doing here? How much longer are we supposed to pretend this is normal? Because Clover leadership sure as he-l isn’t leading anything.

Honestly, who are these supposed ‘professionals’ working on the SAP projects? It’s the same bunch who managed to turn all ERP projects into a complete shambles, isn’t it? Quite remarkable, really — not a shred of backbone among them. As for qualifications, well… one does wonder how they managed to collect so few over so many years. Integrity? Even rarer.

Yet there they are, parading around as if they understand IT or business processes, despite having no meaningful experience to their names. They’ve simply perfected the art of playing the game, slipping through unnoticed while contributing absolutely nothing.

One can’t help but marvel at how they wake up each day, look in the mirror, and persist with the charade. Surely we don't need a team of 20 locally to forward emails and presentations from consultants?

I am typically not a fans of unions, but I think it’s pretty hilarious if the North Slope field staff unionizes in response to the continued incompetence and favoritism displayed by company leadership.

To those who are competent and actually know how to get things done: are you as sick and tired as I am of cleaning up all the messes and doing all the hard work as I am? Might be bearable if there was some recognition and reward for doing it but management is too clueless to see what is happening. Who is John Galt?

Why so many QA rules in TAC team? They just focus on case update timely or not. They don’t even have any technical knowledge! Even layoff BB QA and they can re-join TAC team as RB then keep audit TAC cases… So rediculous

With all the outsourcing, the system changes, replacement of experience, I see so many errors. Polaris is a disaster and people being rotated in and out who don’t know the process.

One person called Verizon their dream job. Another few people were 'thanking' Verizon. Another few were claiming that these people 'deserved it'.

Stop breaking your backs for this company, man. Have some respect. You don't need to have all of the answers, but people don't need to be su-king up to the incompetence in this company.

Utter waste of time and money. Intel needs a real credible CTO who actually understands the technology that is vital for Intel's future.

Working at this bank feels like watching a reality show with no script. Ideas fly around, half of them make no sense, and somehow projects still move forward like it’s all totally normal. I just sit there wondering when someone will notice how crazy things actually are.

Genuine question.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQwLzm7CDbU/?igsh=c3NpdWg3dHdxbW9i

Anybody have experience working with them?

Why is every leader managing a team they have no experience in? Lots of fail-up leaders, PH being led by a president with a BA in Journalism, KW, the list goes on. Feels like we’re all on a sinking ship.

Kakistocracy is the rule by the incompetent.
That is, those who govern are the least fit to do so, but the most skilled at holding onto power.

5 Rules of Kakistocracy:

Incompetence: Promotions are not given to the most competent, but to the most loyal and ambitious.
Corruption: Those in power no longer work for the common good, but for their own interests and those of their network.
Weakening of checks and balances: Dissenting voices are silenced to prevent questioning of their decisions.
Manipulation: Lies are used to divert attention from failures and to shape public opinion in their favor.
Deceit: Mistakes are never acknowledged. They protect each other and shift responsibility elsewhere. Bad faith and dishonesty are no longer flaws, but strategies.

The reign of the incompetent has a bright future ahead.

What do you think? Are they all as shockingly bad as mine ended up? Email yesterday said 70-90% in line with current responsibilities, mine is literally 0%. It was clearly written for an entirely different industry.

It's frankly embarrassing how disconnected HR is from the reality of what we do.

Schrodinger began laying off the clinical team today. They’re also ending “independent” clinical development, which really closes the door on their entire clinical pipeline - especially since these poor performing assets have failed to attract any partner interest even after years of development. The Chief Medical Officer is also leaving.

These actions highlight the failure of Schrodinger’s executive leadership and board of directors. Their inability to deliver any assets that can succeed in the clinic is a direct reflection their incompetence, inexperience and ineffective leadership. There’s a repeated pattern of poor judgment, weak decision-making, and avoidance of accountability. It’s amazing that, despite this utter abysmal performance, the C-suite and BoD has not been held accountable. It’s time to clean house and find competent replacements that can deliver results.

I am sure other posters will share many examples, and yet the reader will still not be able to grasp the extent of incompetence they are gifted with and waste they lay all around.

Almost everyone who was valuable to Fiserv have left, some retired, some were tired of the complete mismanagement, some found better opportunities…. Bottom line, the cream of the crop are gone leaving the less talented and the incompetent. I don’t see Fiserv coming back at this point, it’s too far gone, too little too late, too bad….

The obscene thing is that management think they know their stuff, but they are the most incompetent people I’ve ever seen. Turn out the lights.

I swear, if anyone still needed proof of how incompetent this leadership is, we just got it loud and clear.

met him for the first time the other day and i couldnt believe how this guy got to this position. another example of unqualified people getting promoted to sr leadership. omg.

14bn$ spent and 1 bn additional revenue to show for next 4 quarters and still a weak guidance for FY26. What a masterstroke by Teri to cover up his incompetence.Now watch Rami dancing around for next 3 years as he takes down HPE along with his henchmen.

They had you all come back to the Cole but they didn't even complete testing. Numbnuts on slack just admitted it... Good luck to anyone on that site. They clearly don't care.

Because there are so many useless teams like QPOET which have been doing NOTHING for so many years!

Obviously leaving is the best course of action (working on that lol), but how do folks deal with incompetence with their management? I can’t think of one thing my manager does to protect the team, and we are the last people to learn about anything. I feel like it’s having a larger impact on our team/project but what should I do? 🙏🏻

No meeting, no heads up. Supervisors in MFG side don’t even know who got laid on their team on A/B shift. How did they pick the people.. crazy

The response by these dipsh-ts is comedy. Almost seems like they are trying to cover up another massive mistake they made with this Shai-Hulud response. Too bad none of the incompetent workers will be laid off, only those with a brain and those that speak the truth will be laid off.

The total for the week was correct but all the individual days were wrong. How the heck do they do that? Seems like a different error every week.

I need to be blunt about the architecture team. They are overwhelmingly ineffective. Their performance is an embarrassment for what they're paid. They consistently demonstrate a profound inability to grasp practical constraints, rendering their input in meetings not just useless, but actively detrimental. As GCL, I view interfacing with them as a waste of my team's time and the company's money.

Based on the last round of layoffs, it seems they want to be a company of directors and managers only with minimal individual contributors. It’s like a manager has one report and reports to another manager who reports to a director… Individual Contributors move the needle and layers of managers slow progress. D-mb. Keep plugging fake numbers in your value delivery.

Lmao ESRO is so incompetent

Create unnecessary bureaucracy, hamper innovation and significantly slow down decision making.

Long gone are the days when people dreamed of working at Intel. Now we can’t even attract mediocre employees, and the top talent is avoiding us in wide berths. I fear this kind of loss of reputation is irreparable and we’ll be feeling it for a long time to come.

Zortman, Fargo...clowns. couldn't swallow their pride that they selected Wayne and extended his contract. Then, to cover it up, Wayne lies that it was his choice to leave. Until you clear out the incompetence in the BoD, you'll keep getting subpar CEO selections. I wouldn't trust the remaining EC to run my 10 yr old's lemonade stand.