#incompetence

I had an American Airlines card from Barclays. Two days back, Barclays switched off my account saying i should deal with Citi now via landingatciti.com. Of course the website doesn't work. I would have been shocked if it did.
Then Citi sends an email about account having been migrated and payments should now be made to Citi blah blah blah. Click the link to set up the account...nothing. That website doesn't work either

Absolute d-mb@sses. Of course, I saw the incompetency from way too up close when employed at Citi. The ONLY thing that seems to work without a hitch at Citi is A) Board approving billions in share buybacks every year despite heavy layoffs and B) Jane getting salary bumps and bonuses every year. It will soon fo from 42M to 45 and then to 50.

Anything else is a total mess at Citi

It's genuinely amazing how so many incompetent managers have gathered in one place and figured out how to drain the life out of thousands of talented people. One bad decision after another, and they keep insisting they're turning things around.

Honestly, it feels like there’s some next-level scam going on between Deloitte and Kroger leadership. Half the time it feels like I work for Deloitte instead of Kroger.

They hire one senior person and fill the rest of the team with clueless recent grads, then expect everything to run smoothly. The leadership is weak, disconnected, and completely out of touch with how much extra burden that creates.

Better to find another job than keep working under incompetent leadership.

Have any of the Legacy Hess employees with prior service at Chevron had their service record updated properly after submitting the required F36 form in the first 60 days of rehire? I am still fighting with the offshore Benefits Connection team. They are truly incompetent; what a great way to save the company money.

The biggest past baggage is still heading the testing and that is resulting in every day deterioration of Coupa quality with many escalations coming every day. Now next list of layoffs is ready just after the current events and she is destroying everything just to save her job. All strong performers under her have left because of her incompetence. Every one in testing team is trying to move to development or leave the company and only people left are those who are not getting anything else. Worst to come for Coupa quality and the remaining people !!

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

Where bad ideas go to become and AFE and a pds that was done 3 yrs ago and people who should never ever get promoted. What say you?!

... and the number of cell sites probably tripled. In most cases, VZ will fire you quickly if you are not cutting it (and replace you with a contractor, not backfill). So if you have lasted over 3 years or so, you have shown you are adaptable and are getting your work done (excluding outliers who may be competent, but hard to work with, so should maybe be cut). But, in the Nov 2025 firings (they are not layoffs), MANY people with 10, 20 and some with 30 years of experience were kicked out. This shows the utter incompetence of VZ leadership. They have no idea how to run a long term business (kicking out the most effective employees to make a budget look better). Leadership looked at the cost of those employees and MAYBE whether they took an AI class here or there (even though there were no AI applications available for that particular job and still aren't) and made uninformed decisions. Completely CLUELESS. If/When an AI tool became available for those employees' roles, those people would adapt, just like they have done for 10, 20 and 30 years.

And for those very few people who talk about a lot of dead weight being cut, you are showing your ignorance. Of course there were a few employees who "earned" being cut, but you are delusional if you think you are somehow more valuable because VZ chose to keep you over someone else. You are just a line item on a sheet that was overlooked by some BOZO higher up.

I'll be brief - almost all of them are always performative, vague... overly scripted and fu--ing unable to execute...

Been at DXC UK a couple of years and just started on my second account. Thought the first one was bad enough but this one I started on recently is unbelievable. I started off with 2 managers. We then raised the issue of not enough technical staff to then receive 2 more managers. So instead of addressing our concerns, we are now being micro-managed by utter incompetent non-producers who fill our day with continuous ‘stand ups’, ‘wash ups’ and data requests for their pointless spreadsheets. How these buffoons feel they are ‘adding value’ is beyond me. Anyone else in this boat?

First layoff I get it. Oops over-hired.

But second and third. No. You can't consistently make mistakes and be competent as a leader.

The architect for our organization keeps using Gartner reports , online research and chatgpt to command what the devs need to do. He has no clue on real software development, has not written a line of code and woefully incompetent. Our MD loves the BS this person produces with power point slides. EA org loves him as they are equally incompetent. My head hurts and I am losing all will to try push for coding the appropriately designed software stack for our business.

They just have to appear to be fair when going through this layoff process, because that's what it is-layoffs. They're making sure that all professional positions will have a job to move into. All service, no matter how technical or how good you are, is over. They'll have thee most incompetent 2040 workforce you could ask for. And for the customer? Bull-$hit. Wait til the customer waits on hold for twenty minutes only to get someone who, one, can't speak English, two, isn't trained to do a damn thing but "escalate a ticket", and three, keep seeing their renewal go up while basic service goes down. Who is advising the company on these kinds of business decisions? Are there ANY adults around? How did we get here??

So we are moving back South of the Red River from the great OKC metroplex Me thinks our Execs or running neck and neck with a pile of rocks for being incompetent bo--s. Spend the money to move me to OKC then spend money to move me back to Spring. What a waste and that money should be paid for from their annual bonuses.

Oh and rumor has it that layoffs in Spring are gonna help pay for relo. Make it make sense. What a d-mb timeline for us.

Wonder why CHK and SWN went bankrupt or pink sheet stock. Look at the numb nuts running it.

What a joke, planned a internal system migration for April 1st and time booking codes have still not been issued 2 weeks later. Where has AI gone? Customers are laughing at this Mickey Mouse so called AI company who can't get their own processes to work. On top of this there is no urgency to resolve this P2 issue. Total incompetence of the highest level, someone should be fired for this.

It’s really shocking how poorly these work changes are being handled. The lack of coordination, communication and planning is unbelievable. The entire leadership staff should be embarrassed.

Let me tell you about the incompetent manager. They schedule meetings about meetings, give feedback like "make it pop," and haven't made a real decision in years yet somehow keep getting promoted. And the frustrating part? They're not stupid. That's the whole thing. They're just not applying their intelligence to actual work. They've figured out how to look like a leader from above: talk confidently, claim the wins, and let the team quietly eat every failure. It's a survival strategy dressed up as management, and the worst part is it works perfectly.

ISG needs a serious en--a, starting with the shitpile of incompetent leadership. I hope this week brings a long-needed cleaning house.

Removed my earlier post. Many layoffs going on there. Bad management. Incompetence rules the day.

because I keep writing same thing over and over in the hopes that Nike upper management do something. And it is either because they are incompetent or just plain stupid, they don't do anything!!!!
Nike finally divulged their f2ck ups in public today and stock is down almost 10 percent after hours. That is Wall Street's judgement of NIke management's Doo Doos.
It is a F. OK, enough about JD's f2ck up but what is the excuse that EH cannot come out with any campaign or new shoes in 18 months that he has been there?
Nike confirmed that sales will go down until the end of this year.
LET'S GET RID OF EH SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. What will he do going forward that he did not do in lasts 18 months. I am sure EH will walk away with nice big package so don't feel sorry for him and as for us mortals we will go week to week hoping that we don't get hit by flying axe.
PK, I know your wealth went down by 3 billion today so please fire EH like you fired Perez back in the day. Or your wealth will go down by another 10 percent soon.

They've proven to be incompetent again and again. Plus, they'd save much more money with fewer people. Win/win.

It’s the "who you know" club all over again. We’ve got directors jumping into "AI Lead" roles who clearly haven't read a technical paper in years. They’re still pushing 2023-era prompting guides like they’re some kind of holy grail, even though that’s basically Stone Age tech for modern models.

Just sat through a meeting where a lead told us to "stay away from the newest models because they’re still learning." Tell me you don't understand how LLM training or inference works without telling me. It’s embarrassing. We’re throwing insane amounts of money away because the people making the calls have zero technical literacy. If you know anything about how this tech actually functions, you’ll see why this is destined to fail.

Note: Ran this through a scrubber to strip out my specific lingo/quotes so I don't get doxxed. You should too.

What’s Going Wrong with FIS

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) is struggling less with outright business deterioration and more with a sustained loss of investor confidence a poor executive leadership. While financial performance remains stable, growth is modest and not compelling enough to drive a re-rating plus the stock price continues to drop. Now at $46 where under the finer CEO it was 4x higher.

The company is in a prolonged strategic transition following major portfolio changes (e.g., Worldpay), continual layoffs, outsourcing and constant reorganizations leaving it stuck between.

The leadership direction and lack of strategy creates uncertainty about its long-term identity and competitive edge.

Leadership under CEO Stephanie Ferris is weak, directionless and manic and has focused on massive cost-cutting, buybacks, and margin improvement, but investors question whether this is substituting for real organic growth and innovation. As a result, FIS risks being viewed as a financial engineering story rather than a growth company.

Additional pressure comes from over reliance on third party Consulting companies, balance sheet constraints, inconsistent guidance credibility, lack of projected leadership confidence, internal instability and strong fintech competition, all of which reinforce skepticism about execution.

Bloomberg posted a story that citi execs are contemplating ways to grow deposits domestically through regional bank acquisitions. USB and TFc in play.

And yes. Aware that C “dismissed the baseless speculation “

How many operating council members and other “paper tiger” execs survive? Shouldn’t take long to figure out the incompetence.

How is the morale? It feels like rock bottom here in Denver. All the leaders in TX and completely disconnected from the business and staff.

Is there any org thats even half decent?
It used to feel the infrastructure, CTO architecture are the main incompetent organization. Now its all over in every LOB.

A simple policy clarification and ended up in a 6-week loop of "alignment calls" and "deep dives" with multiple teams. It felt like explaining basic math to people determined to make it calculus. After 45 days of overcomplicating the simplest request, they finally came back and said it’s "trivial and not applicable."

The level of incompetence and the obsession with making everything a project is exhausting. We’re not innovating; we’re just spinning tires and calling it progress.

When did just barely good enough become our goal? We used to demand the best. Being part of ExxonMobil was something to be proud of. No longer. Now we just settle for good enough. The trouble is good enough is really embarrassingly poorly done.

High performers find problems. They identify gaps. They raise their hand. Challenge the status quo. Challenge leaders. Support their fellow employees.

Wonder why you’re surrounded by a ton of slackers? They don’t identify problems. They say yes at a sloths pace to their bosses bad direction. You see it as we-ponized incompetence.

Take a hint from their playbook. We-ponize some incompetence. Say yes at a sloths pace.

Sorry the next news to drop is freezing the pension for those active employees that are pension eligible. That will be announced right after the April round of severance packages. The next round of severance packages/pressure tactics ramps up again in October and will wipe out most of the remaining underwriting folks. You will get the return to work mandate, for 50% of the time, for most employees effective September 01, 2026. Leadership 75% of the time. Executive will announce they are converting a large portion of your remaining PTO to sabbatical time and pay you out for a portion of it as well. They are trying to weed out any old remnants of the old SF or pressure test those people they consider weak. They are still delusional thinking the continued failure of their business model is not the incompetent DEI/2040 workforce they have hired, hubs and horrible business models they keep doubling down on. One more "magic" motivational quote, 1x1, Huddle, TPD or SXS is all that is standing behind their names in glory in the business world and return to #1. It is kind of funny to actually watch this level of stupidity and incompetence! Hilarious!

We have VPs who can't manage and directors who can't direct. No wonder everything is so messed up.

At UC Riverside, failing upwards has evolved into standard operating procedure. The institution essentially functions as a sanctuary for bad management, sustained by an administration so terrified of litigation that firing underperformers is virtually off the table. Instead of addressing staggering incompetence, the preferred strategy is to play musical chairs with the dead weight, shuffling the worst offenders into newly invented roles under the guise of "reorganization."

This creates a fascinating dynamic where staff and leadership fundamentally do not know how to execute basic, day-to-day operations. Everything is handled purely in theory. Committees will spend weeks philosophizing over conceptual frameworks and best practices, while the most fundamental, ground-level workplace tasks completely collapse in reality.

Naturally, the fallout from this environment is directed to Human Resources. The prevalent, yet misguided, belief among staff is that HR exists to salvage morale or fix broken departments. In reality, HR functions strictly as the university's legal meat shield. Their primary objective is not to protect employees from toxic leadership, but to calculate exactly how much institutional dysfunction can be legally harbored without triggering a lawsuit or a compliance violation.

The annual "anonymous" climate surveys remain a staple, of course - providing the perfect illusion of progress while changing absolutely nothing.

Hey look Gunn got new job titles. Still does nothing but blames others. Funny considering he was let go from a previous position because the OCC forced the leadership to do so. Love this place!!!!

It's so incredibly wonderful to have finally exited this dumpster fire of a once great company. The air is fresher, the birds are singing, the flowers smell sweeter. The level of TIAA senior management incompetence, hypocrisy and corruptibility is matched only by that of our nation's current White House administration. No more ridiculous 3 day in office pseudo collaboration. No more glowing annual reviews and high praise that at bonus time still never translate to anything higher than a middle of the pack rating. No more televised circus side shows featuring the queen bee and her inner circle of high paid enablers (Are You Ready to Rock Charlotte!?). Let's see now how everything plays out as I try to get my retirement funds out of the company. There's a lot of great people that I'll truly miss. And no small amount of individuals that I most definitely will not.

Wells Fargo supposedly is doing better than it's peers but has declined from 95+ per share to 74 in a short time. The market is showing skepticism, clearly, of the firm and something appears to be wrong , perhaps unknown. I can't imagine being an employee or financial advisor and bringing clients into this mess with an incompetent CEO. To the advisors out there, you're all id--ts.

And Oracle is tops

https://youtu.be/a1Vd85ilWiI

Never in my life have I worked for a company with so many incompetent leaders. Sales, presales, product, marketing… the lot! Its time to clean out the old command and start fresh. Current leaders either: know someone higher up and are hired to be an ally, are a hangover from the last quota based hiring regime, are old as ba--s or came in through nepotism.

Dear John,
Oh behalf of the COR retail sales team, we are informing you that you “failed” your side by side observation! Your failed to do your mid check in as well as loosing money for the Company with your failed sales techniques! Your inability to sale and represent the companies values are lacking!

At first I thought the posts here about BTC were exaggerated or just people being salty. But after working with a few of their devs, I get it now. And I’ve been hearing the same thing from multiple other teams.

A lot of them just don’t seem to know how to code. Things that should take a week end up taking months. Constant blockers, missed messages, excuses, and everything needs tons of guidance. But they’re good at talking in meetings and making it sound like progress is happening...

I noticed they started using chatgpt. It would be great if that actually sped things up, but they don’t really understand the code they generated. It just helps them pretend they are working. It's really a scam.

crazy thing to me is that managers don’t want to acknowledge it. Is it even worth bringing it up?

OVV has assembled the weakest and most incompetent Executive Team in the history of Oil and Gas! Doug, please come back and clean this mess up!

The most toxic workshop culture I've ever seen with ill-fit incompetent management. More, More, More. Angry employees taking it out on one another. Do you think the execs know how it is down here? Horrible attrition, and still layoffs every 2 weeks. I used to be an over achiever, doesn't matter here, you'll only pick up the slack of the duds, bare minimum it is.