#leadership

a decade+ of bad calls have wrecked the org. period...

Merch is an utter mess. It used to be elite - now it is junk. sooo hard to see how they recruit.

The brass tanked the stock valuation with suic_idal blunders.

With Michael taking on more as CEO, they’re bringing an outside team to lead enterprise acceleration: Thelma and Louise

Why would this be happening especially with HR?

https://www.washingtontechnology.com/companies/2025/10/saic-parts-ways-ceo-toni-townes-whitley/409034/

Anyone know what's going on?

Blake has ruined the company. Sure. Stock price is up but so is everything. 2 years ago, there where 9000 NEW people and all the GOOD leaders had left. BECKHOFF and Siemens are delivering way more new products. Blake keeps overpaying for underperforming assets. The board is worthless.

We were a well oiled machined when I ran Operations.

This zero-innovation management team would be gone yesterday, and employees at all levels (management are also employees) who think spending 8 hours a day being in an office building translates to 8 hours a day of productivity would be culled in favor of those who understand 80% of your results come from 20% of your effort.

Effective employees avoid the other 80% of effort because it's almost always useless. AI could hold an earnings call and draft a better earnings email than any of the current management team. It would certainly sound more professional than WF's Chief uhm-ahh Officer.

Stop! Just Stop!

We are all just complaining way too much about friggin’ everything.

Hug your spouse or partner. Hug your child. Sh1t, hug a stranger and you should feel better about it.

RTO - I know many of you were f&ck3d, but you gotta get over it already. Even us who had to relocate or are still under the threat of it. We all have choices even very tough ones.

RTO - yes, I wish there were much more respectful facilities and dedicated space. But the f&ck3rs decided not to step up and do so.

DEI - you gotta be kidding me. These “others” have been royally f&ck3d forever and you all are still b1tch1ng. They’re just trying to survive like the rest of us.

Leadership - I can’t explain how or why Stinky got the CEO job given his fingerprints all over really bad decisions but that’s how most corporations work.

H1B and Outsourcing - sure, they took some jobs but probably better for our country to get good talent in here. And, they’re just trying to survive too.

Libtards - yeah, they definitely over rev on “causes”, but they do mean well. Trying to help the have nots.

Conservaschmucks - they care too but come at it from a different perspective. Teach someone to fish but not endlessly give fish.

Just be friggin nice. We’ll be better for it. It is what any decent person would want.

And that’s all I have to say about that.

Ranked in the top 5 of employers in all the major magazines? That sh-t was all over circuit…posters…guess they aren’t publishing those numbers any more. Andy is rolling in his grave. Took a little time, but I found something in two months, better pay, normal work hours. No more 9pm task forces 7 days a week. 6am factory passdown, that you then go have to repeat in 4 other meetings before noon. Go to work, do my job, and go home. At Intel work-life balance just means If Intel isn’t your entire life, you don’t get to work there.

So fu--ing sad.

Some VPs and SVPs got laid off yesterday and today. Anyone know who has gone so far?

Unfortunately those impacted will likely be the team members who actually do the work. As a former Target HQ employee of more than a decade, I can tell you to look at SVPs, VPs, and Sr Directors who have no investment in the team in Minneapolis and no interest in returning to the office despite what they expect of their working teams. They are where the culture and the ROI breaks down but it will likely be the doers that pay the price for their leaders lack of clear strategy, general disrespect for the Target team, and disconnect from the Target consumer. Tip for Target, clean house at your leader level and watch your working teams thrive again.

Even with stock buy backs!

Are there more Acqueon layoffs coming?

thank you for your attention to this matter!
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4507696-unitedhealths-optum-unit-cfo-depart

Can we all just agree that the upcoming layoffs are noting more than CP being greedy?

Who makes the decision on who gets cut or not? Directors? L7s and L8s?

Saw a comment about a Sr. Director say to their org that they didn’t know and was blindsided by the news. I personally don’t believe that

Well the Train Station looks nice, but is a money pit for taxpayers and Ford. There are supposed to be. 5,000 w2 employees working there today, nowhere near that.

Big money is at stake. Seasoned pro is required.

All the layoffs paid off!

Listening to the earnings call I’d PAINFUL!

Can’t believe she didn’t even announce it herself and had someone else speak for her. She’s probably just done with all the ** and called it quits.

Soon company ( I think Nov 18,2025) will have its Annual Stockholder virtual meeting. You are more than welcome to ask tough questions to uncle L, aunt SC & rest of the old horses.

This is how we’re hitting back? I don’t think this is making the TMO leadership sh!t their pants. The cellphone equivalent of Wi---e Horton this is most definitely not.

I say this with love to all my fellow brethern. I think it has become quite apparent that omnissa has no interest in its staff or its customers and there are a lot of reasons which many have covered but we serfs must look at the facts. The management said the books are in great shape but nobody that I know got 100PC of their bonus. They are clearly lying. The products are worse now and have not evolved. They dont have enough staff and they refuse to hire more, opting to create more management. Product managers are terrible and have been there for years feeding from the troughs. Staff are now leaving including myself so its only going to get a lot worse. There has been clear open corruption and clear violation of law. There is no integrity, morality or humanity and frankly the place is being run into the ground like a third world sweat shop. Management and the shhep who feed from their teets are going nowhere and KKR is clearly a crack pot organisation that likes throwing money down the drain. Its time to move on folks. It would take millions of dollars to bring this company back to relevance again. All ourcompetors have their own self hosted offerings on their own cloud infra and we dont adding extra costs for customers. Our products have no USP to draw in customers and frankly engineering are a complete disaster with bugs galore, putting sticky plasters on their disastrous code which normally regresses by the next version because there is little to no qa done. The company complies with Indian standards which as we all know are really low. My advise is to another job before you become another casualty of Ben and shankars circus act. Next year they are going to try and off load this car crash, pull the rug and run with their dividends. You will be the last thing on their minds, not that you were ever there in the first place.

Just overheard a Sr. Director say that on 10/28 BC plans on tossing the target Lego dog from the C suite lobby onto nicollet mall and then shouting "good luck with this mess everyone" and then retiring early.

Just saying. It's just my gut feel given the direction and how lost the execs are. Zero strategy, poor direction, poor execution. The executives are the ones who should be let go, not the worker.

Take a look at the FI price history for all years. If you know FI (FISV), you would know that FI has always been a slow and steady stock with 8 splits starting in 1991 and the last being in 2018.

Fiserv was the slow, ever increasing, dependable stock with splits that realized compounding value. It was a great stock to own inside or outside the company.

Look at the odd outlier behavior starting in 2019. It's almost like the stock was severely manipulated because it does not follow the historical trend. Remember, the stock price graph doesn't lie. Even if you don't believe it was manipulated, you can see the fingerprints of something other than a normal Fiserv at least in historical terms.

Some important quotes we can ponder to assess the caliber of our past leader:

"What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security? What am I going to do?”

“You know, one of my great skills, I’m one of the great Googlers on the East Coast," he said. "Put that as the headline for the post: ‘great Googler-in-chief, chief-in-Googler,’ or whatever."

Has anyone heard of any big leaders "retiring" or leaving the company?

Check out the link below to read a story from a whistleblower. This is exactly what has been happening at HCSC since ITOM in 2017. Don't believe me? Take a look at the ORG chart sometime and tell me this isn't happening. There has been a replacement of not only leadership, but all levels inside HCSC. Stories like this are just the tip of the iceberg too. Do you want to know who is responsible and allow it to keep happening? The Board of Directors that oversee this company and most likely the first two levels of our ORG chart.

They don't care about any of the people that have built this company or the people who work hard day and day out to support it. This post is not about politics and this is not about race. If you offended by it - take a breather, calm down, and try to process the information logically and not emotionally.

Loved how on yesterday’s internal earnings call Stank opened up with T missing its cashflow plan so bonuses may be impacted. Seriously? You can’t manage cashflow so make the employees pay? Also loved the comment about using corporate tax reductions for “other purposes”.

Stank - it’s time to go.

Is our new CMO advising these terrible LinkedIn posts for raoool and the rest of his "leadership". Bold face lies made worse by the fact that 90% of "likes" coming from his management. Looking so desperate and pathetic. How can so many incompetent people be running one company?

Amdocs was founded in Israel in 1982, and partially acquired by SBC in 1985.
What they don’t tell you, is the project that led them to being acquired so fast, was actually the first android project in the world, called Project Stank.
It’s not publicized, because the android they created, could only sh-t out of his mouth, and not his a-s.
However, there was a problem with Project Stank’s gastrointestinal system, leading to the android only being able to say the word, “Fiber”.
Amdocs sold the project to SBC and it is now our CEO

AT&T loves to talk about connectivity. The “AT&T Guarantee,” the shiny ads about “bringing people together.” But the only thing they seem to connect is frustration and disappointment.

Check the reviews — 1 out of 5 stars on Trustpilot. One star. For a 100-year-old telecom giant. You’d think after a century of selling phones, they’d have figured out how to answer one.

And it’s not just customers they can’t connect with — it’s their own employees.
The CEO’s new motto might as well be: “You don’t like it here? Leave.”
Inspirational, right? Nothing says “leadership” like threatening the people who actually keep the lights on.

Meanwhile, T-Mobile — the company they keep mocking — sits near a $200 stock price, while AT&T’s stock is doing the corporate version of buffering. Maybe arrogance doesn’t sell after all.

A century in business, billions in ads, and still can’t connect with the people paying the bills or the ones cashing the checks.
Maybe the “AT&T Guarantee” means they’ll drop your call, your signal, and your morale — all at once.

It is very easy to see the UM Centralization Leadership is realizing they have messed up! Easy to see they are reading these post! Take
Some responsibility and admit this is a mess!!!

Any truth to that? Wouldn’t they announce that?

Payoffs this month in legal and strategy dept aka “SEAL” this month after their new CLSO is slashing jobs left and right. Horrible morale for those who stayed. The way the layoffs are handled is stone cold and heartless.

Whenever we have these off sites for our division, I always feel like we leave with more questions than answers. Just once , it would be good to have GPs that can answer questions directly vs wishy washy unclear responses.

I was laid off years ago from a different company and felt like I did something wrong,
but it wasn't me it was a company much more dysfunctional than CMCSA.
This was not your fault.

However...
Some observations from a former national engineer who lead a team that built a system intended for divisional and DCF usage;

1. Other national and 2 of 3 divisional teams HAD to build their own instead of collaborating with national and all divisions.. e.g. Power hungry.
2. Upper management permitted this to happen. Heck, the west pretty much encouraged it.
3. DCF rolled out new systems with poor naming strategies and a ~70% ability to match names in existing systems.
4. Cable is dying !! And Brian Roberts has realized that the monopoly is over and hired a co-CEO since the next 10 years will determine if CMCSA survives.

Point is, we had too many people building the same system(s) and management let it happen. Upper management was all about power and not about cooperating.

The last semblance of segregation of duties and independent oversight is gone. Not that Citi is the only one to do this. But well....