#management

I hear that Jira Boards are being heavily scrutinized to see whos' doing what

OK, so I have sympathy for everyone who's impacted, and nobody deserves this. They don't need to get rid of all the directors and VPs because some of them actually know what they're doing. But seriously, and objectively, they should get rid of the ones who have no understanding of the ins and outs of the team. Their biggest contributions are taking credit for their managers' and ICs' work, creating unnecessary bureaucracy, and dragging everyone into endless, pointless meetings. The team/org would honestly run much better without them.

All new hires WW have to be approved Alvind and he wants a genuine business case. He doesn't even trust his direct report to sloths to make a good hire.

Only Americans will be laid off. H1B and other visa types are a legal obligation, and are expensive to hire, rehire and layoff. So, it is better to be as a H1B employee. You will not be touched and if you have a same caste manager, you have super powers.

I've seen like 10 IAM cyber manager job postings...what is the build up going on there?

Recruiters and hiring managers - is it looked down upon of someone internal reaches out to you about a job posting they are interested in or ones where they want to refer someone?

Come on man, can you at least pretend to do some work?

Referring to claims but may be other departments too. I really didn’t think it could be worse than rock bottom but here comes big blue with the excavator. My manager used to be ok but he is becoming militant and aggressive, due to those above him. A low performer on the team got fired. Threats of performance management for missing a single metric. More and more being dumped on the plate. This job has always been a toxic cesspool, but somehow it’s getting worse

Results are out and they look positive? high 80s for the engagement score. Not what I expected what do you all think? Didn’t give a good rating to my immediate manager , hope it won’t come back to bite me in end of year reviews. Fell for the ‘fully confidential’ lie

I feel like the company is just committing psychological warfare at this point. I called HR this morning, and they said the HR department is not informed at all about involuntary layoffs. This whole process from upper "management" goes beyond unprofessional. Sarah London stated that there would be layoffs in the first week of August. I am now hearing that the date is changing or that most people, including PLs don't even know what is going on. I get having to wait for VSP results, but if the fu--ing ceo says layoffs are a certain date, I would hope they would honor that statement. I'm just so stressed and over all of this bullsh-t.

Hey bootlickers! Please stop monitoring where everyone sits. Someone reported me that I'm working from the cafeteria. Hey MF you obviously have ZERO work to do to care that much. Joke is in you, my manager don't even care where I sit. And yes I'm gonna sit by the snacks, the sun, away from you. WTF this place is he-l.

Even managers have been kept out of the loop as to how these targets were calculated, so I thought it would be helpful to try to crowdsource some info and come up with a model. If you don’t mind, post your target here and some info about your role. Dont be too specific as we want to maintain our anonymity. I’ll start: 12%. Front line manager in global engineering.

I'm so tired of the "we're family" speech when they need me to work late or take on extra projects. The moment I ask for a fair raise, it's "business decisions" and "budget constraints." If we're family, treat us like it. If it's business, stop pretending otherwise.

I've been here long enough to see no strategy, no vision, just random decisions. Prove me wrong.

Let me tell you a couple of three things: forget the excuses, forget the value Lyons managed to erase, and forget the corporate incompetence that put Fiserv in this position.

Takis took that stock—weak, embarrassed, wandering around like it had no leadership—and brought it all the way back to where it was before Lyons left. Frankly, it’s an honor to be surrounded by shareholders who still believe in execution, discipline, and making money—and not incompetent executives like Lyons, who should’ve stayed in whatever management-development program he crawled out of.

The future? I’m optimistic. Takis has restored respect, restored confidence, and most importantly, restored the stock price.

As far as Lyons is concerned, my estimation of him as an executive just plummeted.

The audacity for management to tell us we are going to be training a vendor to do our jobs and in August they’ll decide if they want to keep us or not.

I WAS FIRED AFTER 15+ YEARS OF SERVICE- HAD A CALL IN MAY THEN IN EARLY JULY WAS FIRED WITH OTHER IN THE STORE - MANAGER? STILL HAS A JOB - THEN NOT EVEN A WEEK LATER THEY TURNED OUR STORE ALONG WITH MANY INTO A RESELLER... THIS WAS DONE ON PURPOSE/PLANNED TO GET RID OF OLDER EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE BOARD INCLUDING SOME DM's - I'M SEEING A LAWYER BECAUSE I WAS WRONGFULLY TERMINATED ALONG WITH MANY - THIS WAS JUST ANOTHER LAY OFF METHOD FOR MANY - VERIZON SAYS 7 CUSTOMERS DETERMIND MY FATE OF BEING FIRE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T UNDERTSAND THE BYOD+ OUT OF THE MANY YEARS OF HELPING CUSTOMERS - TRUST ME WHEN I SAY IN A ROOM THERE WAS A CONVO ABOUT CUTTING EMPLOYEES AND THIS WAS JUST A EASY WAY FOR VERIZON TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM A WELLS FARGO LIKE LAWSUIT - FOR TWO YEARS WE COULD DO BYOD+ ON DPP AND SAME DEVICES BUT AFTER JAN 2026 THEY CHANGED THAT...AND OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM DIDNT EVEN TELL US!!!

So is CIBT personnel going to HY?
I know damn well most crusty as fu-k managers that have McMansions in CT will not go to Jersey so wtf is happening this NOV?

I just refreshed the executive leadership page and Pete C is missing. Also one of the guys with the Turbans is gone. Man people are dropping like crazy off that page. I wonder when Guy will finally drop off.

I'd appreciate it if Dan could review one of talk products. The app has terrible reviews, which is hurting Verizon's reputation. The people involved seem overly confident and rude, Boston manager acting like they're untouchable. It's the worst management I've ever seen.

Managers in retail are starting to step down after this last round of cuts.

I don't understand how our org chart makes any sense. Why do so many people/groups report up to people that aren't really in their same area of work, or region for that matter? I can see cross-region reporting when it makes sense, but it doesn't always. Person/group A reports up to person/group B who does something else entirely. Meanwhile, there is a 100% related person/group C who does what A does and seems to be a logical fit. Why is this? I see it a lot.

Every new manager we get seems less qualified than the last. It's like they're hiring for incompetence.

Will the dispatchers unionize or stay "management"

Friday my PL requested that we "acknowledge" their comments about our progress checkpoint. She only had 4 out of the 11 people in my team do it which makes me think we are the ones who applied to the VSP. She said we need to acknowledge ASAP in order to be "processed by the next department" like girl just tell us what the fu-k that means lol

If this is true, and with dead weight in management just getting heavier, we'll be in major trouble very soon. When you lose most of the people who know what they're doing and you add useless managers instead of trying to replace them, things are bound to start breaking sooner rather than later.

You should be thinking like an executive saying to yourself how much can I strip out of this company while contributing as little as possible.

The managers wonder why morale is low, they wonder why people don't care anymore.
They don't take care of the people that shows up to work and when they do punish the ones that calls in all the time, some how it ends up being everyone included at the buffet.
Short handed, no communication, no help, and no rewards for hard work beside a paycheck.

I had a horrible Intel manager. I got laid off by this individual though I was given the most difficult task without any training. That person has set me up for failure. But nevertheless I am in faang now. But that individual soon got laid off and is still searching for job it's more than 2 years

Karma is painful

There was a thread here saying they were going to give everyone a ridiculous low budget.
At least 1 org was put under it and they had to put in for an exemption.
But I've seen mgmt recently asking for how we are innovating with AI again.
Which way is the wind blowing this week?
Are they capping or not?

still a fishy company

Yes—“fishy” is fair as a judgment about credibility, though not the same as proving fraud.

The pattern is what creates the distrust: Honeywell repeatedly highlights orders, backlog, AI, automation, productivity, and future conversion, while employees see layoffs, offshoring, weak current revenue, and constant restructuring. Management may be technically accurate sentence by sentence while still presenting an incomplete picture.

The most suspicious part is the lack of clean reconciliation:

How much growth came from real volume, pricing, acquisitions, backlog conversion, AI-enabled products, and ordinary labor-cost reduction?

Until Honeywell separates those drivers and shows that strong orders consistently become revenue and cash flow, I would treat the narrative skeptically. Real company, real technology, but heavily polished storytelling.

Or maybe a better analogy is that we're Pompei, obliviously waiting for Vesuvius to finally explode. The company just seems to by dying a slow death, going deeper and deeper underwater with each passing month. We have an invisible, inept figurehead CEO at the top. Extremely questionable decisions coming from her less than competent inner circle. Chaos at all levels due to brain drain, the Denver closing, the Accenture fiasco, pi-s poor management, non-communication and outright apathy. There's the ham-fisted rollout of our AI platform, which let's be honest was probably aimed primarily to rescue the not insignificant pool of associates who can barely write at a middle school level. In short, very little cause for optimism. Time to start lowering the lifeboats?

I hate recon!! How are we finding stuff that wasn’t there during inventory?? Also, does your store manager participate in any of it? Mine doesn’t do cr-p then expects everything from everyone!! We don’t have AP so they are “supposed to be” AP.

Book by Jim Collins. If you know, you know.. Somehow, seemingly NOT ONE of our “leaders” have read the book, or understand, or care to understand the importance of ‘Getting the right people on the Bus’. To me, this is a direct acknowledgment that T is nothing more than a stock or commodity, with no real interest in being a competitive and top performing company. Settling for financial position, dividends, and gains is their game and none of us should expect anything more. We are all an operating expense that can be reduced when needed.

IBM’s problem is not that the mainframe disappears tomorrow. It is that most new workloads are being built elsewhere.

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Linux are now the defaults for new applications, while IBM Z, AIX and IBM i increasingly depend on existing customers, transaction growth and hardware-refresh cycles.

AI is weakening the mainframe’s strongest defense: the difficulty of understanding decades of undocumented COBOL and business logic. Toyota’s use of Amazon Q to analyze legacy COBOL and support migration planning is a warning. AI does not need to replace the mainframe directly; it only needs to make leaving cheaper, faster and less risky.

IBM’s traditional software is also exposed. DataStage faces cloud-native ELT, zero-ETL, Redshift, S3 and Iceberg. Red Hat remains useful, but many customers can choose EKS, AKS or GKE instead of OpenShift—and Amazon Linux instead of RHEL.

IBM Cloud is not a credible fourth hyperscaler, and IBM is not investing in AI infrastructure at anything close to Amazon, Microsoft or Google. Its AI strategy increasingly depends on competitors owning the compute, models, distribution and economics.

Quantum offers no immediate rescue. IBM is a serious contender, not the undisputed leader, and commercial returns remain years away.

IBM has repeatedly acquired companies—Lotus, Informix, Rational and many others—without consistently creating lasting platform leadership. Continuing to buy software companies while distributing billions through dividends does not address the underlying problem.

IBM should make an honest choice: cut the dividend and reinvest aggressively, or break up and sell its valuable businesses while they still command premium value.

Harvesting legacy cash, buying another company and protecting the dividend is not a growth strategy. It is managed decline.

Decreasing bureaucracy would make sense if the people left had basic knowledge of systems. As the staff has been critically cut simple repair jobs take days instead of hours. AI cannot replace hands. We should have executed a paced transition plan to execute instead of cutting first and figuring out later. This is proof senior leadership has no clue on how the systems function. They want the people left to come up with a solution and sell AI to support the theme

HCSC is now being managed by Manika and others with some ideology that they are bent on. It is not business. It is ideology. Maurice was an incrediblely smart business person back in the day, but he too has succumbed to this cr-p. Hcsc used to be the best of the Blues. No longer.