#management

Is it the VP that decides or is it your manager? Pulte? What metrics do they use? Commit amount? How often your name comes up in meetings? Does your age matter much? What about pay?

I’m trying to understand what the actual purpose of that group is and what the experience has been for people who’ve been part of it for a while.

Recently, Risk Management was added under that umbrella, but there hasn’t been any clear explanation why. Of course, we’ve heard the usual “happy” messages like: “lucky us,” “everything will stay the same,” “everything will be alright”, but it doesn’t really seem that way.

If anyone has insight into what’s going on or how this group operates internally, I’d really appreciate hearing your perspective.

Why IBM managers are so incompetent?

Hi, with the recent WFR going on in Dell will it be okay if I ask my manager straight forward to add my name as well in the list? Not sure about will they agree or will it backfire me. I am fed up of everything going on currently and it is impacting my mental health & peace very much. I heard there is WFR going on in overall ISG this week so I was thinking to discuss my concern with manager. Anyone please help.

If I said what I did, it would be too easy to know who I am…I had a great relationship with the engineering group except for one person. This person and I got into a huge fight in the cafe one day. The next day, this engineering manager wouldn’t even talk to me and I was told I should take the VSP/Retirement. I didn’t know that engineer was the managers brother in law. A year later I run into him at an event…he got pushed out 6 months after I did. Have to admit I felt satisfied.

Worked here some time ago, the management was terrible. Their so called 1, 2, and 3rd level leaders were extremely terrible human beings. They treated people poorly and there was no recourse for the staff. The higher level management just believed their lies, no accountability, it was a really terrible gruling experience.

Managers know who's dependable, who consistently delivers, and who the team relies on. Yet some of the people who get let go are exactly those employees. It makes me wonder whether the decisions are made by people looking at spreadsheets instead of the actual work.

If anyone asks what I dislike about my role here, it’s definitely the massive caseload. Every time it comes up, management just says it's because of our "contract obligations." Honestly, I don't get why they can't just hire more people to offset the workload instead of burning everyone out. What do you dislike about you role?

When I first applied two years ago, I checked this page and told myself it was just unhappy people venting. Now I've been here long enough to know they were right. The culture, the management, the chaos, it's all here in black and white. I should have listened. Mea culpa.

Why would anyone take this. Here’s a few things I’ve thought about:

1. You have no control or say over how the firm is run
2. No covenants and Class B has no rate floor, so you are last in line for any payouts
3. If something happened in the markets, or the firm is badly run, you have your salary, bonus, and LP at risk, it concentrates your wealth to a single firm you have no control over.
4. 20% over the last few years might not have even been better than a growth fund, so there are alternatives.

The whole structure comes down to whether you trust the current management or not.

What am I missing?

Letter that Management retiree Life Insurance was canceled July 31, 2026.

Is it standard practice at truist to blind copy management when you apply for roles internally? I don't mass apply however I watch the job boards and occasionally apply for things I think would be a good fit. Each time my manager reaches out and has this passive aggressive conversation with me about each application.... like what do you want me to say? I can't tell her to her face that I'm weary of the department management, direction, or the consistent RIFs. No other bank or company I've ever worked at does this. I would understand a conversation if I was in the final interview running but for every application it feel like a guilt trip.

The upstream has been gutted. We are staffed for copy and past Guyana and copy and paste Permian. With the Horizon challenge nothing is copy and paste now. Executives baffled why everything isn’t like Guyana and Permian. Endless effort being expended to hold their hands and explain to them why everything isn’t not as easy as Permian and Guyana. Sadly they aren’t smart enough to understand so just keep yelling at the teams to find a way.

So to stop people who leave AEP transmission because of the poor executive leadership over them, they are now going to break the relationships we’ve built with our partners and have another company control our OECs so we can’t build relationships. They are so blind. You treat your people with respect then you won’t have them leaving. Pure and simple. Kamran and Manish have NO respect or repore with their people. Sad.

There are so many trolls trying to distract from the really important discussions around (potential or real) layoffs and how to cope. Please stop this. The important discussions are drowned out.

Two kinds of distractions are especially not needed: fake Indians (used to discredit Indians instead of focusing on the real opponents: the board and upper management), and na-i postings (often referring to the AfD, which is a really despicable lot of people no decent person would ever want to have contact with).

Stop this trolling. Do not drown the important discussions with this drivel.

Thanks.

Another departure from the CSBB audit team. This time a director only there for a year and a half. You have a managing director that is pregnant and will be out on leave. A recently promoted director out on leave. What is going on with management in that team that so many are finding an out?

Get rid of all the tenured Store Managers and have someone replace them with half the pay.

Below is what GMs do, they dont bring any revenue.

Reviewed sales dashboards that an AI could summarize in five seconds.

Answered repetitive customer questions that a chatbot handles 24/7.

Sent follow-up emails whose content could be generated by AI with remarkably similar enthusiasm.

Scheduled employees using software that already suggests the optimal schedule.

Read reports generated by systems that generate reports about other systems.

Approved routine requests that mostly followed predefined policies.

Held meetings to discuss KPIs that AI had already analyzed.

Repeated corporate announcements after they had already been emailed to everyone.

Escalated unusual situations—the one area where humans still tend to outperform automation.

Provided empathy, judgment, and conflict resolution when customers had complex or emotionally charged issues.

I know people don't want to hear that but it's true. Hear it out.

BAIN is running the company now. That's why there is such a stark deviation from the way Dell has always operated in the past. Bain & Company is one of the top global Management Business Consulting firms - emphasis on the term "Business Management" since Dell has exercised very little of that discipline up until now.

Rest assured BAIN is going over the portfolio with a fine-toothed comb. They are looking at delayed and failed projects. They are looking at the number of employees per project. They are looking at burn rates. They are looking at abysmal productivity ratios. They are looking at fixed, variable, and sunk costs associated with underwater ROI for numerous projects that have failed year in and year out.

The truth is Dell operated with little to zero accountability in the past. Now there is accountability and people are surprised?? It should be the other way around. We should all be surprised it took MD this long to clean up the fat, the bloat, the waste, the inneficiencies, the lack of execution, the lack of accountability. And whether you want to believe it or not, he's cleaning it up to get the company ready for sale before he retires.

Granted, Wall Street loves these types of moves because layoffs in particular artificially prop up EPS on the income statement. Investors love that. However, when there's no one else to lay off, and productivity is still floating around 3%, Dell is dead in the water. That's a fact! That's why MD is trying to sell pieces/parts before it caves in on itself. Dell has run its course.

BAIN Is calling the shots now people. Get used to it. The more layoffs we have, the more you can assume long overdue waste and bloat are being discovered in the numbers.

They stage the whole cycle so they can manufacture nonsense feedback. The entire year I kept asking my manager for a real project because I was under‑utilized and stuck doing basic data analysis. I even reached out to others for work, but he blocked everything and insisted that all assignments had to come “directly from him.” Then in the PA meeting he claimed I “didn’t build credibility.” How exactly was I supposed to do that when he deliberately prevented me from taking on meaningful work?

These guys tricked all of us investors for years, and now it is time for them to go and to bring Hock Tan in. He is the only one who can save this sinking ship.

doesn't know how to run an org

Entire empty buildings, with equipment on a single floor, are kept at refrigerator-like temperatures. Why?

The good news is that "Team space" has been decommissioned.
The bad news is that it has been replaced by an upgraded version: performance.

Over the years, Cisco has remained obsessed with these pointless games.
Put simply, there are just too many managers who do nothing but talk big.

V2MOM is now everywhere.

I have previously proposed in this platform that Nike's answer will be split the company in few different segments and run separately with each segments with its own CEOs who reports to one Big CEO.
That idea was shut down by just about anyone in this site (if they are still in here).

So a year has passed since that exquisite moment and we are sinking more in the mud. It was ankle deep but now it is knee deep.

So I want to ask everyone in this site.
Do you think that splitting company and running more independent is the solution?
Because it has been shown that Nike is too big and vast in sports/fashion industry for one guy, specifically EH and his cronies to fix it and turn it around.
And the little CEO that shows most result should be considered for next big CEO.

How many Dell PMs does it take to implement a feature?

Ten minimum

• One PM to ask engineering what features they’re working on given the PM roadmap is just whatever engineering accidentally mentions in Slack.

• One PM to get permission from engineering to talk about the feature followed by a mandatory disclaimer from engineering stating no commitments or guarantees the feature will actually be delivered.

• One PM to break the feature into 13 micro‑features so engineering can ship 1.5 micro stories per quarter and claim iterative customer value even though it doesn't work yet.

• One PM to update the roadmap no one sees, trusts, or uses because it changes so often it’s basically a weather forecast.

• One PM to create a 67‑page PowerPoint deck his manager will present as if he personally invented the feature, the product, and possibly storage itself.

• One PM to plan the release date four years from now, which will later be delayed because engineering discovered “unexpected feature creep."

• One PM to schedule a customer advisory call to validate the feature, then ignore all feedback because engineering thinks the customer is wrong.

• One PM to rename the feature three times so marketing can claim it’s AI‑enhanced.

• One PM to write the requirement and five more PMs to argue whether the requirement should exist at all or be replaced with a vision statement.

• One PM to present the feature in an exec review where leadership will ask why it isn’t already shipping, why it isn’t generating $400M ARR, and why it doesn’t run on ARM.

Just notice two people manager will leave USB on the same day. Seems upper manager gave a hard deadline for them to make a decision.

So many folks at Nike don't complain, don't cause trouble, just do their work consistently and on time, and they get rewarded by being buried in even more work. Management sees your quiet competence as capacity for more. I speak from experience. Since I started complaining and saying no to more work, my life has improved significantly.

He needs to go.
If you're running with 50M plus quotas, being micromanaged is just stupid.

Everyone is debating GCC and pointing fingers at India or coining terms usb India.
Surprised no one is talking about what could be the real governance question.
For example, Masud Amd, Head of AI under WCIB reporting to Qasim Khan(Chicago hub) and S Sheikh, Head of AI under Digital reporting to PM (Chicago hub) are reportedly husband and wife and both work in the Doc Intelligence space leading AI.
The real question isn’t where anyone is from—it’s whether appropriate conflict-of-interest disclosures, governance, and ethical safeguards are in place. How does the Ethics Office ensure that situations like this are reviewed and managed transparently? Are the same standards applied consistently across all employees, regardless of role or seniority?
The management of WCIB Technology under QM Khan was consistently perceived as biased inclusive Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/employment-law/employee-sues-us-bank-for-firing-her-months-after-hr-complaint/567107

What do I do

How can a company be financially viable when every level of management, which I looked up from a lowly tech to the ceo is 7 levels, which even my 1st level has only 8 employees. Industry standard is 18-25 (even at other industries) it’s the same, and above that 2-7 have 1-3 employees under them! The company cannot be financially responsible with so few reports under each layer, it is irresponsible to allow such a financial travesty to continue! Each layer should have 8-10 reports as a minimum! Go look at other industries including ATT or Frito Lay! Look it up it’s insane, this good ole boy days of butt kissing to get a made up position to check off one box are over, they expect the techs in the field to be super universal techs, then also should all levels of management. Let me clean house and pretend I am Elon Musk!

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.

Visa achieved a historic milestone by surpassing $4 trillion in quarterly payments volume, demonstrating robust growth in both consumer and commercial transactions. This strong performance was further bolstered by a significant 34% year-over-year increase in value-added services revenue, largely driven by FIFA World Cup marketing initiatives. Despite this financial strength, the company announced a workforce reduction, primarily impacting technology and product roles. Management has raised its full-year earnings and revenue growth forecasts, signaling confidence in continued business momentum. The savings from these layoffs are intended to be reinvested into future growth areas like stablecoin and agentic commerce.

https://www.tikr.com/blog/visas-q3-earnings-crossed-4-trillion-in-volume-then-came-the-layoffs

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?