#management

Too much bureaucracy and inefficiency. Management to employees ratios are off the charts for support roles.

Now its not just I.T. feeling the pain , and navigators are mostly remote

C’mon Lores….use your little knowledge of the English language to get a deal done to sell this pile of sh-t company. Or fire half the company. Either way I don’t care just doing something useful you waste of space.

Cicely Simpson wrote about this, and it's worth building on.

Every leader gets tested by a moment they didn't choose.

And you can't control the moment, but you can control whether you hand over your composure or hold onto it.

These are the 7 moments that test that composure, and what to say instead of reacting:

1️⃣ Someone talks over you in a meeting
↳ Hold your point, then keep going.
↳ Say this: "I'll come back to you in a moment, let me finish this point first."

2️⃣ Someone questions your decision in front of the room
↳ Show you're willing to explain, just not right then.
↳ Say this: "Happy to walk through the reasoning, let's take it after this meeting so we don't lose time."

3️⃣ Someone takes credit for your work
↳ Put the credit back where it belongs.
↳ Say this: "I want the team to know this started with [name]'s work last quarter."

4️⃣ Someone uses a dismissive tone with you
↳ Ask them to repeat themselves, calmly.
↳ Say this: "I want to make sure I'm hearing this the way you intend it. Can you say that again?"

5️⃣ Someone tries to bait a reaction out of you
↳ Decline to engage.
↳ Say this: "I'm not going to respond to that right now. Let's stay focused on the decision in front of us."

6️⃣ Someone goes over your head
↳ Name what you expected instead.
↳ Say this: "I'd have appreciated hearing this from you first. Let's talk it through directly next time."

7️⃣ Someone undermines you in writing
↳ Move the conversation somewhere it can actually get resolved.
↳ Say this: "I see it differently. Happy to talk it through rather than go back and forth here."

Staying someone your team trusts matters more than winning whatever moment is in front of you.

Every leader has a moment like this waiting for them, this month or next quarter.

And how you handle it becomes the story your team tells about you afterward.

Most leaders react to protect their ego in the moment.

But the ones who don't protect something that matters more, their team's trust in them going forward.

Total mismanagement at the top, they have all this money in the bank and they are doing nothing with it. Total Cash: $1.96 billion = Total Cash Per Share: $12.25
Why aren't they paying employees? Why aren't they repaying $1.5billion of debt? They don't know how to run a business

If you take a look at the org chart, 6 EVPs reporting into Chief HR Officer with countless VPs underneath them. Seems very excessive for a corporate function? Corporate Relations doesn’t seem to have anywhere near as much bloat

HR to managers - don’t bully reps into thinking they have to be here 100% of the connect weeks. The requirement is they have to be here 50% of the connect weeks.

Managers to people - per HR you need to be in the office 100% of the time or HR won’t give you a bonus.

HR to managers - no that’s literally what we told you NOT to do. Also don’t blame us.

HR to managers - let’s try this again, we’re going back to the office full time. No assigned seating.

Managers to reps - the higher powers of being decided they want all the sociology majors to quit so they don’t look bad by firing them. We’re working on a seating chart.

Months later

Managers to reps - ok we have your assigned seating come find where you will sit. Also remember there is officially “no assigned seating”. Just remember this is your desk and you cannot sit anywhere else.

After repeated layoffs, burnout, and a media leadership culture that seems to treat people as disposable, dropping a 20+ year media agency partner without a pitch feels completely on brand. It’s the same management philosophy applied at scale: destroy institutional knowledge, call it transformation, and assume a shiny new operating model will compensate for the human damage left behind. Then send an internal email written by AI, announcing the new media partner - an email so cringe that reads like ChatGPT huffed a whiteboard full of “synergy” and “growth driver” and vomited out a LinkedIn thought-leadership post wearing a suit

Town hall..whew what a sh-t show. What's up with the non stop AI push. Not a single person that's qualified to build and ship out a production grade AI application in leadership positions. All show ponys presenting . His Sr. Directors leading AI 😂. They presente generic slides, ZERO value, VB seems like a con artist trying to act technical with his Internet copy AI generated aidlc slop slide. The other one was so annoying that even SC cut him off. One lady does data gathering about team members on a mismaged Excel sheet and calls herself a AI stewart. One lady just sets up calls and coordinates q&a and she's an AI director. LMAO. These people will not get hired in AI leadership roles anywhere except at UHC. Anyone can presented the slop we saw today. Why is zmuda be here in UHC Tech when she has zero knowledge? This whole thing is a sham and will end really bad unless they start getting real technical director with real AI skills and not copy paste slop directors. Shareholders/board would love to fire this entire sh-t show in a heartbeat if they understand what a joke this entire org leadership is. Looking for non existent nails to hit with a few wobbly broken soft headed rubber hammers in that's totally useless. Sh--Charidoesn't realize what a sh---y org he got into, after ruining his previous order he probably thought he can get a fresh start, but guess what his last team was already real engineers and architects, ruined the entire culture there and jumped ships. He'll realize soon enough what a clown show this org is.

In my personal experience, Jeff Nibler and Kyle Goodwin are two of the worst managers I have encountered in my career.

Their leadership was an exhausting combination of unclear direction, poor communication, weak accountability and an astonishing lack of meaningful support. Problems were allowed to fester, legitimate concerns seemed to disappear into a void, and employees were left to deal with the consequences of management failures they did not create.

Working under them felt like being trapped in a leadership vacuum. Instead of providing clarity, they created confusion. Instead of building trust, they eroded it. Instead of helping employees succeed, their management approach made already demanding work needlessly frustrating and demoralizing.

What made the experience particularly intolerable was the apparent disconnect between leadership’s perception of itself and the reality experienced by the people doing the work. Accountability seemed to flow downward, while support rarely did. Their management did not merely fail to improve the workplace—it actively made the workplace worse.

This is my personal assessment, and I do not claim to speak for anyone else. However, anyone considering a position reporting to either of them should proceed extremely cautiously. Ask current and former employees direct questions about morale, turnover, communication, psychological safety and how management responds when challenged.

A difficult job can be manageable with good leadership. Under Jeff Nibler and Kyle Goodwin, the leadership was the most difficult part of the job.

Laid off in March from the bank, and I still can’t find work. Funny thing is I see them rehiring for a position I had but I’m not in a hub market. I was less expensive than people they kept on board, so why the he-l lay me off? I was a good worker. Now I’m afraid I’m about to lose everything. To the snakes who put this in motion for me and for so many others, remember the pain you cause others always comes back to you. Evil. This company and its management are pure evil.

There was a recent director meeting which was stated "we have to many sales manager" expect cuts here.

All or almost all proposed projects at this time coming out if EMTEC are bogus. Please ask questions 3-4 layers deep and they will be exposed. The managers are intentionally covering up bad ideas in the guise of next big opportunity to get their bonus and move to their next role, while the future organization suffers with their terrible decisions.

Managers are intentionally spinning the wheel on ‘technologies’ and ideas that no one in the industry will touch or have already made a clear decision to never pursue. Closely look at Upstream research, they will drain the company of $$ shamelesslessly, or just out of incompetence.

Under the threat of unemployment, the Research company is also joining in on these made up technology cases, especially getting a chance to contribute on the Upstream side.

Please look closely, just throwing millions of dollars for projects known to be failures is crazy. It is not innovation.

Don’t burden your technical staff with turning slogans from clueless middle manager into engineering execution, when it is simply not possible.

It is one thing for you to ask someone to become a better basketball player — it is possible. It is another thing to ask someone to grow from 5 ft 10 to 7 ft in a year to then become the best player of NBA. It is is impossible, factually impossible. What these managers are forcefully promoting are IMPOSSIBLE ideas.

only ask is please ask critical questions, these Yes men need to be held accountable.

Has anyone actually physically seen the reporting management is receiving based upon computer usage?

What exactly is on this report?

Now that One Cisco is dead and the era of "Cisco is not a family" is upon us I have to wonder what Cisco could have been like if we had kept our values. The amount of backstabbing and sabotaging and general toxic shittiness that has become normal in the last year or so is baffling.

We were so much more productive and collaborative in the One Cisco era. Instead I'm hearing my management chain talk about cutting certain teams out of the development process. I'm seeing managers lie about agreements in their EC decks in order to steal headcount from other teams.

We're in a cultural death spiral and I don't see anyone fighting the good fight anymore.

JonO hasn't done much good for STAR since the Symantec days, and his grasp of cybersecurity appears somewhat limited.

There are competent managers below him who could run security response more smoothly on their own.

I love writing plan to write about CNC and managed care failure while the needy suffer. Give me some book name recommendations ideas.

How often is management reading chat messages or reviewing and monitoring emails with coworkers?

How often is management reading chat messages or reviewing and monitoring emails with coworkers?

When is clean-up happening for thousands of directors, ADs, AVPs under Ramesh Babu Ramakrishn*n coming?? Simply too many folks bullying others

On a scale of 1 to 10? I'd give mine a generous 3. And he's the best of the last three I had.

Jeff Clarke needs to get kicked out. He is a an a--hole. No strategy, only here to make money. He is Michael Dell's right hand man, but Michael needs to kick him out..

Is this true?

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/1w1orik/ford_fired_twothirds_of_the_bosses_who_said_its/

Just got out of a meeting with our ED, her exact quote “after a thorough review of everyday business, the business decision was made to eliminate the roles of your manager and lead.”

Who neither manage nor direct

Should we call them Mismanging Indirectors?

So as many people here. Today, early morning 1:1 with manager. Buddy...You are on PIP!
1 month PIP in European country. Software.

I recently hard that H100 has so far signed up no payers besides Aetna. They must be burning through millions annually of Health 100.

Anyone see a path where Health 100 succeeds financially for the company?

Hoping a current or former Citi employee can provide details on your former Head of Retail Banking, initials DC. What’s with this guy? What was the general consensus of him from those that actually do the work.

Yes, management will be evaluating people on compliance with RTO in days and hours in the office but they are also going to be assessing people on other factors. High on the list is how you work with other employees. One item specifically identified is respect for others. An example given to managers is the widespread negativity toward others based on age - especially all the references to dinosaurs, fossils and A0s. Be forewarned.

is it true that theyre eliminating at least 1 AM per store?

They are made aware there is going to be impact

With this new wave of layoffs, are you seeing any evidence of a reduction of the number of management layers as mentioned by Enrique? Managers, Directors, etc...?

I know my manager is an id--t but what kind of a heartless monster do you have to be to schedule a 1:1 titled update with somebody on a layoff day??? Related to something that isn't even all that urgent? I'm so, so angry now I can't even think properly. Yes, I'm relieved but I genuinely thought I was getting cut. I nearly threw up. What the fu-k???

Just for fun, go out to Workday and checkout the Corporate Strategy org chart. Seriously, Directors and Managers with ZERO direct reports. What is happening? We’re being told 1-16 is the new normal, but apparently this area is special. What are they even doing?

Goes to Enrique Lores

Seeing another Chief executive hire this week and more VP hires. Can someone explain the logic?

sadly, the weak stock price keeps the management and the board on edge.

Wall Street won’t spare the management, and the management won’t spare any of us.

The company is fundamentally misunderstanding what needs to happen to the structure of the organization - they are busy pushing out people who do things instead of people who manage things. It's the management layers that wont be needed in the future - they can be replaced by AI. The loss of knowledge and expertise provided by the doers will impact the corporation not the removal of management layers which are just there to polish KPIs and powerpoints. The top heavy organization will crash in on itself. It's time to cut the exec layers.