#management

People managers will either be offered to go back to IC or let go. Is this true? With AI what's the role of managers anymore?

Outside of ignoring problems until they get worse?

Why do industry observers and specifically BP staff automatically give high praise to Meg? Can one person from the outside manage to upright a failed strategy and a culture which abhors change?

And you know what? For once, I'm okay with that. We have way, way, way too many layers of managers with barely any direct reports who never do anything useful. Getting rid of them will actually cut costs without affecting work in the least. I don't like layoffs, but for once I approve.

How do managers sleep at night when they have to downgrade someone who clearly earned a better performance rating?

Does anyone know when is the next wave of layoff coming and if they would be giving us severance package? I am sick of upper management

You can't slash decades of collective knowledge for a small budget win over and over again and then look confused when everything starts falling apart. That isn't bad luck, that is the direct result of your own choice.

I am so tired of getting blamed for projects that went wrong because management approved bad plans.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly praised Qualcomm’s mobile capabilities and humorously told investors to "buy their stock", Nvidia simultaneously announced the RTX Spark superchip to target the "Windows on Arm" PC market.

What are waiting for and why are you so passive? Shareholders have been wiped out and you seem like all is fine. Not it is not! There is one scoreboard for a public company and you are losing. You will be out of a job at some point unless you take decisive action. This company need to be broken up into to pieces (Merchant and FI). Your team is not capable of dealing with the size and complexity as it is comprised today.

Do year end reviews have any bearing on the upcoming layoffs ? Do direct managers have any input ?

Is it all cost related ?

Just saw a post on LinkedIn that was

Excited to share my next chapter at Xerox! And then the post went on to share that this person moved into a director role and how they will continue to help Xerox on the transformation journey.

What wasn’t said but I bet is true: 1) this person is part of the 20% moving up at Xerox 2) while others whine about no pay raises this person created their pay raise 3) this person will continue to change Xerox for the better.

Congrats to another 20% worker changing our company for the better. Yes this was posted in the last 24 hours and this person moved into a new position after a round of lay offs.

Are the rumored Aug layoffs still a thing? Any word on Elliot management?

Morningstar Rankings of MoA Funds through June 7. The higher the percentile rank, the worse the performance. That redesigned Capital Managment landing page will no doubt propel these funds to new higher rankings

Fund Rank ER
MoA Intermediate Bond 99 0.470
MoA Clear Passage 2020 96 0.490
MoA Retirement Income 94 0.530
MoA Core Bond 85 0.450
MoA Mid Cap Value 84 0.700
MoA Clear Passage 2025 81 0.440
MoA Clear Passage 2055 81 0.380
MoA Clear Passage 2050 80 0.370
MoA Clear Passage 2060 80 0.400
MoA International 78 0.480
MoA Clear Passage 2035 77 0.400
MoA Clear Passage 2030 75 0.430
MoA Clear Passage 2065 75 0.490
MoA Clear Passage 2070 74 0.410
MoA Clear Passage 2045 72 0.360
MoA Clear Passage 2040 70 0.370
MoA Conservative Alloc 70 0.500
MoA Small Cap Value 69 0.850
MoA Catholic Values Idx 62 0.250
MoA Mid Cap Growth 57 0.630
MoA Moderate Allocation 53 0.380
MoA Equity Index 38 0.140
MoA Mid Cap Equity Idx 36 0.170

The Titanique ! is now on Broadway ! or is it 575 5th Ave ?

What the actual f-k is going on with the stock price in this company? This absolute failure of a management team has driven the market cap down to $38B. That is absolutely insane at how poorly it’s performing. Is management really this d-mb? At this point it seems like they just want it to go lower and lower. I couldn’t imagine working for this company and just watching the value constantly decrease. Your work is just meaningless at this point.

Our manager just sits there nodding while other teams blame us for everything. No pushback, no defense of our work, just silence while we take the hit. I mean, he looks bad in the whole thing as well, he should at least care about that. But nope, just lets it happen.

What happened to the people who actually knew how to lead a bank?

It stupid to have security under FTS/FAST to begin with. I don’t get it!…MD and that CIO guy were two of the worst hires in the history of the company. Idk think they know what they were doing.
He only did a year then left!…he wanted everything to be engineers. Nonsense

Looks like the fat is finally being trimmed. Few managers have joined back as technical ICs while several have been impacted in the Cx delivery org. If you don’t contribute technically, being just a people manager is not good anymore.

Highly recommend Incorruptible by Eric Ries.

Then again- our leadership is too obtuse to actually see themselves in it. We would rather ask Maurice his favorite ice cream.

The disaster starts with our OD. He is out of touch. He is only a numbers manager and unable to lead. Does not have competency to lead. Blames everyone else for his failures. He is the common denominator. Unable to take responsibility and accountability. His answer is always to fire someone else or ask someone to be fired. We need a new OD.

Our manager explained to his team leads that the only reason he still has a job is the director knows if he removed the manager he will have to manage the team leads and direct reports. The manager also shared that he owes management a breakdown of his reports workloads and knowledge transfer requirements for those workloads to overseas teams.

“The way I see it is if you want a rainbow you gotta put up with the rain” - Dolly Parton

I've long stopped expecting anything from the people above us. They don't have a plan, they don't have a vision, and they don't have any idea how to fix the problems they've created. It's been years of the same chaos.

Anybody else being given more meaningless "busy" work by their manager when you already have more than enough work of your own and are actually busy tying to get it done? Can there be any other point to this other than intentionally trying to make me look incompetent?

I have been here around three years and the tension just keeps building. You can't change priorities every week and then act frustrated when work falls behind. Meanwhile, we can't ask any questions anymore because they often turn into criticism. This isn't a healthy work environment.

It's not being great at anything. It's being cheap and staying average. Excellence would cost money and require effort, and neither of those seems to be in the budget lately.

Wipe out non technical managers and PM from McDonald, BurgerKing, HomeDepot etc … Need actual certifications from experienced technicians or engineers.

Where is she getting all the numbers about 75% of the people getting our yard are getting internally placed again? Most instances the reqs are frozen or there’s none to apply to. She is so fake and I can’t believe people love her post.

What’s going on in finance? Upstream CFO quits then a lot of mid-career hipos quit. No word from management on what’s going on

Message from my M5 NA squash friend is that they will be pushing lower rankings to all in reviews and employees will be stack ranked. There will be reviews across each GBUs. M5 suspects another round of cuts coming. For those with manager hate here - cuts will also be coming in for M level. The initial step per M5 was getting those with few reports to IC in FY 26. Many long term managers are understandably struggling in IC roles so cutting them on performance criteria in FY 27 will create no legal issues. Exact timeline not clear at the moment per M5 and he said he is prepping to be let go and hopes he at least lasts untill his RSUs/options vest. The RSU/options vest at M5 NA are 500K-1M - WOW - I don't think it was a lie. My Senior Developer RSU is 7.5 percent of that like WTF.

Most managers and up at Verizon would not make the cut in today’s landscape. A lot of them were simply at the right place at the right time. They would buckle under today’s pressure, scrutiny, and expectations. Many got there because they knew someone, checked a DEI box, metrics were easier, opportunities were abundant, and the market practically carried people upward.

Today you have to fight for every sale, every customer, every opportunity, while dealing with shrinking compensation, unrealistic expectations from people who had it easier, and bootlickers with Stockholm syndrome who are just happy to finally be a baby shark in the corporate tank. Different era entirely. A lot of the people preaching “adaptability” never actually had to survive in the environment they created.

when management only cares about checking the box and how fast they can get out of belle chasse instead of fixing the real issues morale tanks and the plant goes downhill.

Yes, that's right. Stankey & Stephensen paid top dollar to acquire Warner Media, then sell it to Zaslov @ WBD for pennies on the dollar, then WBD is acquired for more than at&t purchase price. You can't make this stuff up, Stankey is the laughing stock of the business world. AT&T total debt is at $136B, that's billion with a B!

I am put on a PIP. The second line manager is according to the HR message the evaluator. First line manager is supposed to support.
First line manager creates hard to achieves goals.
The normal thing would be that the second line manager gets his own opinion. However 1st says he is in charge and I have not directly reached out to 2nd line.

How others have experienced it.

Wake up Mike. Wake up

Anyone else getting tired of the circus in NV?

Every day there’s a new priority, a new direction, a new “this is the most important thing we need to focus on.” What was said one day will conveniently forgotten next day as if it happened by next day… By tomorrow it’ll be something else. At this point I don’t think the issue is execution. The issue is nobody can keep up with commercial leadership changing its mind every 24 hrs on some projects…

What really gets me though is the gap between what gets reported up from middle management and what’s actually happening. Somehow unfinished work becomes “complete,” confusion becomes “alignment,” and chaos becomes “momentum.” If you only listened to leadership updates, you’d think everything was running perfectly. How can people trust the managers who lie blatantly in front of you (knowing you know the truth)
The culture in marketing has taken a nosedive too. Feels like we’ve replaced professional leadership with a bunch of guys trying to out-macho each other. Lots of swagger. Lots of talking. Very little listening. Questions are treated like challenges. Different opinions get dismissed. The loudest person in the room wins.

People aren’t afraid of hard work. They’re tired of the constant spin, ego, and mixed messages.

The sad part is people have stopped speaking up. When employees stop asking questions and stop bringing ideas, that’s not alignment. That’s people checking out

Maybe leadership sees it and doesn’t care. Maybe they don’t see it at all… sometimes they are the problem. Neither answer is particularly reassuring.….

HANS . humans achieving nothing strategically

Just keep Sr managers directly reporting to Sr Directors. We are top heavy with people being managers only with one person reporting to them. it’s a joke

Not like management has hands on experience in telecom but this guy is trying to ride the AI hype train so hard it’s embarrassing. Very clear he has no idea what he’s talking about. When is the board going to do something about him?

Lots of posts deleted. Surely now everyone (employees, management, board, supply chain and peers) can see why bp has been a train wreck since Browne left. It’s culturally corrupt and that prevails everywhere. You can remove the cancer - it’s too late