#morale

Feeling so disheartened and disappointed.

This firm truly prefers teacher's pets and individuals who are less deserving when giving recognition, appraisal, raise or bonus.

I have slogged my a$$ and all of my manager downplays everything I did, undermining my contribution.

I’ve had it with this place and I’m pushing hard to find something else. Even with a rough job market, I can’t stay here any longer. Constant layoffs are draining and I really need a job where I can focus on my work, even if it's for less pay. Thanks, Cisco, for bringing me to the point I never thought I'd be in.

Dell mgmt is lost. The leaders they have in place are the worst they have ever been. The BS charade of AI is finally being shown for what it is, which is nothing. The modern dev initiatives are falling apart. The stock is on a nose dive even though they had “record revenue”.

The employees are not happy, there is clearly a lack of strategy and the company is being driven into the ground.

MD only intention at this point is to su-k the company dry and sell pieces of it off.

when will these never ending layoffs and re-orgs just stop. It feels extremely unnerving and unsafe, even as a high performer, to feel like you could be on the chopping block constantly over the past few years at Nike.

What a kick in the knackers for the hundreds of people over the last 2 years that ANI let go.

Social media today full of pics of their big event.
Hiring a conference center, catering, games, Virtual Reality stations, music not to mention the costs of the NUMEROUS celeb guests (Brian Cox, Kelly Holmes, Shane Todd and more).

Never saw a party spend like this in 20 years of good times. How dare they do this while constantly laying people off.

I’m sure it was fun for those of you who still have jobs. But for anyone affected by global mismanagement and worried about mortgage payments this was sickening to see.

Don't forget to go to Glassdoor or other sites that potential talent might use to peek behind the curtain before interviewing and light them up. Be sure people know what a toxic place they've become.

A social event scheduled for 3rd Sept over in the London Walbrook office has just been cancelled. Could be ominous.

Discuss......

If I hear one more “rumor“ on this website of layoffs, I’m going to vomit. I swear to God every month somebody puts up a rumor on here and it never happens. All it does is cause concern for the employees who have been there and are still working. Do you all get off on using scare tactics to freak everyone out? I think you will need therapy.

Imagine being told your job as a director is being eliminated before the holiday weekend.

When it comes to layoffs there is no finish line. Just Do It? Apparently that only applies to cutting headcount. Always chasing the shiny objects while the basics get benched. Somehow MD still has a job, and HR is running around like it’s a team-building offsite. Help us.

If you take out the emotion of what the Global Brand leadership is doing, you are left with incompetent people that know nothing about financial services, managing teams in a large corporation and treating their people fairly. These are the facts. It’s quite obvious all of them are in it for themselves. All have worked 3 or less years at a job and continue to fake it to make it. They let amazing talent walk out the door to only bring in their circle of friends and family, no knowledge of our business and continue to have the actual doers train them and then treat us like pions. It’s time for positive change!! How is this allowed??

Today is Stank's least favorite day of the year. He hates all workers and especially hates that he has to pay them for a day off. No wonder he loves foreign country workers.

No more flexibility with my mornings. No more working through lunch. No more working weekends and certainly no more hopping on my computer in the evenings. You’ll see me from 8-5 4x a week not a minute more. I used to give Ford more time than I should have because I was a team player and they afforded me flexibility. No longer.

I could probably create a kafkaesque youtube-channel about this, but interested in other people's experiences.

What did you accomplish today at work? Keep it general so you don't get identified by some schmuck.

I got mostly spam emails. Most calls were cancelled. I contemplated investing in a mouse jiggler.

I'll start - basking in the fact that they have no idea whatsoever (or care) what goes on in the CO's and garages. I have to laugh at the tonedeaf corporate videos. Life is good for some people, but the customer is not being served properly.

After getting the RIF in Nov 2018 (65 age, 44 yrs service, only one in my position) I have realized there is no rhyme or reason.
My best opinions are;
1) It’s not business, it’s personal
2) The ELT always look out for themselves
3) What you know means nothing. Who you know means more.
4) It can and will happen to anyone at anytime.
5) Be loyal to your family, never a job. The 60’s and 70’s are gone and not coming back.
6) Trust and respect are a 1 way street and not from leadership, so don't give to them unless the earn it.

Another MW Fluff piece. The guy says we do culture better than Exxon. The guy is wrecking our culture and made it a dreadful place to work!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/business/chevron-oil-mike-wirth.html

4 day RTO to turn the company around!

Absolutely astounding that the few people left here at xerox, have no clue what is honestly happening, or they just don’t care …about anything.

Digging ditches in the rain, would be considered an upgrade ☔️

But when you don’t care about anything and you are stubborn as can be. Well.. that says a lot about you.

Only a fool fights in a burning house, as you may win the battle but loose the war 🔥🏠🔥

It’s always pi---d me off looking at those people that immediately have 30,000 steps at midnight. Ain’t no way you’ve covered 30,000 steps. Also those that have 30,000 steps everyday of the challenge

Those are the people with no integrity and ought to be the ones let go.

Penny’s internet watchers putting their lists together trying to figure out who we are since we don’t believe in their reimagining. Get on the app and take note there.

Expect another month of silence on both sides of the fence whilst the AVPs circle around the cauldron cooking up the next hot mess just in time for Halloween.

If you can get an exit do it now or keep logging evidence of misdemeanours and ‘managerial’ behavior to strengthen your position if you get the tap on the shoulder.

The toxic dial is being turned up daily.

Penny - why pay a speaking fee of $200,000 each to hear their motivational speeches? You should have hired them to give us pep talks about “Dribbling up the middle on our resumes” and the “Uneven bars of life”.

Half our group is gone and the work never slowed down. We’re all scrambling to keep up, but there’s only so much we can cover. It's like IBM is intentionally trying to wear us down. I guess if we quit they don't have to pay us severance during the next RA, so it kind of makes sense.

I barely slept, and all I keep thinking about are layoffs. This job has brought me to a place where I can't even enjoy my time off anymore.

I know some are gloating about the India layoffs, but you really shouldn’t be. Just because they’re letting people go there doesn’t mean they’ll be hiring here. In fact, it makes it clear that things could be even worse here since they’re laying off people who cost a fraction of what we do. This is not a situation to celebrate.

Something quite sus going on, as they kept moving this call and now it falls on the dreaded date.

Don’t know what to expect as they haven’t shared much info with us “regular” employees.

All I see is frustration, anger, and disarray. Morale wasn’t great before, but now it’s completely tanked. Yes, I still have my job, but I feel sick just thinking about coming in tomorrow. Things can be done well and for everyone’s benefit, or badly, serving a few for a short while but damaging everyone else and the company’s future. Why leadership always chooses the latter is beyond me.

I’ve been anxious about the future of this company ever since it clearly started its downward spiral. On the surface, this deal may look like a resolution, but to me it feels more like a continuation of the agony. More uncertainty, more stress, more pressure - and with the new owner, motives and practices are very much in question. I can only hope the transition works out for at least some of us, but honestly, I’m doubtful.

Morris Plains is bad. Horrible management employees are looking over their backs. It’s not a good environment. The future doesn’t look bright here

9/2 is the date the tool closes. I know they know where everyone going where. The 3 choices are only formality. The new leaders pick their team. A lot of politics involved

Are the people under less pressure?
Layoffs seem over.

We're at the St. Louis City soccer game. Guess what the promotional item is. Edward Jones sponsored lunch box. Seriously the weekend of he-l week? It sure got people in St Louis talking about how sad and disappointed they were of what happened. This community is behind us and feels our pain!

Network goes down due to our inglorious outsourcing

Retail leadership cracking skulls to convert all the traffic walking in.

This is what a sinking ship looks like ladies and gentlemen.

Love to hear your thoughts.

I heard directors and above will not get bonus anymore. True ?

The company is changing and seems to be in big trouble.

What do you think about this move ?

Because that’s all that’ll be left in a few months once the job market turns. I heard 50+ in marketing solutions are planning to bounce by EOY. They don’t trust leadership at all because of Martin and Spiegel

I would not go back to IBM, no matter how good the pay or benefits are, because their RA tactics is fundamentally broken. It isn’t based on actual low performance in sales or delivery, nor is it aligned with long-term growth habits. Instead, it’s driven by biased judgment and office politics. You can do your job well, hit every target, never complain, and even outperform others on your team, yet still end up on the chopping block.

The reality is that employees are treated like numbers on someone’s spreadsheet high up in the chain... if you never had much visibility with that person, often due to weak leadership in your reporting line (no skip-level meetings, no proper alignment, there is noo support for your role), youre vulnerable... When the pressure comes, especially over just one or two quarters, you’re likely to be cut regardless of your actual contributions.

That kind of RA strategy is not only nonsense it’s also very much destructive. It ki-ls IBM. It undermines trust, demoralizes employees, and wrecks careers for no justifiable reason. it hurts both the people and the company itself.

I’ll never understand the people on these threads who equate working from home with not working. It’s frustrating that even the ELT has started to adopt that attitude. We’re three rounds of layoffs in after three years, and it’s not because people were slacking off just because they weren’t physically on site. In my group we were almost entirely WFH, regularly putting in 50-hour weeks.

Ironically, WFH actually makes it easier to work longer hours, since the project is always right there in the next room, waiting to be picked up again in the evening. Now, to drive attrition, the ELT wants me to give up an hour and a half of my day to commute. I’ll still end up bringing work home, but I won’t be able to put in the same evening hours or keep up with household responsibilities once the commute is added on.