#morale

If you want to raise employee morale, it's quite simple. Reinstate real paid time off, FTO is evil. Remove the thrive together requirements, people want ultimate flexibility. Stop off-shoring business critical roles to India, it's horrible. Nothing makes me want to go above and beyond quite like not having PTO having to attend an office to make big real estate happy all while having to train my excellent eastern replacements.

At Boeing let’s name all the shitHole department to avoid!

I spoke to two very high-level leaders. Very high level. VP and above. Great people. Smart people. They both told me the exact same thing: “Jump ship while you still can.” Nobody told them to say it. They both said it. Think about that.

Morale? It’s gone. Absolutely gone. I’ve never heard it this bad. The best people—the really talented people—they’re going to leave first. They always do because they have options. They’ll get another job in a heartbeat. No problem.

And then who’s left? Not the A-team. You’re left with the people who couldn’t leave. That’s what happens. And once that starts, it goes very fast. Much faster than people think. The decline accelerates. People are going to look back and say, “How did it fall apart so quickly?” Believe me, it won’t be pretty.

Layoffs may boost stock short-term, but hidden costs (morale, attrition, lost talent) can outweigh gains long-term. Data may vary by case.

Now down trend start of stock

Execs doing a great job, motivating and inspiring our employees. Winning in the marketplace.

Cream always rises to the top.

The market reacting accordingly.

This is my view of where we are in '26. Take allof this with a grain of salt as I've been wrong many times before. This is reflecting my views and I am not sharing any internal information. And, yes, I am angry:

1. The culture has changd and not for the better.
2. Bottom-up ideas no longer seem to matter. Period.
3. Politics + self-preservation are in, real leadership is out
4. WAY TOO MANY managers, way too little accountability.
5. Collaboration is talked about. it is NOT practiced.
6. Quality people are leaving. Some are waiting for the right time to jump.
7. AI just an excuse to cut roles. OK, maybe has some bus use too.
8. Some teams are way too bloated - some teams have already been cut way too deep.
9. Offshore turns companies to sh-t, it's happening to us to. Poor quality, poor oversight.
10. Value standards have slipped, enshitification is in progress.
11. Come in and work/collaboration in office, but it's OK to ship work offshore. Sick.
12. Morale is low, trust is weak, and it's gettin worse.
13. The old T. Rowe Price is gone.

Mid-Year evaluation is ridiculous this year - add to that ratings in mid-year reviews and you have a horrible situation. The exec management is so desperate to do something and they cannot do anything useful on the business side so they are focusing to overmanaging the workforce. this will not gain any wins and will further aleniate our already disgruntled and unengaged teams

...bobbin'n weavin'...shufflin' and scufflin', contemplatin'n rearrangin', jugglin' chainsaws'n spinnin' plates, crunchin' numbers'n playin' Tetris with org. charts, tryna make sense of their self-created nonsense...LOL!

They're really got THEIR work cut out for them now.
Besides the money involved, here's probably the next most crucial piece of the puzzle and why leadership is so concerned with "retaining employees due to this mess" during the whole VSP thing:

• "Since ACA, Medicaid, and MA are Federal/state regulated and implemented plans, cuts in staff can lead to CMS and state department of banking/insurance scrutiny on coverage and service."

They've got to deal with BIG LAW ENFORCEMENT breathing down their necks, which has the potential to cru$h them via a$tronomical fine$ and penaltie$, depending on the #s of soon-to-be-vacated job slots, due to so many people now wanting to head for the hills, ever since this VSP was offered. And that's not even factoring in the layoffs they're anticipating to follow soon thereafter. Looks like they cooked their own goose. LMAO!!!

Leadership is surely scrambling and in a collective panic, over how to deal with all of the moving parts. "We need MORE TIME!...This is TOO MUCH!"
Oh well "leadership", guess you should've planned better.
Why don't you have better time management skills? Should we put you all on a PIP?
That's what they pay you the big bucks for, right? Thought you were so smart, what happened? Why is this such a struggle for you now? Feeling pressure? Sorry, not sorry.
Lots of late nights now, where they're actually having to WORK for their big@zz $$$!

Hey "leadership":
Have fun untangling the rat king you all created with this VSP thing!
What are you even doing reading this board now, anyway?
Get back to WORK!
Earn your Keep, "BIG-WIGS"!

HAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!

Another skilled person gave 2 weeks notice today...another skilled top level Engineering manager gone and multiples of teams left in limbo and at the whim of id--ts. No plan, no resolution, nothing from these clowns. I wish they'd lay me off already. 2 years of this has been enough.

Today I witnessed all that is wrong with the human race. All people really care about is themselves, they asked the questions, but all they really wanted to know or hear was not me, not me(this time). However, what I found most disgusting was the thanking and emoji sending of hi---rs henchmen who were send out in force, it made me sick to my stomach tbh, to all the good people who left today I genuinely will miss you guys and I wish you well over the next few months.

It’s been pretty quiet at P66 lately. Is this the calm before the storm?

Fun fact before I forget visiting this site (got a better job elsewhere); my friend did high end catering in San Ramon area. He did a private house and told me “hey buddy, I think I did an event for your company”. Sure enough I opened website to show him leadership and he said it was them. They all have zombie personalities behind closed doors. That politician personality is not just for us, its who they are. Lol imagine that act non stop.

Everyone: one day they will kick you out, get advanced degrees licenses, do projects you want (in 6 months you will get a new supervisor and can lie about your responsibilities). There is a flaw in system, dont analyze it to death here: exploit it. Good luck.

It's truly never been worse here.
There's so much more to life than this place. If the clowns at the top don't change the 'market based culture' (which is just a phrase used to change the subject away from discussing the worst employee culture around) quickly, then the point of no-return is upon us.

Getting laid off doesn't feel like a neutral “business decision”, it's a gutless move against the people who actually kept the work in healthcare technology running while others coasted and still kept their badges. I spent years cleaning up messes. Now somehow I’m the one pushed out. It’s sickening to watch a company in the health space reward bare‑minimum effort, ignore the impact on real people and communities, and then speak in corporate jargon about “efficiency” and “alignment” as if no one can see through the lies. The worst part is knowing I was singled out not because I failed, but because I refused to be lazy, refused to cut corners, and that commitment to some level of standards made others uncomfortable! What a joke, too bad it's not funny at all.

As the title states, how are the other departments doing in fab 8? Have any positions been backfilled since last year? Management is acting so despondent. AI this, pick up the slack, no work. What the heck is going on?

• We no longer innovate ...
• We can't develop a single complete feature in less than 3 - 5 years ...
• We don't follow any process ...
• We have leaders who don't even understand best practice processes ...
• We have leaders who refuse process ...
• We can't hit a deadline or deliverable if our lives depended on it ...
• We've had to endure shiiiiity, incompetent, inexperienced fake leadership for years ...
• We use some of the worst tools in the industry ...
• We don't hold people accountable for failed projects ...
• We are years and years behind the competition ...
• We are laughed at by the competition ...
• We are laughed at by our customers ...
• We don't have seasoned Enterprise Software Engineers ...
• We don't have seasoned Enterprise Product Managers ...
• We don't have seasoned Enterprise Project Managers ...
• We don't have seasoned Enterprise UI/UX Designers ...
• We don't have seasoned Enterprise Q/A Managers ...
• Our Quality Control is in the toilet ...
• And the worst of all, our AI hype and spin is a lie and the market know it ...

We did an internal poll of several hundred plus employees...

Majority of 88% say they dislike the direction of the company and the CEO is not fit for the job.

Who would have thought?

I received top performance ratings in 2 of the last 5 years, and I’ve always been a self-motivated person.

These days, I have had very little energy or motivation to work. It feels like I’m just doing enough to keep the boat afloat.

Is anyone else losing interest or feeling disengaged because of all the uncertainty and instability in the company?

I've been here eighteen years and I'm watching everything I valued about this place disappear. The good people are leaving, projects are dying, and what's left truly isn't worth staying for.

I keep seeing people expect this to be over soon and that things will go back to normal. It's hard not to pity them. Normal is so far behind us it's barely a dot on the horizon anymore. There's no "over soon." This horror is the new normal.

This was said by other people as well, but I have to reiterate. We've lost so many people that the rest of us are drowning. We can't lose anymore. Unless their goal is to get all of us to quit. In that case, job well done.

The people who rise through the ranks aren't the ones who know what they're doing. They're the ones who barely understand their own jobs. It would be funny to watch if it wasn't so infuriating. Competence isn't valued, ignorance and good a-s-kissing skills are.

I know that asking when the next round will happen is probably pointless because nobody really knows, nut I can never stop myself. It used to be that layoffs were rare events, but now they feel like a regular occurrence. That's not acceptable and I refuse to pretend it is.

I've never seen morale drop this low. It almost seems like leadership is doing this on purpose and I can't understand why.

I usually love this time of year, but I couldn't get into it this weekend. The constant stress of this job has just su-ked all the happiness out of me.

I've come to realize that no matter how hard you work or how much you care, you're just a number to the people running this place. It took me a while to accept that, but once I did, I stopped taking things so personally. It's actually liberating.

I keep asking myself that same question over and over again. Why do we bother? People work so hard, they sacrifice so much, and what do they get in return? They get treated like they don't matter, walked all over, and eventually discarded. The people who actually care about this place, the ones who genuinely give a damn, they're all leaving. And who can blame them? There's no point anymore.

Is anyone else struggling to find any drive to keep going here?

I despise it. And to think there was a time when I liked my job and I was proud to be working here. They've completely destroyed a once great company to the point that most employees are looking for a way out. I never thought I'd be the one saying it, but I truly hate this place.

The worst decision of my career.

I've been offered a position at CDK, four years after I left because the culture was falling apart. Has morale and the work environment improved any since then?

It's a new week, layoffs are behind us (at least for now), but the atmosphere still feels heavy. I have a feeling productivity is down as well. I certainly still can't concentrate fully on work. You can only push people so much before it starts influencing their performance.

Anybody else tired of working with a perpetual axe hanging over their head? I really can't wait for this whole thing to be over, even if I end up being laid off. I just can't stand this feeling of uncertainty anymore.

I can't stop watching Verizon spiral downward. All the talent and potential being wasted, people going through so much, and the leadership just doesn't care. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

I look around and I see so many talented people putting up with so much nonsense. We all deserve so much better than what we're getting here and what we've been getting for years. It actually surprises me that more people haven't already decided to leave and find something better.

When a company keeps cutting people instead of fixing problems, it's a crystal clear sign they're failing. That's where this place is headed.

I'm not saying we should accept how things are at Walmart, but I've been looking around and I can't find any retailer that actually treats its employees well. Even the ones that are performing better financially are just as bad to their people. It seems like the only way to get out of this is to leave retail entirely. Otherwise you're just moving from one bad situation to another.

I can't shake this feeling of dread even though logically I know nothing major is happening this week. I guess Fiserv finally broke me.

I mean, since getting as many applications seems to be the only goal these days why not branch out and ask all over the place? Who cares about actually selling stuff, right? Let's get those applications and who gives a damn about our actual jobs. Who cares about selling. /s This place is a fu--ing mess.

A few days off used to be enough to reset, but now it's not even close. I don't think any amount of time away would make me actually want to come back here.