#morale

Let’s start by saying the quiet part out loud: most of the “agile leadership” still hanging around the bank looks like the clearance rack of corporate transformation. Folks who washed out of Best Buy and Target and couldn’t quite stick the landing anywhere else in the Fortune 500. You could cut half the agile coaches and performative agile leaders tomorrow and the only noticeable impact would be fewer meetings about meetings.

The latest org changes just reinforce that reality. A digital leader casually floated the idea that there was “opportunity” to rotate product and agile assignments across teams. Translation: since we can’t actually promote or develop people, let’s blow up stable teams instead and call it growth. Why not inject a little chaos, instability, and work/life imbalance for fun?
Naturally, instead of agile leadership doing their actual jobs, like explaining why this is a spectacularly bad idea and gently escorting that leader away from the cliff, they went all in.

Scrum Masters got shuffled around, including ones who were deeply embedded with teams that existed long before said leaders showed up. And, of course, everyone was told to keep quarterly planning on track, maintain team performance, and execute rushed handoffs at the same time. Because nothing says “agile maturity” quite like lighting the house on fire and asking everyone to keep dinner warm.

And let’s not forget the timing. This brilliant idea was floating around before ICE went full dystopian cosplay in local communities - storming around, kidnapping children, pepper spraying grandma on her way to target, and generally reminding everyone that the world is already on edge. Against that backdrop, I have to hand it to our failed agile leaders for truly impeccable coordination: announcing these changes while simultaneously rolling out layoffs. Chef’s kiss.

Nothing reassures employees quite like organizational chaos paired with “by the way, your job might disappear.” Thank you so very much for letting me keep this absolutely fantastic job, at least for now.

An enterprise-wide commitment to failing fast, failing often, and learning absolutely nothing.

managers want us to get excited because we're "getting new coworkers" aka once again outsourcing to india. meanwhile more things on the tech side are broken than ever

With a pip. What a horrible company

Remember when they actually wanted you to develop new skills and move up? That focus on employee growth is totally gone now. It's a big change from how things used to be.

I remember when I just started working, I was so full of energy and ambition, with all these plans and hopes for my career. I got disillusioned within two years and now I feel sick to my stomach when I think that this is something I'm stuck with for nearly my whole life.

I used to be the calm one, and this job’s slowly beaten that out of me. The pressure never lets up, and it shows in how short I’ve become and how checked out I feel. I hate that work’s turning me into someone I don’t recognize, but there's not much I can do about it.

I swear, if another person tells me this, I'll scream in their face. Is the bar really that low? Seriously?

Morale ..
Satisfaction ..
Motivation ..
Stock price ..

An organization full of quiet people is not calm.

It’s resigned.

And resignation, unlike conflict, is very hard to reverse once normalized.

And with such a bad outlook, who can guarantee the rest of us are "safe" until the second half of February? I’m so sorry for the people affected last week, and I expect many of us will soon join that army of the unemployed. This has been really tough on all of us, and there’s no end in sight. These days, coming into work just feels like sitting in a waiting room for your own layoff.

I was hoping for better than my last job. But that didn't happen. It's as if I never left the other company. Broken promises, a bunch of hot air and bunch of pretenders.

He could put 1 years pay into a high interest account at 4% and generate a huge $268 000. Drum would get more interest in 2 months than most employees get in a years pay. Chris Drum is onto a winner for life, other execs are all laughing at employees when they see there pay each month.

We’ll get through this together.

Work used to excite me as did the careers within a career promise. Wish I still felt that way.

I think Muse's Dead Inside should be Chevron's new theme song especially these lyrics. The leadership and company has no soul left....they are Dead Inside

You're free to touch the sky
Whilst I am crushed and pulverised
Because you need control
Now I'm the one who's letting go

You like to give an inch
Whilst I am giving infinity
But now I've got nothing left
You have no cares and I'm bereft

Does anyone even buy anything on Be Magenta!? Like what’s the point? For one, everything is expensive, also, why would I want to buy any T-Mobile related merch and get lay off the next day. What? Use my $80 T-Mobile hoody as a pijama and make myself feel worse by looking at the logo of the company who didn’t care about me?

I know quitting without something lined up would blow back on me, but staying in this work environment is wearing me down piece by piece. The manager who replaced one of the best bosses I ever had, before he was cut, is wildly incompetent and masks it by yelling at everyone over everything. I’m beyond tired of it.

There was a time when people were proud to work at Ford and leadership valued the team. That sense of shared purpose has completely vanished. Good employees are exiting constantly, replaced by a culture of fear and spreadsheets. They've lost sight of the fact that the workforce is the company's real asset. The loyalty they once earned has been spent.

I have to ask, with everything that's been happening, is there anyone left at this company who is actually happy with their job and optimistic about the future? I'm struggling to find anyone.

My heart goes out to everyone who was let go last week. With the economy and job market like this, I don't think the timing could be worse. The company's disregard for people's lives is shocking and cruel.

We're losing jobs in one place, but they're adding plenty new jobs in other places. Wouldn't a simple hiring freeze accomplish the same cost savings without destroying morale and losing experienced people?

The non-stop layoff drama has led to my complete emotional detachment. I don't want to lose my job, but I also can't bring myself to feel the stress I used to. It's not normal, but it's a strange kind of relief.

I remember when this was a company people loved working for. The culture and morale were positive. I really miss those days and often wonder where it all went wrong.

What do they get from it? I'm genuinely curious.

Nurses working at Humana are NOT valued. Simple but true statement. The Nurses in upper management in the Utilization Review area are clueless regarding UR but wonderful actresses playing like they know the jobs and care. They care only for themselves and their careers. Since centralization it has been a sh-t show and circus and it continues. Change of hours with no consideration of the nurses , impossible metrics and horrible PTO policy. More change coming is the news I hear. Work life balance? Not at Humana.

No layoffs planned for the next 4 months.

Pure sick looking at LinkedIn and everyone's promotions nearly all VP, Senior VP, Directors and Senior Directors. Not saying theyre not deserved I'm sure some of them are, but when you sit in a location closing later this year, knowing that other locations in the UK and Ireland closing, seeing people boasting (the same people who work from some of these locations but know their jobs are safe) its just disgusting.

After more than 13 years with the company, I can honestly say morale has never been lower. People are exhausted. The general feeling is just complete defeat and a desire to get out.

Anyone else having the joy of working with NextGen AEs straight out of school?

I work with a few, and the spectrum is… spectacular. A tiny minority might actually grow into the role. The rest have perfected the art of delegating everything except praise and self-promotion. Responsibility? Experience? Insight? Optional. Ego? Olympic-level.

Dell seems to be placing a bold bet on these kids. In reality, it’s like handing a Ferrari to someone whose only driving experience is Mario Kart — thrilled, clueless, and fully expecting the finish line to magically appear ahead of everyone else. Meanwhile, the rest of us are clinging to the brakes, praying we survive the ride.

And management? Don’t get me started. They sit on calls nodding like bobbleheads, drinking in everything these kids say as if it were brilliance, blissfully unaware that the actual work is being done by everyone else. Talk about knowing your business — more like blind leading the blind.
Dell is a house of cards… and I’m just waiting for someone to sneeze.

I'm so done with this cr-p. I was given three people's work with impossible deadlines. Before, I might have tried to make it work, but I'm not ki-ling myself over it anymore. From this point on, it'll be done when it's done. They can hire help or let me go, I don't care.

I know I should be glad to have a job, but I'm so burnt out and miserable. The people who got the package might have gotten the better deal. It's rough staying here.

I used to be proud to work here. Now I'm embarrassed to say were I work, considering everything. I hate this place.

The layoffs shattered our workflow and teams don't talk. Management has no vision beyond cutting costs. We're completely stuck and it's so demoralizing.

It's sad, but I've gone from fearing layoffs to wanting one. The company has lost all the respect it once had for its workers. I don't recognize this place anymore and I want out.

I do my job well, but I ignore all the corporate games. I'm too close to retirement to waste energy on that stuff. The paycheck is the only reason I'm still here at this point.

I was just thinking about how we used to be known for innovation. Now it feels like we're just maintaining old products. What happened?

Now everyone is looking to leave. People are openly talking about their job searches at work. The atmosphere is totally different, like nobody believes in staying here anymore, and for a good reason. Its the worst Ive seen it.

Chevron’s 2026 vibe reads like a corporate satire that forgot it was supposed to be fiction. Employees are watching leaders cash out stock, “future leaders” quietly plotting their escape routes, forced‑ranking systems dressed up as not‑layoffs, open seating that somehow manages to make productivity and morale worse at the same time, and a revolving door of reorgs that solve absolutely nothing. Through every post, one theme keeps bubbling up: it’s not a culture problem, it’s a full‑blown identity crisis where the top keeps insisting the ship is steady while the crew is already eyeing the lifeboats.