#morale

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Be strong.

Heavy sigh

In the past 2 years Prabhat Singh had lead the group to sink. He is not allowed to hire. Everyone is leaving him. Teams have shrunk by 50% because people we're unhappy. He expects people to work on the weekends so outages will happen on Saturday and customers won't notice. We have an outage every single day.
Someone had shut down the flow on SBG and the whole group is on a KTLO mode. It's just a matter of time until there's going to be a massive cut but the best way it to shake down top down and not bottom up

What a joke. These EC member elitists are getting millions in stock options and salaries and then are giving us merit increases less than what inflation is. Then they expect us to be happy with an extra 10 percent bonus? The RTO answer was a joke as well. Rick needs to open his eyes if he hasn't seen top talent leave. I can't wait until we get younger leadership and not anyone from McKinsey

They will tell you in Townhalls that other places "like" the Open Plan, unassigned hoteling.

The truth is that if you actually speak to any of those "other places" (San Ramon, Perth, etc.); none of them have a good thing to say about it.

HMP is a slow motion disaster, designed to get you to quite without severance.

Their fragile egos just refuse to take any accountability. Of course culture and morale are high when they don't have to answer to anyone (the board of directors asleep at the wheel), don't have to worry about being laid off, and collect fat bonus and merit increases no matter what. Don't accept their relentless gaslighting and keep speaking up on their lack of leadership and poor performance.

Are you feeling that?

My team is beyond the breaking point. And being told that we are empowered to say ‘no’ to incoming tasks isn’t working. If we say no, the action gets escalated, and then it comes back around with more weight, more visibility, and a stern warning.

How does this continue? Folks know the industry and job market isn’t great so they stay and swallow the pill (and their pride), but everyone is so stretched that quality of deliverables is decreasing, opportunities are being missed, communications are being overlooked, and morale issues are sort of acknowledged but swept under the rug.

Anyone else seeing what’s happening in GVSE right now? From what I’m hearing, any new roles are being restricted to grade 7/8s. Combine that with all the automation initiatives being pushed on us (auto discounts, auto del reg approvals, auto emails via Gong), and it really feels like the intent is to make these “Early in Career” roles going forward.

For those of us who’ve been here for 5+ years, it’s hard not to feel like they’re trying to clear space for younger, cheaper talent. There’s almost no room left to be strategic or to bring real experience into the process. Leadership has done little to help us adapt to this new pod model. No real enablement, no clear direction, just constant change with minimal support.

Honestly, I’ve never felt more de-motivated in my career at Cisco. It feels like the GVSE space is slowly collapsing, and we’re being left behind in the process.

Wondering how everyone else is feeling in the GVSE space. Am I just being paranoid?

If you were unlucky enough to get that god-awful “Friday Note” from, you know who, then you’ve already witnessed the nauseating display of wasteful spending happening at headquarters. With threats of massive layoffs hanging over everyone’s heads, right before the holidays, mind you- it’s beyond tone-deaf to flaunt their lavish parties and celebrations.

It’s absolutely deplorable. A disgusting, out-of-touch flex from people who clearly have no clue what it’s like to worry about paying rent/mortgage, feeding their kids, or surviving after Q3 earnings hit and heads start to roll. While the field scrambles to hold everything together, they’re busy partying it up on our dime. I can only imagine the “celebrations” they have on the company dime that they don’t dare share images of.

I’m genuinely embarrassed to be associated with such a shameless and heartless company

Almost everyone who was valuable to Fiserv have left, some retired, some were tired of the complete mismanagement, some found better opportunities…. Bottom line, the cream of the crop are gone leaving the less talented and the incompetent. I don’t see Fiserv coming back at this point, it’s too far gone, too little too late, too bad….

The obscene thing is that management think they know their stuff, but they are the most incompetent people I’ve ever seen. Turn out the lights.

Just listen to the music while this ship sinks….

Alright chat - the writing is on the wall. Company is going downhill. Talent is leaving and layoffs are happening left and right. Where we going?

After that disastrous, blunt, outlook-vision, do we need to bother going in ? Why bother? Who cares about RTO

Lots of uncertainly and nervousness after yesterday=Some nice recognition--finally !

We don't get many pats on our backs any more=just kikks in the aarse+The CEO is starting to lose the rank and file=Only 55% of company in attendance=We used to get 90% on these meetings=The sales guys seemed down and had low energy=Seemed like deers in headlights=Compassion & passion is gone+Thought process is always changing like flags flapping in wind=Meps, Peps, and fops, gops, mops, (huh?) wtf? are labor intensive, high maintain, low margin that we don't want anything to do with.

poorly communicated layoffs have led to declining morale, many in my team are considering leaving

So glad that in this time of need Amazon has decided that my salary would be better suited going towards the big beautiful ballroom, than me and my family. Thanks corporate overlords.

Prove me wrong...

I was a "lifer" (almost thirty years) who was severed September 2024, and all the wind had left my sails in the turmoil throughout the year or so previous to that. In all my time there, there had never been a worse problem with either leadership (including the Dauman fiasco) or morale (including after the Freston firing).

It was still an emotional blow when it happened, but I had been expecting it and had already mapped out some personal projects I wanted to pursue in order to cleanse my palat.

After just a couple of weeks, I found that I was sleeping better, getting up earlier, laughing more, feeling more spry, and had lots of creative energy that I was excited to put to use.

In short, I felt about ten years younger -- which made me realize that this wreck of a company had been making me feel ten years OLDER.

The financial concerns that I face now now come nowhere near the stresses of being inside the ever-worsening toxic behemoth. My brain is in a far better place now.

This post is not mine, just sharing what "Been There, Glad To Be Done With That " posted earlier today - here is the link Post ID: @cy+1k8s4d0wm

It's nice to have a leader who actually sees a reflection when he looks in the mirror.

Happy to hear about the forthcoming increased flexibility.

I get the impression that-- at least for now-- there are no plans to take away people's livelihoods through layoffs to inflate the numbers in the short term, at the expense of our long-term success. A CEO who actually considers the long term impact of his decisions. Imagine that.

You mean you're not going to gut critical departments to squeeze an extra nickel out of the stock price to line your pockets?🤯🤯😱😱😱😱😮😮😮😲😲😲🫨🫨🫨

I'm optimistic about Fiserv under M!ke's leadership. Let's see where we are by Summer 2026. I'll try to hang in there until then.

And will anyone ever be held accountable for the state of affairs? Ruining people’s lives just to chase the stock price, because they have no better ideas.

This is disgusting. I feel deeply for everyone affected, and I sincerely hope they find something soon.

With so many layoffs without reason or replacements- none of these roles are actually “useless” they’re needed - the existing employees keep picking up the slack. It feels like the boiling a frog story, we just have gotten too used to doing more and more work for less and less pay. The workers have no say at all while they know the actual work being done and making the CEO money. Making the company more money to keep adding unnecessary C-suite executives with millions of dollars in pay. Why don’t we unionize? We have gotten too used to the lay offs of important workers without a real reason every Christmas. Multiple layoffs this year, we have gotten too used to this. The only “restructuring” needed is cutting the unnecessary executives and their made up roles. CEO has the personality that he’s an actor playing a CEO. These are people’s livelihoods he is playing with while getting richer than ever before.

Are we just not even going to pretend to be a compliant & sound bank? Has USAA just given up on quality leaders, innovation, member focus and truly caring about its employees. We’ve gotten so used to scraps around here, when id--ts with a title makes greed based decisions we all just nod and clap. This place will have a day of reckoning. When and how bad, who knows. My prediction is lights off and news cameras we wake up to randomly one morning.

Hello,

Just curious of the associates who still remain at the firm. Will you participate in any fundraising campaigns and have it taken out of your paycheck?

Our floor was being renovated in ATL- Lenox so TSC Leadership allowed us to work from home 2 days a week while renovation was being completed until December 1st. Porter visited ATL and reiterated it.

Today we get an email that they finished early so back to 5 days on Monday! “We know this is short notice and you may need to make some adjustments to your schedule”. What a joke. Don’t ever let AT&T tell you they care about you.

Good job Frank and executives, way to take a great company and absolutely drive it into the ground. Why did the board ever hire this guy? He was a failure at First Data and brought his failures to Fiserv. He is an mo--n, a selfish person, and terrible leader.
I don't know how Mike is gonna raise the company back to where it should be.

Well, that was a sobering speech from the CEO. Good luck to everyone!!!

I would have never believed working at BMC would ever feel like this. I've worked here for over a decade and this year is the first time I'm thinking about leaving. What is going on?

With how things are going, getting severance might have been the better outcome.

AT&T’s latest masterclass in self-sabotage: spend millions attacking T-Mobile, violate NAD rules, and get slapped with a cease-and-desist.
You’d think someone in legal or marketing would’ve caught that — maybe the one competent person who actually reads compliance documents.

But that person got RTO’d to Dallas or Atlanta five days a week, fighting for a seat, dodging “collaboration days,” and wondering why their life turned into a bad sitcom.
Meanwhile, the yes-men who approved this ad are sipping coffee in their corner offices, calling this fiasco “brand momentum.”

Let’s be honest — we’re not #1 in customer service or innovation.
We’re #1 in wasting money. We should be a Harvard Business School case study on how to find new ways to burn cash and call it a strength.
Only AT&T could turn a marketing campaign into a compliance violation and call it “forward-thinking.”

Now the ad’s gone, the money’s gone, and morale’s in free fall — but hey, at least leadership gets another “All-Hands” meeting to tell us how proud they are of the team.

Every fu--ing round we lose more people and the rest of us are left scrambling how to the work without them. Well I'm done. Fire me if you won't, I'm not picking up any more work. Not a single thing is getting added to my plate this time. In all honesty, now I wish I was laid off. Who knows, maybe there's still time.

Let us know how you and your team are impacted.

Checking in to see if all areas are like mine. Stuck now without the long term, valuable associates that knew their job, who were an asset to the company and now the rest of us are struggling to keep up with tasks that aren’t even in our job description and working with associates who are barely able to do the bare minimum of their job description. We were already overworked before VSP and now the ones that are still here are underpaid with more work than ever in hopes of maybe a 3% raise next year which isn’t even close to inflation rate. Feeling defeated at this point working for a company who has proven they don’t care about their employees.

How are employees and contractors coping with added stress from lack of security and direction while the company literally Transitions into something new…

Are Chevron employees still cooperative or more guarded?

Is the safety potential from older assets and less eyes on and walk the line starting to pose a concern?

Is Chevron HR still creating a toxic environment? Full of fear?

How’s ENGINE working out? One the Indians adhere they will not be able to adapt to that unique cultural environment weather Bakersfield, Greely, or New Orleans…this is actually what made Chevron special.

Yes, I survived this round but I think we all know this is far from over. I'm supposed to feel relief, but here I am, already thinking about the next round and still unable to sleep. All I know is that I'll double my efforts to find something else, because this is not healthy in any way, shape, or form.

I can’t live in fear till January and work like a dog every day. Sick and tired of training TII knowing that they will take my job.

We can’t f*cking accelerate if half my team including some high performers are laid off (probably because they were remote)

If I make it beyond April, there is no way I will get more than 50% of bonus and 2% hike in salary.

And this is not the Target I know for the last 15 years. We neither caring, nor growing and definitely not winning. Our culture is a sham.

Most of these people were let go
https://corporate.target.com/careers/culture

The finance guy will be working us to our bones and then lay us off after peak.

Your leader knew and did not tell you sooner.

The person who shook your hand and smiled at you in the elevator knew and didnt tell you sooner.

The Meetings you were not invited to was not coincidence but deliberate.

The Conference you went to and your Sr. Leader said your jobs were safe... lied to you.

Those friends that say they will keep in touch, soon will fade. Remember this for you are even in this situation again you will be able to read the signs sooner.

hope everyone enjoyed that party. there won't be money for those types of things in the future #fiservproud

Lol what is happening

Welp. Was checking my email and just got the news.

Whoever predicted that things have been a little too quiet recently was right on the money.

It's a shame, I've worked with many developers and testers from the region and have been helped countless times by them. For me this comes as a huge shock and honestly makes me pretty sad..

Hoping everyone will get along fine over there.. but damn