#officepolitics

have u seen that linkedin in post - lol - an svp was bragging how her flight got cancelled but she got all strong and mighty, was able to overcome the challenge and persevere. what an amazing times to be alive - how much more deranged and fake can we become. makes me sick.

I'm serious, if you can find a job anywhere else, do it. At NCR, being good at your job makes you a threat. Everybody will see you as competition, and any chance of advancement will vanish. You'll end up working for someone who, in any sane organization, would be your assistant. It's a system designed to crush ambition.

After reading so many posts about toxicity, internal politics, work culture, terminating good employees and demotivation. I am curious as to what is the leadership mindset? Have the good leader beed fired too?

I work as a nobody sitting on the SLT floor everyday. They don’t even like using your bathrooms and call people that don’t work on the SLT floor “the people down there”. Do you think they care about anything you write here? They are too busy group texting each other d-mb selfies from sports game suites.

Hehehehe, I wonder why?
I mean, the naughty sites are not blocked at all.
Piorities I guess...

Wonderful news about RD being fired in Haynesville area. Such a cocky little guy. Was disliked by many but was the Ops Manager best buddy. So..., no one would cross him. Everything eventually comes out in the wash though. (Karma)

If you are not in a hub location I suggest you start looking for a new job. Hub locations are a lot of them by area but LOB but if you are in a satellite office you will be forced back in

Since RTO has now been in effect for over six months, it feels like that has been long enough for a second round of hand slaps for people who are not adhering like what happened earlier in spring. Have any managers had employees flagged for not coming in enough? Just curious what the current tolerance level is.

(And, just to put it out there, if anyone is ready to pipe up that I, or others, don’t want to work, like the majority of forks opposed to RTO, I am much more productive at home and we’ll never see the value of commuting to sit on zoom calls all day with 95% of my colleagues who are still remote. So please just save your feeble little fingers the effort of typing out a response and scroll on by. K, thx!)

Trust me, you do not need “mentors.” By my second year they assigned me one, and when I asked my teammates what that even meant, they all said the same thing: “We barely talk to ours.” And after my own interaction, I understood exactly why. These people aren’t mentoring anyone ,they just want to claim they’re training, developing, and guiding you so they can collect credit for work they never did. It’s corporate politics. They’re not helping you; they’re helping themselves look important. Avoid them. You’ll learn more on your own in a week than they’ll “teach” you in a year.

How many Dell PMs does it take to implement a feature?

Ten minimum

• One PM to ask engineering what features they’re working on given the PM roadmap is just whatever engineering accidentally mentions in Slack.

• One PM to get permission from engineering to talk about the feature followed by a mandatory disclaimer from engineering stating no commitments or guarantees the feature will actually be delivered.

• One PM to break the feature into 13 micro‑features so engineering can ship 1.5 micro stories per quarter and claim iterative customer value even though it doesn't work yet.

• One PM to update the roadmap no one sees, trusts, or uses because it changes so often it’s basically a weather forecast.

• One PM to create a 67‑page PowerPoint deck his manager will present as if he personally invented the feature, the product, and possibly storage itself.

• One PM to plan the release date four years from now, which will later be delayed because engineering discovered “unexpected feature creep."

• One PM to schedule a customer advisory call to validate the feature, then ignore all feedback because engineering thinks the customer is wrong.

• One PM to rename the feature three times so marketing can claim it’s AI‑enhanced.

• One PM to write the requirement and five more PMs to argue whether the requirement should exist at all or be replaced with a vision statement.

• One PM to present the feature in an exec review where leadership will ask why it isn’t already shipping, why it isn’t generating $400M ARR, and why it doesn’t run on ARM.

I hear that Jira Boards are being heavily scrutinized to see whos' doing what

How many Dell software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Five: one to write the ticket, one to reproduce the issue, one to say "works on my machine," one to schedule a meeting about it, and one to close the ticket as "won't fix."

Remove all parasite "leadership team" elements.

What value do they add to the operation of the company?

All some of these people do is go to meetings, spam worthless information on "YAMMER", and re-post the rubbish that their friends have published on LinkedIn .

Some of these people are job stage 8 and 9 . . . . How are these positions justified?

Anyone hear of anything lately? Been too quiet around the campus.

So is CIBT personnel going to HY?
I know damn well most crusty as fu-k managers that have McMansions in CT will not go to Jersey so wtf is happening this NOV?

Just send the email dang it! This is mental torture.

I skipped the last blow hard circlej--kAnyone care to give a short autopsy?

Sorry, not sorry.

How many times will I need to hear his sp-t?

She walked by and clearly saw the job posting on my screen. When she asked about it, I lied and said I was looking at salary benchmarks for a friend. The look on her face told me she didn't buy it. Can I be fired over this?

Should I take it as a sign? Lol.

We just got another fun email on oneway dell timesheets. seriously its like nothing works here in any place.

Can't even take holidays like normal person in NORMAL company.

After back-to-back meetings about the same things we had meetings about last week and a passive-aggressive ping from a director who can't articulate what he wants, yesterday I was tempted to google "fast food hiring near me." I'm honestly at the point where the simplicity of flipping burgers seems superior to this mess.

I want to know the opinion of the layoff board members here.

Execs frequently use political actions (incl. backstabbing) and complex organization systems.

Aggressive behavior and self-admiration also help these leaders.

I see that many executive leaders speak for long periods because they like their own voices.

This behavior is a part of self-admiration.

Whos having a corporate visit soon?

I have been thinking of things I would like to say or do to show my appreciation for people like Cameron or Laurent. They have given us so much. So last night I went and got a whole bunch of taco bell gift cards and I will send one a week to them. This way these two can keep sh-----g on us for the rest of the year. There is not enough toilet paper in the world for the two. Frenchy should go back home and cameron, you may want to consider just resigning, the stockholders have lost more money on your decisions than they will ever recover. I promise if you two do leave, we will have a proper send-off. We could either bring in some pizza or maybe do another one of those virtual happy hours we all loved. Dont worry about the expense. We can use some of the money you saved on raises this year by canning people right before the merit increase. Nice move dou--ebags. Have a great weekend and make sure to ask for extra lettuce when you order your lunch. My hope is I will be the one waiting on you when you come in to order. I'll hook you up with an extra chalupa.

Good luck to all!

Any chance it'll wrap up today?

How about instead of mistreating the folks actually doing the work at the L1 level, we get rid of a LOT of the fluff at the L3 and higher level?....There are so many L3s who do nothing but host teams calls where they circlej--kand throw out "Insightful" quotes to try to sound intelligent before we spend an hour listening to something that literally could have been an email so they can feign "Collaboration". Someone mentioned that ja----s Louie Lewis earlier in this thread and he has these fu-k a-s "Jam Sessions" weekly where its just him hosting and playing his favorite music before trying to seem Insightful like we all don't have sh-t to do. I swear to god im just waiting to hear back from some roles I have applied to so I can GTFO out of Dallas for good.

Fonts and Colors. And has an army of yes people to crack the whip. Spent more time walking the line activities than driving OI there. Total knucklehead operation.

I worked for other large companies in the West and the Midwest prior to joining GN&T in the Northeast. My Western and Midwestern bosses were friendly and would greet me, ask me how things were going, make small talk etc…

My Verizon GN&T were the complete opposite. Hardly ever greeted me, didn’t make conversation about work or anything else. One ED wouldn’t even answer if you said good morning if you happened to be riding in the same elevator on the way to the office. This silent treatment makes for a pretty unpleasant working environment.

I’m curious what other people’s experiences are like. Is this a Northeast thing? A Verizon thing? Or what? I’m an introvert and I’m not seeking to start long conversations but greeting someone back is basic courtesy.

KD our fearless minister of people and culture will be hosting an informal meeting with the Houston staff. This will be KD’s last official visit to the United States and she is keen on commiserating and socializing. The top leadership will all go to the World Cup England match in bp’s private suite… Ta ta

I thought remote positions were gone for good? I keep hearing people becoming remote that live, in my opinion, a commutable distance from the office.

How are these people getting remote approval?

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

Any news?

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.

Do you think Sarah London has any idea who The Clash even are.

This has bugged me for a long time.