#poorleadership

Are dogshit. I’ve been labeled a high performer for over a decade and even got ranked high in our old system before the previous one. Now all of a sudden I just “meet expectations” in the new rankings despite hours spent working like a dog into the late evening hours and on weekends, taking on even more work after all these layoffs to make up for the management committee’s poor judgment and lack of understanding of how their own organization works.

This is an obvious ploy to reduce bonus $$$ across the board because they are too scared to do more layoffs right now because they know morale has completely collapsed and so many parts of the organization are bare bones skeleton crews or outsourced.

They are banking so hard on AI clearing out their labor costs while not thinking about what happens when AI runs everything instead of humans: no differentiated investment perspective, AI slop marketing and ads, AI slop internal communications, AI “ client services” that are the exact same as every other AI at every other asset manager.

I truly don’t think TRP can dig itself out of this hole, it is way too far gone. And it will take a large portion of the Baltimore City and County tax base with it. Yet our government leaders have nothing to say about one of Baltimore’s largest employers becoming essentially a hollowed out shell? If I were the mayor I would be having some discussions with Rob Sharps right about now.

The Gores believed in "no leadership without followership." The leadership team is such a corporate joke anymore, that no one has even said the word "Followership" in YEARS.

Bob Gore said, "ANY associate should be able to approach Bob Gore and say, 'I think what you are proposing is not fair.' And Bob Gore better listen - or he is not much of a leader." Now the company is full of yes men and corporate robots. You cannot question anything without being fired. Performance Improvement Plans or PIPs were always meant to guide associates, not to push them out as the first option. Not with this leadership regime.

The message is very clear, "get in line, or get out." In fact, Brett Snyder said that in the botched "Culture Refresh" after they gutted the Core Tech Division. It was not a refresh, it was a warning: "This is the way it is and you can leave if you don't like it." That was shortly after many of our work family were laid off or let go. Extremely tone deaf.

They want to 3X the value of the company so badly, but no one believes in it. No one understands how it will be done. Leadership just blindly repeats it over and over. The turn over rate is crazy high and the average tenure has dropped dramatically. Who is going to be left to celebrate 3X with them?

The heart and culture that made Gore special is completely gone. It now truly is just like every other corporate place to work with useless management - AND terrible technology.

Amazing with all the RIFs the top surviving re--rds somehow stay in positions in while adding no value whatsoever to the company. Maybe they should replace the board with AI. Ever think about how truly fu--ing useless leadership is vs the workers that get sh-t done?

I just saw the video of Venas threat to shippers who oppose the merger and I'm stunned! I saw another article where he said "humor is good", except I didn't hear anyone laughing or clapping about it! He wasn't even smiling about it which really suggests he was serious about that threat. He messed up the railroad pretty badly during his first stint at the UP. Then he comes back to mess it up even more by hacking more jobs, make phony promises about "jobs for life", and then threatens shippers with rate increases! What does this guy have to do to get fired???

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-04/telstra-customers-flooded-with-false-missed-call-messages/107347874

Telstra customers have reported their SMS inboxes flooded with messages about missed calls from contacts which had not attempted to call them.

In a statement to the ABC, a Telstra spokesperson said the company was aware of the situation and it had since been resolved.
The spokesperson attributed it to an issue with Telstra's MessageBank service and apologised for customer confusion.

"We experienced an issue with our MessageBank service earlier today, which has now been fixed," they said.

It comes after a major, nationwide Telstra outage earlier this year impacted Australians' ability to reach Triple Zero (000) in an emergency.

Hundreds of Triple Zero calls were unable to connect during the outage on July 8 as about 45 per cent of all calls and data connections on the network were affected.

SG should step down

Is anyone going to tell him that he's sh-t the bed and the place is on fire? Customers complaining non stop and threatening to pull massive contracts. Huge amount of knowledge gone with the redundancies. We've all been forced to use Claude (usage limits prevent real gains) and Copilot (can't remember how to do a simple task...like having an assistant but a really dopey one who has to be told the same thing 20 times a day). Random demands from salespeople who sold products we dont have with perfect data that doesn't exist. Where does this sit? Who owns that? Everything is URGENT!!!!

Whenever management runs out of ideas, we're told to squeeze more work into the same hours with fewer resources. I'm sick of being expected to compensate for their sh-t decisions.

KL still gaslighting us 3 years in. Mike can we flip the page and get some real leadership in here.

Enough is enough. All these GCCs mushrooming across the globe aren’t savings, they’re a massive cost drain. On paper we pitch it as labor arbitrage. In reality, we’re bleeding money in many ways no one wants to put on a slide.

Here’s what it actually costs the company:

Duplication and rework: The same work gets done 2x, 3x, 4x across several functions and regions because no one is clear on ownership. Then we pay again to undo and redo it.

Coordination tax: Endless meetings, handoffs, time-zone ping-pong, and “alignment” calls that add zero value. Hours turn into weeks.

Quality and speed hit: Confusion over who owns what slows decisions to a crawl. We ship late, ship broken, and pay to fix it.

Attrition and morale: Good people burn out navigating the bureaucracy and leave. Replacing them costs more than we “saved.”

Leadership overhead: We keep adding layers just to manage the GCCs instead of managing the business.

Needless travel and real estate: do we even have a number of how much we spend on T&E with GCC travel as well as the real estate?

So leaders, stop hiding behind “labor arbitrage.” Wake up. Stop the endless mushrooming of GCCs. Have some common sense and dignity, and start running the company like you actually care about costs and outcomes.

It's the last several years that have ruined this place. If we could go back to the way things were, I'd be the happiest person in the world. Sadly, with this leadership, I doubt anything good is in our future.

Around 250 people are losing their livelihoods, and, in my opinion, for no good reason. Instead of strengthening R&D, we're halving its budget. How's that supposed to improve our results? How's that supposed to do anything but slow us down? Make it make sense.

Want to reduce LRs? Just promote terrible VPs who drive everyone to quit. It has to be the reason Cisco promotes people who are utterly clueless and have no track record of success to VP positions. The vile VP then lords over everyone, drunk on power, grinding the workforce into the ground. No severance required when people quit voluntarily. Genius.

Not looking good for today.We might hit 2010 or older prices. This is abysmal leadership. Stephanie, Kelly, Bob all need to be gone today. Looks like it is the CFO to be the first out. Time to cash out his millions and leave. Interestingly he had the same stock price fall at his last job and FIS fired him. Now we get to hear Stephanie spin it once again and the board will kiss her feet and do nothing. What a joke of a leadership by the board and C suite.

How much % layoff in endpoint security, CASB, DLP, email security ?

Those bad layoff decisions made by certain incompetent and selfish leaders have drag the org into negative loop. Hardworking and valuable engineers are let go, but slackers who have good relationship with those leaders are still there and get promotions. Customers keep leaving. While CEO only cares about the org revenue. And those decision just accelerate the decline of the revenue, and assure the layoff in next quarter.

Wall Street has no faith in Farley or his projections. They are laughing off 100K Fathom orders. 10% yoy sales declines. Accounting smoke and mirrors make Pro more profitable than the F-150. Instead of laying off failures, they keep collecting paychecks as Executive Director for Europe digital services, which nobody pays for, thus Pro smoke and mirrors needed. There needs to be layoffs, but starting at the overweight and overpaid BOD and LL3+ level.

What the fu-k is this… why you guys (c-level fols) make the most majority of employees go thru such a horrible vibe.

Notify victims on the day of announcement for the plan of layoff.

Are you giving victims time to prepare? Shut up… you guys can provide additional 1month payment if you guys are taking care of them so much.

You guys are just playing, messing with victims, to take advantage of this sh---y event to make you look little bit more responsible on the earning call.

You don’t even deserve this curse, you guys.

I’m done. I’ll find better employers even if I’ll survive. What a horrible company to work for.

So Xerox buys Lexmark then they get rolled into a Ch 11.
Thanks you mo--n managers at Xerox, alone they might have had a chance.
Why, why do we keep these people in charge, can't Blackrock and a the big holders get rid of them somehow.
What a useless group, how can they even show their faces at this company.

I've spent months picking up extra work while my team keeps losing people, and this latest layoff has finally pushed me over the edge. I don't see a reason to keep giving everything to leaders who won't support the people doing the work.

No shade to the winners but did both Challenge Coins from Evanko go to AI adapters? Not surprising, but what is surprising is that he is not even hiding the fact that patients are not our priority. But saving money by ANY MEANS is (AI, offshoring and then layoffs). I know leadership reads this website. We are not d-mb.

We're read the riot act even for the smallest mistake, even when it has no real consequences, yet leadership can mess up so badly that we lose KFC and all we get is crickets. What needs to happen for somebody at the top to finally be held accountable?

Intel CEO Warning Sends Dell Stock Sinking

https://www.gurufocus.com/news/9158651/intel-ceo-warning-sends-dell-stock-sinking

Hocky no likey Spain, so fired everyone.

Still working like it is 1990s.

Anyone coming on here claiming these posts are fake is either a manager or executive trying to justify the BS employees are no longer buying, or someone so focused on their own paycheck they couldn't care less about the company or its people.

A company is built on its people, not out-of-touch leaders who couldn't drive a school bus from point A to B, let alone drive revenue or motivate employees.

Now Xerox wants younger university recruits. Why? So they can brainwash them for the next 5–7 years into sacrificing their ambitions, buying into empty promises, and working for pennies?

Xerox, stop selling dreams while playing with people's livelihoods.

It's the same exhausting cycle every three months:

"We've made the necessary cuts. This is the team moving forward."

Three months later: "We need more adjustments, but now we have the right team."

Three months later: "Unexpected headwinds. We need to pivot and reduce costs."

Three months later: More cuts.

How many times can you tell employees they're the future before eliminating their jobs?

People dedicate decades to this company, get let go, and the next sales meeting carries on like they never existed. No acknowledgment, no appreciation. Just another number removed from a spreadsheet. It's corporate musical chairs with people's livelihoods.

At this point, I genuinely believe if every C-suite officer and VP resigned or was replaced tomorrow, Xerox would be in a better place. At least employees would have something they haven't had in years: HOPE. Hope for leadership that can actually grow revenue, motivate people, and rebuild trust. Why do employees always pay for leadership's failures?

Meanwhile, LP appears to have secured himself a nice golden parachute while the rest of us are stuck on a plane going down.

You cannot keep cutting your way to greatness. Leadership is about growing a business, not shrinking it while rewarding those at the top.

People aren't tired of change. They're tired of broken promises, endless layoffs, and being treated as disposable.

Maybe the next round of cuts should start at the top.

It is easy to be a good company when the business is growing. The real colors come out when times are tough. Comcast was good. Enter competition and management denial finally over. Hatchet job and dump employees as fast as you can. Who would rank it good now?

Our focus is on badge swipes for RTO and building a new campus no one wants because nobody really needs an office anymore. We even sell the service that enables WFH. But don’t worry it’ll be loaded with a bunch of junk that nobody will use because it hasn’t been cool for nearly 25 years. We are always way too late to the game. Starlink isn’t a real threat when you have a multibillion dollar office like this.

Expect us not to make Q3 numbers. I’m sure anyone who sees the numbers know we are not making forecast, shocking I know, firing thousands and shuffling the leadership week all while making zero changes in process/guidance/etc isn’t making money. The fact question is, does it matter? I am under the impression we are basically at the price floor for the stock (probably around $35 would be my guess for an absolute minimum). So when we miss numbers again, I don’t see the stock taking much of a hit. The question is, how hard does that mean leadership will pull the layoff lever since it’s the only thing 99% of SVPs and above know how to do.

So after the third missile attack on the camp in as many weeks, the company reopens the schools.

I’m sure a risk assessment has been completed. Not.

Unbelievable levels of recklessness.

When oil prices are high we make a lot of money. Executives think it is because of their brilliance. We have Guyana in spite of them not because of them. It is well known.

They're kidding right? Just another opportunity to spin fantasies about what they do all day. Everyone else is doing the actual work of meeting clients where they are, solving problems and in doing so efficiently, retain their business. No bonus for those who do, though. Only the big decision makers who move the business get those bonus checks. So, that is what they move, more money to themselves while others are laid off.

I saw a belk market tiktok today about how they are now doing sth. They demoted me months ago from Omni lead because markets weren't doing sth anymore. I now work at a job making almost double doing operations supervision. So I guess thanks Belk for that. But leadership needs to get it together. Your management didn't know what was going on.

Bad Q3, sounds like a market surprise, down 50% after the earnings were announced, that indicates that the market was surprised and doesn't buy the prior "things are great" talk track. Biggest investor Starteepo issued a public letter essentially denouncing the the CEO and Board, wonder if Starteepo will buy a few more shares and dump the CEO and board? In retrospect, it sounds bizarre that the CEO hinted at raises in August after telling everyone how great Q2 was, but he needed to wait (??) and then Q3 is a disaster? The CEO keeps communicating that he's all about simplification and empowerment and then adds multiple layers of SVP's on up (???) and then announces that he needs to personally approve any hotel stay or rental car? Hey, if you are reaching that deep, why not try to address the salesforce not getting paid commissions on time. The company is losing confidence in him when he reaches down so deep, Ii reinforces that he can't pick the best leaders, and manage the larger priorities.

Here it is, always at this time of year. Happy Holidays tenured employees, come and unwrap your displacement package. I wouldn't say completely blindsided by their gross actions and timing of it but blindsided enough at the amount of layoffs by a new care center director who is utterly oblivious -while they simultaneously open up a large new batch of roles. Who is approving these outrageous business decisions? Are our senior executives mentally ok? Beware everyone. You could also appear on Santa's next naughty list and a wrapped severance package under your tree too.

Wide range of layoffs across UX Design, Research, Product Management, product engineering.

Approx. 200+ employees let go today at CCC after its acquisition by PE companies Elliott and GTCR.

Incompetent leadership that made hasty investment decisions with EIQ acquisition as well as PE selloff.

Scrambling to close tens of millions by March, with no one understanding how they will close those millions. What happens when they miss the mark by 10s of millions? Who will they blame this time? How was this reorg even dreamed up it truly couldn’t be worse. And the PEs don’t even have actual true numbers. Just a hope and a prayer. How has MH and NK made it this far?

What a joke. Left after a couple years of dealing with unqualified managers. Who decides to hire the failures from other companies into management roles?