#poorleadership

Who's to blame? Ten years ago, the idea of something like this happening to Saks would be laughed at. It takes especially incompetent leadership to bring us to this point. We're losing our jobs because of them. This makes me both so sad and angry. This could and should have been avoided.

Worse place to work this bank treats their employees like trash.

Shout out to all the brave folks in FCRM for speaking the truth about the simmering disastrous situation that has been ongoing for few years in FCRM that upper management has been confronted with it and had no chance of getting away from accountability and passing the blame onto middle management, playing dead and tone deaf like they had for so long. John will tell Derek and let’s see what they come back with. Power to the people, if they think meetings will be cheerleading and butt kissing like What happens with Charlie they need to think twice. The bucket is full and has been full for so long, they need to admit to the injustice, corruption and failures has happening that only their full selves and delusional minds can portray as success! We all saw it! Today FCRM folks fought back against injustice and corruption and deserve to be recognized for their bravery for speaking up and not fearing retaliation.

We've replaced a human being with a capitalist cutthroat.
Culture going down the pan
Ranks of useless middle management
Gorman would be saddened by what is happening

Noelle never led IT and Katya/Gina did not lead digital?

Really nostalgic for what the company once was before these two/three

This company is begging to be sold, but these Execs have ruined any and all value. The weird old CEO is way over his head. All he knows how to do is lay people off. Should go to Georgia State and take an Econ 101 class. Could only help. He couldn't get into tech.

If we’re talking honestly to our younger selves, the conversation might include warnings about corporate messaging that talks about empowerment while employees feel undervalued, overworked, and unheard. It might include advice about spotting organizations that talk about people-first values while quietly prioritizing executive egos.

Ba----g on about courage and “seeing yourself bigger,” but anyone who’s actually worked there knows the reality is burnout, bureaucracy, and Accenture-rejects that couldn’t manage their way out of a paper bag.

It’s the usual corporate fantasy written by out-of-touch suits who love the sound of their own inspirational waffle while the people doing the real work get ground down. There's not a single member of M&C SLT that wouldn't gladly stamp on their own mother if it made them look good on LinkedIn

Maybe instead of publishing this smug nonsense, the prickgoblins running the place should try fixing the toxic culture they’ve created. Until then, spare everyone the sanctimonious wa-k.

They trade experience for cheap labor and then they're surprised the results aren't the same.

People who communicated clearly and made you believe in the direction. Those people are gone. The ones running things now, I can't even follow their sentences half the time. Don't even get me started on the strategy. No idea what it is. They promote people who sound good in meetings but can't actually lead. And then they wonder why the good ones keep walking.

that senior leadership has "carried a bag" at some point in their career and been successful. Leadership like that came from other roles like ops (ww) etc have no idea of what it takes to be successful in outside sales. They pat themselves on thr back because they can read a spreadsheet. Meanwhile the rest of us that grind it out month after month have to listen to their bs.

I've worked here five years (it feels much longer, though) and I'm still surprised by the decisions leadership makes. It's like common sense goes out the window once you reach a certain level. They roll out policies that actively make our jobs harder. They invest in technology that doesn't work. They promote people who have no idea how to manage. I don't know if it's always been this way or if it's getting worse, but the overall stupidity is hard to ignore.

Do our execs nurture innovation in any meaningful way? Do they know how to do it? All I see is folks tweaking KPIs and bragging about success. We lost our core values and we struggle to innovate. I am not even sure if we can recover from this, the board is asleep at the wheel. So, we have no innovation and we do have a rock solid layer of useless grifters at the top.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article314733473.html

Suspicious, someone is terminated 4 months later over their Halloween costume.
Just goes to show you , cannot trust HR dept or Leadership team.
HR dept. needs to worry about getting employees paid correctly. Numerous payroll mistakes every pay period.

But go up the ladder, and the incompetence and arrogance just skyrocket. I've never seen anyone truly skilled or deserving get promoted. This team could do amazing things with the right management. But nope. Not a chance in he-l we'd ever get a decent one.

I live in overland park. All I hear is how poorly managed the company is. Is this true?

Can we hope to finally see those MDs who made the poor decisions to expose the company to the risk around Russia (a country on the US-sanction list since 2014 and its illegal invasion so hardly a case of "how could we have known?") finally held accountable for their poor decision-making?
There are Ds and MDs in my area who recruited 100s in Russia and completely messed up our org in the process. Despite showing shockingly poor judgement and poor management skills they are still at Citi.

Nothing about how EJ is run makes sense anymore. It's all reactive panic moves and politics. If you're not buddies with someone in charge, good luck getting anywhere. Meanwhile the actual work gets ignored and benefits keep shrinking. It's exhausting.

This is hands down the worst place I’ve ever worked for, and it’s not because of the job itself. The work is fine, but the way employees are treated is brutal and intentional. Management acts like paying people is some kind of personal insult. Everything here is designed to grind you down while pretending that’s just business as usual.

That’s all I need to say. No direction. Constant changes, flailing changes. No ability to execute or even plan. Talking about things like RTO but not really enforcing it. Schedules constantly missed. Huge investments in contractors. Hiring but constantly laying off for no reason. Not a single technologist at an SVP or executive level. No results just talk.

It’s just a bunch of clowns. The notion of running a business is gone. It’s just about how much can I stuff in my pocket before the thing goes defunct. Pathetic and sad.

With poor middle management from the branch levels and issues not making it to the top people are fed up. Union talks in play. Drivers not able to take time off, routes sitting, customers not getting deliveries and no help. Warehouse runs way too short and people in place who aren’t fit for the job. Sales is getting fed up!

Guys? I’m worried our leaders might be stupid.

Quite a few layoffs happened in November 2025, right before the U.S. mid-term election day so it would get buried in the news. It affected administrative and IT positions not only at hubs but smaller airports. "People were being immediately escorted out in large groups of ten or more." The 2025 third quarter "dog and pony show" right before those layoffs was completely out of touch, per usual, and they reported spending millions on a "grab-and-go" food section at CLT, a new alcohol partner for first class, and a yet "really bad" earnings quarter. Their Station GMs had a mandatory in-person "training retreat" the week prior and were told of the layoffs, but told not to tell their staff. As someone who's seen AA's lack of oversight and poor spending decisions from as far back as their US Airways merger days up close, and attempted to put an end to them, I am not surprised. "AA is an 800-pound gorilla." Money was/is overspent right and left. Accounts being auto-paid for services no longer rendered or properties no longer occupied, etc. simply because it's too big and no one is watching. Rather than practicing natural talent attrition from the COVID days, and truly evaluating work supported by operational, administrative and IT positions for already skeleton teams, they resorted to these drastic layoffs. I would not be surprised if non-hub mainline stations will all transition to partners starting in 2026, corporate's out-of-touch management and spending simply can't sustain both them and the field.

Why is this guy employed anywhere?? Product teams hate him, we have to hide customers from him to save credibility- how oblivious is our board?

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.

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

Cisco needs to crack down on poor performance and do another massive layoff. If you can’t pull your weight, then you got to go.

What is happening to the UK business. Has everyone given up. Sales targets missed month after month and no one cares. Can't get a project done for love nor money. The strangest place. Even the leadership and upper management don't care.... is there any hope????

BNY has almost no redeeming values. The office is an ugly, smelly, stale, demotivating place. Everyone in here has the look of a loser.
People look beaten, downtrodden and tired.
There is no way this bank is getting the best out of people. And this translates to our clients getting poor service and non inspirational
Partnership at best. If our employees are being tricked, lied to and given unethical interaction, then clients of BNY have to be getting the same. The stock price cannot rise much more.

If senior mgmt does this to us, then they are doing it to clients. The dam will break soon.

Lions, led by donkeys… “classic”
https://www.printweek.com/content/news/xerox-s-darren-cassidy-steps-fully-into-new-role

What is trim doing? Jane must let this incompetent people go. Entire EDO is in chaos. Citi stock will soon crash from this artificial bubble.

The biggest sign of poor leadership is a complete lack of transparency. The leadership purposefully doesn't tell us what's really going on with the company's direction or our own job security. Good management is honest with its employees, even when the news is bad. Being left to guess and worry in silence is the worst way to run a place.

The fact you can work for a company for over 30 years and not get one thank you or goodbye from leadership or even your peers is very telling and just plain sad. Before any of you trolls starts saying move on and get over it, just remember your day is coming. I hope this company sinks faster than the titanic.

It feels like the Voldemort (Mr H) and Grindelwald (Mr. Witty still in the background?) are either very disconnected or have evil agenda to drive this company to the ground. How can any leader (even the unqualified ones) can do so much damage to the company, culture, and its employees life quickly? There are so many smart minds in the organization and I am surprised no positive revolution igniting.

Which one is more accurate?

There's a fresh wa-ker strutting into town, handed the keys to International on a silver platter like he's won the bloody lottery. And what does our heroic new overlord do? Bu---r all in the way of actually selling anything, of course.
Instead, the daft sod's obsessed with poring over every sodding line in the SFDC opportunity updates, picking at them with the sort of OCD paranoia that'd make a conspiracy theorist blush. Proper control-freak territory, innit?
To top it off, he's an arrogant bellend who's being an absolute cvnt to customers (never mind the poor sods who work for him). Charming bloke, clearly.
Mark my words, this pillock's going to hammer the final nail into Avaya International's coffin. Either he'll get the boot by the end of H1 for missing his numbers by a country mile, or he'll manage to torch half the business in the process.
Frankly, I'm not convinced PD or ML give a toss about International anymore if they're willing to serve it up to this manchild on a plate. What a shower of sh-t.

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Another absolute genius has been parachuted in to run International, handed the whole bloody kingdom like he’s the second coming of Steve Jobs. And what’s his masterstroke, you ask? Sweet fu-k all when it comes to actually shifting any product, naturally.
No, our fearless leader’s true calling is to hover over every single poxy line in the SFDC opportunity updates like a proper obsessive-compulsive hawk, nitpicking with the sort of deranged paranoia that’d make your average flat-earther look well-adjusted. Top-tier management material, clearly.
And the charm! Christ alive, the man’s an arrogant, swaggering bellend who treats customers like something he’s scraped off his shoe—and that’s on a good day. The staff? Mere peasants fit only for a daily bollocking.
Give it a few months and this utter we-pon will personally drive the final, glittering nail into Avaya International’s already knackered coffin with a flourish. Either he’ll get spectacularly sacked by the end of H1 for missing his numbers by a galactic margin (shocker), or he’ll somehow contrive to incinerate half the business before anyone notices. Either way, a triumph.
Honestly, if PD and ML are happy to lob the entire region to this tantrum-throwing manchild on a silver salver, it’s blindingly obvious they couldn’t give a flying toss about International anymore. What an absolutely magnificent shower of sh-t. Well played, everyone.

Every time they want a quick win on the balance sheet, the first thing they reach for is another round of cuts. There is no real strategy behind it, just the same tired playbook of downsizing teams and offloading pieces of the company. The people running the place have stopped trying to build anything and are just stripping it down piece by piece to make the numbers look good for a moment.

People skills matter! My new manager was great in his old role, but he was also an a--hole with zero people skills. Now he's our manager. He knows the technical side, but working with people is a complete mystery to him. Scattered communication, yelling, giving mixed messages, all of it has become normal. We're basically coaching the person who's supposed to guide us, and it's getting tiring pretending everything is fine.

The company as a whole may be doing OK, but North America has been in a down hill spiral since the appointment of the current CEO. Changes need to be made, some may be unpopular ,but the reputation is terrible, of what was once a respected company.

DXC treats its employees in a slave like manner. Once your in you never get a pay rise, promises are made of a annual merit evry year but it never materializes. They expect everyone to deliver at a top level to clients and retrain into AI and Cloud for nothing. The exec meanwhile dont deliver on their promises of growth but are entitled to Millions of $s in pay for delivering their failures. They tell the employees to leave if they dont like it. What an unjust and corrupt company, the DXC way.....

She was challenged several weeks ago on this board to go on CNBC to be interviewed and by golly, she did ! Albeit a soft ball interview with Sharon Epperson for DEI reasons.

Let's be honest here, if she interviewed with Jim Cramer, David Faber, or Sara Eisen, she'd be eaten alive trying to defend her missteps. It is ironic that even Roger Ferguson has appeared on CNBC as a contributor more times in the last year, then Duckett has appeared on CNBC in 5 yrs.

There are rumors and whispers she is losing internal support. All of a sudden, we see a flurry of activity from her lately in an attempt to save face and her job. So many speeches and public appearances that she has no real time to run TIAA like she is supposed to and this begs the question; who is really running TIAA ? She is paid millions and the company is chaos and no one is at the helm. She collects hundreds of thousands of dollars as a Nike Board Member & a pair of Air Jordans.

Instead, they have Jay Leno headline the TIAA FutureWise conference with the CEO laughing herself all the way to the Bank while many long term TIAA employees are being laid off. Shoot, maybe is she ran AI to run the company, it would be in much better financial shape today. It's funny how she criticized AI, but sold out to Accenture as they promised us the world with AI driven solutions which have not materialized.

TIAA FutureWise Conference (November 2025) In a discussion with CNBC, she advised that retirement investors should focus on building diversified portfolios and guaranteed income streams rather than worrying about an AI