Hope you all have a great weekend. Hopefully you survived this last round. But I expect several/many more this year.
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@dh it's like you are narrating a documentary. FIS is a house of cards. The stock is bottoming out on purpose. A VC firm is going to buy the company and sell the pieces off for a huge pay day.
This company is a living museum of bad leadership decisions. Promotions and raises are mythical creatures here — often discussed, never spotted. The org structure is impressively top-heavy, where executives flourish like well-watered houseplants while the rest of the workforce survives on hope and calendar invites.
Innovation? Not really. The strategy is simple: buy companies, misunderstand them completely, fumble the integration, and then act shocked when the stock price reacts accordingly. Somehow this cycle is still called a “growth plan.”
Leadership excels at talking. Lots of vision decks, buzzwords, and congratulatory emails for work they didn’t do. Execution is delegated, accountability is optional, and failure travels upward only in PowerPoint form — never in consequences.
Hard work earns you more work. Loyalty earns you patience. Results earn you a reminder to “align with leadership priorities.”
Overall, it’s a fantastic place to work if you’re already an executive. For everyone else, it’s an ongoing lesson in how companies fail upward.
**— One star for the paycheck, one for the comedy.
The experience and institutional knowledge along with relationships that have been swept away is catastrophic. Those qualities bring the ability to solve problems quickly. Evidently, it is more important to solve them cheaply which never works out. You always get what you pay for, except in this C suite.
you are not wrong about that, there will be more. Obviously, hardest for those who were just "impacted." Stay in touch, help each other out, but mostly, support each other. It's a tough blow.