If you believe in working hard, helping your team, and learning from mistakes, you're probably going to have a rough time here. Mistakes get held against people, while micromanaging and corrective action seem to be the main culture.
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Fire every remote employee if RTO is the mandate.
It’s unjust to treat in office workers one way and remote employees another way
@mj I think management is trying to show they can "manage" people but since many don't really know how to, they resort to all types of micro-managing and one-on-ones. The other issue in all my years there is they rarely called out the one or two employees that consistently did things wrong or inaccurate. Instead it was a full on meeting, email, or one-on-ones with everyone to check on people. It was a waste of time to specifically address the people struggling and bother everyone else. And then those people who still struggle or aren't great workers stay around even today when if after years they kept making mistakes should have been let go.
@hy "Lots of oversight and micro managing but a lot was unnecessary."
Agree with this so much. Layers of oversight for what reason?
@ah because the still have not fixed the Workday issue. This was not about kindness
@jy You must be one lucky guy under one professional manager. Most of the managers are useless, micromanaging, racist id--ts who just want to be there in power and protect their gang of yes men. I have seen so many who encourage their men/women to follow their footsteps and steal from others. Their parents to be blamed for giving birth to such id--ts and bringing up them like this.
It must depend on your department/manager. Where I am, the couple of people who got let go needed to be let go. Good, hard, quality work is rewarded where I'm at. I'm a Senior Associate and have received decent raises and bonuses every year, but I also do more than my job role. No micromanaging either. I may speak to my manager for maybe 30 minutes in any given week, and most of that is at our weekly huddle. Available if you need him, but as long as you're hitting your monthly goals, he's pretty hands-off.
It is heartbreaking and infuriating to watch the real tragedy behind all this chaos play out in real time. We are seeing incredible subject matter experts—the brilliant minds who painstakingly built these systems from the ground up—unceremoniously thrown aside over petty personal politics.
Meanwhile, ruthless VPs and directors are exploiting the turmoil for selfish gain. They’re eagerly pulling up their favorites to secure their own power, while systematically pushing out anyone who poses a threat to their ego or authority, no matter how extraordinary their talent is.
It’s completely devastating, deeply unfair, and infuriating to watch.
@e2 Must be certain departments, but I don't think its all of them. When we went back to the office some groups or departments were adding work or doing redundant work to look busy or important so their group wouldn't be cut. There was also lots of "projects" that didn't amount to anything important but groups would do them again to look "busy" or "important". Lots of oversight and micro managing but a lot was unnecessary. Rarely did I see much that had a tight deadline or was required to be done other than to put into a spreadsheet and brag how something was finished on time.
Most people that are left are working their as--s off.
I thought the timing on the announcement about the week after Christmas was a out of the ordinary as well; however, last year they announced it so late and it messed up a lot of vacation balances, and plans for what could be carried over so optimistically I’m thinking maybe that’s the reason - but who knows anymore! There’s always more than meets the eye …and sad that we can’t take announcements at face value.
I’ve lost any hope for things to get better. I just wonder when the next layoffs are going to be. Weird they announced the week off in December this early