Since Dan Griffith has joined he has slowly made life miserable for the Tech teams.
Under the current modernization strategy, sudden organizational shifts and budget cuts have created an unstable environment.
• Hiring freezes and roadblocks make it incredibly difficult for highly integrated vendor staff to transition to permanent, direct-hire roles.
• Resource constraints mean remaining teams are stretched thin, handling heavier workloads with less structural support.
Work culture has eroded gradually due to unreasonable demands from the CTO. I remember when this used to be a fun place to work!
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@vc Ditto
Some of us know the culture has been in the cr-pper even before Amala was there. Dan is just continuing the tradition.
True.
Dan is set to use the Chinese AI playbook with the MS Teams integration. "their bosses are directing them to painstakingly document their workflows with the eventual goal of automating specific tasks using AI agents, such as OpenClaw...It works by ingesting the chat history and profile details of a specific coworker, then automatically spitting out workplace manuals that describe their tasks in stunning detail".
You can build code to combat this...similar to Project Stardust.
Let's face it, the "oomph" at Tech/IT is now gone. Look around, anything exciting going on? None. Even BTS for this year has been cancelled. I guess everybody in IT has been busy polishing their resumes at this point.
The culture started going downhill long before this goober arrived.
@bw Very specific about the 15-20% extra Leads. Looks like HR has entered the chat.
@OP your first bullet doesn’t really make sense. It may not be ideal from a 3P worker perspective, but why does that erode the culture? The second bullet - welcome to corporate work. USAA is about 15-20% overstaffed with way too many leads that have no upward mobility and no place to go in SATX.
Question is, what are we trying to get to? What is the strategy, if there is one.
We need to cut costs so that we can fly in senior executives to spend days talking about improving the culture.