We wouldn't need so many cuts if we simply stopped hiring for a while.
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@19y you must be one of the usless DPMs that will be laid off as soon as a new regime comes in. OBD hasn't produced anything of true merrit or improvement. Just more management and glorified note takers. AI facilitor in Teams is probably way more effective than 90% of the DPMs and mid level management in this company.
@16f Interesting how someone can criticize continuous improvement while demonstrating absolutely none. Apparently, complaining about wasting an hour is a much better use of everyone's time.
@16f You mad, broflake?
@111 you know what we need for this, a retro with a mural for it to lead nowhere and a waste of an hour
Anybody find it phenomenally tone deaf that Big Blue keeps reimagining people off the payroll in multiple rounds of the Hunger Games and yet brags in all company circlej--ks ( mean....town halls) that they're hiring people? New to tech? Can't find a job? Come be backfill for someone else who was in the exact same problem and became a casualty of a culture that rewards a-s kissing and perpetuating the status quo. You too can say you worked for a multinational Fortune 70 Company---at least until your name comes up as tribute!
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If Z + K took a look at their super-duper, improved, flattened org, they'd see quite quickly that a lot of people who are still meant to be technical, contributing to code etc. are not doing that. I know for a fact that from my ME and at least 2 levels above them, haven't raised or approved a PR in over a year.
My Lead ME is a joke. My ME cannot communicate.
I don't like advocating for RIFs, but it does feel like a lot of MEs and DPMs are not pulling their weight and if there is to be a round of cuts coming soon, then I know where I'd be looking: high salaried employees who are objectively not contributing per the new org role descriptions.
Seems to be their answer for everything, "more managers". The whole DPM/ME farce essentially doubled their cohort. At this rate there's going to be one person left doing all the actual work and everyone else drawing murals. The current setup is a bullsh-tters dream environment.
But surely we need more Managers...you can never have enough Managers!
They know there are many people that don't do much other than opine on things - so they have to tell leaders of areas to make cuts. We all know the layers and layers of this place result in inaction by many people, who as a result, are useless.