#badleadership

It did not have to be this way, every single choice was made to strip the dignity from employees. Remember that as painful as this is, you are in control of your response. Be smart on your own behalf, contact an attorney if you have questions so that you can get answers that apply to you. Get that contact information from colleagues to keep in touch. Look out for each other. If you are feeling hopeless, in the US call 988.

Axes 30k with a cold am email? VZ is warm and fuzzy in comparison.

Here what your Ai told about your strategy.

When a major tech giant like Oracle handles mass layoffs through a single, impersonal email, it doesn’t just affect those leaving—it fundamentally alters the "psychological contract" for those who stay.
While leadership often views this as a "clean break" to minimize legal risk or logistical chaos, the remaining staff (the "survivors") usually interpret it through a much darker lens. Here is the kind of image and environment this creates:

1. The "Transaction-Only" Relationship.
   By choosing an automated email over human conversation, the company signals that employees are line items, not partners. For the remaining staff, the message is clear: No matter how many years you put in or how many "all-hands" meetings talk about "family" or "culture," you are ultimately a replaceable unit of labor. This often leads to a "quiet quitting" mindset where employees stop going above and beyond because they realize loyalty is a one-way street.

2. Chronic Psychological Insecurity
   When a layoff is sudden and impersonal, it creates a "Who’s Next?" culture.

The Shadow of the Inbox: Every time an "All-Company" email notification pops up, staff experience a spike in cortisol.
Risk Aversion: Employees become afraid to innovate or take risks because they don't want to stand out or make a mistake that could land them in the next batch of automated cuts.

1. Survivor Syndrome
   Social psychologists often point to "Survivor Syndrome" in the wake of such events. Remaining staff often feel:
   Guilt: Wondering why they kept their jobs while talented colleagues were let go.
   Anger: Resentment toward leadership for the "cowardly" or "cold" way the news was delivered.
   Distrust: A total collapse of faith in management's transparency. If they could fire 3,000 people with one click, what else are they hiding?

2. Loss of Institutional Knowledge and Morale
   Layoffs by email are often "blind"—they don't account for the social fabric of a team.
   The "Watercooler" Becomes a "War Room": Instead of focusing on the AI buildout or cloud infrastructure, the remaining staff spend hours on Slack or in private chats speculating, venting, and updating their resumes.
   Workload Paralysis: Usually, 100% of the work remains but only 80% of the people are left to do it. When that transition isn't handled with empathy, the remaining staff feel punished for "surviving."

3. Brand Erosion (Internal and External)
   Oracle is already competing for top-tier talent in the AI space. High-performers have options. When they see a company treat veterans of 10+ years like a "system error" to be deleted, they begin looking for the exit. The image created is one of operational efficiency at the cost of human dignity, which is a difficult stain to wash off in the talent market.

Do a Google search for articles on this (e.g., California Post and/or New York Post).

Tic toc. Tic toc. Tic toc.

It’s the "who you know" club all over again. We’ve got directors jumping into "AI Lead" roles who clearly haven't read a technical paper in years. They’re still pushing 2023-era prompting guides like they’re some kind of holy grail, even though that’s basically Stone Age tech for modern models.

Just sat through a meeting where a lead told us to "stay away from the newest models because they’re still learning." Tell me you don't understand how LLM training or inference works without telling me. It’s embarrassing. We’re throwing insane amounts of money away because the people making the calls have zero technical literacy. If you know anything about how this tech actually functions, you’ll see why this is destined to fail.

Note: Ran this through a scrubber to strip out my specific lingo/quotes so I don't get doxxed. You should too.

Why is she still here? She failed in her most precious task and i see her on LinkedIn accepting paid for bogus awards "best HR person" at some HR boondoggle in Orlando or Phoenix with a bunch of HR Eco chamber id--ts. Sheri did you pay for those trips or did the company?
Brian, she has no credibly or trust with the workforce.

This is the most miserable and unpleasant workforce I have witnessed in my career; Mckinsey's magnum opus of misery is the hallmark and extent of attention RV has given BNY culture.

If you stay long enough at BNY you will become ghouls like our execs. Some of these fallen humans are sitting around you now, you can see the vacant look in their eyes.

If you are outside this company and read this board, don't even entertain the idea of working here... heed this warning from someone that bought into their bullsh*t

Layoffs are coming, not because AI has replaced any jobs, but because Jeremy Legg is simply not intelligent enough to implement AI in a cost effective manner. He has spent so much money attempting to implement something he knows nothing about that we will have to lay people off to save the balance sheet. R.I.P CDO, it was nice knowing you!

Stankey loves AI because it’s the only thing that tells him his ideas are good. We need more Dunning Kruger machines so we can make more incompetent business decisions to line the executives pockets, and we will spend billions to get there! Glory to Netanyahu!

They've been getting rid of the people who knew what they were doing, and consistently holding on to average performers. The remaining competent people are forced to take on most of the leftover workload, while slackers have the time of their lives. It's not only a management failure, it's a conscious decision at the top. The only reason people put up with it is because of the terrible job market. Sooner or later, however, something will have to give.

Fiserv will dip below $50/share next week given horrible execution, bad employee morale, and irresponsible management incentives. Mike will take tens of millions of dollar home. Leaving shareholders holding the bag. Mike has promised no lay off, but now lay off is a routine feature. Mike has never bought a single share of our stock in the open market.
This ship called Fiserv, is going to zero.

Seems like an ego maniac ---- since he has been on board as ceo the stock has gone 50%. Said he was friends with Apple founder - again at best an exaggerator at worst a lier.

Awful leadership
Open favoritism
You can forget about coaching or career development
You’re treated as a number and replaceable
Pay and benefits are subpar
Little to no accountability
And so on...

It feels like the people making decisions no longer have a clue what our work actually involves. We tell them what's broken and they just ignore it. They acknowledge our concerns and then do absolutely nothing about them. Why should I trust anything they say at this point?

They keep the most incompetent people I don’t see how this company will survive. Epic is taking all of their clients. This company su-ks a-s!

This is so messed up and it's going to cost us so much in the long run. So much knowledge is about to walk out the door and there's no real plan on how to mitigate it. There's also loss in reputation and resentment from people who were transferred against their wishes. Bad decisions all around.

No offense intended to any recent layoffs or anyone that might be affected in the future.

I am a long term high performer. As a result of a recent reorg, bringing our team into IT that shouldn't be in IT, they put me in a brand new role I'm horrible at and I hate, and are overworking me to death. Not only does my leadership have no fu--ing clue what they're doing, they are extremely thin skinned, and not open to feedback. So fu-k it, maybe they're right, I'm not equipped for a role in their stupid bullsh-t org. I think they're going to fu-k up royally and cost the company a lot of money, but let them own it.

I am now begging, pleading with everyone I know internally to try to find a life raft. I don't even care if I have to take a pay hit, this stress is taking years off my life and will be very damaging to my career. But if I can't find something, externally or internally, I think I just need to quit. This is the d-mbest sh-t in the universe, and I really am the atlas holding a bunch up, so fu-k it, let them deal with the consequences of their stupid choices and yes men bullsh-t. They're about to do something very stupid that's going to pi-s a LOT of people off and make tons of enemies.

Hey boss, this is about you:
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/people-who-love-corporate-bs-are-bad-at-their-jobs-new-cornell-research-confirms/91314405

Did anyone else notice RV gave himself a $50mm bonus on top of salary and stock options in March 2026? A 258% increase in Y/Y not too bad. But, I am sure the remaining staff will get a pizza party. The greed coming out of leadership is truely next level

No other org leadership in the world will treat their employees this badly !! No transparency and courage to support or atleast be honest about what's going on. While M and up taking all the benefits, proactively switching orgs to save their jobs the real hard working ICs are still in the dark. All this company cared is just for M and M only !!

From time to time I feel disgusted reporting to the current management structure. Unmotivated, blame shifting, self-important, lacking basic manners in communication and the list goes on and on. Three layers of unmotivated and uninspiring management chain, they just come in to cash checks. Wish I could put my name to it and call out these mo--ns on LinkedIn.

The return-to-office mandate seems to apply only to rank-and-file employees, as leadership and management remain conspicuously absent

I see a lot of worry about ai here.

ai actually can do all things promised.

Verizon doesn't have the infrastructure, management, talent to do any of it.

Most of the requests are rejected because they are rule based problems not ai problems.

There's a fundamental lack of knowledge of what ai even is at Verizon. Whatever knowledge that exists at Verizon is at the highschool level and limited to basic prompting.

Let that sink in. The top leadership at Verizon has a grade school equivalent level with ai.

I've let my feelings known many times so I hope i get riffed because I am not learning anything here.

Tldr; anybody at vz saying anything about ai has no business doing so.

Rant over

The culture has shifted dramatically in the last two years. Managers with zero experience are making decisions that make no sense. You're not allowed to question anything or suggest better ways. The culture has turned from bad to worse. Every day I'm trying to find a way out. I think many here are in the similar boat.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/centene-ceo-sarah-london-health-care-insurance-trump-medicaid/

Fortune just dropped a fluff piece on Sarah London. It’s a masterclass in fluffy bootlicking. How much did the company pay for this pile of trash?

They call her a "mission-driven" savior fighting for Medicaid. Ba-f!

Let’s start with the photo. It’s awful. She looks completely dead in the eyes. There is zero warmth. Zero humanity. Just the cold, vacant stare of someone who fires thousands of people and then complains to CNBC about her "stressful schedule."

Fortune gushes over her "social impact" goals. They forgot to mention her $20M paycheck, while the company posted a $6.7 billion net loss last year.

She isn't driven by a mission. She’s driven by a massive bonus while her company burns and she runs MFN's legacy into the ground.

She's just a Layoff Queen who talks about "operating discipline." That’s corporate-speak for firing people. We all painfully know how many thousands of lives she's ruined with her inept leadership and lack of strategy. No amount of glowing praise from "Culture Karen" can redeem her.

"London Calling" started her career in Hollywood. It shows. She isn't a healthcare executive. She’s a storyteller. A pretty face with a vacant stare. This is just her latest script. She talks about "affordable housing" to distract from the fact that her business model relies on denying care and firing the people who do the actual work.

She is the ultimate corporate grifter. High on rhetoric. Low on ethics. Exceptionally well-compensated for failure. She isn't fighting for Medicaid. She isn't fighting for her employees. She’s fighting for her next glossy magazine profile. I've never seen anyone fail upwards so well.

Real leaders own their mistakes. Ours just deflect and hide. The people running this place have no clue what they're doing and we're the ones paying for it every single day.

Have you ever worked for a company that constantly works against you being productive? Not just not helpful, actively makes it harder and harder to do your job? For the stock’s sake, I hope something changes.

Are we serious with this non sense ? They don’t even come to the office , last meeting I was in with them they were in their PJs with a mess in the back ground … another one of aces excellent hires from the dregs of dead companies and terrible cultures .

Laid off by verbal notice in January, not given ANYTHING in writing until almost 2 full weeks later. Manager didn't bother to make the 40 min train ride to lay me off in person.

Then was stonewalled by manager and HR- not an acknowledgement that I had e-mailed to ask when I would be receiving information so that I could plan.

Sh---y, inhumane way to do it, and it all comes straight from the Charlie Scharf. The company started that downslide when he walked in the door.

Relieved to be away from the toxicity.

Its amazing DXC Execs towards the end of each quarter come on call and tell employees "lets finish this quarter strong, keep up the good work". Typical reactive thinking where were you at the beginning and the middle of the qtr, by the end it should be all wrapped up. The approach sums up their reactive thinking on important things like pay and growth. Incapable Execs.

Need a class -action lawsuit against these id--ts! FIS mgmt. should be the folks leaving not the hard working class. I am betting we'll be forced to accept roles with Cognizant to keep a paycheck coming in only to get sc--wed within a year from now. Betting it is the way FIS gets around paying severance packages and Cognizant will get their cut. I am highly irritated with the manner if which they handled their business, and we are all being lied to by managers saying they had no idea, when we know they were included and had likely had to sign off. Deals like this don't happen overnight this has been in the work many many months, pushing a year and I hope they remember karma is a !@#$%

AC's a walking lie. Every word out of his mouth is garbage—nobody believes a damn thing he says. He’s not a leader, he’s a joke. Terrible speaker, zero tech knowledge, just hot air and buzzwords.
And yeah, he’s right there helping ship our jobs to India, nodding along like it’s no big deal. But he’ll never own it—he’ll just smile, lie some more, and keep his cushy spot while the rest of us get sc--wed.
He should be the one getting the pink slip. Not us. Not the people who actually know what they’re doing.

Let me get to the point - Sprint is cancer and everything Sprint touched gets in deep troubles, just ask Nextel and Clearwire!

At what point do they get rid of the Stephanie and her people? The stock is down 33% in the last year, 66% in 5 years. 2/3rds of the company disappeared. This company is going down the drain, are they not seeing it or what??

How did we get to this point where corporate America is a country club where we will never obtain membership.

Years ago Medtronic was great place to work until the outsiders wrecked it with their paper MBAs.

Everyone I know is a clock puncher now. Why put in more than 40/week when it’s not rewarded???

Projects taking way too long now due to stretched AOP budgets.

Anyone believes that Hugo (extremely large space hog of a robot) is going to grow revenues? Elon Musks robots will soon be ble to do surgeries.

This Micro Business is poorly run/ executed
Especially on the West Coast. Not sure how anyone sees this dumpster fire lasting another quarter.

Throughout Gail's reign of te---r, she has brought this company to a new low. It's true that all the major healthcare companies are cr-p these days, but Elephants Health has trampled on its people far more than any other I've heard. They care NOTHING for you, no matter what position you're in. All they care about is making the shareholders and Queen Gail rich. If you're not planning to already, get out or retire if you can, ASAP! You may already be on the "list" and don't even know it.

It was an arduous and painful seven years with her at the HR helm. Good riddance!

Ongoing rolling layoffs are being executed without a clear audit of role impact or transition planning. The result is predictable: critical responsibilities are disappearing, remaining teams are absorbing gaps, and service quality is starting to degrade to the point of tipping. All company stakeholders should be paying close attention.

This pattern of cost cutting is undermining operational continuity and institutional knowledge.

For leadership—especially at the CEO level—this should be a visibility issue. If the intent is long-term efficiency, the current execution is creating the opposite: higher risk, lower resilience, and avoidable disruption for both employees and customers.

When directly questioned... certain executive leadership directly contradicts the CEOs 's thoughts and concerns on the matter and openly states they don't care. This to me says the CEO is not the one in charge anymore.

Employees who have brought in millions in revenue with decades of tenure are tossed to the side all so one executive in charge of cost cutting can get his bonus and show how many people he got rid of.

I personally remember a time when the CEO of this company looked at us as people. He once saw that we could be their very own family...thier daughters, sons, sisters, and brothers but at some point he handed over the reigns and decided to let his legacy be the destruction and upending of so many lives.

Such a poor ELT! no vision, no direction, no leadership but just a group of fools that don’t understand market trends but only know how to through fancy slogans to the air.

HP has spent years testing how much friction its customers will tolerate — DRM-ink cartridges, firmware that blocks third-party supplies, and a CEO who called non-subscription customers a "bad investment." Forced wait times fit the pattern: treat the customer as a cost to be minimized rather than a person to be helped.

https://boingboing.net/2026/03/20/hp-made-support-callers-wait-15-minutes-on-purpose-even-when-agents-were-free.html