#badleadership

I left eight months ago. The top brass don't know what they're doing. If you're not near retirement, staying at T doesn't make any sense.

Does anyone know how much John Stankey’s new Range Rover costs? While people are getting cut you can be sure this guy won’t be on the layoff list and will indulge himself in the best luxuries available in Highland Park.

It was to go RTO full time.
You cannot go half a decade and blow it up like that.
It’s a cauldron of bad mojo and stupidity sprinkled with greed.
Bad corporate decision made my dei and fools.

How come at the end of 2025 we all got a thank you note saying that we did better than ever and how much they appreciate us, then few month go by and they just sp-t on us? They're reaaaally trying to lose all valued and experienced employees. Is common sense in the room with us?

Go fu-k yourself.

I've worked some bad jobs before but nothing even comes close to what this place has done to me. The leadership is awful, the managers are worse, and I genuinely don't recognize myself anymore after dealing with it all. It's taken such a toll on my head and my confidence that I'm not sure how much longer I can keep showing up like nothing's wrong.

Why is it always the older, experienced, and high performing employees are shown the door? We have plenty of those who do nothing all day and yet they stay. Why? How come that keeps happening?

Enough with the nonesense from certain people.
No one wants to hear it anymore, no one wants to participate in it, no one likes you, no one likes your constant negativity, no one likes your entitelment, no one likes your doom and gloom, we are tired of your nonsense.

So Just Stop. Your continued efforts to stoke bitterness, lower morale and cause drama are no longer acceptable.

Company and management expects excellence but the company can't even pay you correctly or resolve a pay issue within a 6 month time span. And then they tell you you're the problem for trying to solve your own problem since no one will actually help you resolve issues.

The most difficult part about working for this company is dealing with the company itself.

I don’t know when work turned into everyone trying to prove they’re the last one who should be cut, but that’s what it feels like now. People chase approval, grab credit, and act friendly until there’s a chance to make someone else look bad. It’s draining.

The worst part is that this isn't accidental. When leadership rewards this kind of behavior, people learn fast. I'm relatively new in my career but if this is how it's always going to be, well fu-k.

Massive insiders selling stock and nothing given to the employees ever. Leaving bag holders. Get far away from dell

Since Andrew left, and he only led for approximately 4.5 years or so, the treatment of employees has gone down to the gutter. The only period in which employees were treated fairly was during his tenure. Look up the history of UHG leadership and you will see what I’m saying. I was recently laid off after working here for 15 years. They not only offered me 5 weeks of pay, they put very “questionable language” in my layoff package.
Accepting their layoff package is accepting more abuse on the way out.
• If they get sued you should be on their side.
• If you were mistreated and (I’m watering this part down) or if you saw someone being mistreated, by accepting their severance you are saying it never happened.
• If you catch wind of them potentially being sued, you should warn them
• Also they added that you should not expect any payment for any of this! hahahahaha!!!!!!
• And if they call you for help with work after you’ve left, you have 48 hours to get back to them and help. This is teetering on… “fill in the blanks”…. and not even enforceable!
Who do their lawyers think they are? Very thuggish! I asked others that were laid off with me and they had similar language. And one that worked for 3 years only got 2 weeks worth of a paycheck.
This is all provable and true! To those of you still there, this is how they treat you after years of service, that’s if they don’t put you on a CAP or PIP to manage you out like someone said in a post on the UHG link here. They did this recently to my friend who worked in UHC for 25 years!

Am vomitting

I am so tired of getting blamed for projects that went wrong because management approved bad plans.

The calls to stop spending money and the pain continues..... our customers and our network continues to suffer, let's not get into how much the employees are suffering. What is Stinky doing to AT&T...?? We are told to save a dime, but then he spends millions on stupid cr-p.

Why is he still around?
Why hasn't the board asked for his resignation...?
Are the stock holders and board members as blind and as stupid as he is..??

We are definitely in a spiral downhill... sad to see how much the company and upper management continue to fail us all.

Our VP ..HT.. announced he is leaving. I was told he's an ahole but even he couldn't put up with the bigger ahole that's now his Boss. Yes Sh--Charity managed to scare away even Thakkar. Rumour has it they had a falling out. Pure SH-TSHOW!

Looks like that SF lost her mind. There was a couple of urgent L2 level leadership meetings and additional cuts and savings asked. Is it the aim of SF to destroy the company? When she will finally understand that leading the company is way more then financial numbers? Is she finally loosing her support to lead this Titanic?

Can someone imaging she survive as a CEO any longer? I never seen something like this. Only Kelly Beaty could be worse choice.

Our manager just sits there nodding while other teams blame us for everything. No pushback, no defense of our work, just silence while we take the hit. I mean, he looks bad in the whole thing as well, he should at least care about that. But nope, just lets it happen.

Steve's comments were fine but Christa Ferrell publicly revealed herself in her own words as spiteful and the Adil Mirza acknowledged that he just takes other people's work and put his name on it. Is Sophia really that tone deaf that she thought that would be motivating or was she just too lazy to review the final video? Happy EAW folks, keep doing a great job for our spiteful, plagiaristic and lazy leaders.

What happened to the people who actually knew how to lead a bank?

It stupid to have security under FTS/FAST to begin with. I don’t get it!…MD and that CIO guy were two of the worst hires in the history of the company. Idk think they know what they were doing.
He only did a year then left!…he wanted everything to be engineers. Nonsense

The disaster starts with our OD. He is out of touch. He is only a numbers manager and unable to lead. Does not have competency to lead. Blames everyone else for his failures. He is the common denominator. Unable to take responsibility and accountability. His answer is always to fire someone else or ask someone to be fired. We need a new OD.

Left late last year after 20 yrs w/ the company. When I started vz was the best company to work for. Took care of employees, customers and advancement opportunities were endless.

Ever since the Vodafone buyout happened in 2012/2013 it’s been a sinking ship. Less and less executives who worked up through the company, bad ideas (go 90, hum, etc), resources and support gone, outsourced CS, ripping off the customer, micromanaging thru the roof and layoffs every year.

It’s a shame but that’s corporate America these days.

OP is @15j+1kqqf7e4m.

I've long stopped expecting anything from the people above us. They don't have a plan, they don't have a vision, and they don't have any idea how to fix the problems they've created. It's been years of the same chaos.

They're just glorified managers, and they're not even good at that. Citi is spiraling downward because there's a complete lack of real leadership.

Not a damn thing. No innovation. Horrible take on human capital. Stay away from these mushroom clouds

If you put on your blinder and look down and support the company like they’re your own flesh and blood, you’ll do well. But at what cost?

Lots of major names have left the company, and people continue to leave. Probably a combination of the upper management culture (nepotism much…), LT mindset around optimizing and running as lean as possible, and the profit sharing changes which apparently we claimed “entitlement” to and did not work for. And really bad base pay relative to general industry. What do you think?

Significant change in culture and employee satisfaction. A few extremely poor leaders out in leadership and department head positions and everyone is job scares, anxious and unhappy. CEO change and the domino effect afterwards was a big part of it. Sad, but at some point the cancer will be identified and removed

I have seen several capable coworkers leave over the past year and it rarely had anything to do with the work itself. Most of the frustration came from how people were spoken to or ignored by management. After a while employees stop feeling valued and start looking elsewhere. It is becoming a pattern that more people are noticing. Exxon is losing good workers it should be trying to keep.

How can you mess up a company so badly and never answer for any of it? Are we in a TV show and they have plot armor? What is it that's keeping them untouchable despite so many failures?

Besides broken systems, unqualified leadership and performative culture?

Denise, I hope you're listening and reading the feedback from sites like TheLayoff. It should come as no surprise that BD employees are fed up with the non-sense and your incoherent babbling in the townhalls acting like you understand anything that's going on in the company. Shame on you for perpetuating the dysfunction of the greater IT organization and trying to spin it as "BD excellence". Your recognition means nothing. Please do us all a favor and leave ASAP.

Sincerely,
BD employees and customers.

That tells you clearly that this had nothing to do with performance, and everything to do with a bunch of numbers on a spreadsheet. A very, very stupid move long-term.

This place hates you. Why would you break your own back for them? You're certainly not the one benefiting from your extra work.

Anybody else about to say fu-k it all and quit without a backup plan because their manager is nothing but a bully who has to compensate for his own many insecurities by putting his subordinates down every chance he gets? Welcome to the new Oracle, I guess.

The executives at this company are almost cartoonishly evil. I've never seen more people who are deluded into believing they are kind. Yes, I know and I've heard that leadership everywhere are snakes (that's how they end up where they are), but to see it up close is hard to digest.

Sadly, that's far from what happened here. The people who knew how to play politics, who knew how to hide during the bad times, they're the ones who mostly survived. Most of the people who actually knew how to lead, who had real skills and real experience, they're gone. What we've got left is the worst management team I've ever worked under and most of the rest of us who do the work looking for an exit.