#culture

One NM™

Interesting. Twenty years ago we watched many greedy 1% globalists in many company leadership launch “One ___” transformations.

Different logo. Different PowerPoint template. Same promise:

• Break down silos.
• Align the organization.
• Transform the culture.
• This time it’s different.

The only real update for 2026 seems to be replacing “Digital Transformation” with “AI Transformation.”

Somewhere, a McKinsey consultant dusted off the old “One Company” deck, asked ChatBot to modernize the buzzwords, swapped “cloud” for “AI,” and sent the invoice.

The cynic in me is waiting for Phase 2:

• Announce AI.
• Hire consultants.
• Reorganize org charts.
• Explain why “global talent strategy” is the future and replace employees with offshore sweatshops and indentured foreigners.
• Celebrate short-term cost savings.
• Wonder five years later where all the institutional knowledge went.

History doesn’t repeat itself—it just gets rebranded.

Does he have any responsibility as a special advisor? Specially it was hard day yesterday

These analysts are hilarious st-----g Bill. There hasn’t been a worse performing bank ceo in decades.

Why is no one talking about the Moana live action movie? We are getting savaged by reviews. And it's true. That movie is so sad compared to the animation. The colors so drab. The rock? Cringe. This place reeks of pure self awareness. While outside of these castle walls everyone else says Disney is formulaic and dated and has lost its creativity. Reduced to sequels and live action remakes. And we sell our dusty old properties to a modern world trying to convince people that it still means something. And when we try to make stories we're trying to please everyone that we please no one and we forget the most important things: story and character development. Case in point: Wish. What. A. Disaster. For a 100 year anniversary film we sure flubbed that one. Why was no one fired for that? Why are they still allowed to make more cr-p? When is someone here actually going to kick all the rerunners out and bring in someone with newer ideas? So we don't do another Toy Story 7. Or Moana 5. Sweet baby Jesus the way people talk around here is like the damn crew of the titanic I swear.

Divebombing into oblivion
Dying along with Larry

In Citi Tampa only h1bs get promoted to SVPs or Directors. Even HR doesn’t care…

Upcoming role changes and AI agents (which seem promising so far), including mandatory check-ins, are all on the horizon. What's everyone's consensus on this? 🤔

The comments are very pukey too.

"TIME's America's best companies list which recognizes organizations that stand out for employee satisfaction, financial performance, and sustainability transparency."

What a joke. Employees are not satisfied. Financial performance is terrible. Must be a pretty low bar to make the list.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jennifer-manchester-5255aa1_proud-to-share-that-fiserv-has-been-named-share-7480998924154073088-VYTt/?highlightedUpdateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7480998925391552513&highlightedUpdateType=SOCIAL_SHARE&origin=SOCIAL_SHARE&utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAACYMkNIBD-GWPZlWEfpOLTBnZ-SXV-1K9WQ

I do not know why, but something about every post here on this site brought me to this old fav video. Yeah, I am GenX, interpret as you want, its art, but relevent lol

All this talk about improving culture and recognition and then after three years in a group when I transfer out my supervisor can’t even be bothered to circulate a thank you card. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out is our culture. Oh but you know the chosen ones had nice good mate lunches with management thanking them and gushing over them with a nice going away present.

More and more Pioneer resignations. I guess they aren’t impressed by our “culture” and “care”

Remember, it was you who moved the ball for the company. It was the front line employee who made a difference to the customer base. It was you that made VZW. Not the so called decision makers. That being said, the best way to combat this is to all go work for a competitor, and bring what you brought to make VZW great. Let’s take VZW down by stacking the competition with highly driven, winning-cultured players in the industry.

Anyone else get this invite for 3:30pm eastern? Is it an all clear or doom?

Charlie sounds upset about being asked why every bank surpassed WF earnings He basically said he was tired of this question. Is he feeling the heat???

Questions are posted and the admin marks them "ANSWERED" yet they are never answered and are ultimately removed from the queue. This is why we have trust issues.

Don”t speak up unless you do it anonymously. Keep records of everything and document! dated, times etc. Then if nothing changes OR you start to be treated different because your leader knows you are the one that filed the complaint then file a claim of retaliation through EEOC. If this has already happened to you file the claim NOW! Even if you are still employed. Nike has to address the EEOC and we can’t keep staying silent while we work for this company that allows discrimination and retaliation. The EEOC will starts to see the trend. Do it NOW! We deserve to feel safe when we come to work and HR and Legal don’t have our back and it’s toxic! Don’t make this toxic culture the norm. Remember that we spend more time at work than we do with our family. It’s taking a toll! Maybe after we expose how toxic it is then Nike can actually recover. Right now we are in fight or flight mode and nothing productive happens in that headspace.

Anyone in CM ever been put on coaching for "failing" a SOFT audit? I truly think mgmt is trying to get us to quit or fire us for "not meeting expectations" before VSP takes effect. Centene has truly turned out to be a grimy place. I will spend the rest of my days encouraging people to avoid working here & avoid signing up for their plans.

This organization is living proof that a company can spend years talking about delivering transformation while failing to transform the one thing customers see first: its own identity.

A meaningless random letters name reflects wasted opportunity, lazy thinking and a complete lack of effort. Millions are spent on branding, consultants and campaigns yet still produce a name with zero meaning, zero message and zero relevance.

A masterclass in wasting resources while creating nothing relevant and memorable. If a company cannot clearly define itself, why should customers trust it to redefine them?

I've noticed a lot of USB colleagues noticing that Americans aren't being hired anymore & are upset about that. I see entire floors full of one ethnitity not previously known to our continent. I thought that's what diversity was & we were cool with that! I thought hiring cousins & castemates & taking kickbacks was what DIE (sp?) was all about? Why must people resist letting some others in the global community come-up, my American family has it all already why should yours who may not be as stable yet take-up a spot & income for our unfortunate friends an ocean away?

(Satire about the anti-Indian sentiment post. I swear to God the liberal mind rot sui-idal empathy will end this country.)

Seen this a hundred times. Massive layoffs, but useless mid manager and c-suites are mostly retained. No real stock value injection attempted.

It is a tired strategy, one used on so many brands in the past. The goal is not to bring the company back to its former glory. The goal eventually is to shop to other rising companies.

Verizon lost. T-Mobile handed us our hats.

I understand the anger against GK, which is valid but is it necessary to throw all Indians under the bus? As a WASP who has worked with several competent Indian origin employees over the years who even went on to become American citizens, I just find all this stereotyping against an entire community a sad projection of what our country has become. Always thought the USB community was above it. Every group without exceptions has competency across the board in similar percentages so I don't understand this new and rising sentiment. Just venting, I guess.

You are only a number… don’t assume anything makes you safe. The current leadership has 1 priority… Slash and cut.. no master plan, no vision. the AI talk is all a cover to layoff and do stock buybacks.. Best of luck to all impacted today and the ones to come…

TJ read the script like a news reader. It was the first time I’d ever seen her, even though she took over the CXO role six months ago. Sounds like a “true Verizon leader”.
I don’t have much hope left for the future of customer experience team under this leadership.

What exactly does this role entail, and what product are we working with? It looks like a glorified Scrum Master position, and most of the people in it are G8s. I'm not sure how sustainable this setup is long-term. What began as a pragmatic shift to stop engineering teams from building things nobody wanted has devolved into a massive, heavily certificated industry of performative bureaucracy.
More than 95% of product managers are not required .We have projects ,We dont have products .In tech there are no products.There are product managers even in data teams .Thats level of insanity this so called "product mindset" BS has reached

when will it be clear? eastern time

Not sure where else to ask this, so will do it here. Curious what RTO looks like for different groups across T-Mo. I have a feeling it is not being applied consistently across different organizations. If you reply, please state days per week you are required to be in the office and what organization you are in.

Are we really going to silently accept a drop in our real salaries? At the first townhall this year we were told we'd get an update on merit increase by June.
It's mid-July. No update. No explanation. Nothing. Leadership had no problem making the promise publicly, apparently following through with even a basic communication is a different story.

I think AT&T is looking at WFH completely backwards. Instead of fighting it, why not use it as a competitive advantage?

Why limit hiring to a few expensive hub cities when you could recruit the best talent anywhere in the country? Why spend billions on office space and new buildings when that money could be invested in the network, new technology, or staying ahead of the competition?

It also solves a huge problem for younger employees. Not everyone can afford to live near Dallas, Atlanta, or the other hub locations anymore. Housing prices have exploded. WFH gives people the chance to earn a good salary while living somewhere they can actually afford to buy a home and build a life.

Those salaries don’t disappear either. They get spent in small towns and local communities, supporting restaurants, contractors, coffee shops, and small businesses that otherwise wouldn’t see that economic activity.

I don’t see the downside of letting managers manage by results instead of ZIP code. Keep the jobs that truly need to be in the office in the office. Let everyone else work where they’re most productive. And if someone wants to come into the office five days a week, great. No one is stopping them.

To me, that’s a much smarter long-term strategy than spending billions on offices while trying to convince people that sitting in a building creates value. Especially for a global communications company whose business is built on connecting people from anywhere.

Right now. Fully expect $199 after the earnings call next week. Arvind's house of cards is crumbling.

I was REALLY hoping to see an email from dan the hatchet man... looks like PACT is safe.

Somebody tell Netflix, I’m ready to tell my story. I want customers, and providers to know how Cigna really feels about them and how this company ACTUALLY treat their employees. This is absurd and the world needs to hear what’s happening.

We worked perfectly fine remote during Covid. Then it’s back to the office but no assigned seating. Fine. Then it’s tracking days in office. Ok. Then it’s tracking hours in office. Alright making it work. Now they are taking away specialty locations. Annoying and decreases talent pool. But now they want to focus on making teams sit with each other and move offices so people are co-located. Are we children? Give back assigned seats or treat us like adults as long as we get the job done. Next they will be required 4 days and/or certain days. I prefer to find a nice quiet corner to get my work done.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/15/media/news-12-axes-scores-of-journos-from-bronx-brooklyn-westchester-and-connecticut-newsrooms-dire/

LinkedIn posting liking commenting and dressing like they are on a runway at NSM. No wonder nothing of substance ever happens at this company. Lfg Deadtronic

Global media measurement giant Nielsen today announced it is changing its name to Nambiar Media Insights Pvt. Ltd. and relocating its headquarters to a new campus in Kochi, Kerala.

“At our core,” said Karthik Rao, “Nielsen was always Indian. The ‘N’ stood for Nambiar all along. The rest was just colonial branding. We’re finally decolonizing our letterhead.”

The rebrand comes shortly after Nielsen completed its “Strategic Talent Optimization Initiative” — HR-speak for firing roughly 4,200 American employees and replacing them with bright young graduates who can pronounce “TRP” without giggling. Sources say the transition was seamless, except for the part where the U.S. office Wi-Fi stopped working because no one was left who knew the password.

New Branding Elements

Logo: The old “Nielsen” wordmark has been replaced by a majestic elephant holding a TRP meter in its trunk, with the tagline: “Same Data. Better Karma.”

Mission Statement: “Delivering hyper-local, culturally nuanced insights from the land where your grandparents’ cousin’s neighbor’s son already works.”

Office Perks in Kochi: Free unlimited filter coffee, 47 varieties of banana chips in the pantry, and a mandatory 4 p.m. power nap policy. American severance packages included a one-way ticket to “find yourself” and a coupon for 15% off at Big Bazaar.

New Rating System: Instead of households, they now measure “aunties who watch TV while yelling at the maid.” Early data shows Kumkum Bhagya is crushing The Bachelor in the 22-35 demographic.

During the virtual all-hands (now called “Family WhatsApp Group Meeting”), the CEO — speaking from an undisclosed golf course in Scottsdale — wiped away a single tear and said, “This isn’t about cost-cutting. This is about authenticity. For too long we’ve been pretending to be an American company when our true soul has always been in God’s Own Country. Also, the fully loaded cost of an American analyst was roughly equivalent to the GDP of a small Kerala village.”

Marketing head Priya Nambiar explained the deeper reasoning: “Americans were asking too many questions. ‘Why is the sample size 87 people in Ohio?’ ‘Can we get data after 2019?’ Very negative energy. Our new Nambiar team just nods, says ‘yes sir, will do the needful,’ and delivers the numbers by yesterday.”

As of press time, Nambiar Media Insights is accepting applications for “Chief American Nostalgia Officer” — a purely ceremonial role involving wearing a cowboy hat in Zoom calls and saying “y’all” occasionally for brand authenticity.Jai Hind. Jai Ratings.

George Kurian's legacy won't be maybe hitting $10B in revenue at some point. His legacy, along with Beth O'Callahans, will be constant layoffs and total decimation of the NetApp culture that had been built over the years. Beth's legacy will be the same since she is a big driver behind the new forced distribution performance rewards and the in-office mandates. Sadly, the direct reports to them just blindly follow along.