#leadership

A big round of layoffs last week! A lot of good people who were loyal career employees were axed with zero empathy from leadership. With the abysmal combined ratio this company is running, you can expect more devastation to come! IMO this company is posturing to be sold or fold. Run for the hills, folks!

Anyone else in a T2 department that’s consistently told by higher ups they are not backfilling positions and we have enough people. Yet everyday we’re in an alert due to terrible service levels and have tons of people waiting on hold, meaning we only do phones all day and all other activities are cancelled? If anything we are worse after the end of the year and tax season. This place su-ks the soul out of you after years doing the same thing. It appears the goal is to try and squeeze as much work as possible from less people. Leadership acts like the world is on fire if some business partners are on hold for a couple minutes.

He's back designing shoes at 70 years old, not a good sign!

Call out your bad leaders

Can you imagine inheriting a team, firing or bullying them all out, hiring a new team by yourself and have them all fired or leave within 18 months?
There has to be a trend and it can't be the fault of the 11 people fired or left under her

6 in 10 workers say they have a toxic boss, study finds
Employees say poor leadership is driving stress, job changes, and even financial loss, while companies invest more in AI than in people.

Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/91534390/6-in-10-workers-say-they-have-a-toxic-boss-study-finds

Joe Martin (CCO) barely made it to a year and he's already out! Fossil can't seem to stop burning through executives, can they?

It felt completely stripped of any clear message or real leadership. It looked like it was generated completely with AI or rewritten so many times by HR that there was absolutely no purpose to it. No numbers, no changes, no future. How did NetApp lose so many important people while the entire leadership team stays onboard?

Glad that George also got a $15M raise yesterday for all his hard work: https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/NTAP/form-4-net-app-inc-insider-trading-activity-d08f092e431a.html

Can we hire some more vice presidents? The more vice presidents we hire, the more Expand has to pay the worker bees to put up with the extra BS. Then we can get a raise! In reality, we challenge the vice presidents to justify their salaries and bonuses to the stock holders. We know they are worthless from the inside view of the company. Oh, they will claim the worker bees' accomplishments, but we know who really gets the work done around here. And we don't have skeletons on our closet.

UKG stopped surveying since they know the scores would be so low. The whole company is in complete chaos. Constant change in leadership. Most support teams in US have been laid off.
They are decommissioning systems and applications that are being used to support clients because it’s “too expensive”.
July 2026 would mark 2 years of Jennifer Morgan disaster leadership. Will see be out soon?

"...we don't have large scale layoffs planned." - Gunjan Kedia, 4/22/2026

Just "small scale" layoffs, huh?

Always subtext, always a spin, may they all rot.

Our staff meetings are a joke. A lot of words, no substance and acting like everything is great. How are your “leaders” handling your teams staff meetings, given nobody knows Dan’s master plan?

At least 22 teachers were laid off from ChiArts. This happened during its transition to Chicago Public Schools management. Affected teachers had to reapply for their jobs. Staff members report poor communication from new leadership. The school's unique model and remaining positions face an uncertain future.

Chicago, Illinois

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/20/chiarts-teachers-parents-sound-alarm-on-layoffs-as-cps-takes-over/

The next round of layoffs here at NetApp highlight a growing issue: leadership increasingly feels disconnected from reality. Too many decisions seem to come from a C-level bubble rather than from understanding employees and customers. Another concern is the number of VPs/SVPs coming from companies like Microsoft, Oracle, or Pure Storage. External experience is valuable, but NetApp shouldn’t become a copy of everywhere else. The company’s strength was always its own culture and people.

Hot Mess town hall today. Will he paint the org all rosy, as if we should be happy to be working under him? Will he conveniently skip over his big project to outsource all?

You spend more time managing personalities and approval chains here than actually doing your job. Leadership still operates like it is twenty years ago, with constant micromanaging and politics attached to every tiny decision. Why does every simple task have to turn into exercises in control?

The leadership is hoping you will. They're hoping they'll get fewer people to do more. If you know what's good for you and all of your coworkers, you won't play into their hands.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/bolt-ceo-ryan-breslow-cut-hr-department-causing-problems-fintech-startup-turn-around/

Can he seriously not read the room? Telling one of the most anti-AI customer bases out there, readers, that we'd happily stock AI books was already a choice. Following it up with “unless they’re plagiarized” just made it sound like he doesn’t understand why people are concerned in the first place. It's like he's intentionally handing our foot traffic to the competition on a silver platter. Does he actually want us to drive customers away???

The only reason we are sponsoring them is because the executives get free lounge and box access for free. So much for being "good stewards", "shareholder oriented" and "value creators". Couple this with free private jets, it's one never-ending party for the ultra rich. The rest of us get pink slips and anxiety.

West should be running XBS. Leadership better in the west.

Watch the movie “THE COMPANY MEN” from 2011. It’s pretty much where this company and all of the NY leadership is now.

The reviews are going to be devastating when the survey comes out immediately after managers are forced to deliver the SLT messages with a smile and keep opinions to themselves. The messenger is going to get the blame and I wonder if this is by design by SLT for justifying another round. My group has at least twice as many chapter leaders as we need if teams are going to become 10-25 people instead of smaller squads. What will happen to them all?

I read a lot of posts on here about MW and senior management and middle management and culture and Chevron is the devil.
If you feel so strongly about it, either tell them directly or leave. If you do nothing you're honestly worse than you think they are. Have some integrity and hold yourself accountable to your moral and intellectual convictions. Maybe this is the sign you've been waiting for to say standing up for what you believe in takes guts and is risky.. so even though it's scary, you should quit.

Anyone know what's going on in NJ? Heard a bunch of senior leaders are out there for a couple of days. Rumor mill says they are discussing more cost cutting

I’m still pretty angry, honestly. Looking back on all the BS we’ve been expected to tolerate over the years, shame on me for believing accountability would ever exist at the top.

Remember the data breach? The ELT lied to investors, employees, and regulators. The company spent hundreds of millions in legal fees and hundreds of millions more trying to clean up the mess and get compliant. Did anyone at that level lose their job? Of course not. They still got their bonuses.

Then there was EverFi, a $750M acquisition that eventually turned into roughly a $400M write-down when it was sold off. Another catastrophic decision. Again, nobody in leadership paid any personal price for the failure.

Now we’re watching good people lose their jobs while roles get shifted to India, all while leadership positions themselves for one last payday if the company gets sold. They’ll walk away with tens of millions in compensation after years of bad decisions. The rest of us get 8 weeks severance and COBRA.

At some point you realize employees are just pawns in a game where leadership can fail upward indefinitely while everyone else absorbs the consequences.

Get out while you can.

I’m hearing that Bill is super angry that some wall st analysts caught him over dinner and informed him that our advisory fees in Wealth are way lower than the industry. Word is the old Scott & Stringfellow advisors gave giant discounts and they complain anytime they are minority inconvenienced so Wealth leadership ignored it for years. Turns out we were leaving hundreds of millions of lost revenue on the table. Guessing some leaders in Wealth that have presided over things since merger might be feeling their seat get warm finally.

From London to New York on business class for frivolous reasons that achieves nothing substantial? Especially when Citi has laid off so many people? If this person is required to be in new York, why wasn't he made to relocate to let go and someone new York based found to fill the opposition?

Is it only a coincidence that this person has family in ny/NJ that he gets to meet on company dime when laid off people have struggled to find something new after being laid off, been on expensive insurance and many other struggles?

Why is Nawani and his team so special? They've barely achieved anything of note that isn't brittle as a house of cards that would fall apart when actual experts in data look into it rather than second or third line generalist that have made every decision for him on data products? And whatever was left was made by generalist consultants

Dude you orchestrate these layoffs every quarter and you don't have the decency to make a comment or justify your decisions. These are REAL LIVES that you're impacting. They need to have a layoff at the csuite level.

Although working for family-owned businesses run by their owners has some advantages, the biggest challenge is that no one can challenge the owners’ decisions. What AJ says goes. nobody can say no.

Days like today are always tough. When smart, hard working and loyal, good people get let go from doing their jobs to assuage the hubris at the top. Every single layoff has a personal and professional impact. I think there is growing frustration at NetApp that GK, our President and SVP of Comp to name a few continue to be here despite years of stagnant growth, lack of vision and being completely disconnected from field teams and customers. Everyone with a brain cell knows $10B by 2028 is not happening yet GK and executives keep pushing the same BullS*** narrative. Unless we get acquired or acquire a company it will not happen organically. Why not make $8B a realistic goal and stop the gaslighting. It's time for Executive leadership to be held accountable.

What happened to no politics in the workplace? The four political posters clearly showing on AG’s wall say differently. The privilege is astounding at least blur your background.

Our group runs on pressure, politics, and people watching what they say, but the second somebody higher up appears, suddenly everyone’s smiling and pretending this is a great place to work. I never understand the performance because it’s not like executives would even care how employees are actually being treated. What's the point of the theater?

If you been here a year or you been here 15 years. You know that Verizon doesn’t give a cr-p about you. You are a number. Always have been always will be. My issue is, at least they used to hide the fact you didn’t matter. It was not as apparent as it is now. Employee morale is at an all time low everywhere. Unless you’re making six figures of course. Leadership is so out of touch with reality. Put them in front of a computer or tablet and ask them to sell. They would look at you cross eyed. Let alone hit these insane quotas that they are putting in front of us. It’s everywhere. Retail r2b V2B b2b. Let’s change commission. You’ll make more they said. Lmao. All of us that have been around long enough know that’s a crock of shi* anytime commission is changed it’s to line the pockets of the C suite. The ones that have zero clue.

The cost of living is at the highest it’s ever been and we can’t even get a raise enough to cover it. It’s actually a pay cut with the rising cost of insurance.

Funny we have not had a pulse survey for quite a while. Not that they matter. They just change show you the good results and say “you asked we listened”

We got so accustomed to being the “best” carrier. Now, T-Mobile and AT&T are laughing in our faces.

Run while you can. If you can. This is a sinking ship.

Honestly, I never thought the current Bank President would have such a devastating impact on USAA Bank’s culture, organization, and people leadership. I knew him when he was an ED, watched him move up through the ranks, and genuinely congratulated him when he was selected. At the time, I was happy for USAA because I believed he might help restore the culture many of us remember from before 2018, etc. I never imagined it would turn out like this.

When will Chevron simplify its GoA business unit? Too many assets at varying levels of profitability and liability. Some Hess assets certainly qualify for divestment or decommissioning. Note to Chevron LT ….get some NYSE bonus points by reducing scape and improving balance sheet…

Note: Many assets that are challenged have excellent, capable staff that do a great job maintaining and exceeding expectations.

Our leadership is now looking at productivity in our org (Berry, planning ahead for something?

It looks like the hammer might be dropping tomorrow. Multiple reports all along the vine are saying the meeting did in fact happen this morning - informing senior leadership what / whom is to be let go. Does days in the office matter? Does commits? Tenure? H1B status? Pay? No one knows the parameters, but the meetings with the boys upstairs have started.

How does a risk and compliance manager who has no background in risk or compliance get hired in the 1st place?

Secondly, that very manager had to move from the BL she was hired to support due to complaints and has zero respect from anyone she interacts with because she lacks the very respect necessary to build relationships.

SHE HAS DRIVEN OUT 6 EMPLOYEES IN 2 YEARS!!!! YOU KEEP GIVING HER VICTIMS! How does she continue to be approved to harm another employee!?! When is enough enough? She is a liability to the company you are here to protect!