#management

Give the keys to the people who know exactly where the useless management is. Most management is just getting in the way; completely useless. When my Dir or Sr Dir are on vaca, productivity soars! They have zero self awareness when they hold 3 hour meetings delegating pointless tasks while the ADs are trying to keep their teams functioning.

Bakken beware. Management instructed Bakken to lean in on bringing more BTC workers to USA and outsourcing as much as possible to BTC.

I am asked to relocate to one of the hubs with a forced letter. I asked my management for HQ instead and HR seemed to have okayed it. I never got an updated letter from HR confirming HQ as the new location. Now, I am concerned if HR will pull a surplus on me for not reporting to the right location. Not sure what to do.

Executives feel expats are making too much compared to those who “stay in Houston like them and do the heavy lifting and strategy work” so rather than raising Houston compensation they plan to continue lowering expat compensation. Plan accordingly.

Executives feel Permian CLs are inflated and have a plan to reduce them. If you are in Permian Operations and lower CL prepare for no CL promotions. If you are high CL already prepare for being told you are over your salary curve even if assessed high and no more raises for many years.

JP Morgan amd BOA have started cutting middle managers/regional presidents/retail area execs. Is thisbhappening at Fifth Third? Ai spend is really ramping up now!!!

not best moves by the executives.

but nobody cares, right.

Do we need to get manager’s approval for the Off Ramp LOA? Any restrictions or limitations that we need to know of (other than that it is unpaid)?

Someone please help me understand why there are so many highly paid people with only two or three reports???? It seems like there are at least three more middle layers than needed.

If a manager ever told me I needed to work unpaid overtime and sacrifice my life outside of work, I'd start job hunting the same day.

Does anyone (I’m sure you do lol) have managers and store managers who speak rudely and speak down to their associates? What have you done about it? Really sick of the behavior in my store!

My Team Lead tells me my AHT su-ks. My Team Lead's boss tells me I'm doing a Great job with AHT and other key metrics. Ok, I think there is some ping pong going on. So maybe they really want to terminate me and leave feeling gaslit and Confused when I'm either terminated, or if I'm lucky..displaced. I really wish I had been displaced on May 26. For the record, you can't expect any call with serious issues to end in less than 4 minutes.

Doesn’t seem like the leadership is doing a very good job or even cares about their members. Hearing a local chairman, got taken out by management at the same location of the previous local chairman was taken out at. Seems like targeting… Not to mention, it was next to nothing as far as involvement with the last contract between members and union officials.
Aren’t they supposed to represent the members or is being in bed with management too comfy?

The town hall felt like the usual, with a few stand out moments. Plants legitimately asked how to get a req approved and filled faster and basically got an answer that EVP reviews weekly but other than that, we just don’t know! Also, having EVP say he’s not a process guy is frustrating- isn’t poor and cumbersome processes (tickets and self-serve apps that get you nowhere) a big part of the problem? That is probably the reason so much time is spent on calls and meetings and meaningless metrics. Joking about being EVP for a quarter means he outlasted the last guy was actually funny, but if exec levels turnover that fast, why wouldn’t employees? Don’t they quit bad managers before they quit bad companies? I guess we just need to be on site and that will fix things

Jamie will soon be our new boss after the acquisition. Will he be any better?

What’s the reason our tech org isn’t centralized like at other companies, and why do we have so many layers of management?

Who is eligible for a yearly bonus. Doesn’t seem very clear. I am getting the the feeling it’s only for upper management employees.

We need more thinning of the herd.

Don’t expect engagement, cooperation, creativity. You won’t get it because you don’t believe in it. You believe in hierarchy of mediocre yes-people, micromanagement and fear tactics.

I have watched leaders with authority lose the confidence of their teams because they lack emotional intelligence. Connect first and then lead.

You have to understand that leadership rolls at Verizon are often essentially glorified IC positions. It’s a remnant of all the mergers and acquisitions that formed Verizon. There is not enough pay growth in actual IC positions here. There are not enough band 5 level IC positions. So IC’s take manager rolls simply because there are more of them. Then they get those rolls because of their performance or relationship’s established while being a decent IC. So the lack of quality people leaders is to be expected. The reality is you could collapse Senior Manager, Associate Director into one roll across the company and not miss a beat. I suspect you could even collapse Director into that single roll with little impact depending on the business unit.

Bumped from @aq+1kr3jr1wf.

How do you see things developing over next 6 to 12 months? I am not asking higher ups as I know we will get fairy tales from them.

Last year a lot of teams were put under a new "manager' or director because they wanted to flatten middle management. Meaning, a LOT of Sr. Managers were demoted to an IC Consultant level.

THIS year, my team had the pleasure of having another shake up! We are already a small team and you know, it makes perfect fkn sense to split us all up under 3 different managers, right?! Some of us were designated to be "swivel seaters," 2 were designated to be dedicated to xyz, and then the other half was put under an enitrely different director.

I personally am OK with this but like, wtf is going on lol?

From Intel employees who believe that it’s helpful for just be purposely unclear, purposely unresponsive to their peers. Management should fire these fu----s

I have seen this happen to several people I work with. They are so good at what they do that management refuses to move them up because filling their current role would be too hard AND they make them look good. They're basically being punished for being competent.

I remember walking through the halls here when I first started and feeling genuine excitement about the place. The energy was real and people seemed to actually enjoy being here. Over the years, I watched that energy fade as the bank stopped treating employees like partners and started treating them like just another expense. Now it's completely unrecognizable.

My gut feeling is they don't know what they are doing and are just trying another model that will also fail. There are so many groups to all running around "getting alignment" with each other that they fail to just get the work done. They could be driving right off a cliff and all they would worry about is if they are doing it consistently across teams with shared components.

@ac+1kr3jt5gv makes a great point.

At Bolt, Breslow said, the HR team “was creating problems that didn’t exist,” as part of “a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot.” “The problems disappeared when I let them go.”

https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/opinion/bye-bye-hr-lets-hope-bolt-financial-ceo-ryan-breslow-starts-a-trend/

I am thankful to be retiring soon after a long tenure with Belk, but I’m very concerned with all the friends that are still with the company. The Belk of 2026 is unrecognizable to me. I hate to see people duped, lied to, mislead, and taken advantage of, and that’s unfortunately what is happening with this company. After many years with Belk, I’ve seen all types of upper executive management, some delightful, intelligent, kind, and inspiring…and some utterly vile, despicable human beings. One thing is for certain, in the end, kindness, decency, honesty, and integrity always prevail. To everyone still at Belk, good luck and god speed…and know that it’s not goodbye…it’s until we meet again….

❤️

because of transition to Cognizant. I am from Costa Rica as a CS rep and my manager mentioned today that there will be no lay offs in the coming future? Majority of my counter parts in MN are doing zero work and most of the projects are put on hold. Hope someone in the top management has a clue of whats going on. Its very bad to put all the employees in this unknown state.

I’ve never worked in a more toxic department in this bank in my entire career here than Corporate Payments Systems. The management in the group are a bunch of vile survivalists who will gladly throw their employees and colleagues under the bus if it means their own survival. I have seen a myriad of talent abused and released from this specific group if they are a threat to their manager because they are talented or are not part of the favorites list. Absolutely sickening culture of cronies in this line of business. Shameful, and the spineless management who reads this board in CPS, you know who you are and deserve everything bad that comes back to you.

Not to add fuel to the fire on here - but while most people worry about if they will have a job, some higher-ups were listed on this page.

Business as usual for them. Guessing they didn't use AI for the transactions to delight the executives?

https://www.stocktitan.net/sec-filings/VZ/

Just curious what the board thinks. Playing politics and maneuvering the convoluted organizational structures come to mind. A bit ruthlessness and narcissism helps too. What I noticed is that most of them like to hear sound of their own voice, I guess this can be rolled up as a subgroup under narcissism.

Any Omni/operations leads finding themselves being the mod more than STL's?

The only consistent message quarter to quarter is revenue declining faster than forecast. The stock price falling into the single digits says everything. If you’ve listened to this company’s analyst calls long enough you know management just pivots to whatever narrative works in the moment and they’re running out of narratives faster than revenue streams. Easily the worst management team this company has ever had.

Exactly what @aq+1kr2bpeh6 said.

He’s exactly the kind of person others have described. He posts our personal information on on Gemini, exaggerates his knowledge of tech and telecom, and then dismisses or talks down to people who actually know what they’re doing. He’s a sc-mmy person, and unfortunately more managers like him keep getting hired. If layoffs happen, people in positions like his should be first on the list. The CSSC needs a drastic change.

I had to laugh.

"AI produces gains where tasks are structured, feedback is quick, and performance is measurable. It does not magically fix bad management, muddled processes, or poor judgment. "

Sooo...who is going to tell Derek Flowers?

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5892858-ai-workplace-divide-careers/

The unstable ship continues listing. Now Manifold is out, another leader thrown to the bin due to unacceptable conduct. No way to have a successful business with this many hands grabbing the wheel in such a short time.

We’re having faster turnover than the UK PM. Enough of this Euro lunacy, time to return our strength.

Management said that people are more productive at the office. Why would they start telling the truth now? Senior leaders are as trustworthy as a politician.

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