#management

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/markets/stocks/articles/exclusive-intel-looks-put-millions-224700202.html

And about half of the people was for it and the other half against it.

Now, it seems like 90 percent for letting go EH and about 10 percent against it.

I don't know what 10 percent against letting EH go is thinking about!! Unless they are management dwelling around this site to make sure that anything against EH and Nike gets muffled!!

just WOW! I hope she will fire current HR VPs as most are useless veterans with zero impact

I have over 15 years of experience, and I’m given the title of “Associate,” meanwhile someone with less than 2 years of experience is given the title of “Advanced.” I took the new D&S training. But frankly, this is BS. Heard that HR made all of the decisions and can’t even explain to management how the assigning works.

Manager double, triple booked, late for meetings, no clear direction to team, rude and condescending. How does one get a skip level meeting.

Tough Rough Horrible start for the highly overpaid Cap Man C-Suite +Poor picks and bad positioning +Through 3/31, Morningstar percentile ranks + The higher the number, the worse the relative performance.
Will anyone be held accountable ?

Morningstar Percentile Rankings 3/31/26

I heard a grapevine that citi is tracking the hours you are on your pc or you are offline/ away from your screen. Is there any truth to it? Can managers confirm?

To write a Charlie Scharf earnings call commentary, and co-pilot nailed it.

Replace Senior Management with ai, they're all just a bunch of group thinking robots anyway

Flowers in the townhall: “We are not going to stop focusing on risk. On the contrary. We will continue to focus on risk management.”

Also Flowers: “Pick up co-pilot. Use it. Experiment. Get familiar with it. It is our future”

lol. How many people are using co-pilot to knowingly or unknowingly sp-t out nonsense right now. These banks are highly regulated. Zero controls in place for how outputs are being used. Most managers are reviewing nothing. No one has a clue hoo o w often people are using AI or where.

I’ve seen people submit so much gibberish to me over the past month. Clearly AI outputs.

Good job guys. Not only is RCSA a joke in terms of quality but now we are layering in more risk to every process without understanding the impact.

What could go wrong?

Can anyone share/confirm what total management headcount are we sitting at after Nov impact and frontier acquisition?

AI is good but our core tech and management are managed by those old school people, non competent guys. Why?

Jon McNeill, the former president of Tesla, has released a new book, "The Algorithm," which outlines a five-step framework for Elon Musk's high-growth business operations. Which is not applicable in OpenText.

Step 1 | Question Every Requirement
Answers like "department regulations" or "it's always been this way" are not acceptable. Even safety or regulatory requirements must be re - examined for their necessity.

In OT, permissions are limited and prevented us from doing things.

Implementation method:

• Ask: Is this requirement mandated by law, safety, or physical laws?
• Find the name of the person who initially proposed this requirement.
• Requirements with no clear source are assumed to be deletable.

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Several managers have been resigning at the EFK site over the past few weeks. What do they know that the rest of us don't know?

Always remember: All those executives and management people at State Farm did not get where they are at by having a strong work ethic. They got there by hurting, stepping on, and disregard for their workers. They do not believe in a strong work ethic and loyalty. The exact same is for their customer which is a direct violation of the company mission and vision statement. Everything is negotiable for them but not for you.

🚨 Introducing Our New Senior Leader Management Guide 🚨
“If you can’t lead… just list.”

Why waste years developing leadership skills when you can simply do the Optum method, rules for thee and not me.

Step 1: Lead with Lists
Not sure what your team does? Perfect. You’re exactly who this guide is for.
Just make a list. Lists = leadership. It’s basically the same thing.

Step 2: Stop Meeting Your Team
Historically, leaders wasted countless hours talking to employees, understanding workflows, and building trust.
Thankfully, we’ve evolved and are 100x
As a leader, you already know what’s happening. Why verify?  That sounds like work.

Step 3: Need More Collaboration? Easy.
Create a list of people who don’t come into the office, don’t worry you don’t need to fly into town to check we can use AI to send you.
Bo-m—collaboration problem solved.

Step 4: Eliminate “Old Leadership” Habits
In the past, being effective required showing up, engaging, and making hard decisions.
Now? Just update the list, you never need to come to town, or if you are low level leader you can just stay in your fish-tank office, no need to actually meet the team.

Step 5: AI Adoption Strategy
Becoming an AI-first company is simple:

• Say “we are an AI company” in every meeting
• Tell your team you don’t computer but they will make us an AI company and AI is the future
• Add anyone who doesn’t “AI” to a list
• Do not define “AI”

And don’t worry if you can send an email or use AI to write a sentence you are the leaders we are looking for!  —
true leadership is about vision, not ability or knowledge .

Step 6: Performance Management
Forget nuanced feedback.
Just categorize people into:

• On the List
• About to be on the List
• Doesn’t know they’re on the List yet

Step 7: Communication Excellence
Why overcomplicate messaging?
Every announcement can be summarized as:
“Per my last list…”

Step 8: Strategic Planning
Q1 Goal: Make a list
Q2 Goal: Refine the list
Q3 Goal: Make a new list
Q4 Goal: Wonder why nothing improved (add self to list, just kidding leader don’t go on these lists)

Remember: leadership isn’t about people, context, or outcomes.
It’s about maintaining a clean, well-organized list.

Leaders stay safe in your offices or if we care about you remote.

Yeah, right. There’s no way he didn’t know or wasn’t at least involved somehow. I can buy that he wasn’t the final decision maker, but I call bullsh-t on him not even knowing.

The worst management ever. I am still working here, but all we do is have meeting on projects that never finish. Upper management is by far the worst, very competitive against eachother, but let's have another pancake day! That will make everyone happy. I wish Maeve would come to NJ MORE and see the nonsense that goes on. Oh and by the way, don't trust the financial results. HPEFS CFO in NJ had to go to court, but he is still here. More to come. I really don't care if this isn't anonymous, leaving soon for Dell.

  Why is it everyday we are instructed to lie about what we do? Manager and GM both tell me to Customer Exception cars in my work order reporting today and blame the customer for cars not getting spotted because we didn't have crews to pull the unit train that was blocking the industry. I question it and get told do it so they don't take "hits" on ISP numbers and that Failure to Comply is an option. So I have to lie and potentially get fired or not lie and potentially get fired. 

My favorite is #12. What is yours?

The Corporate Culture:
1 I've Been Moved (A classic, referencing constant reorganizations)
2 Id--ts Becoming Managers
3 Inertia Builds Mediocrity
4 Inside Bureaucratic Maze
5 Insecure Business Machines
6 International Boring Machinery
7 Incompetence By Management

The Work Experience:

1. I Buy Macs
2. I've Become Mediocre
3. Incredibly Boring Meetings
4. It's Been Miserable
5. Incredibly Bad Managers
6. I Bring Misery
7. Internally Blocked Motivation
8. I Basically Mess-up

The Technical Aspects:

1. It Barely Maintains
2. Invisible Backup Modules
3. Incompatible Blue Machines
4. Intentionally Buried Mainframe
5. It Bluescreened Monday
6. Input Bad Material

The Sarcastic Sales Pitch:

1. Incredibly Blue Monopoly
2. Invest By Mistake
3. Inherently Bogus Marketing
4. Infinite Business Memories

My manager called a team meeting for the tool to submit anonymous feedback upwards

We were told that our feedback was “too negative” and that we needed to be more positive going forward or else comp would be impacted.

There are already tons of rumors circulating about the future of the Boston office for ops. This just added to the stress.

Quick Take On This Round Of Firing & How Its Different Than September 2,2025 ??

Uncle L did talk to an Astrologer & this mas firing happened EXACTLY 6 months after September 2025 layoff. What a timing. But, this time employees were reading E-mail on layoff & house collapsed. Shame on management

If my boss isn't consulted on who to lay off, and my bosses boss isn't consulted then what's the point in doing any work day to day ?

but our technology is still in the 80s. Forms that require standard text fields with predetermined values, which the user needs to spell out, and a highly paid analyst or manager has to manually reject for typos. No drop down, no back end data validation, no autocomplete.

BUT USE AI. lol. Because we bought Microsoft bonds, Charlie is on the board, and we are spending billions on CoPilot to keep them afloat. Or something.

How about we just spend the billions bringing our technology later into the 20th century.

The Education Management Team is manipulating instructor time clock punches in order to turn a buck! Who do we speak with about this? They are manipulating overtime hours and making them disappear. I know HR is in it for the company and can’t be trusted.
Needing advice!! Help!! This place is toxic!

With so many useless leaders under Shannon who don’t contribute to opentext success . Why are the still here ?

What does it mean for a location when Fort Worth sends two individuals for a week to observe productivity and practices 👀 and nobody in management was aware they were coming. One guy for car and one for locomotive.

Starting tomorrow at 8:00 AM ET, I will be executing a significant organizational restructuring involving a 20% headcount reduction across our team of 400. Following directives to stack-rank based on organizational impact, I am responsible for conducting the separation calls for approximately 80 personnel, many of whom are close peers and long-time collaborators. This transition comes at a critical juncture, as my org is currently managing a large volume of high-vis projects while operating at maximum capacity. Ugh. Such is life. I fought with myself long and hard before coming here to post this but felt the need to further validate what’s going down. :( good luck to all you brave souls, I wish you all nothing but the best

What is going on with GP&T Enablement lately? The team leads and managers basically won’t answer emails, they bail on meetings and when any responsibility comes their way, they immediately say their team aren’t the right ones to handle.

They’ve been using the “we’re at capacity” line for like two years straight… while their headcount has gone up. It’s like the more people they hire, the less anyone is willing to actually do.

What is going on over there?? Constant back and forth on plans and resourcing. Even requirements above the 4 days/wk corporate standard to please BB. Sure seems like a lot of people leaving.

Jensen Huang runs Nvidia with 60 direct reports, how many does Sassine have?

https://www.hcamag.com/us/news/general/class-action-accuses-danaher-of-turning-dei-into-hiring-quotas/568885

So when tf are the managers who enabled this going to be called out? I know who you are at a few opcos. You followed Danaher orders like submissive little boys and girls.

The message has been clear for month now in the entirety of underwriting. Move to claims or gtfo. All this worry about going in office more next year. brother, you’ll be gone by October lmao. Get on the same page about creating a union or just accept whats coming like the good little sheep you are. Out the Farm and out to pasture.

I guess this would be a question for management ,MBA that are out there if you are top seller in a department, but you don’t get as many credits as they want. Can they threaten to write up that person saying that productivity is not met? can’t ask HR as they will see the case. after three conversations, they are writing up whoever doesn’t get a credit. Is this allowed?

How many more quarter-zip pullovers with Iron Pulse logos will it take to buy your job? UP is doing this to keep you distracted from the fact they are trying to eliminate your positions. They even tell you in the Town Hall meetings they are using technology to consolidate as many dispatching desks as possible. Meanwhile, Vena has promised the NS ATDA dispatchers their jobs through a protection agreement. What has he promised you as a "valued member of the management team"? Nothing, absolutely nothing. In 2020 they cut people who only had a few years left to fulfill their 360 months for the full Railroad Retirement annuity. They will do it again! You are not special. This is not about being against the company; it's about protecting the career you dedicate and give so much of yourself to. You are trading small prizes for a possible guaranteed job, guaranteed wage increases, much better health care during your working years, health care after you retire, and protection against territory/dispatcher consolidations.

Does anyone remember during smart redesign there was a push to make all supervisors have 6 or more employees? What happened to that? I see so many supervisors with two, three and even one employee.

my prediction and I am a 2nd year senior manager with iffy prediction track record.

five years from now, ACN is likely a smaller, leaner, more AI-centered firm with less revenue tied to labor-heavy delivery... more tied to high-end consulting, governance work, and complex project/enterprise orchestration... and still facing lower headcount leverage and margin pressure than in its pre-AI model.

I see Accenture at roughly 70% of current revenue (lets say in 5 years), with headcount down much more than revenue because AI compresses labor faster than it ki-ls total demand...

Now let's look Bear vs Bull cases, i am in the middle:

Bears: Think in terms of an impact across the board bears will say this:

• Mgmt Consulting - High Value Add (Research, planning, transformation - advanced thinking LLM models are really good at this - it'll slash demand by 50%)
• Vendor Selection (each advanced LLM model beats Gartner, things are analyzed and customized in less than 8 hours of work - u still need consulting, but you need 2 guys instead of 12)
• Design Systems Work (see above, the same applies)
• Dev (Agentic is going to cannibalize this up to 80%)
• Testing (Same as above, Agentic works - writes and executes scripts, u just need oversight and metrics, this will take a 70% haircut).
• Training and Change/Communication (Same as above)
• PMO (Still needed, probably 25% less or so)
• Management (Still needed, probably minimal impact)
• Overhead (Contracts, finance, HR, Still needed but will get streamlined extra 20% over time).

Bulls will counter with this, and the Wall Street seems to be more on the Bears side at least for now:

• Mgmt Consulting - High Vlue Add (AI strategy, operating model, transformation - LLMs generate options, but exec alignment grows - demand shifts up the stack)
• Vendor Selection (LLMs speed anlysis, but audit and risk increase - still need validation and accountability, fewer analysts more senior roles)
• Design Systems Work (AI builds components, but enterprise standardization at scale grows - governance and consistency expand)
• Dev (Agentic boosts output, but backlog expands - fewer devs per project, more projects overall)
• Testing (Agentic automates scripts, but continuous validation and monitoring grow - shift to quality engineering)
• Training and Change/Communication (More tools, faster change - structured adoption and change mgmt expand)
• PMO (Faster delivery, more coordination across AI, data, business - leaner but more critical)
• Mgmt (Fewer layers, higher span of control - more intense decision making)
• Overhead (More AI licensing, compliance, governance - leaner ops, higher complex.)

WHEN WILL HE COME OUT NEW STYLE OF SHOES THAT REGISTER WITH PEOPLE!!!

Where is next AF1, AJ1, Cortez? Next Air technology or Air Max technology?

What is upper management doing? Other than figuring out how to cut the company and retreat!!!

If EH cannot provided any significant answer then he should go or PK should let him go

Audit is losing a managing director on CSBB team. The cover story seems fishy. Oh TAS drama how you never cease to entertain.

As an f u to the upper management I'm selling all my shares , no way this shyte will recover

Sc--w your layoffs

Is it anonymous?
Manager levels up referenced my global survey response to me but did not mention my name, he complaint about that person who wrote the bad review and saying that person should resign.

Weekly calls are always the same, managers focused on whatever bullsh-t "metric" has been identified as needing improvement. When "Improvement" is made, it isn't based on any actual changes in the way buisness is done, only how the field is instructed to report thier time. Middle management lives and cultivates this fantasy world, and feeds this "data" to upper management who makes decisions based on phony metrics. What a clown show.