#management

This zero-innovation management team would be gone yesterday, and employees at all levels (management are also employees) who think spending 8 hours a day being in an office building translates to 8 hours a day of productivity would be culled in favor of those who understand 80% of your results come from 20% of your effort.

Effective employees avoid the other 80% of effort because it's almost always useless. AI could hold an earnings call and draft a better earnings email than any of the current management team. It would certainly sound more professional than WF's Chief uhm-ahh Officer.

It is very easy to see the UM Centralization Leadership is realizing they have messed up! Easy to see they are reading these post! Take
Some responsibility and admit this is a mess!!!

They are looking at redundant groups. Watch Management!

We haven’t heard much from PG&A lately besides the new intranet “improvement”. Everyone I have met from that organization seems like they are 21 and have no idea what they’re doing. Have also heard how toxic and backstabbing the culture can be. Can someone help and tell me what they do all day besides gossip on campus all day?

Our teams work so hard even being short staffed. Last week we had a great visit from our regional! Then this week our market manager came in and ripped us! The club looks the same as last week! So if a sign is a little crooked, or a pallet not on the line, we fail. Is it like that everywhere?

Do we know how the selection was made? who made the call and how much our direct mgmt influenced the process?

And they’re doing this by allowing manager discretion with missed hours. Several folks on my team were pulled into a special session to reiterate the new rules last week. As we scanned the room, we quickly realized a common theme: we all have kids.

Meanwhile, coworkers who come in late due to doctor or dentist appointments or counseling or physical therapy are allowed to skirt the 8 hour rule. It’s clear that parents have been singled out as the low hanging fruit during this recent crackdown.

I’m finding it hard not to be resentful of those around me who aren’t being held to the same standard, and I’m beginning to think that’s Just how WF wants it.

I'm almost at the point where I hope layoffs happen, just so I can move on from the constant thinking and stressing over it. It's inhumane to say layoffs are coming and then just...what? Let us wait? Hope the stress is enough to get us to walk out on our own and save them some money? Is that what's happening here?

We start one project, abandon it halfway, and jump into the next shiny thing. Management can’t commit to a direction for more than a week. It’s a miracle anything gets done.

A bunch of people said a while ago they were no longer giving it their all and have started quiet quitting. I'm curios, how's that working out? How did your manager react, if at all? Have you been put on a PIP or is everything still functioning as usual? This is an honest question. I'd love to do the same thing, but I'm too scared of losing my job.

CVS Health plans to lay off 72 remote employees due to the loss of a contract, which will also effectively end CVS Health's Aetna Medicare Medicaid Program for Ohio residents.

CVS Health said in an Oct. 17 notice filed with state Department of Labor that the layoffs will affect remote employees who report to Aetna's headquarters at 151 Farmington Ave. in Hartford. Most of the effected employees live in Ohio, with one employee residing in Michigan and another in Kentucky.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/cvs-health-to-layoff-72-remote-employees-after-loss-of-ohio-contract/ar-AA1OQ2b9

Do you know how stupid it sounds to call your demoted manager a Lead in front of the customer?

We don’t have managers anymore when it comes to escalations and I wouldn’t be looping in a director because it would look even more stupid to the customer.

What are we supposed to do when the customer wants to speak to the manager? Did the leadership think about this at all???

Manager
Associate Director
Director
Sr Director
Executice director
Asst VP
VP
Executive VP
Sr VP
Chief officers

Meanwhile lean and mean operations in markets . Something that resembles a belly fat with skinny legs.

Why do so many of them lack common sense? What’s the criteria for promotion? Inability to form a full sentence or what?

It wasn't always like this, but recently, thanks to having mostly new people as managers, every one of them in my department seems to live in their own little bubble. You ask for direction and get five different answers, then somehow you’re the one at fault when things collide. It’s becoming laughable.

This is real talk!!!!

Ilumina keeps beating its head over with useless PLM and MRP tool upgrades that neither add value to the company or increase the speed to get products to market. The only group to benefit from these activities is the workforce in India that has substantially grown ever since Jacob has taken over. Consequence will be our competitors taking over our market share and making us irrelevant, an afterthought. These useless initiatives are being spearheaded by our clueless leadership and middle management that neither have the best interest of the shareholders or employees, only their determination to maximize their own paychecks. Management teams like those that fester at Illumian are the ticks that ruin a company's value and culture. If there was a way to replace Middle management with AI, sign Illumina as #1 customer.

The day before I left Target, leaders were discussing if they should “update” the slides for her (the company needs a real supply chain officer that understands basic supply chain concepts)
Nice should not be the primary qualification. Just like her, Rob has also only worked at Walmart, but he is the real deal.

Things are so bad that people who used to care now just do the bare minimum to get through the day. And management is somehow shocked that productivity is dropping. Who would have thought that a toxic work environment goes hand in hand with mentally exhausted employees who barely give a damn.

Chainwide..
My sales definitely are down.

Getting rid of many of our buyers without looking at what actually sold has made many of customers have to go online or just say forget it. As we should've had what they wanted. I saw sales at LVMH up here . Yes because they can get the product to you without the hassle . What a novel idea. Meanwhile Bloomingdales sales up 5 percent too. Unreal

This may sound crazy but is there a thing of the Manager/s deliberately having shipment delayed for certain departments ?

This new 8-hour presence requirement is wrecking morale on my team. This is worse than what we had 20 years ago.

Need to pick your kids up from school? Forbidden unless you badged in at 6:30 AM.

Need to go to a doctor's appointment? Better not come into the office then or you'll lose your 8 hour average.

Want to come in an extra day this week to briefly support a team event? Not unless you want to get put on a PIP and lose your bonus.

Imagine thinking that hybrid "flexibility" is choosing which three days to sit in traffic.

All this, not because it improves performance, not because it helps clients, but because some crusty old executive can’t stand the thought of people being trusted to work like adults.

What exactly does an MBA do all day? Mine sits in her office looking at the computer. Even on weekends rarely ventures outside of her office. Is there that much desk work involved with the role?

It’s clear that Fidelity cannot and will not develop managers to be leaders.

Is there a strength that the firm has that could reshape my opinion of the firm? Things were better before the pandemic, but it doesn’t seem like work will ever go back to being a great place to work.

I’ve been kicked down so many times that even the bare minimum is more effort than the company deserves. It’s not just me, it’s my whole department and probably just a leadership style.

There needs to be a process to demote or fire the managers who were hired during the pandemic, with no experience or qualifications.

We're drowning in management layers. Every issue gets passed up the chain until nothing actually gets done. They talk about being efficient, but you have a dozen people giving orders and no one helping. The pay structure is all over the place and new hires are completely lost. How did we even reach this point?

I heard today from a HR source but wanted to ask here if true that management is now rethinking the 8 hr period. Can anybody confirm on this chatter? No trolls pl

Do I have gripes about Dell? Absolutely. No company is perfect and no company will ever fulfill ALL of your wants and needs.

I've been here for almost 7 years now and in all honesty, can't say I have any major complaints. My manager is fkn AWESOME. I have more flexibility in my job than I've had anywhere else. I have 5 weeks of PTO, good benefits, and love the $500/year fitness program bc I just buy random cr-p, then get reimbursed and return it all lol.

My orgs exec. leadership is pretty awesome and are as transparent as legal will allow them to be. We aren't required to be in office 5 days/week but rather 30% of each quarter.

I enjoy working with EVERY person on my team along with almost everyone I indirectly work with.

I've gotten about 25 THOUSAND dollars worth of training out of Dell. idk, I guess I'm not seeing why there is so much hate towards dell? Most of it seems to come from the sales org, which I mean... I feel like that's about standard at any large company.

My complaints is that Dell is still acting as if they are in "covid time."

• Restricted travel and/or going to conferences - unless you have a VP as a title, for the most part!
• Promotions have been MIA since 2020, at least for those in the US..
• My raises have never been below 7% for the last 6 years, my last one was only 4%
• My org NEVER seems to have any budget and my org happens to be one that, while not on the frontline/customer facing, kind of protects the money and information from hackers.. Not my problem though. idgaf as long as I'm getting paid.
• Dell has ALWAYS been a hybrid company... 3 days in/2 at home. Why the sudden change in policy for 5 days in office after you forced us to go remote for 6 years, forcing us to change our lives around, then telling us that they don't forsee in office work in the future? Only to do a 180 6 months later...
• Dell has no identity. They follow and do what the BIG companies do - MS, Google, FB, Tesla, etc... rather than do what they think is best for their own employees. Hence the 5 days in office policy.
• They think AI is going to be their savior but, Dell's AI is literally HORRIBLE. 99% of Dell couldn't give two logs about AI and they keep shoving it down our throat. Which speaking of, Dell is SO far behind in the AI world it's hilarious.
• I don't think dell gives a single cr-p about the employees (IC's anyways) and it's obvious the Tell Dell results don't matter to them.
• They pay to have their company listed as a "Top company to work for."

For me, those are my gripes but in all honesty only a few of them affect me as an employee. The rest, idgaf.

Difficult day today for us old P&I staffers....seems like our entire MGT team has been wiped out. Tammy's reign of fire is upon us. I'm gonna believe her heart is in the right place but I'm in the minority. The mess that Deb Thorpe created (why was she feted so much when she left???) has finally come to bite us in the a-s. I don't feel good about where we're heading, gang.

Look what’s happening in tech - irrelevant stats being used to stack rank people because the people in charge don’t have actual strategic ideas. Measuring keystrokes and then showing “improvement “. Lol. Butts in seats. If you don’t trust your managers to manage and your strategy to measure what matters you have more problems than coffee badging. All the mistakes people made at their old banks are coming here.

Each trip from US or Amsterdam must cost around $15K (USD). Business class is around $7K. Then hotel + meals + transport. It all adds up. Kind of interesting that I see people going to Bangalore who have very little decision making power.

Managers? Directors? Sr. Directors? VPs?

I heard management is finally taking off the training wheels and will try to manage on their own for the first time in years by reducing McKinsey. Any truth to that? Just wondering what they will do without them to run our business.

I worked at Target long enough to see how deep the mismanagement goes. Decisions made on impulse, no strategy, no accountability. It’s almost a miracle any stores are still running at all.

Overheard someone saying managers are being force to give 25% of bad ratings (below meets expectations).
Have you anyone heard anything like this? Seems to high

What is the idea behind making mangers IC. It cant make sense paying ICs manager money, just to protect their "reports number". I see a lot of them doing not much on great pay. Seems like a win being made IC. As a manager I would love it!

call center reps got Dcris back and the fraud has already started placing new orders for upgrades new orders for name changes and new orders that customers didnt even know they were getting. no oversite at all and the managers are promoting it watch as numbers go up for things reps should not get paid on

#fraud

This is not normal and it's so messed up. Dell EMEA is just CRAZY!

I worked at Gartner for several years. These layoffs come to no surprise to me, especially as free AI websites become better and more robust. Gartner hires new sales people in waiting for others to quit, get fired, or leave for other roles(inside or outside the company). They literally hire you to sit on the "bench". I worked within the startup sales division, 1-50 Employees, Gartner can help them grow, that is no doubt, however, when I was there, startup funding was in the sh----r. I achieved quota my first year but after that, my territory got taken and the new territory I was given, 2/3 of it was in the Artic Circle... Working with startups, they have incredibly small budgets, we had to sell at the same price that our medium to large sales teams sold at, tell me how that makes sense... That being said, we were not allowed to sell 1 year contracts, unless management liked you. I provided 9 verbal and written commitments to my manager for 1 year contracts with significantly higher than base price asking and was denied. Base was 57,300, I was selling them in the 70s... guess their money isn't green enough(BTW avg deal size was 61k). Gartner really only sold on their name, they are just a consulting firm, nothing else. I knew that the small business division was dying. The first manager I had, was essentially worthless, their onboarding and training is also worthless, and many, many people will agree.
Even with the 9 written commitments, they tried to PIP me twice and I clearly beat it, until the 3rd time, they found out my wife was to have a baby in the middle of the 60 window, that they guarantee you have, and they fired me, obviously I was going to take my full paternity leave. I couldn't be better off at my company now.
The company is garbage, the consultants, while extremely educated aren't as hands on as they claim to be. Gartner says you have unlimited access to them... no you don't. They let you read research notes, thats pretty much it. Management is so out of touch with reality and what sales people are going through, they should be RIFFED.

Been sending out job apps nonstop, just trying to get out. Around here, you’re treated like you don’t matter and no one’s accountable for anything. Management keeps talking about performance metrics that make zero sense. The place lost its credibility ages ago.