#morale

anyone else think this trimester update is stupid? the behavioral model is just word soup. how about talking about why our 401k profit sharing contribution was so low?

Employee appreciation week yay! You guys should throw a party for everyone on the team - no budget given. So we pay for our own party - yet again I might add.

Combine that with 4 years in a row with an exceeds rating and getting far less than 2% raise. Oh great, I can take my family to McDonalds once a paycheck (barely).

I’m just done with this place. No matter how much I deliver of performance, that’s the best you can do? Never any Connection awards (what’s that?). The exact same bonus as everyone else, no raises, no promotions.

You don’t take care of your people, treat everyone like trash, you are not paying a fair market wage (we are the lowest in telecom), no budgets for anything, yet they waste billions on failed deals, waste millions on stupid marketing stunts.

I’m just fed up with this place. Nobody should come work here unless they are desperate.

I left BNY and every day I'm thankful. What you all are going through to this day sounds awful. I hope you all find something better soon. You deserve it.

I am really worried about layoffs here - is anyone else worried that people are too focused on staying employed rather than doing good work? I am seeing a growing amount of toxicity (even more than usual), but maybe it's just my team.

On the Beat, seeing some red faces trying to sell these budget restraints.

Just saying

It’s striking how the true heartbeat of many companies the frontline workers in blue-collar roles rarely voices complaints about lack of recognition. Yet those in office based positions often amplify their own grievances about feeling undervalued or disrespected. The irony is clear: genuine appreciation is seldom extended where it’s most earned, to the individuals whose hands-on labor keeps operations running.
If the company strips layers and non-essential overhead, the organization would likely continue to function, and often thrive thanks to the quiet, relentless efficiency of those boots on the ground employees. Their backbreaking, essential work persists without fanfare, without viral complaints on forums, and without demands for constant validation. In contrast, the productivity of many keyboard bound roles is far more replaceable than the tangible output delivered by those who actually build, maintain, and deliver the company’s core value.
True organizational resilience isn’t found in boardrooms or spreadsheets it’s forged in the field, by people who show up, do the hard work, and let results speak for themselves.

Besides me, who else's TI dreams have been absolutely and convincingly shattered?
😭🥺😬😫😵‍💫🥴🤥

Employee appreciation gift- a $15 credit to grub hub. BUT you have to spend $50 to use it.

Cheap a-s Allstate can't even give employees a plain $15 gift card. Some of us don’t even have acess to grubhub in our areas.

Hate on me all you want but this is insulting.

I hate this company. Micro managing is becoming intolerable

Luckily I have 3 years savings so can walk out and likely will

They have always told us “our people are our most important asset”. What does it say when you sell your most important asset. You are in a race to the bottom. I hope they win. Get out while you can. My sympathies for all those who have been affected by this very poor business decision.

I think what’s worse than the tangible changes being made is the culture and environment it’s creating. They lack actual leadership competency to know that with any change comes a far and wide ripple effect you have to LEAD through! In the absence of that you create irreparable chaos that flows all the way downstream. Your next level leaders fear their jobs so they start throwing down hammers, those leaders isolate in fear cause they don’t know how to cascade those messages. Employees then feel the weight of all of it knowing something is going on and watching their colleagues disappear like it’s a reaping. The stress causes people to act in ways they normal wouldn’t and it’s not good! Unethical behavior takes shape, employees suddenly view their colleagues as threats - he-l even leaders do. You create a culture of every man out for himself trying to essentially save their life while dying on the inside.
Whatever your intended outcome is, congratulations MC, you effectively destroyed your workforce in the end.

Which means I don't care about layoffs, reorgs, or anything else here. Paycheck until I'm gone, that's the extent of my commitment. Leadership clearly isn't invested in turning this around. So I expect nothing, and I care even less.

Rumour is they are going to do an employee feedback survey. Is the current thoughts and views and morale and feelings and challenges and of the vast number of employees not very obvious? Another crazy idea from crazy KK lady.

Dan said layoffs will not be incremental meaning the 20% reduction was a one time only. This is a black swan event that doesn’t occur frequently. Just relax most of you will be fine!!!

I’m honestly having some regret about taking this job, especially after finding this forum. I wish I had come across these comments before accepting the offer, but here I am. Is it really as bad as people describe?

I started in January and my role is remote, but based on what I’m reading, it sounds like that could change at any time. I also don’t really feel like part of the team yet. I assumed it was just because I’m still new, but now I’m starting to wonder if this is just the culture here.

Is this how most people feel? Is everyone just quietly checked out?

This concern is to address ongoing situations regarding the handling of confidential information within lower management on the Central Review Team.

It has come to everyone’s attention that confidential employee matters and sensitive information are being discussed or shared with individuals (the su-k ups) who do not have a legitimate business need to know. This behavior raises serious concerns about privacy, professionalism, and adherence to company standards.

Maintaining confidentiality is not optional it is a fundamental expectation in any professional workplace. When management personnel share private information inappropriately, it undermines trust, damages team morale, and creates an uncomfortable work environment for employees who expect discretion and integrity from leadership.

Beyond being unprofessional, this conduct may place both employees and the organization at risk. Leaders are expected to model ethical behavior, protect sensitive information, and ensure discussions about employee matters remain limited to appropriate and authorized individuals.

1.  Do you feel like there aren’t better opportunities out there for you?
2.  Are you actively looking but still job hunting?
3.  Are you just going with the flow and not really thinking about it?
4.  Or do you have hope that the company will turn around?

Never felt that curse more than now.

The people they chose to cut never made any sense. Now we can't do parts of the job at all, and we're buried in the rest. It feels like they want us to fail.

I can’t believe how overcrowded and busy this branch is now. AUS3 is packed to the brim and it’s an absolute joke how messy this process was. So ecstatic to have my headphones in 8 hours a day while I work with people scattered across the country and the WFH contractors. Amazing returns on RTO for me, I still don’t need to speak to a single person in office since I don’t work with them! Thanks for the massive pay cut via commute time, gas, and vehicle wear and tear!

Work harder, no merit, no bonuses. Not to worry though, Chief Clown Steve and the band of merry pirates continue to raid the cupboards for any and all $$ they can pull out

There are senior leadership firings that are not making sense. Talented people that go above and beyond with a lot of seniority or experience. They must be getting fired bc they just earn more. This is another huge blow to morale, why would I want to move up in a company like that?

Executive level leadership is woefully unqualified and terrible messaging.

Record high profits
Lousy stip-
Disgruntled employees percentage soaring

Solution???
Offer vwo-
Watch mass exit

What is DXC going to do in order to protect its employees from the effects of war and mitigate its impact on us? For now all we got was pushing towards "extra vigilance to protect business" but how about us? Prices will go up, there is stress, and all they can do is trying to force us to some kind of extra care for the business? What the heck?

No one's even pretending to steer anymore. Just managed decline, slow and steady. Layoffs forever, now reaching offshore too. There's hardly any core left, both among employees and leadership, that could pull off a turnaround, if that was ever the plan. Am I off base here?

There’s plenty of bad updates here all the time, so if something’s genuinely improving, it would be nice to hear it.

I remember when I couldn't imagine working anywhere else. Now I can't imagine staying. They took something great and broke it. Makes me sad every day.

Ford is a shadow of its former self. Sure, maybe a few areas are okay, but overall it's been a decade-long decline. If you're young and have skills, go somewhere that actually values you. Unless leadership completely changes, which won't happen, it's just more cuts from here.

Now convinced more than ever that the dysfunction is intentional to get you to quit. Don’t get fatigued. Make them fire you.

When did every week become potential-layoffs week? And why are we okay with it? Why are we just accepting it?

I do not remember it feeling like this before. There is a level of fakeness that feels excessive. Conversations that feel transactional. People who can be vindictive, rude, and in some cases honestly cruel. Not openly aggressive, just quietly cutting. It's really kept pulling on me.

I do not have these issues outside of work. That is what makes it unsettling. It makes me wonder if something about the environment changes people, or if I was just naive for a long time.

I had a rough year, so I have tried to account for that. I have tried to tell myself maybe I am just more sensitive right now. But it feels bigger than that. Over the last few years I have slowly lost faith in the culture here, and what scares me most is feeling that cynicism creep into how I see people in general.

I do not want to believe this is just how people are.

Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me?

Every day I log in to work and think, why the fu-k am I still here?

The pay sure as he-l isn’t keeping me around. My manager looks like they’re one bad meeting away from quitting, and the people reporting to me are obviously trying to get the he-l out. It feels like I’m standing in the middle of a slow-motion collapse, pretending everything’s fine while everyone else is quietly polishing their résumés.

At this point, it’s hard not to wonder what the he-l I’m even sticking around for.

Let's call it what it is.

There's a particular kind of cruelty that doesnt scream.

No permanence. No space. No autonomy. Police in the lobby. Badge logs. Presence monitored like attendance in detention.

Five days in office — not because the work demands it,
but because control does.

And then you ask:
"Why is the morale low?"

Dignity doesnt disappear overnight.
It erodes — policy by policy.

Engineered humiliation that nobody deserves, it subtle.
It smiles in town halls.
It calls itself "transformation"

Loyalty isn't dead.

Respect is.

It’s pretty clear given AC has only 11 direct reports and 200 additional people took the time to upvote how awful of a leader he has been, that you have a problem with tech leaders.
Just layoff and don’t replace.
Leader of tech RA is likely breathing a sigh of relief as he was being pinged as an arrogant unqualified leader before the AC post overshadowed that.
Do your layoff of all of us but if you want the remaining folks to care and not be riddled with low morale, you’ve got to get rid of all existing tech leadership. All.
Clear case of how one bad apple in charge of 11, can affect hundreds and that’s just those on this site.

Saw this on LinkedIn today, what a joke! I don't work at Kyndryl anymore, but I remember my time there and it was brutal. Leadership constantly switching to the next big thing, reorgs every 3 to 6 months, managers who didn't have a clue about what was going on internally or on projects, and a workforce with very low morale. And now "Most Loved Workplaces." Maybe things turned around quickly, lol. I don't think so.

I don’t even care if I give myself away on here, because I need to say this.

Over time, I’ve noticed a consistent pattern in how several senior directors operate, I’ve seen certain leaders target employees outside their own unit through gossip, and finger pointing.
When issues arise, the focus rarely lands on the behaviors or decisions of the senior directors that contributed to the problem. Instead, pressure is redirected onto others.

This is especially prevalent from GP&T Product and Sales senior directors.

I try to be transparent about what I know and what I don’t. When I ask questions for example, whether a specific person is the right contact for client obligations or duties, the response is often disproportionately hostile.

Today was a straw that broke the camel’s back situation. I tried being helpful and instead was responded to as if I was a schmuk (and maybe I am) but to the Sales guy, you could have used a little more tact especially at your level.
“Period!” (your own word)

I took it personally and it ruined my mood going into the weekend. I’m not ashamed to admit that I teared up.

I feel for each person and their families. I’m sad and furious all at once. This constant dread, this existential threat hanging over us - it's no way to live. I lost an amazing colleague this week, and his wife's job is on the line too. Two young kids, a mortgage, bills we all can barely keep up with as it is. It's just devastating.

Hard to pin down exactly why I'm drained most days. It's just this constant pressure to keep up, never feeling like you're actually ahead. I'm starting to worry this is the future, with no relief in sight.