#officepolitics

One would think our CRO has a relative that’s a Clari rep but that’s impossible because they all work at Omnissa.

If you have to continue to repeat “this isn’t about micro management” guess what? It’s about micro management.

This board has spread more rumors than Fleetwood Mac! Some of them may even turn out to be true.

And this is why one of the reasons they won’t end DSD. Because at the end of every month they can pump in a lot of nonsense on all these orders, as with warehouse they’re not going to be able to do that. So now we’ll be back to pallet and backstock in a bunch of random things that we don’t need that the company is going to say we don’t want the stores to run out so it’s for their benefit same stupid sh-t over and over again.

The people I thought were untouchable are gone, while others seem to survive every reorganization without a scratch. After a while you start wondering if doing great work matters less than knowing who to keep happy and when to keep your opinions to yourself.

Obnoxious posts about drinking and eating on the company dime. Zero meetings

Why do we have so many people whose only job is making slides and sitting in meetings? And how are they never the ones who get cut?

Remember when Stanky said nobody knew better than him when it came to the media business? Good times.

Why is that everything at IBM needs to orbit around a bunch of useless execs? And they are always having fun with ridiculous videos, such as this current one about watsonx challenge.

You did it!!! You managed to find someone in Skip who’s d-mber and even less competent than you are. Bet that feels good

TP&E gets assigned offices and, apparently, the refrigerated snacks vanish at the same time.

Honestly, I'd take a dedicated office over free snacks every day of the week, so this isn't really about the snacks. I'm just amused by how often we hear about transparency and then find out about changes after the fact.

I'm also curious how much the snack program was actually costing. It seems hard to believe refrigerated snacks were breaking the budget, especially in a year when the company is likely doing quite well. Maybe there's context I'm missing.

I don’t want to do any work, clearly why should we work when Sarah doesn’t give a damn about anyone but greedy self.
Sarah is a character she talks about the struggles of her mother and what she did for her on LinkedIn for Mother’s Day. Than she does this. Come on do better and stop being fake.

Did anyone win nascar tix? I’ve heard of nothing from anyone in my division/group which seems odd.

Did they hoard them for VPs?

What was a “consultant” doing before and what this title meant???

I see all of a sudden so manny annoying folks as level 6 principal

First of all I am not sure who hired these clowns who are just a touch better than being pencil pushers

Seeing multiple leads and SMEs leave with no back fills posted. 2 Directors in IT already leaving in the next week. Nothing posted so no competitive chance for a promotion for someone in their team. Implosion

Lots of talk on this message board. There's an internal article from a few days ago that says cubicle seating will be reintroduced and general badge access for hub markets.

Can someone who knows actual details elaborate? Will people be able to visit other offices in their hub?

We're getting assigned seating

Of all the items that have been raised about how to make employees' lives easier, THIS is the one the MC has chosen to listen to

Not cleanliness or safety in the hubs.

Not RTO.

Not time tracking.

Not pay or benefits.

Seating.

Why? Because it will give the MC a convenient 'justification' for sending us back to the office full time. They do nothing for our benefit, only their own.

Great job. Hope you're all thrilled. Your butts can now avoid having to deal with that pesky reservation system! Our problems are solved at last!

This week must be post self-indulgent posts on LinkedIn on how great I am as a leader week.

Honestly, it’s so cheesy and desperate and why would you want to tell your competition what your doing.

I would ban employees from these self-indulgent posts; customers see right thru it anyhow. Comes across as don’t fire me please or hire me please to outsiders.

I used to think that if I kept my head down and did solid work, that’d be enough to move forward. After a few years here, I’m not so sure. The people getting promoted aren’t always the most capable, but they’re usually the ones who know exactly who to compliment and when to be visible.

I’ve never been comfortable pretending to admire every decision from leadership or joining every little workplace circle. I’m polite, I help my team, and I meet my goals, but that doesn’t seem to stand out much.

It’s made me rethink how success works in some orgs. Skill matters, but being liked by the right people can matter even more. I don’t want to become fake just to get ahead, but I’m starting to see why some people do.

What is the purpose of RTO - just to burn gas, tires, increase car insurance, increase carbon emissions, stuck in traffic - and again on Teams call...

The slavery mind set of the CXO suite is mind blowing

Heard a big announcement was coming next week ? Anyheads up ?

Office politics are so much worse when you have to navigate them in person. From micromanaging to bullying to being put in the middle of arguments... It drains people in a way that's much, much worse than just hearing about it or dealing with it from a distance. I'd take a pay cut to avoid it.

Outside of ignoring problems until they get worse?

I report to someone, but after they flattened the hierarchy and got rid of all the middle managers I ended up reporting directly to the director in my org.

He's not interested in or capable of leading a team. I never see him except during our monthly 1:1 (which is basically just a monthly recap so he can tell his boss what I do).

There's no leadership here at 3M anymore. Just a bunch of disinterested, self-important jagoffs having meetings because they didn't know what else to do. And nobody can get promoted, so it's never to change.

It stupid to have security under FTS/FAST to begin with. I don’t get it!…MD and that CIO guy were two of the worst hires in the history of the company. Idk think they know what they were doing.
He only did a year then left!…he wanted everything to be engineers. Nonsense

This is what is being repeated in the tower. How accurate is that?

Wake up Mike. Wake up

Please provide what was discussed. Not all Wellmed folks were invited . Managers are nowhere to be found and my whole team is having computer issues.

Hey, we used to have a pretty good way to track headcount, they stole that from us and the current way I think is not accurate at least for me.

Does anyone have a semi accurate headcount?

I was selected for a in house project to replace a old computer system. Being old we had low on parts, also the reliability was very low. If I’m going to do this right why not find out where the bottlenecks are and get a wish list and try to do my best.

When the system was ready for testing I set it up next to the system that was on line and testing can be done. Some people were excited and others started claiming I was planning on taking peoples jobs.
Needless to say the rumors got started. The system did go on line and worked well.

so have they officially eliminated opps for contribution statements and feedback from peers (things that supposedly used to mean a lot). any office notice of the change in performance management or is this a big steamroll?

He has no clue how to run Fiserv. Dhivya has too much power and is useless. Takis is out and about and never acknowledges he works for Mike. He is plotting to take over. Mike is losing power every day, he is doomed as much as the path he has Fiserv on!

not best moves by the executives.

but nobody cares, right.

What happened today? Why are there so many meetings today? Any announcement coming up ?

Sorry to the dedicated people of NJ as your leaders let you down. Come join NJ’s #1 tech brand!

• WF will drain your patience
• We're all just headcount lines
• revews are always hanging over you
• Formal warning = slow exit
• One mistake will follow you
• RTO is control, not collaboration
• Badge reports replaced trust
• Office hours matter more than output
• Commute is your problem
• Morale is your problem
• Town halls are performative theater
• Location strategy keeps moving the target
• Offshoring is omnipresent and has no end
• Politics always beats merit
• Silence is safest
• Speaking's risky
• Everyone is trying to look essential
• But... Everyone is tired
• C-level lineup = the grift brigade
• Trust is long gone
• The job is no longer doing the work (it's surviving)

We were told every day is a drop in location at Bedminster. So why do people have personal stuff (including plaques) at "open" desks? Name plates also....

It really, really feels and looks like we work for Globodyne. IYKYK LOL

Anyone going through that recently?

I got this fu--ing annoying member from another team, who is good for nothing.

Yet, I can see behavior which always cause chaos, trying to step on everyone’s toes.

Matter of time when someone asks them to “calm TF down”