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Middle management seems completely checked out

0x28dd…0833

·9h ago·2 comments

I’ve been watching the leadership meetings lately and it feels like they’re reading from a script written by someone who has never stepped foot on the shop floor. Since the announcement on the 2nd, the disconnect has only gotten worse. Our managers are giving us these vague platitudes about 'streamlining for the future' while everyone knows the true state of our project pipeline. Nobody wants to admit that the strategy hasn't been working for quarters. It’s draining to come in every day, keep my head down, and hit targets while feeling like the ship is actively being dismantled from the top down. Is anyone else seeing this level of apathy? It’s not even about the layoffs anymore—it’s the feeling that the people in charge have zero plan beyond cutting costs until the stock price stabilizes. If you’re planning to jump, when are you pulling the trigger?

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0x7371…407f

·9h ago

It is the same old story at Corning. The executives are obsessed with their quarterly optics and fancy slide decks, completely ignoring the reality of the production lines. That 'streamlining' language is just corporate speak for cost-cutting that makes our actual work impossible. We have all seen the project pipeline drying up, but as long as the higher-ups keep hitting their KPIs on paper, they do not care about the burnout on the ground. Honestly, the morale has never been this low.

0x1cd8…e6e5

·9h ago

I have been here for years, and the disconnect has never been this glaring. It is frustrating to hear the vague buzzwords when we all know the strategy is failing in real-time. Management is clearly just waiting out their time, terrified to admit that the current path is a dead end. They are detached, defensive, and frankly, unhelpful. It makes you realize that to them, we are just numbers in a spreadsheet, not the people actually keeping the business moving.