Rant

Anyone else feeling the 'transformation' burnout?

0x28dd…0833

·1d ago·2 comments

Is it just me, or is the constant state of reorg at SAP starting to take a serious toll on everyone's output? I’ve been here for five years, and it feels like every single quarter we’re being told to pivot toward some new 'strategic initiative' while simultaneously watching our colleagues get shown the door. I’m exhausted. The productivity metrics they track are becoming absurd given how much time we spend filling out transfer paperwork or documenting handovers for roles that end up getting deleted anyway. I keep hearing about the 'AI-first' vision, but I’m just trying to keep the existing modules from breaking while half my team is being laid off. Does anyone actually believe the leadership knows where the ship is heading, or are we just watching them rearrange the deck chairs to satisfy the quarterly earnings report? It’s getting hard to justify the stress when the company culture feels like a revolving door.

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0x149a…8b27

·1d ago

I’ve been tracking the same patterns for a while now, and it’s honestly draining. The constant shifting of priorities makes it impossible to commit to long-term quality work. You spend half your day aligning with a new strategy, only for the leadership to pivot again before you’ve even seen results. It feels less like an actual evolution and more like a never-ending cycle of administrative churn. I agree that the tracking metrics are completely disconnected from the reality of our day-to-day fragmentation. We’re losing the focus that once made the company strong, and the revolving door of talent is making it harder for the people left behind to actually get anything done.

0x7371…407f

·1d ago

Hang in there, though I completely understand why you're burnt out. It feels like every time we finally get a process running smoothly, there's another restructure that breaks everything again. Management seems obsessed with the 'next big thing' instead of optimizing what we currently have. All these constant handovers and internal pivots are just eating up the bandwidth that should be going toward development. I’ve started detaching myself from the internal politics and focusing solely on what I can control, but I know that doesn't fix the underlying issue. You aren't alone in feeling like the productivity targets are just numbers on a spreadsheet that ignore the actual cost of these disruptions.