The "Efficiency" Math Isn’t Mathing: Who’s actually running the ship?

qf · 2026-04-27T23:53:32.975Z

I’m staring at my Jira board and it’s a graveyard. Half the people who used to own these streams were "optimized" out of the building three months ago, but the project deadlines haven’t budged an inch. Apparently, at Visa, leadership thinks headcount is a variable you can just delete without breaking the core engine. We’re being told to prioritize, but everything is a "critical strategic initiative" from the C-suite. You cut the seniors who knew how to untangle the legacy mess, and now we’re left patching holes in a system we don’t have the documentation to understand, all while being told to "do more with less." It’s not efficiency; it’s just institutional neglect. Stop sending out the "One Visa" rah-rah emails about growth and innovation. The only thing we’re innovating is how many of us can collapse before the Q3 targets drop. You traded our sanity for a temporary tick on a stock chart. Is this the long-term play? Just burning the remaining talent until there's no one left to run the rails?

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