At my last job, there was no planning of work/projects. Like, there was a general plan of "We need feature X by Q3 and here's what it should do", but nothing about breaking work down into smaller units or prioritizing different tasks.

The manager would drop an email: "Hey, can you do ...." and that was it. Now it's another thing to throw down the waterfall. Big surprise, the same bastard would harp about how the project was underperforming!