#allhands

Is the all hands on Thursday to announce a new CEO or just the standard quarterly earnings BS?

In today's all hands meeting, the CTO pretty much said Citi will follow the lines of Amazon and Meta and will be laying off people. He didn't say specific numbers and exactly when but the message to me sounds like there will be layoffs coming.

Legg all hands. Share your perspectives here

Lots of uncertainly and nervousness after yesterday=Some nice recognition--finally !

We don't get many pats on our backs any more=just kikks in the aarse+The CEO is starting to lose the rank and file=Only 55% of company in attendance=We used to get 90% on these meetings=The sales guys seemed down and had low energy=Seemed like deers in headlights=Compassion & passion is gone+Thought process is always changing like flags flapping in wind=Meps, Peps, and fops, gops, mops, (huh?) wtf? are labor intensive, high maintain, low margin that we don't want anything to do with.

Sampath cancelled the VCG All hands meeting for next week. Is he on the way out?

Is Joey available to go tell Frank he is a fraud and low life parasite? I remember Frank on the all hands calls in 2014-15 saying he was a real estate guy and did not know much about payments. That was probably the most honest thing I ever heard him say.

Also remember Franco used First Data money to buy thousands of copies of his side-kick Joey's lame book, and mailed it to employees. I read it, a complete waste of ink and paper, and used it as a door stop for awhile until a flood in the office made it moldy.

Seriously, ever heard of an all hands ‘ live via slack? this is VBG and a massive organisation in VBG; that is everything under the CRO besides direct sales…
All hands via a slack channel ‘ask leadership and business partners anything slack channel…
Also hearing via a via that a merger with BT global ( international) isn’t off the cards yet. … who have been for sale for 2 years or so.
Anyways also heard it’s 20 to 30 percent reduction.

Reminds me of 2003 when Mci world com fired people via sms…

ELT has made it clear they frequent this site, so, what burning questions do you have but don't want to ask through their supposedly anonymous form?

What are the chances that if earnings don’t go well on Wednesday, they won’t do the standard all-hands call (like the cowards didn’t in Q2).

I guess It’s too hard to fellate each other on stage when your incompetence is laid out in black and white for all to see.

If 17 years at company has taught me anything, nothing good ever came from an All Hands Meeting. They're not announcing new jobs or pay raises. Hopefully those impacted by what's coming have been given a good heads up and nice Payoff.

Still tuned to this thread on Nov 6th.

Canceled abruptly!

What do you think will be addressed at today's townhall? What do you think will happen?

There was supposed to be an Accommodations in the Workplace presentation by AbsenceOne, this coming Tuesday, 10/21. It was postponed with no new date announced.

Could 10/21 be the day?

So there is an All Employee call on the 23rd. So i guess that means there wont be a layoff on that day? Who knows

Quoting Proverbs. He is starting to get desperate. I wonder if that's because he knows who is new boss will be and recognizes he will soon be without a job.

John and other leaders answer your questions on the state of our company…

Have a question for John, Pascal, Jenifer, or Kelly ?

Post it in advance on Viva Engage. Then be sure to attend or tune into the “live only event” to confirm that it has been completely ignored.

567.

Word on the street is that new CAO Scot Rogers summoned ALL VP+ roles from around the world to Possible LA this week. Everyone VP and above. Seriously? Why? Most of those people have zero to do with sales or customers. That's a TON of expense for a company that is underperforming at epic levels and laying off really good people every few months. Has anyone at the top even looked at the stock price recently? TD is being SO poorly managed. Why hasn't the Board fired Steve McMillan yet? He's clearly incapable of steering the ship around the giant iceberg directly in front of him.

Was his message: We did a few layoffs to invest in ai, but it was not performance based AND our focus for the next 6 months is to integrate AI in all our code so that they can more easily get rid of us?

Anyone here attended it? Was it any good? Anything important discussed?

Any guesses as to the subject(s)

Look at the counts of views on today's posts here. Over 13,000 alone in one of them. A large percentage of the employees come here for info now, where the company can't control it. Boycott his next town hall to show him how little you care about his BS speeches. He doesn't care about you. The company doesn't care about you. If they want a disengaged workforce, give them a disengaged workforce.

Anyone excited about the"coffee with J" session next week. Considering the continued beat downs, I'm sure he's excited about it. He'll get all the awkward silence he loves so much as no one will speak up for fear of retaliation.

Personally feeling, it seems like the execs talked a lot but in the meantime it means nothing to me in the end.

We received an email today from our group leader to say that he ‘strongly’ advises us to attend the CES town hall next week. First time we’ve ever had an email like this so we immediately started getting our conspiracy thinking hats on to try and come up with an idea of what’s happening.
Maybe it’ll be more of the same or maybe a big announcement, who knows.
Anyone got any clues as to what it is?

Heard that there will be a townhall for remote employees...
Dropping the hammer to relocate!

Anything note worthy?

Anyone have any real information regarding the all hands call for the centralized team under Hristov and King? Last minute email went out mid afternoon.

I have never sat on an all hands call for any organization except for Oracle who today shared on their all-hands call that Oracle is doing great, we are promoting two people to CEO status, had a stellar and historiacl Q1 earnings call, and not mention that thousands of people were only fired less then 20 days ago and no mention of that. That is just not a critique on Oracle alone, but a critique of corporate America.

one thing i realy miss from my time in the corporate world… is watching that one employe that no longer care ask a real qusetion at an all hands / townhall…

They’re gonna open up talking about how well the company is doing, using a lot of the nonsense corporate jargon. shout out to soulless chatter. But then at the end they’re gonna turn it over to q&A. that’s what the whole thing is supposed to be about you / get to interact with the higher-ups, cause they don’t let middle to low level peeps talk at this. they don’t trust them to get it done.

and what was so disgusting to watch about these is all the questions were clearly planted. It was always hey, I’ve been here 7 years I love the new products blah blah new services, like what other new exciting things do you have, and what challenges do you see. you know, it’s just always just really disgusting talk.

But one in a while like once every three years there’d be someone crazy dude or girl who knew they didn’t care to work there anymore, and they’d be like hey, so like why have quotas has been so high and why doesn’t this or that thing work, in this system we’ve been telling you it doesn’t work for eons. and then I would get really excited and start to love the townhall…

the first thing I would do is look at their immediate mgr cause they’re sweating that they can’t believe this is happening.

and the reason I say someone had to no longer care to talk like this is once you spoke like this you were probably gonna get fired, two to three months after you said something like this. shout out to HR, never having anyone’s back. i know, HR reps will get mad at me. i got friends in hr and we say things like this, but at the end of the day, anytime you send an email to a higher-up or spoke out like this you were gonna get fired for some mysterious reason, or something everyone else was doing…

and when you hear an hr person defend what they do, it sounds just like Congress. Just like Congress is like, I’m here to represent the American people, I wanna get the American people back to work. if you listen to HR it’s the same thing. they’re like we’re here to provide resources and you know blah blah blah for the you know, average person at the company. at the end of the day they just don’t.

and the reason I think Congress is a good comparison is i think a lot of people who go into HR, they go in with pure intentions, a good heart like I wanna help people and then they get in and they’re like okay, you actually, our job is to make sure the share price go up and the regulations don’t get passed against the co.

Hi y’all. An 8 minute, highly edited clip from the disastrous one hour webcast is now available.
No mention of Yugo.
No mention of Applesauce.
No jokes from HR lady.
No mention of work-life balance.
Highly edited to look more professional

Firstly they ignored the most up voted question about how to improve Support organization when they keep cutting headcount and experience.

But more importantly this is a completely pointless call for anyone not in the CS organization. It was an entire hour of talk about sales (called "adoption" and "renewal").

Why was I invited to this? We had to reschedule our application development support weekly meeting for this cr-p.

The customers repeatedly tell us they're dissatisfied with support (which is under CS&D), yet the board keeps reducing headcount and laying off our experienced support engineers. This company is doomed with these board execs seeking short term share growth over everything.

Anyone know what DR shared in his All Hands today with Product? Missed it.

I have a haunting suspicion this week we will get another RIF in TMG. Our all-hands meeting was delayed an entire month with no explanation. Morale is very low at our fab and everyone seems a bit rattled, even mgmt.

I watched the QA session again. Talk about being arrogant to your staff. We get it. RTO is back but the meatball must of been getting pounding with questions and he had enough and took it out on everyone in GnT. If you noticed the front ,JS kept her head down the whole time. Mike H, I don’t know what his deal is, what does he even do anymore but steal from the company twice a month. Good luck people this could be the most worthless upper management staff that network ever had. Bring back Lynch and Malone, they were real leaders. These are just puppets today.

Just got an 11:00am all hands meeting for tomorrow. Please tell me it’s to catch up and not more layoffs

Indicator for your org is usually the all-hands, it is typically scheduled after lay-off rounds are complete. They are never truly complete though, but may be paused for 6 months, a year if you are lucky.

For instance, Chris' all-hands in Fusion is second week of October with universal agreement that firings will start on September 2nd, so they will go for 5 weeks.
OP: @a7+1k3kjayrf

Not sure if she is using a Chinese beauty camera though

Does anyone have any insight? Management has sent numerous emails encouraging the team to attend. Management has never cared in the past about Town Halls!