#communication

The environment is tainted with toxicity, fear and ugliness, including the behavior and communication from the leaders and colleagues.

If our CEO spent a little less time on social media maintaining his network and relevance for whatever his next role might be—and a little more time actually leading this company—maybe the rest of us would spend less time on Layoff.com wondering when the next restructure or round of layoffs is coming.

Employees cannot focus on growing, innovating, and thriving when they are constantly waiting for the next shoe to drop.

Leadership isn’t about likes, visibility, or staying relevant in your network. It’s about giving your people a strategy they can believe in, creating stability, communicating a direction, and actually executing.

We don’t need another LinkedIn post.

We need you to do your damn job and lead.

Honestly they couldn't organise a pi-s up in a brewery at this point

Who in their right state of mind advises employees that the coming weeks were going to be very difficult and then absolute radio silence from that point on

Has the man got dementia or something

Sick to death of all the bullcr-p. Morale simply couldn't go any lower

...and it's still hilariously vague and meaningless. Our execs are an absolute clown show. These people just throw buzz words around like r.e.t.a.r.d.s. and expect us to be amazed with their genius. I guess they've been up at night trying to figure out what the he-l they could say in response to us asking "what the fu-k does market based culture" mean you fu--ing mo--ns?

Same sh-t as the AT&T Guarantee...they think if they repeat it enough it'll mean something. They went from pumping that Guarantee all the time and how industry revolutionizing it was (wow, you offer refunds when your service doesn't work...amazing), and now you don't see it anywhere. Must be pretty special!!

From Darcie Henry

in your inboxes this AM.

I won’t read whatever nonsense this is, but hoping someone can just translate for us whatever new intentional misery this will be bringing to being employed here?

Surely our new leader was forthcoming with information so vital to our families livelihoods.

@VP Why does VZ waste money promoting internal employee videos, newsletters, emails on internal website, most employees do not have time to watch list, read, listen but do their 8 hour work.Personally, I work on my feet, not at a desk,yet local manager sends out emails I don't read until days, weeks later, unless I take my lunch.

Another day of no communication coming up. I seriously wonder what this guy does every day.

Who’s fault is this new mess and how severe will the fallout be? What did you think of Cara’s email apology?

Does anyone actually know what is going on? The total lack of communication or transparency makes it seem ominous.

Didn’t get an email today. Assuming no one else has either

Lots of out of office notifications. What’s up with that?

Well, here we are. Last week of August. If anyone is affected this week, or hears of other people/departments/regions affected, let's post it here and use this thread to keep each other in the loop. Good luck everyone, whether you want to be made redundant or you want to stay, wishing you the best.

Not with town halls, but real conversations about things getting better? It seems like they're hoping the issue will fix itself.

Email stating no code changes in ANY environment from October 2026 until August 1, 2027, except for “keep the lights on”. Do we really think FMMC is going to let that many employees sit there with no productivity that long?

Heard the update on GCC. A lot of questions were asked by attendees of which some were selected for response. The answers were non-answers which was not surprising. People can handle uncertainty and difficult truths much better when they are presented plainly and honestly. I just wish our leaders understood that.

1. Nix big meetings

Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get rid of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short.

1. Ditch frequent meetings too

Get rid of frequent meetings, unless you are dealing with an extremely urgent matter. Meeting frequency should drop rapidly once the urgent matter is resolved.

Leave a meeting if you’re not contributing

Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value. It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.

1. Drop jargon

Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software or processes. In general, anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication. We don’t want people to have to memorize a glossary just to function.

1. Communicate directly, irrespective of hierarchy

Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the ‘chain of command’. Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.

A major source of issues is poor communication between departments. The way to solve this is allow free flow of information between all levels. If, in order to get something done between depts, an individual contributor has to talk to their manager, who talks to a director, who talks to a VP, who talks to another VP, who talks to a director, who talks to a manager, who talks to someone doing the actual work, then super d-mb things will happen. It must be ok for people to talk directly and just make the right thing happen.

1. Follow logic, not rules

In general, always pick common sense as your guide. If following a ‘company rule’ is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, such that it would make for a great Dilbert cartoon, then the rule should change.

Retired laid off former employee here. Yesterday I received an email announcing changes to the 401k plan. In short, the plan is going to be more expensive for participants starting next month. Was there any internal communication about why the changes are happening?

Any of you got an email with official statement? Since these were group leaders, you would think some communication would follow.

So the new thing for execs to post on LinkedIn is “…..spent time on the ground with xyz team”. Where do these mo--nic sayings come from? Two leaders this week have used this line on LinkedIn. Do they think anyone is impressed or cares? Not as bad as Iris saying she enjoys stepping away from the boardroom to meet with teams.

More and more people that I work with have such an accent that it is difficult to understand them, even though they are supposedly speaking English.

Absolutely horrid accents that need to be improved just to communicate successfully.

EM needs an entire team of Speech Therapists, or possibly make communication ability a key screening topic in hiring. Unfortunately the interviewers also have unintelligible accents.

Anyone know when the union pulse is coming out? I have some feedback I’d love to share with my 3rd-4th liner.

Can we request to change our date. I have seen some comments that suggest dates moved up or requested a change as well as withdrawing, no information like this has been shared in my department by our leadership. TIA

What has happened to professional communication at Canon USA?

Lately, I have noticed emails with no greeting, no “please,” no “thank you,” and little consideration for tone. Some messages to vendors come across as rude or condescending, while communications to colleagues can feel abrupt, impersonal or simply careless.

Is it stress? Have we forgotten the basics of effective communication? Or have we stopped considering how our words affect the people receiving them?

In my 20-plus years at Canon USA, I have rarely seen this level of communication between internal teams or with external partners. It makes me wonder how our vendors perceive us when they receive emails that sound less like professional correspondence and more like they came from a schoolyard bully.

Professionalism is not just about what we communicate—it is also about how we communicate. A greeting, a respectful tone, and a simple “thank you” take only a few seconds, but they say a great deal about the organization we represent and us.

We can—and should—do better.

And now ready for trolling for this post, LOL

Did the hours for phone assistance get cut recently?

They can’t even tell us in Digital if they are going to extend us again past 8/31, but we’re supposed to just sit here and take it to get severance

First wave of ISS layoffs were executed today. If you were laid off your manager will probably have a conversation today through this week about it. :(

Obviously internal group travel to these non-sales useless conferences still happening during layoff/travel freeze; saw these on linkedin today.

Does Mahoney or whoever the CFO is knows? Folks being gotten rid of should shoot them a message and copy paste the links

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7488698047141666817-nik8
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ebonytravis01_disabilityinclusion-advancingtogether-activity-7489794621032648704-cZEH

Does anyone know when the next layoff is scheduled or if there is any expected timeline for the next round? Any confirmed information or official communication would be appreciated.

Title: Blunt American-Slang Version

Honestly, pretty much all the tech jobs at WF are headed to India. Management doesn’t seem to give a damn about the quality of the deliverables, technical correctness, professionalism, or even communication. At the end of the day, all they care about is cheap labor.

I’m being straight with you—run as far away from WF as you can. In the long run, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the tech jobs get outsourced to India. The labor is dramatically cheaper—people there can make 4–6x less than what we’re paid here—so you can see where this is headed.

On credit hold with nearly every vendor that’s need at RUSH… CT not working, internet not working, server crashes, phones in stores not working, let’s not even get into the absolute garbage fire of Shopify…. I spend 80% of my day “putting in a ticket” or following up on a ticket… or resubmitting a ticket I’ve already placed… but, oh, if you’re behind or not getting results it’s your fault because you’re not being persistent enough. Let’s not forget to GET MORE EMAILS! But oh, sorry, let me check you out on my Shopify register… oops sorry, actually, I can’t because half of what you’re trying to buy doesn’t scan so let me take you to this other register! Don’t forget to get your surveys filled out with Highly Satisfied! What an actual joke…..

Is this email being sent to everyone in the U.S ? Or it was sent only to a specific group/class of people? I understand that some employees may want to keep this to themselves, if he/she received the email.

Bullet point #3 on the survey states -

You can access the survey from any computer, but you must be logged into your EH account via your Domain ID.

Why does this organization think people are so stupid?

Had an inside talk with a supervisor from CRU and things aren’t looking good they are feeding us lies on top of lies our leaders aren’t for us

Are they gonna at least let us know when this first round is over so we can stop stressing for at least a little bit till the 2nd round… this company is making me hate them w how they’re keeping us in the dark.

Mehta couldn’t even be bothered to attend the Town Hall in Camden today. Left Nino swinging in the wind…

Apparently everything is going great blah blah blah. Not one mention of the stock imploding in July and $70B of IBM market value evaporating. My take away is that these "leaders" are professional liars and con-men/women.

Any new layoffs or news today? I feel so in the dark on whats going on as PLs are not discussing much. Our team was not impacted, but we have several who took VSP. We were also told that PHCO BH was safe for August. But I know that with so many other departments that WERE impacted, that is going to trickle down and affect us all. I keep waiting for that "transparency" that is preached about at every town hall.....

Any leaders willing to share info from the town hall later today???