#communication

In addition to ongoing engineering performance challenges, a lack of transparency around progress, and significant network and connectivity problems, we are now encountering scheduling issues with India-based engineers. Several have declined to attend meetings scheduled after 10:00 a.m. Central Time, citing the late hour on their end. In some cases, there is resistance to meetings held after 8:30 p.m. local time, which would require U.S.-based staff to substantially alter their work schedules by starting meetings as early as 6:00 or 7:00 a.m, a practice that falls outside standard industry norms. These scheduling disputes are repeatedly raised while the engineer declines to attend meetings or take on work, leaving the engineering lead and offshore vendor to sort through the issue. This pattern can persist for weeks, during which the offshore engineer continues to submit and receive approval for full 40-hour weekly timesheets. This outcome reflects the risks associated with outsourcing while eliminating experienced in-house talent.

While Verizon has a long history of failed execution from go90, aol, yahoo, hum, finance transformation, VGS, blue jeans, plus play, and even something as simple as RTO - Verizon does succeed at empty catch phrases. Better matters! Change energizes us! Go beyond! I’m anxious to learn what catch phrase our overlords will rally us around next.

I missed the Single Family Town Hall and heard the related Fishbowl threads were removed.

Can anyone who attended share what happened?

Why can’t leadership, for once, stand behind their decisions? Anything that negatively impacts our well-being, prospects, compensation, or benefits is always delivered in a stealthy, cowardly fashion, preferably with multiple layers of separation between leadership and employees. How can anyone expect a bunch like that to responsibly and successfully lead a massive business, let alone one dealing with something as critical as healthcare? That requires courage, accountability, and real skill in dealing with both employees and clients. No wonder we are miserable and the entire enterprise is a sad affair.

Everything that was said in that stupid meeting could have been said in an email. Your employee survey feedback su-ked and you still don’t get it!! Just hold more meetings to see why and how convenient no time for Q&A!! No mention of the 401k cuts.

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Those of us who survived are still in limbo.. there is no new plan or no new priorities.

I do not know what’s going on

Communication will come from CL 28+ functional management.

First batch of communications Jan 5, second batch Jan 7. Communications will continue in batches every Monday and Wednesday through January.

First couple weeks will be job offers, severances will come later in month.

Did everyone get a “special message” invite on Friday 12/29 in Ambetter?? Kind of freaking out!

Haven’t they heard that this particular phrase went out of fashion? They can’t even keep up with corporate fluff.

Do we have a communications team? Do they help the senior leaders with their messaging? Sure seems like the answer is no. Employee messaging is terrible - inconsistent, inauthentic, and lacks humanity. What’s happening here?

I strongly suggest everyone should read the current partnership agreement. You might find it does not really say what we’ve been told it says.

For the avoidance of doubt:

• “CVS” refers exclusively to Connected Vehicle Services, a division responsible for vehicle connectivity systems, diagnostics, software interoperability, and associated service delivery.
• Discussions or references to external pharmacy entities (including retail pharmacy terminology) are *not applicable in this context and should not be used in professional communication, documentation, or reporting.

Yes, it’s confusing. No, we won’t change the name.

Recently, there has been an increase in informal commentary including eye‑rolling, sarcasm, impulsive sighing, repeated references to color associations (notably orange hues), and metaphorical language around unexpected operational incidents.

To maintain clarity of communication and alignment with organizational values, employees are encouraged to refrain from directing questions to unrelated external entities and projectiles (e.g., inquiries about over‑the‑air "balloons" or pharmacy analogies regarding connectivity issues). This is to ensure our products are released by 2030 as part of our vision to increase diversification economically, socially, and culturally through Model e.

I think there was a previous post but where are our EC and SLT? We have a couple of weeks to year end but no rallying cry, even though it will not halt the demise. No interest in any big deals. No interest in any small deals. No interest in any client interaction to help close deals. No idea about what is going on. Our CEO, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and our Head of Sales strategy are AWOL and too busy creating slides that say nothing and continue the BS. Our COO is too busy making up numbers. Maybe everyone should simply stop for the year as well?

Incredible what Ricoh sticks on the fridge. Sandwiched between Lexmark and Xerox... so very press release worthy. So very useless.
https://www.ricoh.com/info/2025/1215_1

After months of secrecy, the first thing we can expect from Ram is transparency. HA HA. Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me!

Closing out the year with a bunch of resignations that look like GoGo house cleanning. Heads of IR, Strategy and Comms -Gov Affairs are all gone. It’s not whose tellin the story. It’s the story!!! Even chuckles can’t spin this

There's been a zombie reply-all thing going on the past 2 days with some all FE employees mailing list. Every few minutes it's "please remove me from this list". Would be amazing for HR to build a list of everyone who replied for instant layoff. Not sure how you can be so r-tarded and still hold a job.

Why is it that every Teams meeting with the mothership has 9 people in Dallas who weren't on the original invite? I mean there are 4 on the invite and 13 show up.

They have no idea what's going on, they don't need to be there, and they ki-l the meeting result by asking ridiculously stupid questions. It's like the kid on the PeeWee football or Little League team that never got into the game jumping into a mud puddle to look like they played.

And yes, there ARE stupid questions.

So myself, along with a few others I know were let go earlier this week. We were told it was because we were being ranked “below expectations” even though NONE of us ever had a bad rating in the 10+ years we all worked there and after our Mid-Year reviews, when we were marked trending towards BE,discussions were never had with us on how to bring those ratings up. I know that this has become the trend around BNY the last few years and it’s how they try to justify things. When we were let go(we were in different departments in the bank), we were told that we will remain employees of the bank throughout the end of the year, the we will receive a separation agreement letter from HR about staying as an employee for 60 days, through the end of February. And we will receive pay for the final 60 days. I am not sure if this is what they’re considering severance pay or something else. Not much information was given and any questions asked were left unanswered. Everything was told to me by my manager and I had zero communication with HR to this point. Has anyone else also experienced this recently? If this is severance, I’m not sure how it is calculated. I was always under the impression that severance pay was 2 weeks for every year you worked, up to 20 years, but maybe I’m wrong. Will I have someone from HR reach out to me prior to receiving my letter? I had the mail courier show up at my house yesterday with 2 empty boxes to ship back my laptop and monitor. If anyone else has been dealt with this over the last week or recently and can give further guidance on what to expect, that would be greatly appreciated as we are left in the dark here. A few of us were fully WFH and some of us were Hybrid. Thanks for the info.

It seems that this reorg was mainly corporate. Very little in the field (sorry to those impacted). It went from building consolidation, massive layoffs etc to very few. If this is the end FOR NOW they should announce that.

Did anyone notice the difference between ansys presenters and synopsys presenters in Todays all hands?

The Q&A part is now not needed ? Witout ever answering anything ever?

Dan said he won't use Slack. If my little green light isn't on I get an inquiry as to why not. Now I will just tell the bosses to go Slack themselves.

No one at the rank and file level even seems to be aware of the cliff approaching in January. They just keep scurrying around like rats while the ship sinks. Amazing dissonance going on. 😂

What was the point of the meetings today? Nothing new shared. SVP one for downstream had a Q&A for entertainment.

What were some of your favourite quotes? "A Canadian company by and for Canadians" is surely top 3 of the day

Anyone went to the town hall meeting today? Any information of significance to share?

What’s happening today? I’m hearing very little. I know calls are taking place with some groups. Please share

Safe?

It’s peak gaslighting. Not a shred of information on anything even remotely important.

Good Morning Plano and TPC R&D!

We know some of you may be included on Distribution Lists outside of the R&D-DL and may have seen a note sent to North America specific functions regarding restructuring this week. To clarify, this message does NOT apply to Corp/Global employees. As a Corporate Function, R&D employees should continue to come into Plano and TPC offices this week.

Apologies for any confusion and if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. Have a good week.

Today’s S&T townhall was a masterclass in corporate spin. They bragged about “wins” and “momentum,” but flat-out refused to address the mess happening behind the scenes. Not a single word about the plants being shut down. No mention of the layoffs already underway. No acknowledgment of the teams stretched thin or the projects that failed.

Leadership acted like everything is perfect while people’s jobs are on the line. They know employees are anxious. They know closures are happening. They know cost-cutting is hitting hard. And yet they chose to pretend none of it exists.

This wasn’t a townhall — it was a PR show.
If PepsiCo wants any credibility left, they need to stop hiding behind glossy slides and start telling the truth.

David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, reassured employees in a company town hall that the upcoming merger with Netflix is expected to bring only minimal layoffs. He said Netflix wants to retain most WBD staff since the streamer needs added personnel to support its operations. Zaslav acknowledged that mergers naturally create anxiety, but he emphasized that this pairing feels like a good match for both sides. The information comes from internal remarks reported by TheWrap, based on what staff were told in the meeting.

https://www.thewrap.com/david-zaslav-layoffs-minimal-warner-bros-discovery-netflix-deal/

Very often I kept warning of competition eating our cake - and leadership was deaf, or they laughed, or they were very arrogant.

Friday - Hatchet man said we cannot relay on network - “no kidding, Sherlock”

It tool the board to kick 13k+ folks to wake up?

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L3s and the rest of the C level just need to stop with the BS. Just say you are coming in the office, that's it, if you want to get a paycheck get your A$$ in the office. This fake caring how we feel or how we work is more annoying than anything. We already know Hadji is in the office for like 3 hours then he heads home. Who really wants to work with there team in neighbor hoods ugh.

ha can we point out the ghetto neighbor hoods?

Just say it, I'm tired of all the playacting BS C level is doing, grow a pair of ba--s and get your @$$ in the office as well.

So latest communication is a reduction in people in all areas of 20% in Q1.
It’s going so well.
Will be interesting to see if that number is applied evenly across both XRX and LKX or if the plan is to just be left with LKX monkeys (who know nothing about digital services and our collective growth engines).
Meanwhile the SLT continue to spend money like water on themselves, pet projects, relocation/moving costs. Java.

Go Go has a new video on LinkedIn where he talks about great leadership.
It’s very short and he just repeats a lot of the same stuff he’s said before.
What gets me is how many “likes” it gets from employees.