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Anyone noticed posts on LinkedIn from Oracle employees saying they are getting retired? Saw at least 4 of them. Recent example one older guy saying he wanted to stay until retirement but they made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. What happened there, anyone knows?

Anyone else no longer able to see the Fannie Mae “bowls” on Fishbowl and Glassdoor? It now says they don’t exist. They were active prior to 10 am yesterday.

Are promotions cancelled in consulting?

USE ALL OF YOUR PTO AND SICK TIME WHILE YOU CAN!

Unfortunately, I live in a "use it or lose it" state. I have 120 hours of sick time and 66 hours of PTO that I need to use within the next two weeks. To make matters worse, my PL said we're not allowed to request time off during the first and last weeks of August and the beginning of September because those weeks are blocked by the company. This literally only leaves the week of 8/10 & 8/17 to use it and with sick time, i would need a drs note for anything more than 3 days smh...

It really su-ks. That's a lot of earned time—and a lot of money—I may end up leaving on the table.

These guys tricked all of us investors for years, and now it is time for them to go and to bring Hock Tan in. He is the only one who can save this sinking ship.

Curious to see what restructuring has occurred. Please share and let us know market.

Are the business update meetings going out yet? Someone in this forum previously said first week of Aug would see some layoffs. That's next week. Any updates?

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/31/2026/t-mobile-deutsche-telekom-merger-stalls

Employees deserved better. Shareholders will be next to take the brunt. Dell is dying

Source: Justin Bateh, PhD

Tactical advice for managers running teams, projects, & operations in the AI era | CEO @ AI Operators Lab | Led 40 AI Rollouts | PhD & PMP | Top 100 Maven Educator | Leadership • AI • Project Management • Career Growth.

They didn’t teach me this in school:

1/ Perception beats performance
→ People promote who they trust,
→ Not just who deliver
→ How you're seen > what you do

2/ The real decisions happen before the meeting
→ Most rooms are just theater
→ Influence happens behind closed doors

3/ Loyalty is transactional
→ It’s not personal, it’s positional
→ Don’t confuse company values
→ With job security

4/ Power protects power
→ People in charge defend their seat first
→ Be aware of the hierarchy
→ Even when it's unspoken

5/ Silence is strategy
→ Sometimes the smartest play is no play
→ You don’t need to join
→ Every argument you’re invited to

6/ Allies matter more than arguments
→ Influence flows through relationships
→ The right support can move mountains quietly

7/ Information is currency
→ What you know can help, or hurt, you
→ Share wisely, not widely

8/ Your reputation moves faster than your resume
→ People talk, good or bad
→ Make sure the version of you in the room
→ Matches the one outside it

9/ Not everyone wants you to win
→ Growth triggers discomfort in others
→ Keep rising anyway

10/ Politics are unavoidable
→ It’s not dirty. It’s real.
→ Navigating power is part of leadership

Don’t ignore politics. Understand it. Then use it to protect your team and your growth.

AI entire executive board leadership save millions, VZ stock price might increase

Nepotism is alive on the east coast!

Lincoln Nautilus and Lincoln Corsair coming from China only.

Who is the genius that chose this over US manufacturing?

Sale of Folsom campus cancelled.

How come?

Wondering if they'll pay PTO if we live in States where it's mandated? Anyone has thoughts, experience, or comments on this?

Nike was preaching that each dealers to show customer regarding attributes of the Nike product and give one to one service.

In typical Nike fashion, they completely erased what they said and it never existed.
(if you are with Nike long enough, you will see what I mean).

And replacing great Independent dealers who had connection with local community with ROSS, TJ MAXX, Marshall, Costco and Amazon is not building a passage to the future.
Can anyone answer me seriously how Nike can charge a pair of shoes for $200 when you know that it will be in discount outlets above in 6 months?

Since Nike sla-ghtered all quality independent dealers in their hubris while back.
Maybe solution for Nike will be to go out open more independent dealer again.
Or at least try to franchise the independent doors with more freedom when it comes to offering of the products.
Because a store in Bronx, NY cannot be same as LA, CA. And Nike as corporation is not nimble enough to cater different product for different region.

And that is why Nike's idea of one style for everyone in 50 states has failed.

COLLECTIVISM HAS FAILED EVERY SINGLE TIME BUT NIKE IS DOING SAME THING AND PUZZLED WHY COMPANY IS GOING DOWN.

When I was job seeking out of college my recruiter said "apply to DST last". Its the last place you want to go. Well I ignored the recruiter and went to DST. He was right. It was a poor option. Then ti have DST flub up the Cundiff/pension plan and get into a lawsuit....very bad form.

Looks like Dan's contract was extended to 2028.. so expect more of this "Change" coming... and now Mckenzie consulting is calling the shots for many groups.

I have previously proposed in this platform that Nike's answer will be split the company in few different segments and run separately with each segments with its own CEOs who reports to one Big CEO.
That idea was shut down by just about anyone in this site (if they are still in here).

So a year has passed since that exquisite moment and we are sinking more in the mud. It was ankle deep but now it is knee deep.

So I want to ask everyone in this site.
Do you think that splitting company and running more independent is the solution?
Because it has been shown that Nike is too big and vast in sports/fashion industry for one guy, specifically EH and his cronies to fix it and turn it around.
And the little CEO that shows most result should be considered for next big CEO.

Has anyone heard that going forward, anyone that receive severance will have it capped at 7 weeks?

I have been with Schwab for 6 years, and still do not understand why people think that they are nice to each other?

There is not a day that goes by without people being rude, not doing what they promised, or just ignoring emails.

There is a new explanation on the staggered dates and why it was done. Doesn’t say anything about appealing the date. Also a question about last day work and separation date.

“In the next two weeks”

Read the email. It’s in writing.

Centene: We're "streamlining operational efficiency" and "mission simplify" and blah blah blah by investing in AI!!! (For example, the new contracts with Cognizant.)

Also Centene: Let's post a cr-p ton of Claims Analyst openings in Workday!!!

Unless I'm missing something, is this not contradictory?

"Surging oil and gas prices drive Chevron to $12 billion in adjusted earnings, quadrupling last year's results."

Come on Chevron, invest in employees...they are doing more for less and still making pre-covid wages! What is the incentive for employees to do more for the company? Keeping the workforce held down...

Not sure what the correctly terminology is, but for those that are having the company Reimburse them for education expenses, how will it work if those employees are laid off. Is there a requirement that the employee must work for the company a certain number of years?

Aramark has ended its collaboration with the University of Kentucky. This decision led to the termination of employment for over 900 individuals. The partnership concluded in May of this year. This marks a significant workforce reduction for the company.

Lexington, KY

https://www.wkyt.com/video/2026/07/29/aramark-ended-its-partnership-with-uk-may-resulting-layoffs-more-than-900-employees-those-layoffs-took-effect-june-30/

What are his contributions over the years?

Too big to fail is a comforting lie. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

HR isn't here for us. They're here to protect the company from us.

I nearly blew up at a coworker yesterday over this. If you want to leave so badly, then quit. Don't tell me and other people you wish you were laid off after we've watched so many excellent workers lose their jobs and seen how devastated they were over it this week. Read the room, people.

Wouldn't surprise me if people start putting up a "Days since last layoff" posters on their walls. It's been that kind of year.

Honeywell Aerospace has its own thread on here now guys

I was called by a recruiter offering me a position at fitbit division. What are your thoughts ?

I'm glad I could clear that up for everybody.

T-Mobile is making leadership changes, including the departure of Mike Katz and the
rebuilding of the Un carrier spirit. The company is seeing progress in enterprise and
small-sized businesses, but the success of T-Mobile for Business is unclear. The
speakers discuss the potential for growth in the mobile business and the importance
of maintaining a fixed cost versus variable cost decision.The potential for disruptive companies to move into themobile space, with T-Mobile and Charter expected to see strong growth. TheSo we got some leadership changes taking place across the industry. Most recently, T Mobile where Mike Katz is stepping away after two decades. Coming on board at T Mobile as their new chief enterprise officer is Chris Sambar, who will be leadingthe SMB enterprises and government businesses. What we are observing here at T Mobile is with Srini Gopalan, a rebuilding, and we talked about thiswhen Srini came on board, a rebuilding of the Un carrier into a company that is even more focused
now on execution than it was ever before.With Greenie now being deeper in the saddle, and we saw like half a dozen of senior execs already leaving, the senior leadership team is like three quarters new.We see that Sriniis putting his team in place. You know, Andre Almeida, who came from Europe, oneof his close lieutenants of Srini's lieutenants, he ran the expanded enterprise group that not only hasbusiness init, but also like key ads and the Al efforts. He is now moving over as the president of marketing.It will be very interesting of how Andre will do that.They hired Chris Sambar, who, up until about two years ago, was at AT&T, a highly respected executive, a terrific leader, straight sho-ter, great executor, one of the architects and implementers of AT&T's FirstNet success story. For the last two years, he was like the COO of a storage company, and
now he's coming back to telecom. With Chris, T Mobile is getting a terrific executive. When we look at T Mobile for Business, they're making progress. They're growing. For somebody like Chris to come in, there's only upside,you know? In comparison, it's a huge number as a multiple. In absolute numbers, we always knew it was like.modest, but you have to start somewhere. And so, Andre is handing over that portfolio, and | think Chris will execute very well here. Yes. It will. Yeah. Well, let's see exactly where Chris takes this. On his farewell LinkedIn post or his goodbye to T Mobile LinkedIn post, Katz mentioned that he startedas ajunior in college as anin store sales rep. And with him, T Mobile and you have to give TMobile a lot of credit for rewriting telecom and, as they like to say, changing wireless for the better.He has a big role in this. He was also instrumental in forging the MVNO between the cable companiesand T Mobile for the business side. He never got enough credit for this. He was kind of the unsunghero here. | watched this over like five years happening, and how this slowly progressed forward.And without him, T Mobile would not have closed that MVNO agreement. You know, the cable companies just recently, and | don't think there was a big announcement about it,
they fully launched on T Mobile. | would say that the cable guys the cable guys are coming for small and mid.Now that
they have an offer where they can address up to a thousand lines, | would expect that the cable companies will get a lot, lot stronger in business on the mobile side.So, it will be an increasingly crowded space where three very disruptive companies, T Mobile witha new leader, Charter and Comcast, especially a Charter that will have absorbed Cox soon, play the.business market You know, we mentioned it before, T Mobile made about six monthsago the opposite decision of adding more company owned stores. For me, more company owned stores means you're more bullish that you have pretty consistent traffic where you put them.Whereas the variable decision, you don't know if it goes up or down, and you only want tocompensate for performance is when you move towards mobile.And from the T Mobile front, a branding perspective, you own the overall experience. So youyou are making sure that your employees are giving those customers exactly what they want.Obviously, you need the foot traffic to make that happen first and foremost. But, yeah, it's an.interesting divergence.At AT&T, about a month ago, Pascal Desroches announced he'll be retiring from a CFO position at the end of the year, and he will be replaced by Jennifer Beery. She's an AT&T alum,most recently CFO and COO at McAfee. Thoughts on Pascal stepping down?
Well, Pascal was the right man at the right time. He came in with John Stankey taking over as CEO,and he established a different tone than John Stevens had. Pascal really established faith and trust
and transparency back into the AT&T numbers. Under John Stevens, they changed how they reportedthe number almost every quarter. And it was so difficult to reconcile of what's actually going on in the
company and what the numbers said.
And as a result, none of the analysts trusted really AT&T's numbers. And a result, the stock traded ata discount of where it should trade. Pascal, who is a great person, really simplified how the company
was reporting, made it a lot more transparent, which also helped the company then to fully
demonstrate the success it has made over time, and how the company has focused on thefundamentals that has made AT&T an American icon. John Stankey refocused the company's strategyonconvergence. And Pascal told the story very successfully to Wall Street and investors.We did some work around investor relations. And one of the things that's also very interesting is
about half of AT&T's shareholders are retail shareholders. And what came out of that work that we did is that PASCAL restored the trust of small investors in the company. Investor Relations typically only deal with the massive investors, which is only half of the universe. And so, you know, Jennifer is coming in.She worked for John Stankey also before. When you go back when Jennifer worked for John the first
time around, John was very effusive about the qualifications of Jennifer. And I'm sure it hurt him when she stepped away. And what you need inthe relationship between the CEO and the CFO is a trusting relationship, you know, next to the COO. It's the most critical relationship you have.| always like to say the CEO is the brain of the company. The COO is the heart in Jeff McAlfresh. Hemoves the blood through the organization. The CFO is the lungs. They supply the oxygen that the
heart needs to push the blood through and to supply also the brain with oxygen.John gets back somebody he knows, he trusts, and based on what he said inthe past, admires and really gets along with.