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Not sure how to do something? Fu-k you. Got a question? Fu-k you. Need some help to understand something? Fu-k you.

Spend 2 hours researching or start a ticket and wait 5 days for a response. What a waste of my time.

Hearing its kicking off today. Anyone else hear the same thing?

Psychobabble email from the "dealers" i mean...leaders this morning.

Blah blah blah, we have no money. Please dont quit.

F*cking deadbeats.

Rumours sold announcement soon

USG announced at a company wide meeting last week that layoffs are planned in the next month. USG is not making their revenue targets.

There were some rumors of more cuts at the start of June, what happened with that?

It always amazes me how cr-ppy I fiserv treats their clients. Bad pricing, strong arming negotiations because they are fortune 500 company and it’s hard deconvert , and allowing people with little regard to how they impact that client and even the economy, the slightest increase are passed down to its card holders, but sometimes the increase that Fiserv gives are really high and then question why people make drastic decisions to choose other vendors leave like if they’re the only ones that offer this service… maybe yes it’s hard to leave but once they get to leave, they are leaving. Like stop putting your profits over clients - stop putting your profits over employees and maybe and just maybe your stock will make it over $70. Should be ashamed of themselves. This is what happens when you merge with a sh-t company, place the same sh-t company leaders in high positions after the merger and wonder why it’s going to sh-t. Change your leadership.. change your culture.

The latest circling HQ is anyone with a “manager” title without direct reports is going to be demoted to specialist / coordinator / analysts whatever the respective position would be. Hearing minor impacts to base pay but would impact bonus % and stocks.

So many layers, so much waste.

We have, by far, the worst recursive management hierarchy in the entire industry.

And they know it.

Absolutely fascinating data and insights into the gluttonous IBM executive insider trading going back to 1994. Many of the execs are granted tens of thousands of shares of IBM stock and then immediaely sell them for millions of dollars.

https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/IBM/insider-trades?orderBy=amount&orderDir=desc

For example the guy who destroyed IBM when he came in like a king 4-1-93 G Man Gerstner sold $350,000,000 (!) in IBM stock he was awared as grants in just 3 yrs 1998-2001!!!

Perhaps someone much better with data analytics can play with this site and come back and show us to absolute greed these people have done as they cut the IBM US population by 75% +/-. STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another example IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn (typical slimy Wall St guy and invisible at IBM for the last 5 yrs, 25 yrs @ Goldman Sachs) seems to have been given and then quickly sold $66,000,000 of IBM stock in 5 yrs!

And of course our beloved and humble CEO Arvind...please find a chair...he seems to have amassed (ie awarded himself) 658,000 IBM shares...At closing price of $300....that is $197,000,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When are the layoffs?

UHG is listed as a sponsor for the Freedom 250 event. I mean I’m not surprised.
https://freedom250.org/

What happened today? Why are there so many meetings today? Any announcement coming up ?

IBM is booming. All you naysayers out there. Apologize for your hate and bile.
Arvind is leading us into the Future

ELT, GPs and other senior leaders - Please watch Company Retreat on Prime before you do anything more. It's the sequel to Jury Duty and raises many themes we're all experiencing now. Watch how your families react. Notice which characters resonate with you, your (age appropriate) children, and spouses. Notice who the bad guys are and why.

Associates on this forum, please watch it too, if only to remember what a workplace family can be like, to mourn what we're losing, and laugh a bit too. Remember, most people are GOOD people and not solely in this life for money. Yes, it's a fictional story, but the themes are real as can be and at once topical and old as time.

OMG am I sick of seeing and hearing and worst of all seeing that id--tic Lego looking thing Bob. Since Robbie Thomas will soon replace the dinosaur that Arvind is now 4 years past IBM's tradition of leaving at 60, why the heck did they at least call it Rob? These are the mtgs and debates IBM's army of DEI execs and legal and finance teams now have. 6 months of mtgs and 4,000 people involved and they land on Bob. What a dumpster fire IBM-Bob-Rob is. Sad.

Cracks are starting to appear in the AI will save us so much money narrative.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-cost-tokens-gemini-flash-openai-anthropic-gemini-search-2026-5

Sorry to the dedicated people of NJ as your leaders let you down. Come join NJ’s #1 tech brand!

Yes, you read that right. Twice now I’ve had to watch where I walk because someone decided to de-----e in public. I never experienced that while remote. Before I forget did anyone see the pervert exec on the home page this week. Gosh it’s going to be so uncomfortable when he speaks to us at the June town hall. Hopefully he doesn’t ask us about our boxers or briefs 🥴 >> https://www.thestandard.com.hk/finance/article/167954/BlackRocks-Mark-Wiedman-sorry-for-off-color-comments-to-women-such-as-boxers-or-briefs << When I’m not playing frogger to avoid stepping in sh-t I’m either (1) hoping for my bus to arrive less late than usual (2) watching my back as a woman amongst the crazy people in town (3) witnessing open air dr-g use/dr-g exchanges and public urination (4) avoiding confrontation of any panhandler because I’ve seen the tension escalate to punches being thrown and if it comes down to it I would like to defend myself but I can’t carry a pepper spray deterrent with me and into the building (5) calling the babysitter to let her know I might be 80 minutes or 120 minutes before I get home (6) chatting with my son to see how soccer practice went since I can’t be there as often (7) hoping that my vehicle didn’t get damaged sitting at the park and ride lot (8) wondering if I’ll have enough time tomorrow to complete what I couldn’t get done in office the previous two days. Plus much more. Don’t ask me how many home cooked meals I’ve been able to make and eat with my family like we usually did before May 4. On the financial side of things I am struggling with this worrying dilemma. Do I cancel my IRA contributions to cover the cost of daycare and a frequent babysitter? Do I cancel my HSA contribution to pay for gas? What can I cancel to pay for my time? Seriously I am drained. This is the 2nd payday under the RTO policy and I am in the negative yet again. Thankfully my enormous 1.25% raise allowed me to buy a few tanks of gas this month. Not sure what I’m going to do next month. Probably have to bring the older child into work to avoid babysitter costs. My team is loosing talent soon. I’m sure my workload will increase. I’m sure I’ll be asked to get things done in the same amount of time. I’m definitely sure I won’t get any additional compensation for covering an empty seat. As of May 4, working here has become financially unjustifiable, incredibly stressful and a waste of time. It would be different if this was a job that physically needed my presence. But it isn’t. Same goes for the rest of my team. We have this futuristic ability to do our work remotely like we were doing for years but now all of a sudden we are needed in office to justify their real estate investment. Here is the best part my team is all remote with respect to each other. We are at least 250 miles from each other. The policy literally makes no sense. It’s causing me to lose cents too, well actually dollars — lots of dollars. So yea my testimony is sh-t is literally hitting the fu--ing fan. So if more sh-t hits the fan we can expect to have to avoid more human sh-t piles. If this is brilliantly boring well I am having trouble finding anything brilliant about it. Maybe I’ve been too generous by meeting or exceeding all expectations every year for over a decade. To Bill: make the brilliant decision to reverse the RTO policy completely before you wreck the careers and lives of more of your loyal employees and customers. The customers who no longer want to bank with us because of this terrible decision.

Don’t forget Bill gets a 30% comp increase and executive security. We get pennies on the dollar and a mandatory RTO five days.

Really cool of the company to not alert us about two people being shot right outside the building this morning. Street blocked off, doors caution taped off, lobby crawling with police and not a peep from anyone at US Bank. We’re in the trenches trying to hit RTO goals.

https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/exclusive-ousted-bp-chair-met-activist-shareholder-elliott/

Don't know about you, but AM is growing on me. The company needs someone who is willing to give it a kick up the **.

since 2020, the market cap of TMO today is basically the same as Verizon...what a waste of money ($50+) and time (5+ years). Sad, sad, sad...

Anyone know when or if there will be another round?

https://fortune.com/2026/05/29/blue-origin-new-glenn-explosion-nasa-artemis-contract-bezos/

Fancy Name Tags ( especially as if I invented the AI ) doesn't add ANY value to the corporation..

https://www.startribune.com/executives-at-this-minnesota-company-commute-by-airplane-a-shareholder-wants-to-change-that/601847339

That's it

Is it the usual or have they changed anything?

Had seen the golden era of Verizon US, EU and India completely collapsed. In last few weeks many of my VZI folks. With whom I worked closely left the org. Same thing I observed in different domains so many good byes emails.

Cybersecurity company SentinelOne plans to lay off hundreds of employees. The cuts are expected to affect approximately 10% of its global workforce. This totals around 300 employees worldwide. The company faces intense competition and slightly weakened profitability. SentinelOne will announce the layoffs with its financial statements.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bk7cn6rxfx

Do layoffs work like trash days? When there is a holiday, trash pick-up comes a day later than the regular scheduled day. Monday was a holiday this week. Does that mean layoffs will be Friday, May 29 instead of Thursday, May 28?

When do we think the next big layoff is going to be? So many reorgs happening rn

It's really quiet in my org, no notifications, nothing. Is it possibly done already?

We keep hearing June 15th but are now hearing about other dates things will be announced. Anyone know?

It really, really feels and looks like we work for Globodyne. IYKYK LOL

How is this okay? They sit around and share negative opinions about specific employees without any shame. Word gets around fast and now nobody trusts anyone and everyone is scared of being next. That's not leadership. That's bullying, plain and simple.

I've been thinking a lot about the people I've watched burn out here, the ones who stayed late every night, who answered emails on weekends, who pushed through stress headaches and sleepless nights because they thought it was what they had to do. Every single one of them would tell you now that it wasn't worth it. Their health declined, their relationships suffered, and the company didn't reward them for any of it. Your health matters more than their bottom line, and I wish I'd learned that lesson earlier.