#concern

If you’re not in the inner circle, your ideas get crushed before they even leave your mouth. They protect each other at all costs and make it impossible for anything new or useful to actually get done. I'm about ready to walk away because this has become unbearable.

All still quiet where I’m at.

Not sure how these folks plan to survive. Most of their field personnel are financing the company because they don't pay their expenses on time. The hard part of working here is when they tell to find another vendor because they haven't paid the other 3 yet and the vendors won't do work for us any longer. I've never seen a business function the way this one does, and I don't think it will keep this pace long!

Here is the conversation

Yes how many jobs will be lost?

Hundreds of jobs at GE Vernova in Schenectady and Niskayuna are at risk due to the cancellation of 14 federally funded energy projects-but the exact number of job losses has not yet been confirmed. The impact is expected to be significant, especially in research and manufacturing roles tied to Department of Energy contracts.

What We Know So Far
• 223 DOE projects canceled nationwide, totaling $7.56 billion in cuts
• 42 projects canceled in New York, with 14 linked to GE Vernova
• GE Vernova employs hundreds of workers in the Capital Region, primarily in Schenectady (manufacturing) and Niskayuna (research) 1.
• One canceled project alone was a $1.7 million wind turbine gear program, aimed at improving turbine reliability

Estimating Job Losses
While GE Vernova hasn't released a headcount, we can model the impact:
• Typical DOE-funded energy research projects support 10-50 jols each, depending on scope.
• If we assume an average of 25 jobs per project, then:
• 14 canceled projects × 25 jobs = ~350 jobs at risk.
This estimate aligns with reports that GE
Vernova employs "hundreds" in the region, and that these projects were central to their renewable energy and advanced manufacturing initiatives.

Billions so why do we get garbage contracts, health ins, no pension? Remain competitive? With whom chat GPT didn’t mention any other competitors.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/ftc-sues-live-nation-ticketmaster-engaging-illegal-ticket-resale-tactics-deceiving-artists-consumers

Quotes from the main thread:

• "they're utterly stymied by broken process, bloated egos and MGMT who's only concern is their own portfolio." (Anonymous, Post ID: @qg+1k3eddae2)
• "Kroger values people who say 'Yes, Yael, great idea! We can do it on that timeline!' more than why other skill." (Anonymous, Post ID: @q3+1k3eddae2)
• "Yael is such a fake corpo loser. Hate his stupid voice... all of these clowns are spineless cowards who don’t care about people." (Anonymous, Post ID: @h7+1k3eddae2)
• "HR isn't for the associates. It's designed to protect the company from legal issues with the associates." (Anonymous, Post ID: @ma+1k3eddae2)
• "Jim looks like a frog." (Anonymous, Post ID: @km+1k3eddae2)
• "Some of the VPs that survived are a joke and have caused this 'product led' mess." (Anonymous, Post ID: @pt+1k3eddae2)

This is in the main thread:

• "I recently found out they'll be doing more layoffs at KTD and probably GO soon. I know for sure CIS and Product will get hit hard. I hope you get your severance!" (Anonymous, Post ID: @OP+1k3eddae2)
• "my team received notice today that we needed to add some new contacts to our email chains, sure enough they are located in India." (Anonymous, Post ID: @qd+1k3eddae2)
• "20+ year employee, always glowing reviews, personally found and cleared over $3M in bad debt over the past few years. They eliminated the higher paid employees so the lower paid ones can pick up the slack." (Anonymous, Post ID: @p9+1k3eddae2)
• "vague information about severance (month pay/years of employment, possible bonus eligibility based on standing), but would be discussee 1-on-1 during exit interview, TBD" (Anonymous, Post ID: @p4+1k3eddae2)
• "severance will be discussed later and think it is based on performance through your last day." (Anonymous, Post ID: @mr+1k3eddae2)
• "At least this time it sounds like folks are getting severance unlike transformation." (Anonymous, Post ID: @nn+1k3eddae2)
• "They have avoided severance payouts the last 2-3 re-orgs." (Anonymous, Post ID: @pp+1k3eddae2)

Yes, I'm worried about layoffs, but if I'm still here when it's done, I know we'll be facing major changes in how things are done, and I seriously doubt any of them will benefit the employees. I think our work is about to become much harder and increase dramatically with no reward whatsoever and probably a "be happy to have a job" tagline.

Where is the CPO? Haven’t seen him on any of our customer calls and we’ve been getting those customers.

Someone in the accounting department approached me about signing a letter they are sending to Advent over concerns the accounting department has. I declined, but it was not a pretty letter. Its getting real ugly.