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Seems like yes layoffs are coming at some point based on what Lanell is saying. A lot of language around "roles shifting" and that "decisions will be made as we learn more"
Between that and AI this company is really trying it's absolute hardest to run itself into the ground.
Is anyone else struggling every day not to just walk away?
I've seen so many formerly dedicated people just doing the bare minimum now. What was the breaking point?
I've been struggling with motivation lately and I think I know why. I've been seeing the people who work the hardest get laid off while the ones who barely contribute get to keep their jobs. It doesn't matter how well you perform, you're just as likely to be cut. Why should anyone care about doing a good job when effort isn't rewarded?
From Bloomberg (paywalled)
“You really don’t need the latest cutting-edge, incredibly expensive model to summarize an analyst report,” Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Barnum said on an analyst call Tuesday after the firm reported its second-quarter results. “So the idea is use the right model for the right purpose.”
bwahahahahahaha.
Charlie Scharf: oh yeah? Hold my beer while I tokenmaxx.
I'm tired of leadership acting like Verizon is a great place to work when we all know the reality is completely different. The facade is going to crumble sooner or later.
I remember when Dell actually pushed us to learn and grow. That seems like ancient history now.
For those who previously worked at CDW, I’d appreciate hearing which VAR you’ve joined and how your experience compares to your time at CDW. Many of us are exploring opportunities within VAR organizations that place a stronger emphasis on coworker value and overall culture, and your insight would be extremely helpful.
Did anyone else notice this when filling out the culture survey they sent out - clicking on any answers on any questions acted normally UNTIL you got to the question of "do you plan to quit in the next six months" - every time you picked an answer or changed your answer a buffer icon would load something and then disappear. The whole team was doing the survey and reproduced it, including our manager (so four of us) Also obviously the survey link is personalised. I think theyre essentially looking at who's sure to leave anyway to make sure they don't lay them off as it'd be a waste of money if theyre quitting themselves anyway and instead layoff people who are still willing to stay and there isnt another easier way to get rid of them.
One of the last rats off the ship or is he sick of leading the rudderless ship? Almost nothing from the c suite and every major position has left the last six months.
No wonder it feels like no one’s driving this ship, except the CIO lighting money on fire with all these new applications and projects that have gone nowhere
Funny how “Impostor Syndrome” keeps trending on LinkedIn, as if the real impostors aren’t sitting comfortably in the executive suite polishing their mission‑statement buzzwords. Our Lake Mary Site Lead waxes and wanes almost daily on LinkedIn about personal growth and his random musings on overcoming self‑doubt, meanwhile TheLayoff.com reads like a Greek chorus calling out leadership that’s overstayed its ethical visa. But sure—let’s all meditate on our inner saboteur while the EC perfects the art of staying in the room long after the moral fire alarm went off. Let’s focus more on our personal shortcomings while leadership turns up the midyear gaslighting campaign to identify a new collection of layoff victims.
It’s interesting, really. Employees twist themselves into pretzels wondering if they’re “worthy,” while the folks steering the ship can’t find the compass, the map, or apparently the exit.
If impostors are defined by those who shouldn’t be in the role, the syndrome isn’t in the rank‑and‑file—it’s upstairs in 240G, thriving, well‑compensated, and oddly immune to self‑reflection.
But hey, personal growth is important. Just not that personal, apparently. Give it a rest, James.
Out of nowhere one of the VPs in OCI was let go and the team under him have no clue what’s going on. It’s this standard practice?
This call taking place right now just further justifies why she needs to go.
How about instead of mistreating the folks actually doing the work at the L1 level, we get rid of a LOT of the fluff at the L3 and higher level?....There are so many L3s who do nothing but host teams calls where they circlej--kand throw out "Insightful" quotes to try to sound intelligent before we spend an hour listening to something that literally could have been an email so they can feign "Collaboration". Someone mentioned that ja----s Louie Lewis earlier in this thread and he has these fu-k a-s "Jam Sessions" weekly where its just him hosting and playing his favorite music before trying to seem Insightful like we all don't have sh-t to do. I swear to god im just waiting to hear back from some roles I have applied to so I can GTFO out of Dallas for good.
Well, the big kickoff is underwhelming.
I wasn't expecting an episode of the view right out of the gate. I would've expected this later this afternoon.
Good lord, we're such a woke, gynocentric mess. I gotta get outta here.
Wonder if I can get a useful gig like driving a truck.
All through my years I was just delivering something for Oracle based on company /team requirements from top. Most of these are non-innovative, mundane, repetitive tasks occupying my time, energy, efforts. I have done some valuable things but are not rewarded for those. I was happy with 2% increments.
Here is the problem, your friends in other companies are seeing hyper growth for what you are doing now. Even in small company they grow big and paid more.
Its a hare and tortoise game. We run fast and want to rest in shade of Oracle tree thinking management directions will help us grow and move forward. Where the tortoises are winning.
Oracle is/has become a Political Junk yard.
thought it would be all the fake accounts right? guess again su-kers.
Next week there is an ice cream social in Hop. They laid off thousands of people with a stock price of over $450 a share. They’re going to lay off more people in August and Nov.
They’re going to give you an ice cream social. If you are reading this and are in Hopkinton, don’t go. F*ck those guys, they’re the most greedy little pr!cks I’ve ever seen in my life.
Everything went to sh!t once Arthur took over.
They can’t placate us with ice cream. Think about how insulting that is for a second.
Not a bonus, not an increase in your salary for doing great work, not stock, but F*cking ice cream.
Show them your disgust. Don’t go.
If you post about the misandry at Cummins stating facts....it gets deleted. Strange.
Just make sure to use the proper pronouns.
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Many years ago when I heard some of my friends had landed jobs at Cisco I thought "wow Cisco is smart to hire them". I even considered buying the stock.
All of them got laid off.
So when Cisco bought the company I worked for I already knew what was coming. The day the deal was announced I should have updated my resume and left. But I stayed anyway. I lasted longer than I expected but those years were mostly wasted.
I watched good friends and talented people get cut. After about a year I made a decision. I was done working extra hours or giving my soul to the company. If someone asked where I worked I would say Cisco but I always added that it was not the company it used to be back in the 90s. These days I even wonder if it was ever really that great.
In the end I gave them way less than my best effort. Sometimes I felt guilty about it. Then I would see someone busting their a** working weekends and late nights only to get laid off anyway. That made the message pretty clear.
Now it is my turn to be let go and I am still not sure which path was better. Should you work hard on principle even when the system does not care? Or do you push back against a machine that punishes loyalty?
I used every bit of that unlimited PTO. I never worked extra hours. Part of me is glad I fought the system in my own small way.
The other part wonders if it would have been better to go down still believing in the mission like Old Major in Animal Farm.
Finally! We’re heading in the right direction
I want people’s opinions on this. The UW Campaign is in October, and the committee is pulling in the ERGs for engagement. They claim the focus is on the people—not Imperial. But let’s be honest: every single thing we do still gets stamped with Imperial’s name, and employees onsite have zero motivation left. I don’t see how we’re supposed to “engage” anyone under these conditions.
Fonts and Colors. And has an army of yes people to crack the whip. Spent more time walking the line activities than driving OI there. Total knucklehead operation.
PPDM was the biggest steaming pile of horse shiiiiit from day #1. Everyone who worked on it should be fired on the spot!
My customers are ripping it out of their test environments, which they could never get to fully work, in droves. What a complete joke of an Enterprise software product. Pathetic.
Same old one Pearson project. Same old story. Different stupid trollop hiring her mates to underachieve.
One of the biggest mistakes this “leadership” made was creating a 5x RTO policy for everyone because of the actions of a few.
The understanding has always been that the push toward 5x RTO was driven, at least in part, by concerns about a small number of people who weren’t meeting expectations under the 3x8 policy. Whether that’s true or not, those people are largely gone. The ones paying the price today are everyone who complied and remained.
Instead of holding poor performers accountable, leadership rolled out a blanket policy that treats everyone like they need to be monitored. High performers, average performers, and low performers all get the same treatment. That’s completely a$$ backwards.
Good people managers manage performance. They don’t replace performance management with one size fits all policies that punish the majority because of the minority.
So, the unintended consequence is the new 8 & skate culture.
People who used to go above and beyond now focus on just checking the box. Badge in, sit for eight hours, badge out. Time that once went into extra work is now spent commuting. Discretionary effort has simply been replaced by compliance.
The irony is that the policy intended to improve accountability has actually reduced it. When you stop rewarding results and start emphasizing attendance, don’t be surprised when people optimize for attendance instead of outcomes.
If someone isn’t doing their job, you deal with that person. You don’t build a policy that discourages the very people you should be trying hardest to keep.
I’m in my late 20s so I assume I’m younger than a lot of you here and I’m also assuming a lot of y'all are probably my parents’ age or even older. Reading some of your hateful words on here Im honestly embarrassed for your kids. I can’t imagine if I saw or heard my mom or dad talk the way you do about human beings and all for what ? DEI? What’s the obsession like give it a rest. Why are you so threatened by who somebody beds down with? How does that affect you in any way? Worried they’ll take your job? Maybe stop being such dinosaurs. Stop coasting just because you think you’ve made it in life because you made it to a JG 3 or above. No wonder a lot of yall are being wiped out of your careers and companies don’t want to hire you and pay you for what you think you’re worth. So entitled. If you hate shells DEI policies so much then leave oh wait you can’t because you banked your whole career on ONE company. The new generations laugh at yall and trust me yes we are taking your jobs and yes we are also making more than you are. Nothing but disgusting sad old people you should be ashamed of yourselves. I’m disgusted to know I walk the halls with you. Grow some ba--s you want to act tough why post anonymously say it with your chest let us know your alias ID, post it on teams, LinkedIn etc or even better I’ll set up a gtky and we can have a f2f chat about how you really feel. We can even grab lunch and you can cry about how you’re all being wiped out by hispanics blacks Asians females g-ys and whoever else you wanna blame for your dead careers.
Figured I’d use AI to create this since AI is our future. Thanks copilot!
A chronological descent into corporate madness.
06:30 AM | The Commute of Champions
Spend 55 minutes staring at brake lights because burning gas and inhaling highway fumes is the ultimate prelude to productivity.
07:25 AM | The Hunger Games: Parking Edition
Waste 15 minutes circling the concrete labyrinth just to park half a mile away, then walk to the building like a corporate nomad.
07:40 AM | The Hoteling Ritual
Spend 20 minutes hunting down an unassigned, sterile cubicle and plugging in cords like you're setting up a temporary command center in a disaster zone.
08:00 AM | The Mandatory Weekend Recap
Endure 40 minutes of grueling small talk about Brenda's nephew's soccer tournament and Dave’s lawn aeration schedule. You cannot escape.
08:40 AM | The Stealth Hydration Mission
Take 15 minutes to carefully plot a route to the restroom and coffee machine, attempting to dodge eye contact with anyone who might ask "how's it going?"
08:55 AM | Actual Work (The Rare In-Between)
A shocking, uninterrupted 60-minute window where you actually perform the tasks you are paid to do. Cherish it.
09:55 AM | The Pre-Meeting Packing Migration
Pack up your entire digital life 15 minutes early because God forbid you "squat" on a shared cube while you migrate to a different floor for a meeting.
10:10 AM | The Disappearing Desk Era
Lose 90 minutes of your life to a 60-minute meeting because the first 15 were spent figuring out the conference room HDMI adapter and the last 15 were "organic banter."
11:40 AM | The Power Lunch Sprint
Shove food down your throat in exactly 23 minutes so you aren't late for the next round of synergistic alignment.
12:03 PM | Sensory Decompression Walk
Spend 15 minutes pacing the perimeter of the building just to regulate your nervous system after surviving the deafening roar of the company cafeteria.
12:18 PM | The Hallway Ambush
Attempt to return to a desk but get cornered by a manager for 20 minutes of unsolicited "brainstorming."
12:38 PM | The Cult of Collaboration
Sprint to the next room because arriving late to a 90-minute slide-deck reading is a sin against the company culture.
02:08 PM | The 443-Minute Meltdown
Look at the clock. Exactly 443 minutes of your waking life have passed since you arrived at the office, mostly spent pretending to care about things that don't matter.
02:11 PM | The Personal Hogwash Trap
Try to use the restroom again. Get trapped for 20 minutes hearing about someone's upcoming kitchen remodel.
02:31 PM | The Final Stand
Sit down and frantically work for 51 minutes, typing at 120 words per minute with pure, adrenaline-fueled rage.
03:22 PM | The Great Escape
Spend 15 minutes shutting down, packing your backpack, and walking toward freedom.
03:37 PM | The Doorstop Conversation
Get stopped for 5 minutes right at the exit by someone who "just wanted to catch you real quick."
03:42 PM | The Commute Home (Part II)
Spend 55 minutes crawling back home in gridlock, contemplating every life choice that led to this moment.
The Hard Truth Math
Total Time Invested: 10 Hours (600 Minutes)
Actual Time Spent Working: 111 Minutes
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Total Time Wasted on "Culture": 8.1 Hours
If this day happened at home, we all would have finished actual work before lunch, attended the meetings while comfortably and wouldn't need a stiff drink just to survive the evening once you got home.
But hey, at least management got to see your face in a cubicle. Culture!
I worked for other large companies in the West and the Midwest prior to joining GN&T in the Northeast. My Western and Midwestern bosses were friendly and would greet me, ask me how things were going, make small talk etc…
My Verizon GN&T were the complete opposite. Hardly ever greeted me, didn’t make conversation about work or anything else. One ED wouldn’t even answer if you said good morning if you happened to be riding in the same elevator on the way to the office. This silent treatment makes for a pretty unpleasant working environment.
I’m curious what other people’s experiences are like. Is this a Northeast thing? A Verizon thing? Or what? I’m an introvert and I’m not seeking to start long conversations but greeting someone back is basic courtesy.
Truist employee here. Not a fan of BR but curious about our new CEO. Anyone want to share their thoughts?
Im sure theyve got absolute dog water since the migration overseas.
this all seems backwards to me, doing training and internal backend work at the kent DCs and billing it to the customer
this wouldnt fly at capita or atos
left for role with soon to be mostly ex client ages ago, had some leftover cr4p that this company never bothered to pick up and they never responded to the original email so thought no bother, I sent my laptop back and thats all that mattered
out of the blue, get an email from "iron mountain" basically instructing me to package EVERYTHING the company sent me, including mice, keyboards, headsets and from covid the desk that Ive built my room around
if you get anything similar just tell them youve disposed of everything already and indicate you have no business with them
they have no power over us now
The office is already dead/empty. Curious if they'll sublet one or more of BR's 7 buildings in order to make it feel less like a ghost town? "Don't miss your friends and colleagues, you've got all these new ENERGIZED people to sit and discuss AI with!"
They don't want to hear certain opinions that differ from their own.
They want to silence voices when CDW already does that in exchange for letting us keep our jobs.
Go ahead and copy and paste a long winded nonsense to ratio other coworkers opinions and thoughts. Maybe another poem about across the pond or about the winters in NY. Maybe spam with foreign languages posts.
Great people and culture.
Spew this to customers and see what happens.
YOU ALL SHOULD KNOW CUSTOMERS CAN VISIT & READ EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE AS WELL!!!
I’ve learned more about ExxonMobil’s policies and the unwritten, dirtier rules outside the office than inside it. I’m sharing what I’ve picked up so far. If this helps even one person who walks blind. Feel free to add to it and keep it a live threat:
What is going on at CDW?
We have new hires and overseas contractors fighting with current and former coworkers.
We have current and former coworkers fighting with new hires and overseas contractors.
So much for being a "family" working together to gain market share and making things better.
......as my manager told us last Monday that an important update about the VSP was coming and he was referring to the date change to rescind your application.....the email that was only sent to those that applied for the VSP. So, either my manager applied for VSP and got the email, or managers are getting more information than what they are sharing with the plebes.
What's up with all the downvoting suddenly? It's likely Centene the company themselves doing it or company boot lickers (get a life). To employees: never complete those manipulating and invalidating voice surveys but speak your voice here safely and don't be discouraged. Ignore downvoting and negative scores. Fk em. It's not that serious to be downvoting.