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Thanks to those who've reached out with information -- here's our latest story: https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/fiserv-sells-business-unit-costa-rica-operations-payments/634632/

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Caitlin Mullen
Payments Dive

I am in Costa Rica and not much information is given to us. Is TSS going to the new company?

I quit! And I must say. #It.is.so.satisfying.to.quit.zerox

So my co worker who worked for the IT department of Albertsons was laid off after working there for over 20 years! They decided to replace their loyal employees for cheaper labor located in the Philipines...smh... meanwhile our computer systems are always down and slow when they work. When you call the Help Desk in the Philippines they don't know anything!

The accounting department is under staffed and the company is in a "freeze" for hiring. But ironically the company decided to hire a full time security guard to stand in front of the doors when we come through the front doors? Hmm.....there's also a rumor that another layoff is coming to the Deer Valley 2 building. Perhaps that's why they hired the new Caucasian security guard... this company is a joke!

I guess they are trying to make up for the lawsuit that was released on May 3, 2018! The EEOC is sueing the hell out of us because of an Albertsons store discriminating Hispanics!

Intel has announced record revenues and profits. But IT is laying off employees! Announcement has been made of 200 job cuts in Costa Rica. I am sure there will be impacts at other sites as well. Get serious and please post any news or rumors so that anxious IT employees can get an idea of what's happening - Admin

We still are not hearing that directors and VPs are being let go. Today 65 finance advisors and 7 finance managers were informed that today was their last day. 1 manager and 4 employees of the student accounting department were also let go. Enrollment numbers are declining and the marketing, IT, and financial aid departments are definitively failing to do their jobs. The decline started when the Credit Suisse guys came on board and continued with the onboarding of the app Vocado and that wreck of a CIO who had no idea. It is time for the 'GOLDEN' parachute employees to leave without their parachute. They have caused the downfall of what was once a great university.

I was impacted by the lay off. Human Resources and Ariel the IT VP was cruel in the delivery of the layoff. On Wednesday those that were impact received an meeting invite without a name in the subject in the title (no agenda) and all those impacted names were on the distribution list. Our names were not obscured. The invite was sent at 1pm and the meeting was at 2. The invite asked that we be on time and don’t be late.

Once we arrived the VP gave a 30 second spill about reorganizing and that we are the first pilot group and there will be more to come. And that was it. He asked that we wait for our name to be called by a HR rep to go over our compensation package. The package was weak . And you must sign away your rights not to sue before you can receive your money. This company is in financial despair. On Friday they layed off employees in their Accounting Department.

Why would she leave?? 1. Cant keep cutting your way to a bonus after 2 years, needs sales growth which of course there is none. 2. Significant compensation tied to bonus and stock which is financial results based. 3. Stay too long you are associated as a leader of a loser organization. Leave on your best year. 4. Industry is dying and no way to reverse it. Every business initiative and project was a failure. 5. IT failures continue under her watch, even accelerated. Outsourcing failed because systems are way more custom and poorer than originally thought. Good IT talent left, bad IT talent stayed and Infosys and TCS were tremendous disappointments - can't code hello world. 6. CIO SS was her pick and he royally messed up IT and it will not recover. 8. IP department and experience destroyed, accounting department destroyed, store personnel destroyed. 9. KFarts/Sears/Office Depot/Max have taken over and wielding their magic that ruined their previous companies and 10. MLS was bright, talented and a go getter and there are much better opportunities in a growing company/industry for her skills - just watch.

Graphics positions moved to Uruguay and a ton of IT jobs wento to India. The company is not what it used to be.

I work in the accounting department and rarely does any new application work as designed. Instead we spend months cleaning up issues. Look at Hyperion, what a giant waste of millions of dollars, it should be scrapped.