#meeting

Anyone else notified of their all hands meeting getting pushed out?

Why do managers feel the need to drone endlessly about the obvious? Best I can tell, maybe 10% is actually instructive, the other 90% is just a ritual to make them feel important. People have stopped asking genuine questions, it’s too risky. It'll just extend the agony, and the answers won't come anyway.

Dunno about the rest of you out in cyberspace, but I made sure that I got my printed copy of the upcoming IBM Shareholders Business meeting and what the agenda is all about. It's an eyeopener for quite a lot of stuff and if you're an IBM shareholder you should insist on your written copy too or you'll miss some really interesting facts like

1. The executive committee under Alvind did NOT meet even ONCE in 2025 ! Sounds to me like they were paid for doing nothing but sitting around.

2. Krabanaugh is on the Executive retention plan from the mid-1990s but no other executives are on this cushy plan. Most of the rules of the plan are outdated and out of touch with today's reality. Kavanaugh has got his exit plan together and it's a gold mine.

3. The biggest corporate shareholders are Vanguard (10.03%), Blackrock Inc. (8.3%) and State Street Corp. (6.03%)....so, now you know who drives Alvind's limo and why. LOL !

4. these external IBM directors are making $365,000 on average but there's not a lot showing for that.

There's plenty of more interesting revelations (mostly financial), so if you are a shareholder, order your copy from your bank, your brokerage or your granny (if she is an IBM shareholder)...the schmucks who put this stuff together are trying desperately to convince (spelled "con") that IBM and it's thieving executives are providing value for $$$ through AI and hybrid cloud platforms. Oh really ?? (No mention of layoffs though)

Sector IT VP had one meeting tomorrow and one next week. Both got cancelled. Anyone knows anything about it?

• Meeting invites are going out Monday (Canada) and Tuesday (U.S.).
• Not sure if this is limited to my GBU or affects everyone at Oracle.
• VPs would have known on Friday...assuming managers get told Monday am or VPs do the work, and then everything is executed

I’d like to keep anonymous, so I’m not going to mention my GBU.

I already have a weekly 1:1 meeting scheduled on each Monday, and today I got my manager's email for a 1:1 on 04/20. I guess it's my time now.

The PIE group does meetings to help be anti-racist. Anyone been? What did you think?

Still getting new meetings scheduled like everything is normal. Maybe layoffs aren't happening? Why are we so sure it's the 31st?

Apparently psg 26+ are having a meeting Monday. Anyone know what’s up?

All Florida Clinics were told ten minutes ago that all employees must attend a business update meeting at noon today. Any info on what’s happening?

How did you like IT office hour? Got your questions answered?

Today we have the 'mysterious meeting'. Last day tomorrow... And there's many people impacted :/

They are answering their own BS questions... Not a single question from the audience. And I have never heard such absolute nonsense, complete gibberish

one off meeting with manager today, plus some unknowns, no other people currently invited who are working today in my group. Wish me luck. I did really well last year so i know its not performance related.

Could someone share what’s on the agenda or what main topics we’ll be covered during Wednesday’s mandatory all‑hands call? I’d like to know what to expect so I can be prepared ahead of time.

Wowzer. Cant believe they just dropped this in that meeting. For those who are not aware of what’s happening, all the details are spelled here ….See more

All my meetings are showing tentative for tomorrow and I can't switch to busy. Fingers crossed at this point that I wake up to a 15 minute meeting. Im prepared.

Great, don't take anonymous questions ahead of time, you will just delete them and also delete live questions.

Seriously why even attend.

Does anyone know what the 1/2 hr. fireside chat with Dan Schulman on the 24th is all about?

Any other groups receiving team meeting invites for the 26th?

I’ve never seen anything like WFC when it comes to this. The reason people are busy is because they are cc’ed in a million emails. Seriously if you have to cc the entire team with rare exceptions your team su-ks.
And god- some people live to attend meetings. They never contribute and aren’t a decision maker but by god they turn up every week and stay for the whole thing. Almost as bad as the people running a meeting that covers all of their items in 25 minutes and then just keep talking to fill the whole hour. This is why we are inefficient. So much cya culture. Like god forbid the day you don’t attend the needless meeting and that’s the day something gets decided and then your boss pretends it’s the end of the world. Instead of just filling you in and moving on.

Three meetings so far today. Every single one, people staring at screens or out the window. Nobody wants to be there. Nobody is paying attention but looks like nobody cares either. What's the point??

Rip

Jk

Tomorrow night or Monday morning?

here is a quick rant and i hope it helps someone…

i was sitting in a meeting at work when i made the decision that changed everything.
my boss was talking. i don’t even remember what about — something minor, some non-issue being stretched into a conversation because that’s what meetings are. and i was sitting there half-listening, the way you do after enough years, and i just looked at him and thought it so clearly. i cannot do this anymore. not another ten years. not five. not one.
which sounds dramatic maybe. but i’d done everything right. two degrees, years of showing up, taking on responsibility, being the person who got things done. i did what you’re supposed to do. and there i was in my 50s, still just making it month to month. still waiting for something to shift.
i walked out of that meeting — not stormed out, just quietly left — got a coffee, sat down with a notebook, and wrote one sentence.

i am never, ever working for anybody else as long as i live.

i had no idea how i was going to make that true. none (it turned out well) but that almost didn’t matter, not right then. what mattered was i meant it. fully, no asterisk. and i knew i wasn’t going to talk myself back out of it the next morning like i probably had before.

i wasn’t going to sleepwalk through my own life again. that part i was sure of.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We have so many people whose only job is making slides. Same information, different font, new graphics. They add nothing. Cut them all and we'd probably get more done without all the meetings about the slides.

Something big is coming - VPs are doing non-stop meetings.

Anyone attending SM's meeting? Im hoping for some theatrics.

Why was the town hall for 3/5 cancelled

I already got my invite with upper management - a 1on1 invite that has never happened before. In Evernorth IT side.

Some have received email for meetings with Maca, a 15 minutes Team meetings

A new meeting is on my calendar for an SMB town hall on Friday.

Is this going to be a meeting for layoffs?

1400 Smith Lobby Closed the rest of the week. They want everyone coming into 1400 to use 1500 street entrances. "They" really should give the option to WFH this week
for the days those working in 1400 don't have any F2F meetings. It makes it su-k less for all involved, both those with and without F2F meetings.

Last minute invite to short meeting tomorrow morning for EIP. Is there a new SVP?

My boss scheduled a 30 minute meeting with my direct report tomorrow at 5. What could it be? Are they being laid off? Am I? My performance review is on next week, , could they just be getting their perspective on me? This is making me so nervous!

about a Tuesday morning Teams meeting they want to do with me and that I do not need to be in the office for this meeting. I have been thinking if they caught me or not. In any given week I may see my Ford manager once if at all when we pass each other in the hallway. Manager is away from our group a lot saying they have a lot of meetings to attend to in other buildings.
I'm not sure yet if I will do Tuesday's morning meeting with HR at my home or go into the office an do it there.

Dell just held its field readiness submit (FRS). In principle, it’s a great idea. It’s essentially a sales kick off, with one distinct difference… no individual contributors (account executives and presales) are in attendance at all - only managers. The last time we checked, managers don’t sell.. what an absolute joke! Instead, individual contributors watch online / virtual contact. Wake up dell leadership!!!!