#meeting

Anyone concerned about the Jan Town Hall meeting? Apparently Cengage Learning Platform will be introduced.

Has anyone else’s group been informed about a meeting this coming meeting with no information on what it is about. The superintendents didn’t even let the foreman know what’s going on. This is in the Permian

Trump's White House meeting of oil execs on Friday to discuss Venezuela just showed the massive difference between Exxon and Chevron. For starters, Chevron's CEO didn't bother showing up, which was an absolute disgrace. Second, when the press was admitted into the meeting, Exxon's Darren Woods articulated the Venezuela challenge clearly and articulately, while Chevron's inadequate proxy of Mark Nelson only wanted to thank the Trump administration, not present to the world what was needed.
It just further illustrated that Chevron's leadership is second rate compared to Exxon, who play chess while Chevron tries to learn how to play checkers.

If it's anything like the posts that are already on here from their meetings, then I guess today we are all in for a real treat...

In recent meeting, we were told to expect all current and new Epic positions moving to Ireland. Apparently Epic is Ireland's national system. Never assume your job is secure. They will find a way to outsource when ever possible. I wouldn't be surprised if our entire division gets sold off soon.

Anyone have a leader who requires cameras to be on in every meeting? How is this even enforceable?

My calendar’s full, my work isn’t getting done, and half these meetings could’ve been emails. Who’s benefiting from this system, because it certainly isn’t any of us who actually have things to do?

Meeting is already set. Iykyk

His body language was off and he glossed over the questions with one line replies, especially to the question on what the regulators have said or done since the last time they visited Citi.
and Why did E Drew throw the former leadership under the bus and was boastful about the data catalog (which is just a retooled version from a vendor I believe?) and other very average things that her huge team of 50+ have 'delivered'?

I missed the Single Family Town Hall and heard the related Fishbowl threads were removed.

Can anyone who attended share what happened?

Please post fun lowlights of staff meeting.

• AI and agentic agents. Fortunately B. didn’t talk about autonomous workspace vaporware. Dex was supposed to be competing with control up several years back. Revenue is still not able to cover Bharat’s travel.
• Guada talking about recognition slack channel to motivate everyone.
• Someone asking about valuation in 2028. Will Omnissa be around by that time?
• Suni forced laughter.
• Simzhu volume is going lower quarter after quarter due to declining revenue.

We had a very very bizarre product team meeting where people kept licking AJays boots and got lectured on completely random and unrelated subjects. When topics on strategy and company health were arose, very very strange and veiled answers were provided by the CFO.

Everything that was said in that stupid meeting could have been said in an email. Your employee survey feedback su-ked and you still don’t get it!! Just hold more meetings to see why and how convenient no time for Q&A!! No mention of the 401k cuts.

There are many, many fun and frolicky events taking place and planned for January and February, sponsored by senior leaders, who have zero concern about spending money. Pretend meetings with special team building events costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Can the Board know? Company is crying poor mouth and yet leaders seem to have no concern dropping company money on ski chalets and wine tasting.

Did anyone watch it /attend? It seemed like 40 minutes of someone talking but not actually saying anything. Maybe I’m just d-mb and that’s why I didn’t get it.

Meeting invite today - just me and my boss with title "Org Update"

Anyone else get a weirdly confidential invite to a business update at 4:15?

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees voted to approve nearly 160 staff layoffs in a hectic meeting Thursday that ended just before midnight.

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/12/12/pajaro-valley-school-board-approves-nearly-160-staff-cuts-in-tense-marathon-meeting/

Eating at steakhouses and faking meetings

Since the expanded in office 8 hours mandate has it been harder to plan meetings. Most people I know, including me, have hard start and stops now. Good luck trying to set up a call with india, nyc, mn and az. There is a window of like 3 hours. When they treated us like professionals most of us would take calls before going in to the office or after we got home. No more. When the measurement is time and not quality they get time but not quality.

Anyone got the numbers? One side, both sides? It’s odd they won’t tell anyone in the town meetings.

Looks like I was on one email that was sent on behalf of Phil McKoy. Body of email says note 1 of 4 invites sent. Any reason to be concerned? Are layoffs or a reorg here?

This company has lost there way it’s a good ole boys club they spend thousands on meetings that have no relevance just a big ole party and in same breath bi--h about a couple thousand dollars needed to keep operations going they do not upgrade there equipment are bring anything innovative into the industry they have lost hundreds if not thousands of years experience in the last few years due to cuts but keep top loading the boys club it won’t be long before they are irrelevant mark these words

What was the point of the meetings today? Nothing new shared. SVP one for downstream had a Q&A for entertainment.

What were some of your favourite quotes? "A Canadian company by and for Canadians" is surely top 3 of the day

Why was Bob Kirby reporting the numbers on the whole business? Is he taking over? Is DV merging with ITS?

I keep getting dragged into so-called alignment meetings that reveal absolutely nothing. Hours upon hours of buzzwords and vague reassurance with no real clarity. It feels like they are delaying bad news and hoping we do not notice how nervous the managers look.

Does anyone have thoughts on the whole One Medicare thing after the meeting today?

Literally he just talked about is life and growing up for a quarterly meeting, seems like she's trying to pass on the crown to him

SAS Cloud seems to run entirely on project managers.

No actual SAS experience in sight, yet somehow they manage to present themselves as experts on absolutely everything.

No wonder the whole place looks like it’s permanently waiting on a meeting about a meeting.

#bootstrappers

Every simple task takes three approvals, two meetings, and one person saying ""this could have been an email""

Just had one of those... it was a meeting about why the last meeting did not achieve what the meeting before that was supposed to fix... You cannot make this stuff up. We are doomed.

Does anyone else have an onsite meeting for Thursday the 4th? Not sure if this is restructuring or what.

Anyone got a 1:1 for tomorrow?

National salary program meeting today, what are the key takeaways?

For those of you in East Coast who never got meeting invite this morning . -
then you are safe until Tuesday Dec 9

I thought managers were supposed to manage, and that all our bloated procedures supposedly served a purpose. Out of all the meetings we had lately, maybe one or two were actually useful, the rest were a complete waste of time. Most of us actually know how to do our jobs. But I guess some managers still need to justify their existence somehow.

I wish I’d recorded our faces while he went on about “dedication” and “hard work.” Even he couldn’t hide that he didn’t believe a single word coming out of his mouth. I honestly don’t get how these corpos still think this kind of theatrics works. Are they really that out of touch? Incredible. And on top of it all, he wasted half an hour of our time.