I know AI is all the rage, but when I see we're looking for more than $60 billion in debt financing, I can't help but wonder how much risk is piling up. That's a huge amount of money, and if the AI bo-m slows down, I don't want the employees paying for it through more cost-cutting or pressure to hit impossible targets.
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Q3 quota - how "happy" are you?
So the Q3 quota is being rolled out? How big was the increase for you sales folks?
PXAP missed a golden opportunity to merge?
TRGP soars and locks a 20-year deal with Exxon. Now Sandhills line may be their next target.
Waters wexford
Is there a slow down in targets in Wexford?
What is really going on?
How come Target is on a tear financially but yet people on here are so miserable? Our bonuses this year are going to be huge. Why aren’t more people happy? It seems like Target is making a complete comeback in a very short period of time.
Did not receive VSP offer - now what?
Can someone please tell me if we didn't receive VSP offer, what does it mean? Wasn't targets met? Didn't 1200 employees already leave Centene.
I didn't receive 08/12 meeting invite. What does that mean for the SC team?
Bonus Targets
Even managers have been kept out of the loop as to how these targets were calculated, so I thought it would be helpful to try to crowdsource some info and come up with a model. If you don’t mind, post your target here and some info about your role. Dont be too specific as we want to maintain our anonymity. I’ll start: 12%. Front line manager in global engineering.
aggressive targets
heard aggressive targets have been given on headcounts to svps...
When is enough enough
How much are we expected to take? Month after month they continue to move the goal post. It’s nearly IMPOSSIBLE to make money if you’re in a sales role. Quotas continue to rise all because we are bleeding customers and that falls on the frontline. We continue to bust out a$$ just to get crapped on. The people setting these targets need a dose of reality. Put a tablet in their hand and see if they can do it. That would sure be a nice comedy show for us.
What if role eliminations start at the top?
Eliminate half of all VP roles. We should be fine without them. We will save millions to meet the cost savings target.
Summer students
What is it with the amount of summer students in Wexford we have way to many, does not make sense with our targets been low
RIP VBS Irving
So just a little update from our oh-so-generous employer: we still have jobs, how lucky we are, but of course it comes with a lovely caveat. We either uproot our entire lives and relocate, or for some of us, we’re stuck here with no options due to legal or personal reasons. And they gave us the super generous advice that we can apply to new positions here, except surprise, there aren’t any that most of us qualify for. So we just get to work for two more months, no big deal, and then we get a whopping two months of garden leave, which by the way is a huge downgrade from the four months they gave people last time. And we only have 10 days to decide: apply, relocate, or do nothing. If I don’t find something in these four months, well, I have no choice but to take the severance and say goodbye. What a dream, right?
And even if I do relocate, what makes me trust that I won’t just get laid off again two months after I completely uproot my life?
Oh, and on top of that, they still expect us to perform as usual over the next two months, making sure we hit all our targets and keep up our usual standards. What makes them think that’s even realistic after all this?
Intel still hasn't hit its headcount target
Per latest Q1 filing, Intel has 78.5k employees. Another 3.5k layoffs on the way!
March 23 Targets
Who is the target next week ? Virtual / managers or everybody
Balance Transfer Upsell what a joke
So for those that don't know there will be a lot of upselling for Balance Transfers starting in March. They'll try to bait you, "we are offering 0% Balance Transfers with a fee of 4.99%, will you be willing to take this offer?" lol
This is supposedly US Bank's leadership goals for 2026. They want the reps to hit 70% and try to upsell to customers that don't need to do balance transfers. Also, once you find out how Balance Transfers work you'll be kicking yourself paying more in Interest and paying the bank more than what you asked for.
Do operations managers think this is a smart move? Guarantee this will fail. They predict these sells through their programs lol. smh GK is d-mb as a brick to think this will help them
Layoff Targets
If your role is tagged to transformation make sure you to start searching for jobs now. I have received emails about my employees with roles tagged to it.
I am wondering if the same will happen to consent order employees. I am betting it will.
New Sales Plan - Upside Potential
Can someone clarify the upside potential under the new comp plan? With the shift to quarterly targets, is there a meaningful opportunity to over-attain, or does this structure make that less likely?
Quarterly targets
I’m not sure if this is widely known, but the move to quarterly targets is driven by the One Dell Way tool launching in Q2.
The compensation tool can’t combine targets, so the current approach is to set one target on the existing tool and the next on the new tool.
From Q3, we’ll revert to half-year targets.
That said, it’s difficult not to feel disadvantaged by this decision, which appears to be driven by JC’s eagerness to release the tool earlier than necessary. We could have simply waited until Q3.
This change won’t impact above Director level, who are paid on booked revenue, but it does affect those that do the work who are paid only on shipped revenue.
Are targets designed to be unattainable?
Asking for a friend.
When? Where? How many? What ? Why and how
Waiting for the start of RIF and have above questions
When does it begin?
Where geographical locations
Which departments or groups
What criteria qualifies
Who determines
How many total targets?
How it is implemented
Why now?
Job alignment kicked off email - target March chop chop
I assume this email is the start of the process
When will the layoffs start
What is the target reduction?
Commissions team...
Hi team, are we allowed to make money again yet? Maybe a chance at multiplying? Or, are we just going to be low balled all year by an extremely high target? Asking for a friend.
Major team fail for November
Our entire team failed at hitting their numbers for November, same as October so it doesn’t look like the quarter is gonna be any better. Time to call it quits for DSD.
Targets
Despite all the bullying from team leaders to reach targets be assured theres no chance of being fired for not meeting them,so relax who cares about a negative review your going to get for something else anyway.
annual review
USA folks.
SD and SC. What are the median raises this year ?
Are the stock targets going up ?
Stacked Rankings
There were some posts about stacked rankings and PIP's. Is this going to be company-wide? Is there a target %?
Now we have new sales targets
Now a new sales target tier has been unleashed. It starts at one million and Ends at seven miiion we already had sales tiers before
This is the new company making up new things. Even if they existed
What is the total number of employees they are trying to reach?
Obviously there is a target.
Layoffs in Q4 2025
Rumors are getting strong that there will be big layoffs in Q4 2025. HR is preparing the lists. Each VP got a target number for their department. It will be a sad Xmas season for a LOT of people.
Sounds like it is going to be a quarterly thing from now.
Glad they are finally addressing the problem with all the under performers.
Is Surest next?
As it's slowly consumed I'd expect this budget junk offering to be targeted.
More layoffs?
I've heard there will be more layoffs soon, is there any way to know when? Somebody also mentioned some roles might be eliminated, is this true?
September 2025 1.3 Guarantee?
Not looking good so far can I bank on the iPhone launch or do I start slamming already?
Missing targets for biggest customers
I wonder how Oracle will meet their targets for the DoD/VA, and the other two federal clients. Teams that were already short on people and missing deadlines are even worse off now. Cerner has been called before Congress for missing targets before. Give it a year or two and it might happen again.