#townhall

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Did anyone notice they were playing “Take My Breath Away” from Top G-n before AND after the DT Services town hall? What an interesting choice of a soundtrack that has a direct connection to a movie and a certain project. Or that was just an amazing coincidence. Makes you wonder…

For those that were there, what did Rob Thomas say about RTP?
Did he say anything about how the RTP main site just closed?

Heard from someone in the know that Schart isn’t going to directly talk about layoffs during the town hall, but heard he will be making remarks about leveraging AI and that its going to be sold under the guise of being able to help make our current jobs “easier”. YEAH, JUST BEFORE WE GET LAID OFF AND REPLACED BY A ROBOT!

I attended the DT Services Town Hall today. I'll be honest: I felt embarrassed, and every day I can't understand how they can say such things without bursting out laughing.
I draw a veil over the comment regarding the Tell Dell results.
I hope these people get out of their homes and touch the grass, they have completely lost touch with reality.

Finance town hall cancelled. Hard to be optimistic. Should we expect anymore RIFS in finance? Especially with new VP finance transformation.

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Leadership tries to make everything sound reassuring, but it's so easy to see through the scripted lines. The tough questions never get answered. They just conveniently ignore them every single time. It’s more than obvious that it’s all just for show. Sad and disappointing.

It’s quite obvious that the stank is being slowly pushed out of AT&T. If the company fired him, the the stock would tank.

At&t you put billions of dollars in a man that doesn’t understand basic supply and demand? Please see the reference the T-Mobile model. Stupid is, is what stupid does.

Do they ever allow questions that are not pre-screened?

SVB invited HR to provide an "update". 4 days in office coming?

Low Point: Being told to stress how amazing Walgreens Cash is and to turn ourselves into a marketing mouthpiece if/when asked by family&friends how the latest shift in Walgreens is panning out for us all. Ew.

Concept of an executive chairman also seems spooky in practice with that much punching power over a standard board member. To be determined though if that’s ever leveraged too casually.

High Point: I’ve rarely ever heard Stefano pop in for one of these. But he came off the most genuine and straightforward out of anyone who spoke. Everyone else was sweating bullets, meanwhile Pessina’s all “bibbidty bopiplity, I Italian man, we used to be American only, that worked before, so welcome back.” Maybe it was just the language bit that made his simplicity seem that mindful? Half fell asleep for everyone else’s segments.

For ANY of you MAWM think that they are no longer the ones with ALL the good jobs… this town hall shows the truth. Congratulations

Does this mean layoffs are completed for Mike Sicilia’s org or could we possible have more layoffs until town hall?

I watched the QA session again. Talk about being arrogant to your staff. We get it. RTO is back but the meatball must of been getting pounding with questions and he had enough and took it out on everyone in GnT. If you noticed the front ,JS kept her head down the whole time. Mike H, I don’t know what his deal is, what does he even do anymore but steal from the company twice a month. Good luck people this could be the most worthless upper management staff that network ever had. Bring back Lynch and Malone, they were real leaders. These are just puppets today.

Any bets on how Geoffy will try to spin the arrival of Eliot during the global town hall?

Just got an 11:00am all hands meeting for tomorrow. Please tell me it’s to catch up and not more layoffs

Indicator for your org is usually the all-hands, it is typically scheduled after lay-off rounds are complete. They are never truly complete though, but may be paused for 6 months, a year if you are lucky.

For instance, Chris' all-hands in Fusion is second week of October with universal agreement that firings will start on September 2nd, so they will go for 5 weeks.
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Not sure if she is using a Chinese beauty camera though

The very best article on how our arrogant ceo failed and still being allowed to destroy us. A must read. I heard my boss was recognized today on a internal town hall for (from Jayson) “there are also those who should never been been given the title manager in the first place, because they bend, and they sell out their crews just to protect themselves “

Anyone at the town hall? This whole idea of activating AI agents and digital workers, while at the same time saying “w know you guys will be here for fifty years” implying this is the last company we will work for (because it’s great). Man, what an out of touch thing today. On the heels of constant Layoffs, fear is getting replaced by AI and admiring that we can’t afford hiring new people and need to move to digital workers.. what a horrific sight to see

Towards the end of the meeting the site director said, "Another topic i want to address, some of you have seen or heard the news about layoffs at the Fab8 site. Team i want to talk about as we evolve our team structures and position our the fab for success, we may at times need to reevaluate certain roles within the organization. So we will have a small number of employees impacted, and this conversation with the employees are ongoing and will be completed this week. And I know this decision, any job loss is stressful, but this decision is never easy. We will do all we can to support those impacted employees as they leave GF."

No mention of which roles, how many, just that it will all happen this week.

Observed signs of doubt and prevarication in Vimal’s eyes while answering questions or listening other leader’s responses. Do you feel he is honest or hides well to get his golden parachute?

Truist Employee Experience: “Lipstick on a Pig”

Ah yes, the "employee experience" at Truist where every town hall is a TED Talk nobody asked for, and executive leadership continues to serve up piping hot platitudes like it's Thanksgiving dinner at a corporate retreat.
"Bring your whole self to work!" they say, right after quietly slashing your budget and ghosting your promotion.
"Purpose. People. Performance." Translation: Buzzwords. Burnout. Bafflement. Bullsht
Meanwhile, we're expected to applaud new "well-being initiatives" (Mental Health post, **cough***) that involve nothing more than recycled thelayoff.com and LinkedIn posts from the Jolly Roger himself. You can slap a mission statement on a coffee mug, redesign the internal portal 17 times, and commission a 3-minute hype video of the Purpose Corner — but if morale is lower than your stock price, it's still just... lipstick on a pig.

There’s a town hall scheduled in less than two weeks. Is it related to any news about potential layoffs?

Who else is tuning in this morning to see how our CEO will inspire or demoralize us?

I've never been a part of a more confusing, meaningless, awful meeting.

There were recent layoffs and the only explanation was "streamlining" without any explanation of the actual business strategy around it (if there was one).

Managing committee low scores were blamed on middle managers when it's literally his score as the leadership team to contend with.

Recognition only means Best in Us cards when people literally said career development, salary, and workforce strategy.

We're supposed to define our own roles.

If we want to grow we should learn other disciplines but if we want to be a leader we should specialize?

Constant mention of mystery open roles coming after layoffs with zero explanation of what they are and what the business strategy for them is. Almost veiled threat that we should all be applying for them after layoffs.

Blamed a typo on his direct reports not catching it.

0/10 stars

This was ridiculous.

The town hall was weirdly optimistic and seems like the ELT is not scared. I think it's because of acquisition so they stopped giving AF. What was the vibe you got?

In today’s tech town hall , they did not read out the top questions.
Only the easier one was read and answered.
What is the use of Slido ?

I was hoping for more answers but it was good to see who our new CEO is and he seemed okay. Any other opinions?

Wow what a bunch of useless fluff. They do not sound positive about the future at all. Pete is giving me bad vibes. He’s basically blaming everyone else for Carelon problems.

Hearing rumours of a “snarkety” question that was asked…what was it?

Well I expect zero useful information at the Townhall tomorrow. Anyone else agree?

Round table w director after Q4 business update. Few months in advance so what could this mean?

Does anyone have any insight? Management has sent numerous emails encouraging the team to attend. Management has never cared in the past about Town Halls!

So according to our CMO, we don’t need to worry about the presence report any more - she seemed surprised at how much people couldn’t stand it. And market based culture is just about focusing on the customer, not Amazon-style rank and yank sweatshop BS - he barely ever used the word customer in his screed. There does not seem to be a lot of alignment here.

What a waste of time!
A large portion of the people team is remote and will be laid off. Why can’t we ask real questions instead of the pre-programmed questions about AI?
Shannon says “we cannot communicate too much”. Yet, when it comes to the issues that truly impact the people on the People team, she stays very tight-lipped

Did anyone else feel let down by the office strategy announcement at the town hall? Aside from the Foster City remodel, there was no mention of other locations and no clarity on how teams will be impacted. They skipped over all the submitted questions. With this and the AI hype, all signs point to more people losing jobs.