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Everyone, We need to make our collective voices heard on this issue. This disgrace against American workers has to stop and there are platforms to do it. I have connections at Breitbart and other alternative media outlets, and I will tweet directly... — read more 

Anyone out there seeing an extreme amount of extra's (RSA's) being hired? Anyone seeing DTS (large format) routes being cut and guys forced back to run truck routes? New Walmart ordering systems being implemented in your areas? Performance pay being... — read more 

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And so it begins! An untold number of rebadged Pepsi employees that have trained our replacements have gotten an email that our last day on the Pepsi account is 12/31. We have been moved into the "Customer Deployable Pool." We have 8 weeks in which... — read more 

It's hard to predict things, but folks are saying that there might be cuts in Purchase.

I heard that they're collapsing CIO and ACS again. (THAT split was a bonehead business move.) And, of course, more offshoring.

It may be a well-duh! moment for most others, but I just found out... Our severances were already paid by PepsiCo to the outsourcing companies at the time that the outsourcing contracts were signed. Pepsi was the one that requested the 80% reduction... — read more 

Sara Blackwell, Esq. is the attorney representing Disney against HCL and Cognizant. She is absolutely wonderful. I have spent a considerable amount of time speaking with her and she is willing to file for your protection with the EEOC for free. The... — read more 

Hearing rumors that Pepsi reviewing pay bands/levels at the CSC due to the new overtime law. Sounds like most level 4 positions and anyone making below the 48,000 threshold will be dropped to level 3 and forced to punch in/out with no overtime... — read more 

Cognizant layoffs to begin in about two months in Purchase and White Plains. The Town Hall meeting was held in which Cognizant representatives announced that employees who had been Pepsi and that were rebadged as Cognizant have to train their lower... — read more 

Hearing rumblings of a layoff at the end of August, maybe another "shut down the building and everyone gets a small envelope or big envelope" action at FLHQ. Anyone else hearing that?

Anyone has more info on what's going on? I left in 2014. Good luck to all.

What will happen after the HCL contract expiration, and the Cognizant contract after that?

We have way too many time wasting managers trying to maintain their headcount even when they have nothing for them to do. Management hired too many people, thinking that that was the way for them to keep their own jobs, but it just leads to having to... — read more 

There is going to be a mass exodus from the old boy ,status quo "legends in our own minds" culture of Frito HQ to Toyota, especially among the young people. The job market is to good right now in Plano to settle for nothing, which is pretty much what... — read more 

They laid off a large amount of people.And unfortunately, I was one of them.

Anyone heard anything about Heinz buying FL? Not sure I'd care much if I got popped... I'm so sick of the 18 month layoff cycle, it's ridiculous. Makes senior management look TOTALLY incompetent. Never seen a company that's so profitable that's so... — read more 

After having been at Pepsi for more than twelve years and seen all the time and money wasting bullshit projects that somehow fast-talking and desperate managers promoted, I'm not surprised that someone would have to pay the price. Still, after moving... — read more 

Probably looking to hit their target as per following the statement " In exchange for tax breaks negotiated in the past, the company agreed to keep 800 full-time jobs in Purchase through 2017."

So far, I have heard of the following area that got laid off last week: -HR -Legal Marketing -Global Procurement (in Chicago and Purchase) Anything in BIS or Frito specific?

If you're looking at it from an IT perspective, Pepsi has already cut most of their employees by telling them that the next day they come in, they work for Cognizant, not for Pepsi. Pepsi has absolved itself of responsibility; now when people are... — read more